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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 9d

Come with us to Hassockfield immigration detention centre October 18th to show solidarity with the women detained there.
Close #Hassockfield and all detention centres.

Book your place on the Sheffield coach🔽
www.eventbrite.com/e/national-d...

#DignityNotDetention #SetHerFree #TheseWallsMustFall

National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention, 18 October 2025

South Yorkshire Migratiion & Asylun Action Group-SYMAAG join of the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention on 18.10.25.

www.eventbrite.com

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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 21d

"At No To Hassockfield we remain steadfast in our campaign to end the cruel practice of detention. We urge all decent citizens to join us" | North East Bylines

Support for women detained at Derwentside Immigration Centre continues

"At No To Hassockfield we remain steadfast in our campaign to end the cruel practice of detention. We urge all decent citizens to join us"

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨Join us on Wed 17 Sep on Zoom, from 10am – 12.30pm for our Knowledge is Power workshop. If you are supporting people seeking asylum navigate the system, or want to do so, this is a great intro session. 🚨

righttoremain.org.uk/17-september...

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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 28d

#stopthegenocide

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Sep 9

This was inevitably going to happen, wasn’t it? Close the hotels and the lEgiTiMaTe cOnCeRns become about asylum seekers living in actual houses. Because it was never about the hotels, as such.

While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.

'I'm angry. It's not right' - locals want asylum hotels shut, but are shared houses the answer?

The BBC's UK editor, Ed Thomas, meets local people and asylum seekers in two towns in north-west England.

www.bbc.co.uk

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SCARF @sheffieldcarf.bsky.social · Sep 6

🧨🧨Today, Sheffield sent the racists home!🧨🧨

300 antifacists gathered to prevent the far-right from harassing refugees. The few fascists who made it out of the house quickly dispersed after seeing our mobilisation.

sheffieldcarf.org/2025/09/waitin…

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Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sheffield against the hotel botherers.

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · Sep 7

2010s: Tories want to look tough on migrants, so they vow to put them in military barracks
2020: Napier barracks opens
2021: Conditions at Napier strongly criticised as unsuitable for human beings
Mar 2025: Closure of Napier announces.
Sep 6th: Farage proposes using barracks:
Today ...

News headline: Military sites may be used to house asylum seekers, says defence secretary

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SCARF @sheffieldcarf.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨12pm This Saturday🚨
Sheffield S1 2AB
Details TBA

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Greater Manchester Patients Not Passports @gmpnp.bsky.social · Sep 1

Scrap the Surcharge! ❌

Borders in our health service take many forms:

▪️ The charging regulations, which see people charged up to 150% of the cost of secondary care
▪️ Identity checks
▪️ Data sharing between the NHS + Home Office

And the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) 🧵

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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thank you to Jamie for the beautiful poster
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · Sep 1

52 years after #Chile coup.
This year's theme is the fight for Truth, Justice and Memory, a demand by the Chilean people for the heinous crimes committed following the coup in 1973 and during the 2019 social unrest.
✊Join us Sat 13th Sept 1pm @ Nursery Street Pocket Park Sheffield

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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Well, Yvette, maybe refugees are applying for family reunification as soon as they can because 1) they've spent ages waiting for status and miss their kids; 2) it takes ages for reunification applications to be approved; and 3) their kids are ineligible once they turn 18 www.gov.uk/government/s...

Strengthening border security and reforms to the asylum system

Home Secretary statement on actions the government is taking with France to strengthen border security and reforms to the asylum system.

www.gov.uk

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 25

‘Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, “in the early days of a new fascism”? In 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, Seymour argues that in trying to understand the new far right, we have been looking in the wrong places.’

@trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?

Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Aug 27

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you are able to donate to the Pious Nyandoro Memorial Fund, please click here donate.stripe.com/eVq7sL8LC7aW...

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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · Aug 29

Memorial Service to remember and celebrate the life of our comrade Dr. Pious H. Nyandoro

📅Saturday 30 August
🕝2.30-6pm
🏢The Sanctuary, Chapel Walk, Sheffield S1 2PD

Please wear black or traditional Afrikan dress.

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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨 In a new article, Migrants Organise CEO Zrinka Bralo reminds us that we have always had alternatives to the current cruelty of asylum accommodation—but that these alternatives are being systemically erased from the story we are told.

Read now:
www.migrantsorganise.org/asylum-accom...

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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · Aug 25

It was South Yorkshire's David Blunkett who as Home Secretary removed their right to work in 2003 and echoed Thatcher saying asylum seekers were "swamping" local services.
BNP leader Griffin described Blunkett as "our best recruiting sergeant".
22 years on have Labour learned nothing?

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 21

Zoe Gardner: asylum seekers should be able to work while their claims are processed. Yes!

It was the last Lab govt that removed their right to work, talked about bogus asylum seekers swamping our schools, introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood. And here we are #GMB

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 21

Zoe Gardner: asylum seekers should be able to work while their claims are processed. Yes!

It was the last Lab govt that removed their right to work, talked about bogus asylum seekers swamping our schools, introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood. And here we are #GMB

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Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have legitimate concerns about the way the mainstream media has been enabling the rise of the far-right through normalising racist and anti-immigrant narratives & discourse...

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 21

I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities.

I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...

ENOUGH of the BBC legitimising anti-asylum protests!

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner

www.youtube.com

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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · Aug 21

We urge our supporters to stand with Palestine, this Friday and every Friday 5pm at #Sheffield railway station.
#StoptheGenocide #FreePalestine

flyer, yellow with Palestine flags for Stand with Palestine demo Friday 22nd August, Sheffield railway station. Organised by Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · Aug 21

We joined the huge and diverse Yorkshire March for Palestine in Sheffield at the weekend.
Palestinians are repeatedly forced to migrate by the threat of genocide while UK Government arms apartheid Israel.
#StopStarvingGaza #StopGenocide #FreePalestine

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/yor...

SYMAAG 'DignityNotDetention' banner on Gaza demonstration

Thousands of people at start of demonstration at Sheffield amphitheatre, Sheffield skyline in background

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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · Aug 19

My substack newsletter on the far right weaponisation of sexual violence: mattcarr.substack.com/p/beware-whi...

Beware (White) Knights in Shining Armour

The racialisation of sexual violence

mattcarr.substack.com

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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · Aug 14

"The ethnicity of any perpetrator, or indeed their immigration status, is completely irrelevant"
This family have endured the unimaginable, and then seen their pain weaponised for despicable political gain. They should be the ones our Government are listening to.

Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects

Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’

www.theguardian.com

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