Tues 5 May: Protest vs Gov attacks on migrants fleeing war & genocide

Once again, we’ll be taking part in this protest next week — on Tuesday after the Bank Holiday. Please share the info below from our sisters at Global Women Against Deportations and the All African Women’s Group.  Let us know if you want to come and need a folding chair or other access needs.

WHERE: Taylor House Immigration Court, 88 Rosebery Ave, London EC1R 4QU Map

WHEN: Tuesday 5 May

TIME: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

ORGANISED BY: Global Women Against Deportations & All African Women’s Group

“As Western governments wage war and commit genocide from Gaza to Sudan, Haiti to Iran, they simultaneously develop and share brutal new immigration policies. They aim to prevent women and our families from seeking asylum from rape and other torture, divide our communities and put everyone at even greater risk of violence, exploitation, separation from children and loved ones.

This month we hear news from the Transnational Migrants Strike aiming to build a mass mobilisation of people to end immigration raids, surveillance, detention, deportations and deaths at sea as well as criminalisation, including of protest. 

WE WILL BE SPEAKING OUT AGAINST:

·        The new legislation: brutal policies that separate children from their mothers, make the right to settlement dependent on income, restrict appeals and create more detention camps.

• Deliberate destitution: we are surviving on just £49.18 a week (or £9.95 in hotels) in slum housing.
• Home Office reports that lie about our home countries being “safe” when our lives are still at risk.
• The Far-Right: a government that panders to sexist and racist hatred.

We want FAIR decisions but we can’t get that if there are no legal aid lawyers to help us through an antagonistic and prejudiced system.

How dare politicians and the media label asylum seekers as “scroungers” when it’s the work of immigrants that created much of the wealth of this society. Without women’s work there is no survival, without migrants everything stops. Everywhere in the world, we are the ones keeping communities together, caring for children, and surviving against all odds. We’re demanding an end to the “hostile environment” and enforced destitution – we want a #Care Income Now.

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