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==Activities== [[File:Demonstration No Border.jpg|thumb|No Border demonstration, August 2018 in Amsterdam]] On 18 December 2007, to coincide with the UN [[International Migrants Day]], the network carried out a coordinated blockade of [[Border and Immigration Agency]] (now [[UK Border Agency]]) offices<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/18/immigration.politics | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Protesters blockade immigration depots | date=18 December 2007 | access-date=7 April 2010 | first1=Sarah | last1=Bridge}}</ref> in Bristol, Portsmouth, Newcastle<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7149560.stm | work=BBC News | title=Activists hold dawn raid protests | date=18 December 2007 | access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref> and Glasgow<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7149334.stm | work=BBC News | title=Dawn raid demonstrators arrested | date=18 December 2007 | access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref> to prevent [[dawn raid]]s by [[Immigration Officer|immigration officers]] from taking place. This form of action has been repeated across the UK by the network several times since.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7240374.stm | work=BBC News | title=Protest at deportation dawn raids | date=12 February 2008 | access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news6301.htm |title=SchNEWS 630 - Snatch of the Day |website=Schnews.org.uk |date=2008-05-02 |access-date=2016-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190511/http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news6301.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead}}</ref> On 24 October 2008, [[Phil Woolas]], UK [[Minister of State for Borders and Immigration]] was [[pieing|pied]] by No Borders activists<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7690324.stm | work=BBC News | title=Migrant row minister hit by pie | date=24 October 2008 | access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref> following his remarks on population control. On 10 August 2013, No Border groups from The Netherlands squatted a large terrain at [[Rotterdam]] to gather and held several demonstrations.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Redactie|date=2013-08-10|title=Enkele honderden activisten No Border in Rotterdam|url=https://www.parool.nl/gs-bd446a99|access-date=2021-09-16|website=Het Parool|language=nl-NL}}</ref> In February 2010 No Borders groups from the UK and France opened a large centre for refugees sleeping rough in [[Calais]], France, under the name "Kronstadt Hangar".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/feb/04/asylum-seekers-calais-uk-france | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Solidarity is not an offence | first=Rahila | last=Gupta | date=4 February 2010 | access-date=7 April 2010}}</ref> Calais authorities have accused "extremist activists" within to the No Borders network of being "driven by an anarchist ideology of hatred of all laws and frontiers" and engaging in, and encouraging, violence and harassment against French police and social workers at the [[Calais Jungle]] migrant camp, as well as "manipulating" and "misleading" the migrants living there.<ref>{{cite news|author=John Lichfield |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-jungle-uk-activists-dangerous-and-dont-care-about-refugees-says-official-responsible-for-a6905871.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-jungle-uk-activists-dangerous-and-dont-care-about-refugees-says-official-responsible-for-a6905871.html |archive-date=2022-06-21 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Calais Jungle: 'Dangerous' UK activists don't care about refugees, says official responsible for clearing camp |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=2016-03-01 |access-date=2016-10-29}}</ref> After the intercultural philosophy journal "[[:de:Polylog (Zeitschrift)|polylog]]" demanded in connection with the book "Global Freedom of Movement: A Philosophical Plea for Open Borders" that the "debate on freedom of migration or restrictions on immigration should be received more strongly in the context of intercultural philosophizing",<ref>Nausikaa Schirilla: »Politisch unbequem – kein Recht auf Ausschluss?« In: http://www.polylog.net/fileadmin/docs/polylog/39/39_rez_Schirilla_Cassee.pdf. WiGiP, 2018, retrieved 16 December 2020.</ref> new local groups such as [http://NoBorder.%20NoProblem NoBorder. NoProblem] oriented themselves to international migration-sensitive contributions - also in connection with Islamic and decolonial feminisms, degrowth, global ecofeminisms, or the "ethnic studies" less known in the German-speaking world.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nobordernoproblem.org/blog/wissenschaftliche-beitraege/ | title=Forschender Aktivismus – NoBorder. NoProblem.}}</ref> The group is a student-run independent project of the [https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/en/histories-of-philosophy/ Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hildesheim], which itself conducts research on philosophies in global perspective.
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