 Tue 19 July court hearing & London protest postponed – but TUC, Care4Calais & SUTR Twitterstorm to go ahead on the day PROTEST at Royal Courts of Justice reconvened for new court hearing date, on or after 5 September (exact date tbc very shortly and updated here): 9am onwards – rally 1pm to 2pm, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London, WC2A 2LL 📢 NO OFFSHORE DETENTION 📢 Scrap the Nationality and Borders Act Join this urgent online day of action for workplaces and 11am to 12 noon Twitterstorm – on Tuesday 19 July – following the Care4Calais & PCS Union’s legal challenge to the government’s policy of Rwanda offshore detention. The case was due to go to court again on 19 July for a hearing to decide whether the Rwanda policy itself is lawful – this has been postponed and therefore so has our protest. But we need to keep up the pressure. 👉🏿 Tue 19 July is also a workplace day of action in workplaces, colleges & communities we are asking you to join 11am -12 noon Twitterstorm, by holding up posters for selfies and sharing your pictures on all social media platforms, especially Twitter, with #StopRwanda 👉🏿The local protests outside London will go ahead on 16 July – see your nearest via this list: www.facebook.com/StandUTR/events Stand Up To Racism alongside the TUC, Care4Calais, with the backing of 11 trade unions and various refugee rights organisations, faith groups and campaigns are mobilising the #StopRwanda campaign. In light of recent developments, we will organise another major day of action around the fresh date too – this Tuesday’s workplace and online day of action is important to keep up the momentum and the pressure, and to let the refugees who are living in fear of deportation to Rwanda that we are not going away and that they have the solidarity of the wider anti racist movement. We ask you to circulate the details of your nearest local protest within your networks and lists and encourage everyone to attend, share and bring banners. We are asking everyone, unions, organisations, campaigns, supporters… continue to support, publicise and encourage everyone to take part in the Twitterstorm, 11am to 12 noon, on 19 July. We have, over previous anti racist issues, such as #TakeTheKnee protests, or in the build up to the UN Anti Racism Day demonstrations in March, managed to get anti racist messages trending on Twitter through the support and involvement of a broad coalition of unions, campaigns and organisations coming together to make an impact. On this urgent and crucial issue, we want to do so again, with the hashtag #StopRwanda. Graphics and PDFs for leaflets can be found HERE in this shareable Google folder, these can be used to publicise the actions 👉🏿Join, share & invite to Facebook event for the major protest in London: https://fb.me/e/1xKKcInln Pass the model motion Ask letter to unions is shareable (and can be copied and adapted to use for organisations, campaigns and other supporters) HERE 👉🏿Sat 16 July, we call on local areas outside of London to hold protests: see emerging list of local protests HERE and make sure your local group’s is there by adding ‘Stand Up To Racism’ as a co host 🔥Demonstration called jointly by TUC, Care4Calais, Stand Up To Racism and supported by unions: PCS, UNISON, Unite , NEU, The CWU, FBU, ASLEF, TSSA, GMB, NASUWT, UCU & BFAWU, as well as Refugee Council, Amnesty International UK, Citizenship Is A Right Coalition, Status Now, Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) & Jewish Socialists’ Group 👉🏿 Murderous ‘pushbacks’ policy stopped ✅ 👉🏿First attempt to force a Rwanda detention flight stopped ✅ 👉🏿 Mass actions successfully stopping raids in Kenmure Street, Nicolson Square, Hackney and Peckham ✅ Let’s keep pushing back Patel and Johnson’s racist hostile environment – stop Rwanda offshore detention – scrap the Nationality and Borders Act – #AllRefugeesWelcome 👉 Everywhere, on 19 July, we call on unions to organise support for and take part in the #StopRwanda Twitterstorm (11am – 12 noon) and day of action for workplaces. 👉 In London we call on everyone who can to join us outside the Royal Courts of Justice when the court hearing is back in court. This will now be on or after the 5 September and this page will be updated asap. On the day there will be a presence from 9am onwards, and we would appreciate any support stewarding. The key time is the rally 1pm to 2pm. 👉 Outside of London, we call on organisations, campaigns, unions and supporters to support local protests on Saturday 16 July, and send delegations with banners, as well circulate details to all members in the area. Our mailing address is: Stand Up To RacismPO Box 72710 London, Greater London SW19 9GXUnited Kingdom Add us to your address book |
