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Picnic at Parliament to end the destitution of Asylum Seekers

by Ben Gibbs | 09.10.2008 16:00 | Anti-racism | Migration | London

Parliament Protest Picnic Campaigning, Eating, Protest


You're enthusiastically invited to our Parliament Protest Picnic on Saturday 11th at 1pm at Parliament Square - of course!

We'd love to gather a whole bunch of friends, family and supporters for a picnic and photo opportunity. Ben and I will strictly be on our Red Cross Food Parcel food but please bring along whatever you'd like to eat and a picnic rug. We'll also take some photo's of you holding some of our banners and wearing our StillHumanStillHere T-shirts, if that's alright?!

If you haven't been to visit us yet, here's your opportunity to find out more about the plight of refused asylum seekers in Britain.

Please bring some of your friends too, the more the merrier! See you Saturday!  http://asylumstories.co.uk/protest/2008/10/07/parliament-protest-picnic/

The Still Human Still Here campaign is dedicated to highlighting the plight of tens of thousands of refused asylum seekers who are being forced into abject poverty in an attempt to drive them out of the country.
Supporters of the campaign believe that the denial of any means of subsistence to refused asylum seekers as a matter of government policy is both inhumane and ineffective.

We are calling on the Government to:

End the threat and use of destitution as a tool of Government policy against refused asylum seekers
Continue financial support and accommodation to refused asylum seekers as provided during the asylum process and grant permission to work until such a time as they have left the UK or have been granted leave to remain
Continue to provide full access to health care and education throughout the same period
 http://stillhuman.org.uk/





by Ben Gibbs

Additions

and while you're at it....

10.10.2008 10:16

don't forget to target your local offices of the International Organization for Migration....

whilst being a US led agency since the 1950s working under the auspices of managed global migration, here on our doorsteps they operate so called "voluntary returns". but look a little closer and there's no "voluntary" element to it.

funded by the nation-states they are based in, they happily take tax payers money to operate these schemes. and in selling them to each host government they emphasise the fact that for a "voluntary return" to be attractive to those without papers, each country must operate policies of tough and targetted forced removals, and policies of destitution....

leave people with no means to house or feed oneself, with the terrifying prospect of forced and violent removals - and they'll happily go home.

we must say no to these practices, no to the IOM, no to policies of destitution, no to forced removals

freedom of movement for all

no borders - no nations


A revealing insight into the workings of "voluntary return" -
 http://www.iom.int/jahia/webdav/shared/shared/mainsite/microsites/IDM/workshops/managing_return_migration_042108/presentations_speeches/managing_return_migration.pdf

IOM Watch -  http://www.noborder.org/iom/index.php

More info on the IOM and recent pickets -  http://bristol.indymedia.org.uk/article/688302

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