letter of solidarity – the x:talk project

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