Back to Calais, a 2-way aid trip
We had to leave a lot of stuff behind in Sheffield on our November trip to Calais, including 70 food parcels that were lovingly made up by the good people of Pitsmoor. Post-Christmas there have…
Category Archives for State repression
The Immigration Bill: “turning people against people”
Over 70 people came to our January public meeting on the latest Immigration Bill. There was consensus that the real aims of the Bill were to create a hostile environment for people seeking asylum…
“We could not just walk by”: eyewitness report from migrant border camp
by John Dunn, ex-coal miner and striker during the 1984/85 miners strike and member of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign “Just back from a week in the South of France, staying in Menton, a…
SYMAAG AGM 20th May: Life in the “hostile environment”
“Illegal” ex-Immigration Minister Mark Harper has been appointed Conservative Chief Whip. Harper resigned from his post after he was found to have illegally employed Isabella Acevedo last year. Harper was given another ministerial job days…
The Home Office’s sinister moves to create a “hostile environment” for migrants
First the Go Home vans, the Go Home texts and now this. Meet the UK’s latest weapon against organised crime…and asylum seekers This article was first published on Open Democracy on 16th March written by John…
