Posts Tagged as ‘UK treatment of immigrants’

June 17, 2009

What Solidarity Looks Like: Justice for Cleaners at SOAS (London)

Justice for SOAS Cleaners — Stop Deportations! 
This is the blog of the student occupation/solidarity campaign at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London. Go there for complete information about the UK Border Agency raid on the college’s immigrant cleaning staff, the student occupation, videos and photographs of the protests, press reports, letters of [...]

December 7, 2008

Babi Badalov: Artist on the Run

The St. Petersburg Times

December 5, 2008

Artist on the run
By Sergey Chernov

Artist and poet Babi Badalov feels that his life is threatened both in his home country Azerbaijan and in Russia because of his politically conscious art and because he is openly gay. Growing nationalism and increasing attacks on people from the former Soviet republics also [...]

September 19, 2008

Free Babi Badalov!

Babi Badalov is an old friend of many of Chto Delat platform’s Petersburg members. From the late eighties until the late nineties, Babi was one of the brightest figures on the Petersburg independent art scene, especially that part of it that centered on the artists squat at Pushkinskaya 10. When the squat was closed, in [...]