Report: February Solidarity Sessions in Manchester and Liverpool
Our latest Solidarity Sessions in February brought together a great mix of groups and organisations in both cities, and made for really interesting and inspiring events.
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Solidarity, collaboration, and hope: a journey with Refugees at Home
Read more about how Refugees at Home supported one of our TWMF campaigners this Christmas.
First Manchester Solidarity Session: report
In December, we launched our Solidarity Sessions programme in Manchester with a session on community-based legal support, and a presentation from Manchester Refugee Support Network
Manchester Step Change event: Advocacy in the face of diversity
Maggy Moyo, These Walls Must Fall Organiser, was invited to co-chair an event hosted by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Step Change Consortium. Here’s her account of the day.
Manchester protest against the exploitative visa fees!
On Tuesday 31 October 2023, These Walls Must Fall campaigners in Manchester will be standing alongside campaigners from Migrant Voice and Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit in protest against the government’s recent massive increases to immigration visa fees. Read this blog to find out more!
These Walls Must Fall Campaigners at Manchester Pride 2022
“The solidarity in Manchester was amazing, we could see people wiping their tears and at the end, we heard everyone shouting ‘We are together’.”
Manchester coalition against the hostile environment
Migrant organisers and allies came together in Manchester for a gathering as part of the Solidarity Knows No Borders week of action.
Manchester pledges to take on the hostile environment!
Manchester migrant campaigners pledge a united fight to resist the hostile environment, and build stronger, united communities!
Manchester Relaunch 19 May
Calling Manchester! The government is planning a fresh assault on refugees and migrants, with a new Immigration Bill. We have an alternative to this racist hostile environment. We are building bridges, not walls. Join us!
In Humanity: borders, detention, human rights
These Walls Must fall campaigners in Manchester have been working with digital artist Kooj Chuhan on an art installation and exhibition at the People’s History Museum.
“We’re making history” – Manchester campaigners commemorate the Peterloo Massacre
200 years on from the Peterloo Massacre, Manchester These Walls Must Fall campaigners joined activists fighting for disability rights, LGBTQ+ rights and climate justice as part of ‘From the Crowd’, a participatory performance weaving eyewitness accounts of the Peterloo Massacre with contemporary accounts of the struggles we are still fighting today.
Holiday time? Spare a thought – and solidarity – for those in detention, hidden away at UK airports
As the holiday season approaches, alongside the prospect of another brief summer in the UK, those of us privileged enough to do so find ourselves arriving at airports, eagerly awaiting our escapism.
But most holiday makers do not know that their chosen airport is a prison to those who want to stay in the UK.