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We take action for all migrants' rights and against racism.
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Sheffield Migration Research Group
11 days ago
Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register) Programme and more information here:
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Zoe Gardner
19 days ago
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Join us 🏛️Manchester Central Library M2 5PD 📅Friday 7 November 🕛12-3pm to discuss what sanctuary looks like for people fleeing persecution. How can today's UK Cities of Sanctuary resist this growing hostile environment?
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Zoe Gardner
16 days ago
3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/keir-starmer-tries-look-tough-immigration-exposes-a-coward-24557704/
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Right to Remain
16 days ago
DATE FOR THE DIARY! Public debrief on Fri 31 for National Day of Solidarity event to end Immigration Detention.
#MigrationIsLife
#NoOneIsIllegal
#TheseWallsMustFall
. Please spread the word. RTs welcome
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Right to Remain
22 days ago
1)Friday round up -With thanks to Chronicle Live
#NorthEast
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@symaag.bsky.social
@simone001.bsky.social
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Right to Remain
24 days ago
“The protest was vibrant, peaceful & loud. We made sure that the women imprisoned in Derwentside know that they are not forgotten"Dr Helen Groom
@notohassockfield.bsky.social
for National Day of Solidarity
#MigrationIsLife
#NoOneIsIllegal
#TheseWallsMustFall
#DignityNotDetention
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Women for Refugee Women
28 days ago
Despite the documented harms of detention, which the Government has recognised, detention continues to exist. We're campaigning: 1️⃣To shut down Derwentside - the main detention centre for women - and the small units for women at other sites. 5/🧵
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ChronicleLive - The Chronicle
28 days ago
The demonstration took place took place on Saturday outside the Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre
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Campaigners protest outside North East immigration detention centre
Campaigners protest outside North East immigration detention centre
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/north-east-immigration-detention-centre-32704818?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1760816128
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Newcastle Amnesty UK
28 days ago
They are saying they're sending me home, but
#Liverpool
is my home says
#Derwentside
IRC detainee
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#NotoHassockfield
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Last few tickets left for Sheffield coach here⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-d...
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU)
about 1 month ago
📣URGENT We are sharing this urgent call to action for Arjeta, a much-loved member of her Liverpool community. She has been served with a deportation order for tomorrow - please share her story + support her campaign. Donate to the legal fund:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-free-...
Sign the petition:
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Protesting with us at Hassockfield/Derwentside detention centre on Saturday 18th? Join the online safety briefing this Wednesday
righttoremain.org.uk/weds-15-oct-...
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Weds 15 Oct, 7pm - 8.30pm: online safety briefing for the Derwentside demo (18 Oct)
Planning to join the Derwentside demo as part of the National Day of Solidarity 2025? Join our online safety meeting, 15 October, 7pm - 8.30pm. Register here!
https://righttoremain.org.uk/weds-15-oct-7pm-8-30pm-online-safety-briefing-for-the-derwentside-demo-18-oct/
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Come with us to Hassockfield immigration detention centre October 18th to show solidarity with the women detained there. Close
#Hassockfield
and all detention centres. Book your place on the Sheffield coach🔽
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-d...
#DignityNotDetention
#SetHerFree
#TheseWallsMustFall
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National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention, 18 October 2025
South Yorkshire Migratiion & Asylun Action Group-SYMAAG join of the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on 18.10.25.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-day-of-solidarity-to-end-immigration-detention-18-october-2025-tickets-1596528984169?aff=erelexpmlt&_gl=1*1tx9w4i*_up*MQ..*_ga*MzE5MjY2MDE4LjE3NTYzODY4Nzc.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NTYzODY4NzYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NTYzODY4NzYkajYwJGwwJGgw
about 2 months ago
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North East Bylines
about 2 months ago
"At No To Hassockfield we remain steadfast in our campaign to end the cruel practice of detention. We urge all decent citizens to join us" | North East Bylines
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Support for women detained at Derwentside Immigration Centre continues
"At No To Hassockfield we remain steadfast in our campaign to end the cruel practice of detention. We urge all decent citizens to join us"
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/support-for-women-detained-at-derwentside-immigration-centre-continues/?fsp_sid=1337
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Right to Remain
2 months ago
🚨Join us on Wed 17 Sep on Zoom, from 10am – 12.30pm for our Knowledge is Power workshop. If you are supporting people seeking asylum navigate the system, or want to do so, this is a great intro session. 🚨
righttoremain.org.uk/17-september...
