Justice for Simba: No passports in the NHS!
Hundreds joined the Justice for Simba campaign in Sheffield last Saturday for the ‘Carnival of Resistance’.
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Sheffield Refugee Week Day of Action! New Plan, Same Old Hostile Environment
Campaigners against the Hostile Environment in Sheffield are calling for an end to mandatory reporting, the Hostile Environment, and Priti Patel’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’
Letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel – No More Reporting!
We are Voice for Voiceless Immigration Detainees Yorkshire, last week we wrote to the Home Secretary about in-person signing and reporting, and ask that it is stopped for good.
Victory! Morton Hall Detention Centre to close – statement and responses
Campaigners speak in response to today’s announcement that Morton Hall Detention Centre is to close.
“No Friend But the Mountains”: Sheffield and Leeds events
On Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th February, These Walls Must Fall is involved in hosting the Sheffield and Leeds editions of the ‘Knowing Border Violence: Introducing Manus Prison Theory’ talks with Behrouz Boochani, author of ‘No Friend But the Mountains’.
Sheffield solidarity night and meal with Mount Pleasant Park Football Club
Join Mount Pleasant Park Football Club for an evening fundraiser for South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG). An evening of food and talks, with everyone welcome.
Sheffield organising meeting, November 4th
Following a weekend of action organised by Sheffield groups, this meeting will help us to plan together to build the Sheffield campaign to end immigration detention. All are welcome – experienced campaigners and especially new folk!
These Walls Must Fall, Sheffield: the football tournament
The campaign in Sheffield has teamed up with Mount Pleasant Park FC, a community-based football club, for the first These Walls Must Fall 5-a-side football tournament.
Why did a football club stage a match outside their local immigration reporting centre?
Mount Pleasant Park FC held a football match outside Vulcan House, the Home Office building in Sheffield. We met up with some of the team, to ask them what propmpted this action, and how they went about planning it.
Sheffield workshops: preparing in case of detention, and campaigning for change
Right to Remain, ASSIST, South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group and Campaign to Defend Asylum Seekers are hosting two training sessions this June for people concerned about immigration detention.
Football v the Hostile Environment in Sheffield and Bristol
Forget Liverpool, Spurs and the Champions League: the real football action this week was on the streets of Sheffield and Bristol, where local clubs came together to take on the Hostile Environment.
Shining a light on Morton Hall immigration detention centre
There’s a protest organised for this coming Saturday at Morton Hall detention centre near Lincoln. Here’s some background, first published by Right to Remain at the time of the last inspection report on the centre in 2017.