migration Archives - Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Becket House – an immigration prison in SE1

May

2024

At present there are major building works going on next to London Bridge station in St Thomas Street with the construction of a 27 storey 'EDGE London Bridge' office block well underway. Whatever you think of it, nobody is going to much miss the Home Office building it replaced, known as Becket House. Before the ...

I am Human – Precarious Journeys

Nov

2016

Coming up next weekend at Goldsmiths in New Cross:'I am Human - Precarious JourneysTrace the precarious journeys of refugees as they navigate the perils of land, sea and a deadly human landscape riven by geopolitical failure on an unprecedented scale. Documentary filmmaker Professor Sue Clayton presents a multimedia installation responding to three perilous spaces that ...

Lewisham Welcomes Refugees

Sep

2015

An impressive turn out at the 'Refugees Welcome Here' demonstration in central London yesterday (Park Lane to Downing Street), I would estimate at least 50,000 people - making it possibly the largest pro-migration march ever seen in this country.Also good to see a 'Lewisham Welcomes Refugees' banner there. A local contingent met up in New ...

New Cross church collecting for Calais Migrants

Aug

2015

St Catherine's Church at the top of Telegraph Hill SE14 is collecting donations for migrants in Calais. Rev. Sheridan James, Vicar, says:"If you bring things into church on Sunday mornings (either before the service at 10am, or immediately after - 11.15am) we will collect the items up and make sure they get collected and sent ...

‘Working Illegally’: Detention Centre film in Deptford

Jun

2015

Coming up next month - Thursday, July 23rd, 6:30pm - at Goldsmiths Students Union (Dixon Road SE14), South London Anti-Fascists present a screening of the film Working Illegally that 'exposes the ever increasing phenomenon of coerced labour in detention centres... Told primarily through detainees' testimonies, based on original research by Corporate Watch, this film offers ...

Burn the Sea at Deptford Cinema

Apr

2015

Tomorrow night at Deptford Cinema - Amakino present Burn the Sea 'an evening of documentaries about migration and the Meditteranean border'. The Cinema is at 39 Deptford Broadway and the films start at 7:30pm.Very topical - this image was released by Amnesty this week, who say: 'The ongoing negligence by European governments of the humanitarian crisis ...

Goldsmiths student facing deportation

May

2014

Goldsmiths Fine Art post-graduate student Laura O'Dochartaigh is currently facing deportation and is trying to raise funds to pay for legal fees for her fight to stay in the UK - where her son was born. She says:'Our family and private life have been seriously disturbed by the UK Home Office. They have now extended the ...