Lots of local councils are passing motions to support the call for an end to immigration detention. This is a template you can adapt and use in your area
Template for a These Walls Must Fall council motion
The Channel: voices from detention. Bristol, September 2018
Step inside a phone booth to listen to voice messages from people in UK immigration detention centres. Send messages back and forth over 6 days. Meet others in Bristol who want to learn about detention and discuss how we can end it. WHEN/WHERE Sept 15th & 16th: Broadmead: New Rooms at John Wesley’s Chapel Sept… Read more »
Immigration detention is prison by another name – but seeking sanctuary is not a crime
These Walls Must Fall member ‘Aman’ writes about how being detained as a child in the UK made them feel that “asking for justice is a crime”, and spoke about their involvement in challenging detention with the campaign.
Manchester lawyer, Laura, on detention visiting and the campaign to end detention
Laura Gibbons works at the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit. She is also a volunteer visitor at the immigration detention centre in Manchester, a facility not many locals know about. Laura writes this week on the Right to Remain blog about detention, volunteering and These Walls Must Fall.
Liverpool Council speaks out against immigration detention
Last night Liverpool City Council passed a cross-party motion against immigration detention and in support of the local ‘These Walls Must Fall’ campaign. In a sign of a growing, community-based resistance to immigration detention, councillors from all four parties (Labour, Green, Lib Dems, Liberals) proposed a motion that called on the government to end indefinite… Read more »
Islington becomes first London council to pass These Walls Must Fall motion
Last night Islington became the first London council to pass a These Walls Must Fall motion against immigration detention! The motion also covers the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment’ and the rights of European citizens in the borough post-Brexit. It makes a strong statement of support of vulnerable groups who have been impacted by the Government’s… Read more »
Two These Walls Must Fall events in Manchester for Refugee Week
Last night saw two great #TheseWallsMustFall events in Manchester for Refugee Week. People engaged in a performance protest raising awareness about detention at HOME, with the help of Virtual Migrants. It highlighted the injustice of immigration detention and was a tribute to the 120 women on hunger strike during March this year. Now @HOME_mcr with… Read more »
Celebration of Resistance: London, June 23
As part of Refugee Week 2018, we are teaming up with Quakers in Britain, STAR, and Freed Voices to celebrate people’s resistance to the injustice of immigration detention and the ‘hostile environment’.
Migrant Frontiers, Hostile Detainment: creative activism. At HOME Manchester
Thurs 21 June. Two FREE events before and after the Human Flow film by Ai Weiwei. A semi-enacted political protest ‘action’, and a panel discussion. By Virtual Migrants and These Walls Must Fall.
Merseyside campaign launch: “The best way to come together, fighting for rights, fighting for justice”
Migrant and refugee rights campaigners, trade union activists, local politicians and other community members came together in Liverpool to launch the Merseyside These Walls Must Fall campaign
Gogglebox: Freed Voices reactions to Immigration Minister on ParliamentTV
The Immigration Minister was quizzed about detention by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee. The session was watched by members of the Freed Voices group, detention experts-by-experience, and we filmed their reactions and comments, googlebox-style.
Brighton & Hove and Cambridge City Councils say: These Walls Must Fall!
Brighton & Hove and Cambridge City Councils have just joined Manchester in passing These Walls Must Fall motions to condemn indefinite immigration detention and committing to action to build the movement to end the practice.