No Borders benefit night tomorrow

Article published: Tuesday, August 17th 2010

No Borders Manchester is hosting a benefit night at Saki Bar tomorrow night (18 August) from 8pm. The aim of the event is to raise awareness of the exploitation and persecution of migrants from an anti-capitalist perspective through an evening of vegan food, coffee, poetry and music.

A spokesperson from No Borders told MULE: “[We’re] transcending the borders of genre to unite all those with an interest in activism, music, cake and radical literature – with four amazing punk bands, a poet, and a man who sold his soul as five lane ends – Captain Hotknives! As well as that, there will be Vegan Cake, Zapatista Coffee plus Radical books and zine distro”.

The night will open with musical poetry duo Thick Richard and will also feature performances from Autonomads, ICH, 2 Sick Monkeys and Dead Subverts.

No Borders is a theory and action group set up to demonstrate against migration controls. They believe that the harsh conditions faced by migrants and refugees are the result of government and private companies’ agenda of maximising profits, while there is little regard to thousands of lives affected around the world by stringent migration controls.

Find out more about Manchester No Borders here: http://nobordersmanchester.blogspot.com/

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