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<p>maquiadded updates friday and monday</p>
<p>User 'anonymous' did: report at Sat Aug 22 02:40:27 +0000 2009.</p>truetrue
<p>SOAS cleaners have been fighting a successful campaign for living wages. Today a rally had been called in support of the trade union activist Joseph Stalin Bermudez who <a href="http://www.london-student.net/2009/05/28/soas-staff-on-strike-for-stalin/">had been sacked in March 2009</a>.</p>
322009-06-13T09:12:47+00:001592featuredimcist@false<p>On Friday 12th, SOAS University was <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1584" title="report">raided by immigrantion police</a>, who <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1590">rounded up several cleaners</a> employed by <a href="http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/432151.html?c=on#c225795">ISS contractors</a> amidst threats of immediate deportation. The detained persons are held at Old Street and Borough Immigration Centre and are set to be deported on Monday. SOAS staff and students have condemned the raids in a <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1589">press release</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Updates Monday morning:</strong> A <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/events/1594">demonstration has taken place</a> at SOAS at 8.30am, and another one has been called for the afternoon at 4.30pm, whilst the <a href="http://london.indymedia.org/articles/1598">SOAS directors office has been occupied</a> to demand the release of the 9 cleaners arrested on Friday.</p>
<p><strong>Updates Friday eve: </strong>Following a call for solidarity, more than <a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1591">100 people assembled at the steps of SOAS</a> in the afternoon in an open assembly to discuss a response to the morning's raid, whilst a group of people made their way to Communications House to try and make contact with those detained. There are also reports that one detainee is set to be deported tonight, and the rest on Monday.</p>
<p><a href="http://gptublog.blogspot.com/2009/06/rally-for-stalin-bermudez.html">Call Out</a> |<a href="http://freesoascleaners.blogspot.com/"> Free SOAS Cleaners blog </a>| <a href="http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/unison/slwc/">Living Wage Campaign</a> | <a href="http://www.soasunion.org/pages/campaigns/justice_for_cleaners_campaign.html">Justice for Cleaners Campaign</a><a href="http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1584"><br /></a></p>SOAS Raided by Immigration Police2009-10-30T18:27:48+00:009