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE!
2 months ago
#stopthegenocide
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Alasdair Mackenzie
2 months ago
This was inevitably going to happen, wasn’t it? Close the hotels and the lEgiTiMaTe cOnCeRns become about asylum seekers living in actual houses. Because it was never about the hotels, as such. While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
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'I'm angry. It's not right' - locals want asylum hotels shut, but are shared houses the answer?
The BBC's UK editor, Ed Thomas, meets local people and asylum seekers in two towns in north-west England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07vn1y2jz2o
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SCARF
2 months ago
🧨🧨Today, Sheffield sent the racists home!🧨🧨 300 antifacists gathered to prevent the far-right from harassing refugees. The few fascists who made it out of the house quickly dispersed after seeing our mobilisation.
sheffieldcarf.org/2025/09/waitin…
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Jim Jepps!
2 months ago
Sheffield against the hotel botherers.
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Freedom Press
2 months ago
2010s: Tories want to look tough on migrants, so they vow to put them in military barracks 2020: Napier barracks opens 2021: Conditions at Napier strongly criticised as unsuitable for human beings Mar 2025: Closure of Napier announces. Sep 6th: Farage proposes using barracks: Today ...
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SCARF
2 months ago
🚨12pm This Saturday🚨 Sheffield S1 2AB Details TBA
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Greater Manchester Patients Not Passports
2 months ago
Scrap the Surcharge! ❌ Borders in our health service take many forms: ▪️ The charging regulations, which see people charged up to 150% of the cost of secondary care ▪️ Identity checks ▪️ Data sharing between the NHS + Home Office And the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) 🧵
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52 years after
#Chile
coup. This year's theme is the fight for Truth, Justice and Memory, a demand by the Chilean people for the heinous crimes committed following the coup in 1973 and during the 2019 social unrest. ✊Join us Sat 13th Sept 1pm @ Nursery Street Pocket Park Sheffield
3 months ago
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Gwyneth Lonergan
3 months ago
Well, Yvette, maybe refugees are applying for family reunification as soon as they can because 1) they've spent ages waiting for status and miss their kids; 2) it takes ages for reunification applications to be approved; and 3) their kids are ineligible once they turn 18
www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Strengthening border security and reforms to the asylum system
Home Secretary statement on actions the government is taking with France to strengthen border security and reforms to the asylum system.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/strengthening-border-security-and-reforms-to-the-asylum-system
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Daniel Trilling
3 months ago
I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.
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Daniel Trilling
3 months ago
Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.
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Memorial Service to remember and celebrate the life of our comrade Dr. Pious H. Nyandoro 📅Saturday 30 August 🕝2.30-6pm 🏢The Sanctuary, Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD Please wear black or traditional Afrikan dress.
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Migrants Organise
3 months ago
🚨 In a new article, Migrants Organise CEO Zrinka Bralo reminds us that we have always had alternatives to the current cruelty of asylum accommodation—but that these alternatives are being systemically erased from the story we are told. Read now:
www.migrantsorganise.org/asylum-accom...
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It was South Yorkshire's David Blunkett who as Home Secretary removed their right to work in 2003 and echoed Thatcher saying asylum seekers were "swamping" local services. BNP leader Griffin described Blunkett as "our best recruiting sergeant". 22 years on have Labour learned nothing?
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Saul Staniforth
3 months ago
Zoe Gardner: asylum seekers should be able to work while their claims are processed. Yes! It was the last Lab govt that removed their right to work, talked about bogus asylum seekers swamping our schools, introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood. And here we are
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Clare Bonetree
3 months ago
I have legitimate concerns about the way the mainstream media has been enabling the rise of the far-right through normalising racist and anti-immigrant narratives & discourse...
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We urge our supporters to stand with Palestine, this Friday and every Friday 5pm at
#Sheffield
railway station.
