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By Admin25th June 20140G4S, Sheffield

Don’t Do Business with G4S – Lobby Sheffield City Council 2nd July 1pm

South Yorkshire Stop G4S will be lobbying the next meeting of Sheffield City Council at the Town Hall on Wednesday 2nd July to tell them “Dont Do Business With G4S”. Any public body, including councils can exclude…

By Admin30th May 20140Asylum, General, Sheffield

Migrants speak out at SYMAAG AGM: “It’s great to be listened to”

“Mental Health and the Asylum System” was the theme for the 2014 Annual General Meeting of SYMAAG. 35 people came to hear three local speakers who had first hand experience of this system. Despite the…

By Admin5th May 20140Campaigns, General

SYMAAG Annual General Meeting Tuesday 13th May Sheffield

The theme of this year’s Annual General Meeting is “The UK Asylum and Detention System Can Damage Your Health”. We will hear from speakers who have experienced the system themselves and have campaigned for asylum…

By Admin5th May 20140Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

It’s official. G4S and Serco asylum housing: “unacceptably poor”

Another Parliamentary Committee, another damning report on the disaster that is privatised asylum housing. SYMAAG’s John Grayson looks at the latest report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on 24 April and the lessons from…

By Admin3rd March 20140Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

UK Watchdog Takes Another Bite Out of Failing Outsourcer G4S

February was a particularly bad month for G4S. At Manus Island, an Australian detention centre for people seeking asylum, the G4S guards were accused of allowing the murder of one detainee, Reza Barati, and of injuring dozens…

By Admin24th February 20140General

No Refuge From Benefit Sanctions

With “welfare reforms” linked to increasing use of foodbanks and hunger, refugee benefit claimants face the threat of destitution, some for the second time in the UK. Rolled Out Migrant rights groups have long…

By Admin5th February 20140Campaigns, Migration, Sheffield

Immigration Bill Update: sign the petition against it now

On 30th January MPs voted by 295-16 for the Immigration Bill, described by Theresa May as creating a “really hostile environment” for what she calls “illegal migrants”. Details of the votes on amendments are here…

By Admin16th January 20140Campaigns, Migration, Sheffield

We Don’t Want a “Hostile Environment” Stop the Immigration Bill

On 30th January MPs voted by 295-16 for the Immigration Bill, described by Theresa May as creating a “really hostile environment” for what she calls “illegal migrants”. Details of the votes on amendments are here and…

By Admin9th January 20140Campaigns, G4S, Sheffield

As another report condemns G4S asylum housing, National Stop G4S meeting announced…

Latest news: On February 5th the Public Accounts Committee questioned G4S and Serco about their failure to provide asylum housing fit for human beings to live in. And why it could cost us up to £1.5billion public…

By Admin8th January 20140Migration, Sheffield

Sheffield’s Roma, David Blunkett and an immoral racist panic

John Grayson of the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group looks at the politics of scapegoating. This article originally appeared at the Institute of Race Relations website on 20th December at http://www.irr.org.uk/news/sheffields-roma-david-blunkett-and-an-immoral-racist-panic1/…

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