PROTEST & SPEAK OUT
WHERE: Taylor House, 88 Rosebery Ave, London EC1R 4QU
WHEN: Tues 3 February & Tues 3 March 12.30–1.30pm
ORGANISED BY: Global Women Against Deportations / All African Women’s Group
Politicians and the media have whipped up hatred against asylum seekers and migrants. Now the government plans even more brutal immigration policies: temporary refugee status, cuts to essential support, separating mothers from their children forever, restricted appeals that deny people a fair hearing, and more detention camps.
Women say:
We can’t even get lawyers to represent us because legal aid has been slashed.
Women asylum seekers are not being heard. We fled wars promoted and armed by Western governments, rape and other persecution, and climate breakdown. We crossed land and sea to survive and to protect our children.
In the UK we are forced to survive on £49 a week — or just £9 in hotels. We are housed in unsafe, degrading conditions where we face threats of sexual violence and racist attacks. Our children are targeted in schools; we are harassed on buses and in the streets.
We are penalised as scroungers yet our caring work isn’t counted as a vital contribution to society and we’re not allowed to take on a job.
The asylum system on both sides of the channel is deliberately hostile and Europe too is planning more draconian border powers.
What is done to asylum seekers today is done to everyone tomorrow. Look at ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in the US where government thugs are kidnapping and shooting mothers, even citizens like Renee Good, with impunity,
It must never happen here.
Trump and his accomplices are trying to set a standard in which human life is expendable. But the millions mobilising worldwide against genocide, war, occupation, climate breakdown and other atrocities that force people to flee their homes, are determined to survive and defeat these inhuman plans – every life is of value and we will defend it.
Africa and the Global South have been robbed of people
and resources for centuries.
We have the right to be here to reclaim that wealth.
Join our protest.
Global Women Against Deportations is based at the Crossroads Women’s Centre and includes the All African Women’s Group @AfricanGr (an organisation of women asylum seekers & refugees), Legal Action for Women, Women Against Rape @AgainstRape and Women of Colour/Global Women’s Strike @woc_gws.
All African Women's Group 