Support the rebellion against Direct Provision by joining this ARN picket on the Reception and Integration Agency tomorrow at lunchtime Join us at 1pm on Thursday 18th September at 13/14 Burgh Quay in Dublin, where we will picket the offices of the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) in support of the protesting asylum seekers across the country who have issued a powerful call for the dismantling of the direct provision system. Please like and share this event widely even if you are not able to make it!! The Reception and Integration Agency is responsible for the overseeing of the direct provision system. Its response to complaints about management in the centres and now to residents protest against the cruelty of the asylum system has been consistently punitive. The agencys reaction to the protest in Mount Trenchard direct provision centre was to isolate and transfer two of the residents, with just ten minutes warning, to another centre. Since its establishment, RIA has failed utterly in its responsibility to the well-being of asylum seekers in Ireland. Join us outside their offices this Thursday to support the protesters powerful call for freedom. Over the last four weeks, asylum seekers have organised protests against the system of direct provision and the asylum regime in four accommodation centres - Mount Trenchard (Foynes), Lisseywollen (Athlone), Montague (Portlaoise), and the Kinsale Road centre in Cork. The protesters have acted for themselves, with no outside agency needed to speak for them. They are tired and angry, and have had enough of being abused and abandoned to the corrupt and inhuman direct provision system. Asylum seekers themselves are clear that their call for change goes beyond local conditions. They want an end to the scandal that is direct provision. They are calling for residency for all of those currently confined within the deportation regime. People want to be able to work, to study, to have some kind of normal life. They do not want their children to be forced any longer to call these institutions of racialised incarceration their home. They want to live in an environment where they are not vulnerable to the whims of people who abuse the power over others that the institutionalized ghetto existence of direct provision gives them. The protesters are not looking to reform the system of direct provision, but to abolish it. As one of the residents says: The food is just the fruit of the tree. The direct provision system itself is like the roots of the tree. If the root is dead, there is no fruit. We want to uproot the system of direct provision itself. We want to hit it at the roots. Ideas for your placards ------- Messages coming out of the hostels include: We demand closure of all hostels. STOP ALL DEPORTATIONS; We have been in prison for too long. Freedom!; We are human beings. We want amnesty now!; Residency for all. We want our freedom now!
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:25:00 +0000
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