Outlook HACKNEY orry Conway CLOSE DOWN NDSHORTH PAIGN Bill MacKrich of the Close Campufuld campaign (right) spraking or the protest outride Harmonditorth detention centre paigns like that in Sighthill Asylum rights EALING DES COUNCI powerful countries and the forcibly moved to parts of ASUCCESSFUL fringe meetthe question of detention of asylum seekers heard Hayes and Harlington's Labour MP John McDonnell make an mint policy.
McDonnell has been one of a small group of firs who have met regularty with Barbed Wire Britain and is an active pporter of the Campaign t lose Harmondswort He suggested that if Labour supporters had been out of the End immigration detention! McDonnell also called for wealth to be globalised so that people were not forced to save their homes because of starvation condicions broughe about by unfair trade. McDonnell backed up his polaca argumens with rea ife stories ? of human tragedies amongst asylum seekers in his constituency. He quoted a poem written by children in centre: "Freedom is the sound outside the gates". I he meeting also heard from Nigerian-born Seun Oropo, an ex-Yartswood detainee, who emphasised what a huge differ. ence campaigners on the outside could make. He called for people to contact those detainees from Yariswood who are currently languishing in prisons. Practical discussion focused on the possibilky of branches adopting detainees as a concrete way of developing solidarity.