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Congratulations!
I was just afraid some criminals might be left out of the EU. This is good news.
I just happen to have a Tunisian friend in jail here in Italy, a drug-dealer who killed his foetus-son while still in his mother's body a few years ago. By the way, he plays the flute. I'll tell him to go to the UK as a non-EU artist now I hear it's easier to get there.
Massimiliano Chiamenti
(a wrong-headed culturally xenophobic EU citizen)
PS Was this a list of Italian Studies?
----- Original Message -----
From: Ricarda Vidal <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:00 pm
Subject: [I-S] Campaign against UK Home Office restrictions on non-EU artists and academics
To: [log in to unmask]
> “Circumstances...cause me to focus on a clampdown happening in the UK
> - where over-zealous immigration officers are applying jackboot
> tactics to enforce some commercially wrong-headed, culturally
> xenophobic, new policies.” Canadian musician/singer-songwriter Allison
> Crowe commented after being held at Gatwick Airport, detained for 11
> hours and deported back to Canada at the beginning of her European
> tour, May 2009.
>
> The campaign against the Home Office’s restrictions on non-EU artists
> and academics has gained a huge momentum since it was launched on 22
> February 2009.
>
> The petition has attracted over 6,150 signatories. Despite malicious
> attempts by computer hackers to sabotage the petition, which led to
> the site being down for a week, <
>
>
>
> The Manifesto Club has launched a report UK Arts & Culture:
> Cancelled, by Order of the Home Office, detailing the damaging effect
> that these regulations are having on UK cultural life. The report was
> launched on Wednesday 3 June.
> See the coverage in The Times: <.
> The report has been sent to Phil Woolas MP, Keith Vaz MP (chair of
> the Home Office Select Committee) and Ben Bradshaw MP, the new
> Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, requesting their
> response. The report is available in pdf format and can be downloaded
> from
> <
>
>
>
> *****
> Chris Gilligan
> University of the West of Scotland (UWS)
>
> http://chrisgilligan.blogspot.com
> http://westscotland.academia.edu/ChrisGilligan
>
>
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>
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>
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