Liverpool organising meeting, November 11th
Posted on October 21, 2019
topics: Liverpool, Local Campaigns, News
Roll up for our next public organising meeting!
Bringing folk together in Liverpool to challenge immigration detention. We’ll be talking about “answering difficult questions”, and planning for an event next month.
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These Walls Must Fall, Sheffield: the football tournament
Posted on October 7, 2019
topics: Local Campaigns, News, Sheffield
The campaign in Sheffield has teamed up with Mount Pleasant Park FC, a community-based football club, for the first These Walls Must Fall 5-a-side football tournament.
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Morton Hall – what is it like when detention happens?
Posted on October 7, 2019
topics: News
On 26 October 2019, there will be a national demonstration against immigration detention, at Morton Hall detention centre, a former prison in Lincolnshire. Michael Darko and his partner Holly interview each other about the time Michael was taken to Morton Hall, and the impact it had on them and their relationship
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National protest at Morton Hall detention centre, 26 October
Posted on October 3, 2019
topics: News, Protest
Join South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group, These Walls Must Fall supporters, and Student Action for Refugees on a national protest at Morton Hall detention centre on 26th October 2019.
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“We’re making history” – Manchester campaigners commemorate the Peterloo Massacre
Posted on September 16, 2019
topics: Manchester, News
200 years on from the Peterloo Massacre, Manchester These Walls Must Fall campaigners joined activists fighting for disability rights, LGBTQ+ rights and climate justice as part of ‘From the Crowd’, a participatory performance weaving eyewitness accounts of the Peterloo Massacre with contemporary accounts of the struggles we are still fighting today.
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Why did a football club stage a match outside their local immigration reporting centre?
Posted on August 2, 2019
topics: News
Mount Pleasant Park FC held a football match outside Vulcan House, the Home Office building in Sheffield. We met up with some of the team, to ask them what propmpted this action, and how they went about planning it.
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Oxford City Council passes City of Sanctuary motion, calls for an end to immigration detention
Posted on July 23, 2019
topics: News
Oxford City Council has become the lastest to pass a motion to condemn the government’s hostile environment, and calling for an end to immigration detention.
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Haringey Council in London passes a These Walls Must Fall motion
Posted on July 16, 2019
topics: News
Haringey becomes the ninth local council to pass a These Walls Must Fall motion, following Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge, Brighton and Hove, Islington, Lambeth, Bristol and Lewisham.
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Holiday time? Spare a thought – and solidarity – for those in detention, hidden away at UK airports
Posted on July 3, 2019
topics: Local Campaigns, Manchester, News
As the holiday season approaches, alongside the prospect of another brief summer in the UK, those of us privileged enough to do so find ourselves arriving at airports, eagerly awaiting our escapism.
But most holiday makers do not know that their chosen airport is a prison to those who want to stay in the UK.
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New detention statistics: the campaign is winning but there’s a long way to go
Posted on June 6, 2019
topics: News
The latest government statistics give us some positive news, and show that we are really making a difference, but we still have a long way to go.
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Sheffield workshops: preparing in case of detention, and campaigning for change
Posted on May 22, 2019
topics: Local Campaigns, News, Sheffield
Right to Remain, ASSIST, South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group and Campaign to Defend Asylum Seekers are hosting two training sessions this June for people concerned about immigration detention.
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