#StoptheGenocide
#FreePalestine
3 months ago
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We joined the huge and diverse Yorkshire March for Palestine in Sheffield at the weekend. Palestinians are repeatedly forced to migrate by the threat of genocide while UK Government arms apartheid Israel.
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopGenocide
#FreePalestine
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/yor...
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Matt Carr
3 months ago
My substack newsletter on the far right weaponisation of sexual violence:
mattcarr.substack.com/p/beware-whi...
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Beware (White) Knights in Shining Armour
The racialisation of sexual violence
https://mattcarr.substack.com/p/beware-white-knights-in-shining-armour
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Asylum Matters
3 months ago
"The ethnicity of any perpetrator, or indeed their immigration status, is completely irrelevant" This family have endured the unimaginable, and then seen their pain weaponised for despicable political gain. They should be the ones our Government are listening to.
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Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/14/southport-victim-reveal-ethnicity-suspects-farage
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We're proud to be one of 200 organisations standing against those who seek to hijack the issue of violence against women and girls.
#VAWG
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter
3 months ago
Beyond Trafficking & Slavery: Interview I sought safety in the UK. I was sent to prison instead
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
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Sad news that our comrade, Pious Nyandoro died recently We send love and strength to his family and community. Rest in Power Pious Our fight for justice goes on
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Helen
3 months ago
Well, perhaps if the government allowed asylum seekers to work legally or allocated them more than £7 a day to live on, they wouldn't need to work illegally.
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Alasdair Mackenzie
3 months ago
“Cleaning up” our high streets of migrant workers. AfD-level rhetoric, brought to you by the Labour Party
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Migrants Organise
3 months ago
Our communities have always resisted racism from the state and on the streets. And when we organise together, we have the power to win. The government’s latest onslaught of racist policies and rhetoric is intended to sow fear, exhaustion and division. But they can’t stop a movement. 1/ ⬇️
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Itsalladeepend
3 months ago
This serves as a reminder that various companies are making lots of money via government contracts and have a financial incentive for things to not change. This also works for government as it diverts people's anger to a convenient scapegoat.
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Alasdair Mackenzie
3 months ago
Heavens! It’s almost like the Home Office aren’t serious about reducing small boat crossings and letting people arrive safely!
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Women for Refugee Women
3 months ago
🚨 The Government has confirmed that people have been detained under the new ‘one in, one out’ deal with France. This deal reduces people fleeing war and persecution to numbers in a political calculation. This is extremely concerning.
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First migrants arrested under 'one in, one out' deal with French
The first detentions came as people arrived in Dover on Wednesday, the first day the pilot scheme came into force.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce35v0zyzvlo
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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
3 months ago
The violence & intimidation outside migrant accommodation isn't ‘local’ concern or ‘legitimate grievances’. This is a racist far-right movement encouraged by the government & media. We must go out & protect our communities. By
@gferr1s.bsky.social
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www.bigissue.com/opinion/asyl...
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Asylum hotel protests aren't legitimate concerns. They're far-right
Asylum hotel protests across England aren't 'legitimate concerns', they're the result of a failure to tackle racist far-right narratives.
https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/asylum-hotel-protests-far-right-uk-riots-jcwi/
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Powerful image, part of Mukhtar Dar's Blacklash exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Blacklash documented the struggles of Asian and African Caribbean communities against racism.
#StopDeportations
3 months ago
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Zoe Gardner
3 months ago
Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means. Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on
@lbc.co.uk
on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...
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Would a SAFE ROUTE WORK to stop Channel crossings?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4RG0JqO04&ab_channel=ZoeGardner
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Right to Remain
4 months ago
🔥 Join us for our next Radical Solidarity Hub meeting on Tuesday 12 August, 1pm – 2pm, on Zoom. 🔥 We will focus on how we can ensure our communities, and each other’s, safety during a time of heightened violence and hatred from far-right groups. More info ⬇️
righttoremain.org.uk/radical-soli...
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🍉Make some noise for Palestine🍉
#StopStarvingGaza
#StopGenocide
Friday 1st August 5pm Sheffield Railway Station
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