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The people of Glasgow stood firm and stopped the deportation in its tracks
Locals in Polloksheilds, Glasgow, surrounded an immigration enforcement van for several hours yesterday, protesting against a deportation raid that took place during Eid al-Fitr.
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The chants from the crowd rang out: these are our neighbours, let them go! and in the small town in Southside of Glasgow suddenly, where many should have been celebrating the end of the month of Ramadan, they were fighting injustice.
Protesters in Glasgow have successfully halted the deportation of two members of their community by UK Immigration Enforcement. ✊ pic.twitter.com/lUFowVwXKO
The proper-gandist naming of things is the beginning of social order. The purpose of the term “terrorism” in the neoliberal era was to elevate already-overbroad property rights superior to life rights like the English frame-breaking laws, to reinstitute aristocracy through sham popular investment much like suburban home ownership. It has served well enough in that purpose to suggest elites had the purpose somewhere in mind when propagating it.
IMO, there’s nothing wrong with using the last gasp of a nearly recuperated phenomenon against the predatory terrorist elite, to harden the mass against elite rule and their methods, for better and for worse. Ruin elite language. Tear off the veils of elite conceits yes, Remarque’s soldier of the Western front, the Kaiser indeed poops just like you. Destroy elite narratives and ideals at their root by toxifying distinction and elevation and ambition. Laugh in their faces when they call themselves “scholars” instead of welfare que
Glasgow protesters rejoice as men freed following immigration van standoff Conor Riordan UP NEXT
Campaigners have told the Home Office “you messed with the wrong city” as two men detained in Glasgow by immigration enforcement were released after a day of protest.
Police Scotland released the two Indian nationals detained by Border Force officials in the city after people surrounded their van and prevented it from leaving on Thursday.
Demonstrators in Kenmure Street, Pollokshields, had blocked the immigration enforcement van for hours, with one lying underneath the vehicle.
Around 200 protesters were at the scene, with chants of “Leave our neighbours, let them go” and “Cops go home” being heard as a ring of police stood around the van.
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