Part two of the Independent Candidates ‘No Press’ Press Conference. The conference in Kings Cross St Pancras, London’s Eurostar gateway to Europe, was designed to draw attention to the fact that the mainstream media have completely ignored independent candidates in the European elections. The media response demonstrates their point.
Filipino British Candidate for European Parliament, Gene Alcantara, speaks at FM Pasyalan in Shepherds Bush.
Gene Alcantara, Filipino British MEP candidate for London, on the campaign trail at a Basketball match in Canning Town, East London.
Monique Wilson, a member of the original cast of Miss Saigon, and now a lecturer in London, gives her views on Gene Alcantara, MEP candidate for London.
British Ambassador to the Philippines, Peter Beckingham, made a rare public apology to Filipino’s for the visa fiasco at British Embassy Visa Section in Manila.
Charles Kelly for Immigration Matters meets MEP Candidate for London Gene Alcantara at the Strangers into Citizens Rally, London, 4 May 2009.
Immigration Matters’ Charles Kelly visits the Tamil rally in Parliament Square.
Gene Alcantara, a British citizen since 1992, has declared his intention to run for office in the forthcoming European Parliamentary elections on 4 June 2009.
The annual Mayday march’ from Westminster Cathedral was organised by ‘Strangers into Citizens ‘ and supported by supported by a coalition of migrant groups, unions and churches. various migrant groups and Churches.
Strangers in to Citizens have organsied a migrants rights rally in London on Monday 4 May.