Ten Years Too Long - Demonstration held on 29th Nov 2003

The Campsfield Monitor

A 10 year anniversary edition of The Campsfield Monitor was produced for November 2003. To get hold of a paper copy please email info@closecampsfield.org.uk, we will ask for a minimum £1.50 donation to cover printing and postage costs for each monitor.

Alternatively you can download a copy in PDF format : Campsfield Monitor download. Beware - this is approximately 2.4MB and is not recommended for download over a phone line.

Contents

• Campsfield to Expand
• Campaign Work in 2003
• Number Crunching - Migration Watch
• Oxford Racial Equality Council
• War on Asylum: recent developments
• New Labour - Tough on Crime, Tougher on Asylum Seekers
• 10 Year Photo Gallery
• Stars support bail for refugees
• Bail for Immigration Detainees
• Yarl's Wood Update
• No One is Illegal
• Barbed Wire Britain
• Bicester's Protests
• Campaign Information and Contact Details

We are grateful to Pluto Press for providing permission to use extracts from the new edition of Teresa Hayter's book Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls (to be published June 2004), which has been drawn upon to write many of the articles in this newsletter. The current edition of Open Borders can be purchased from Amazon.

Photo credits for the November 2003 monitor are due to Stalingrad O'Neill, members of the Campaign to Close Campsfield, members of the Stop Arbitrary Detention at Yarl's Wood Campaign and the Oxford Mail.

The police operation on 29th November 2003

Campaigners to Complain About Police Operation - Media Release by Campaign to Close Campsfield - 1st December 2003.

If you were at the demonstration on 29th November and were photographed by the police, you may like to request a copy of any pictures and written information they have on you. Please feel free to print and use this sample letter to request copies. It's in PDF format.

The Police Complaints Commission have responded to a complaint by the Campaign to Close Campsfield by letter. They are apparently unable to investigate our complaint unless instructed to do so by the Thames Valley Police Chief. Thames Valley Police have not yet responded.

Pictures

Pictures on the NCADC website - credit: Stalingrad O'Neill.

Thanks to CARF for the following pictures.

• Police Surveillance
• Demonstrators and the band
• In front of Campsfield
• 'To take our child will kill our pride'
• Speaker - Lucky Jacobs
• Speakers - Bill Morris and Evan Harris MP
• Demonstrators with placards
• The demonstration moves to Oxford

Letter Writing Action

One action that took place all day at the Ten Years Too Long demonstration, and also earlier in the month at the One World Fair in Oxford Town Hall, was the signing and sending of a letter to the Home Secretary. About 100 letters have been sent so far.
The letter calls on David Blunkett to close Campsfield and to end all immigration detention in the UK. It was written in response to the decision to expand rather than close Campsfield.
Take Action: Print and send the letter, available here. (PDF file). Or send your own letter to David Blunkett.