   Support, publicise and encourage everyone you know to take part in tomorrow’s Twitterstorm, 11am to 12 noon, on Tuesday 19 July! Graphics and PDFs for leaflets can be found HERE in this shareable Google folder, these can be used to publicise and advertise the Twitterstorm Here is a poster for groups in workplaces, or individuals, to take selfies and share them with #StopRwanda during 11am to 12 noon tomorrow, Tuesday 19 July. This Twitterstorm is called by the TUC, Care4Calais and Stand Up To Racism, and is part of the #StopRwanda campaign backed by eleven trade unions including the PCS who have led in the legal challenge of the government’s policy for offshore detention in Rwanda. Alongside the trade unions, other backers include a range of refugee rights organisations and charities, faith groups, politicians and cultural figures. HOW TO TAKE PART Please use #StopRwanda in all tweets and social media posts. Please also tag in @The_TUC @Care4Calais and @AntiRacismDayYou can schedule tweets to put out in advance (up to 1 a minute during the Twitter storm) by using TweetDeck https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ It’s also important to ‘quote tweet’tweets put out by other accounts using the hashtags during the hour to maximise our chances of trending. 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. The next step in the widely co sponsored #StopRwanda campaign, will be a major protest on the date of the reconvened court hearing outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. We will organise another major day of action around the fresh date too – tomorrow’s Twitterstorm and workplace 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 widespread solidarity. Protests took place in towns and cities across Britain on Saturday 16 July (read the coverage in the Independent HERE) against the widely condemned government plans for offshore detention in Rwanda. With prominent support from Ricky Tomlinson and Jeremy Corbyn, Mick Lynch the leader of the RMT and Kevin Courtney NEU general secretary, and a whole host of trade unionists at Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival and the NEU executive – protests hit Nottingham, Coventry, Dudley, Cambridge, Norwich, Manchester, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Leeds, York, Shrewesbury, Harlow, Tower Hamlets east London, Lewisham south east London, Stoke and elsewhere, called as part of the #StopRwanda campaign, launched by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Care4Calais and Stand Up To Racism, and backed by eleven trade unions including the PCS that has led in the legal challenge alongside Care4Calais, as well as a whole host of refugee rights organisations, campaigns and faith groups. This coalition of forces launched the #StopRwanda campaign at a TUC, Care4Calais and Stand Up To Racism initiated roundtable on 24 June had called a major protest at Royal Courts of Justice on 19 July, the planned date for a hearing in the legal case to determine whether the Rwanda policy is lawful. Earlier this week, the hearing was reconvened for new court hearing date, on or after 5 September. The planned protest is being organised for this date, when the case is back in court, and will take place from 9am onwards with a major rally 1pm to 2pm, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London, WC2A 2LL |
