London protest Each of these The culmination of the yemon stration on line 22, was obviously saw nearly 5000 months march in colourful protest It was good to see such a range of banners parading Park Trafalgar Square march, with local union banners and proposing; those of particular immigrant communities.
cake a leadership role.
The march for a minutes mark the anniversary of the with continuing 58 Chinese migrants who were found dead in a container lorry at Dover trying to reach tac supposca sarcly already in place of this country:
There were rallies at both addressed by speakers of whom a majority lation this government is introducing and in combatWe need a massive political campaign of opposition to they also put forward They suggest: which asylum seckers themselves are given the opportunity to that come here This need to be combined work in support of the families and been devastated by the racist and Behind all the racist rhetoric of the government and media are myths that campaigners need to rebut at the same ure as argu ing against the negative stereotypes that • that Britain is overwhelmed by the number of refugees and asylum seekers • that Britain takes more than its fair • that most refugees and asylum seekers coming to Britain are economic migrants The United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees has just published a mass of statistics for 2001 which demonstrate how inaccurate this picture is. The statistics show: • that the top 10 countries to which refugees fled in 2001 do not include any country in the European Union, North • that Britain is not one of the top 10 countries in which refugees settled in 2001. or tar within the europcan union britain has around an average number of asylum seekers per head of population. • that there has been a declining trend across the EU in the three years up to 2001 • that more than 60% of refugees coming to Britain in 2001 came from war zones.