Immigrant struggles climax in 11.000 strong demonstration in Belgium
28 Feb 2006 11:11 GMTA 11.000 strong demonstration took place in Brussels on Feb 25, 2006, to demand the legalisation of the 150.000 illegal migrants living in Belgium, and an end to mass arrests, detentions, and deportations [More: 1|Photos: 1|2|3]. The demonstration is the climax of years of struggle (since 1970) and migrant self-organisation to reclaim their rights: in early 2005 the Church of Minimes was occupied, and in October 2005 started the occupation of the Church of St Boniface in Brussels, that continues today [More: 1, 2| Video: 1].
After months of failed negotiations with the Belgian state, and under the threat of imminent deportations, some members of the occupation started a hunger strike to support their demands. In early February 3000 people demonstrated in Antwerpen for legalisation and 2500 in January demanded the end of children being in detention outside the Vottem detention center. In September 2005, about 2500 people gathered to commemorate the death of Semira Adamu, killed by police during her deportation.
wierd
A 28.Feb.2006 19:23
posted but not in hte newswire?
http://www.indymedia.be/en/node/1542/896#comment-896
http://belgium.indymedia.org/
indymedia.be not a part of the indymedianetwork anymore?
see
A 28.Feb.2006 20:09
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clear enough?
no place on imc.be for link to imc.org?
A 28.Feb.2006 21:03
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already three times posted a comment with an url to this feature on indymedia.org but gets hidden al the time,...
wtf?
ambis 06.Mar.2006 16:58
What the fuck is this?
Why do some people feel the need to export their personal shit?
You are polluting www.indymedia.org
sad but true
JF-Belzik 15.Mar.2006 08:57
yes it's a stupid situation, now we have 5 or 6 (or i don't know) belgian indymedia's.... all because the belgian communists bought themselves into the original indymedia (the .be one that is) and wanted to use it as a propaganda thing. sad realy, cause i thought it worked well in the beginning; most articles appeared in dutch and french, there were some national topics, some local, some international... but ow its all a bit of a mess. some local imc's work pretty good, some are a bit "coloured" (although not in the same way the .be is, not in dictator style), others seem to be a bit out of date sometimes (but hey, beter than nothing no?)
for me its ok, i know how to find my way in this belgian imc maze, but i can immagine that someone who doesnt, someone who just recently got interested in all this stuff...
ok, i know i should have gotten involved in some belgian imc group, but i was so dissapointed by the idea of "every province it's own imc" that i just couldn't be motivated. IMO the best thing right now would be that the direct links to the local imc were removed from the other imc sites and replaced by a link to a belgian-imc-link page (or whatever such a thing is called) sort of a hub thing.
and the link to the .be site just removed, not to be replaced by anything.