Dear Strikers,
your fight is exemplary. It represents the horror of racist detention of migrants
across the Global North. It shows the world what the reality of migration control
is.
At this stage, there should be great concern about your health, and the health and
well being of ALL people in detention.
Your strike has already sent a crucial message and necessary demands. And it is not
been the only one. Migrants in detention have gone in hunger strike before (eg. the
women detained in Yarl’s Wood, UK, in 2009), and are doing it again. It is now our
collective task to act on top of the strikes to fight the reality of migration
control, racism and detention, with all means available to us. We are organising a
demonstration this Saturday 5th March in front of the migrant’s detention centre of
Yarl’s Wood, Bedford, UK at 1pm. It is one small action and it should be followed by
many more: wherever people are detained merely because of where they come from and
where they want and need to stay.
In solidarity,
Ava Caradonna