Campaigning in the North East with @AsylumMatters
Joined September 2016
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Jen Laws retweeted
1 Dec 2024
Join us for Wearside Amnesty's Annual #HumanRightsDay Event!
🗓️1:30-2:30pm on 8th December at @SlandMinster
📢Local human rights activism, including @No2Hassockfield and @NewcastleAIUK
🖊️Take part in @amnesty #WriteForRights campaign
🎶Music from @thecaedmonchoir
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Jen Laws retweeted
1 Nov 2024
Our very own West Midlands campaigns manager Emma features in this @itvnews piece that highlights the day-to-day brutality of our asylum system.
You can sign the amazing Virginia's petition here: change.org/p/we-are-virginia…
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Jen Laws retweeted
29 Oct 2024
NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. tinyurl.com/bdcrnzka
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Jen Laws retweeted
29 Jul 2024
Today, we & @Praxis_Projects are proud to deliver 350 postcards calling on @Keir_Starmer to build an asylum system that protects, rather than punishes, people seeking safety. We need:
✅an end to #AntiRefugeeLaws
✅no offshoring
✅#CommunitiesNotCamps
✅the right to work!
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Jen Laws retweeted
23 Jul 2024
1/2 The #BibbyStockholm is to close!
This is welcome news.
This segregated facility has caused untold harm to those placed there. People should be immediately moved out into safe accommodation in communities.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg64…
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RT @JacquiMckenzie6: A few years ago I was in one of those ramshackle hair salons in South London having my hair braided. The salon was run…
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Jen Laws retweeted
20 Jun 2024
#WorldRefugeeDay
Come celebrate #RefugeeWeek with us at @riponcathedral tomorrow evening!
We have an exquisite band featuring Raghad Haddad, singer Bushee, Oud player Bashar a choir of people seeking sanctuary from across the world
@CityofSanctuary @BBCLookNorth @RefugeeWeek
18 Jun 2024
Final rehearsal underway for upcoming Stories of Sanctuary Our Home Tour:
@riponcathedral - Fri 21 June (*tickets on the door)
Sunderland Minster - Sun 23 June (free)
@nclcathedral - Thurs 18 July*
@durhamfringe - Wed 24 / Fri 26 July*
citizensongwriters.org/stori…
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Jen Laws retweeted
27 May 2024
Court support needed:
Please mobilise to support on Wednesday 5th June from 9am outside Newcastle Magistrates Court, Newcastle Law Courts, NE1 3LA.
Please bring flags, placards, children’s clothes, dolls, etc.🇵🇸
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Jen Laws retweeted
9 May 2024
🚨In a new 218-pg report, @hrw documents widespread war crimes & crimes against humanity as part of the RSF's ethnic cleansing campaign in West #Darfur #Sudan. Concerted global action is needed NOW to stop further atrocities & hold perpetrators to account.
hrw.org/report/2024/05/09/ma…
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Jen Laws retweeted
1 May 2024
WHO ARE APARTHEID OFF CAMPUS AND WHAT ARE WE DEMANDING? (A Thread🧵)
Apartheid of campus is a coalition of students and staff at Newcastle and Northumbria Universities who have joined together to join the global uprising for Palestine
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Jen Laws retweeted
7 May 2024
The Israeli army have taken control of the Rafah crossing, closing it and the Kerem Shalom crossing.
Almost all aid entering Gaza has gone through these two crossings.
🔴 Demand the UK government does everything it can to stop the invasion of Rafah: map.org.uk/campaigns/prevent…
ALT Graphic reads: The invasion of Rafah will be a Catastrophe. Medical Aid for Palestinians.
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Jen Laws retweeted
3 May 2024
2/ 👇🏾We Keep Each other Safe! Rwanda Deportations- RESOURCES & INFO
Equipping ourselves with accurate information and building our solidarity and resistance are crucial in this moment. We leave no one behind!
migrantsorganise.org/we-keep…
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Jen Laws retweeted
2 May 2024
Today’s the day! Time to start a new chapter for the North East.
Remember to bring photographic I.D. with you when you go to vote.
Polling stations open till 10pm.
Once you’ve voted, text 5 friends to remind them to vote!
Let’s do this!
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Jen Laws retweeted
15 Apr 2024
13:30 tomorrow at @poprecsltd!
Alex Jackson, @AmnestyUK's Country Coordinator for the East and Horn of Africa, will share an expert update on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.
All are welcome!
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Jen Laws retweeted
8 Apr 2024
Only 25,000 signatures to go and 10 days left. Let's get this over the finish line.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
8 Apr 2024
🚨 An urgent message from Palestinians from Gaza who live in the UK
Support their call for a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite them with their loved ones & offer sanctuary until it’s safe to return. ✍️ Sign the urgent petition (closes 18 April): petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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Jen Laws retweeted
4 Apr 2024
After the great news last week that Middlesborough took a stand against the #AntiRefugeeLaws Matthew Storey one of their councillors is calling on Teesside to do the same in @theleaduk
thelead.uk/teesside-should-f…
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Jen Laws retweeted
28 Mar 2024
Last night, we were honoured & moved to watch @Middlesbrough councillors pass a motion to
- refuse to cooperate with any Government plans to build or repurpose facilities to detain or warehouse people seeking safety
- defend the right to seek safety & fight the #AntiRefugeeLaws
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Jen Laws retweeted
23 Mar 2024
What is France doing in return for UK cash to ‘stop the boats’?
Unseen footage obtained by @LHreports shows new aggressive campaign where French police carry out violent interceptions at sea – flooding & ramming into vessels & using pepper spray
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Jen Laws retweeted
20 Mar 2024
1/4 The Home Office has already spent at least £230 million on its 'large sites' including the notorious #BibbyStockholm, the mental health disaster that is #Wethersfield and the chaos at #Scampton...
#CommunitiesNotCamps
20 Mar 2024
Government’s plans for asylum accommodation will cost more than using hotels. Large sites are housing fewer people than planned.
We found that @ukhomeoffice expects to spend £1.2bn on its large sites programme.
Our report: nao.org.uk/reports/investiga…
ALT TEXT: £1.2 billion Cost of the Home Office's large sites scheme to house asylum seekers BACKGROUND: The Bibby Stockholm
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