 Stand Up To Racism and Care4Calais will join a mass protest at the Home Office tonight, ahead of tomorrow’s day of action to oppose Rwanda offshore detention 📣 TODAY! MONDAY 13 JUNE 5.30pm outside the Home Office Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF Stand Up To Racism and Care4Calais will protest alongside others tonight, Monday 13 June, outside the Home Office, against the widely condemned government plans for offshore detention in Rwanda. Tomorrow, Tuesday 14 June, Stand Up To Racism and Care4Calais have called a Britain-wide Day of Action to stop Rwanda offshore detention. See the list of planned protests HERE It was fantastic to see to protests at Brook detention centre at Gatwick yesterday, and to see the incredible response in Peckham, where a year on from Kenmure Street, and a month on from similar mass actions in Edinburgh and Hackney, a Home Office immigration raid was stopped by mass united action in the community – protesters refused to let their neighbours be taken. The High Court decision on Care4Calais and PCS legal team’s appeal, following their submission of an injunction to stop the flight last Friday, is due at 3.30pm today. We need to keep mobilising, Stand Up To Racism sends its solidarity to all protesting and to the many who are organising demonstrations. Tonight we will join all those at the Home Office, and tomorrow across the country as part of the joint day of action with Care4Calais, protests will be taking place. Email info@standuptoracism.org.uk to find your nearest of you can’t see one here On the eve of the first planned flight, the PCS union and Care4Calais legal team are in court appealing the result of their submission for an injunction last Friday to stop the flight going ahead. Care4Calais has reported earlier, “Another Rwanda deportee has had his ticket cancelled. “Twenty-one people have now had their Rwanda tickets cancelled, but ten still have live tickets for tomorrow.” Protests took place at the Brook detention centre near Gatwick yesterday, Sunday 12 June, and followed another mass protest that stopped an immigration raid, in Peckham, London on Satutday 11 June. This mass action echoed what happened last month in Hackney, and in Edinburgh’s Nicolson Square, and come a year on from the events on Kenmure Street in Glasgow’s Pollokshields. Care4Calais and Stand Up To Racism are also organising a major bloc on the TUC’s upcoming ‘We demand better’ protest in London on Saturday 18 June. Stand Up To Racism is also organising a series of regional and local rallies, From Offshore Detention to the Nationality and Borders Act, End the Hostile Environment – #AllRefugeesWelcome These mobilising rallies are lined up around Refugee Week in June, to scrap the borders act, oppose offshore detention in Rwanda, and organise networks in localities that can challenge the hostile environment, and stop detention raids when the Home Office attempts to inflict these attacks on our neighbours: Leeds rally, Tue 14 June, 7pm York rally, Fri 17 June, 7pm Glasgow rally, Mon 20 June, 7pm Sheffield rally, Wed 22 June, 7pm Birmingham rally, Thu 23 June, |
