newfavething:m-abridged:UK-based people who attended last night’s demo against the #MuslimBan, remem
newfavething:m-abridged:UK-based people who attended last night’s demo against the #MuslimBan, remember that the UK has violent, racist borders as well and that we must resist here too. Tonight, 100 people are due to be forcibly deported from the UK to Nigeria and Ghana on chartered flights flown by Titan Airways from Stansted airport. The detainees are being deported against their will and many face persecution on their return, particularly on the grounds of their sexuality.Here is a statement from a bisexual Nigerian man who went to sixth form college in the UK. See here for updates from Movement for Justice who are collating a lot of the tweets which people have already sent, as well as providing updates from inside detention centres where detainees are resisting. See here for a sample email you can send and/or script for a call you can make. See the images above for further details of specific cases. Contact numbers are contained in the images but are also replicated below:STANSTED AIRPORTTel: +44 (0)1279 680534Immigration: 0870 606 7766Media: [email protected] AIRWAYSTel: 01279 680616 (24 hour)Fax: 01279 680110 (24 hour)Email: [email protected] email/call doesn’t have to be perfect! It’s useful to include as much information as you can from these resources, to emphasise the unlawfulness of these actions and, crucially, to emphasise that both the airline and the airport do not have to be complicit in these violent, racist deportations. Please reblog and share!this is so important. protesting is important and good but we can also take more direct, targeted action. full disclosure: i have never made a protest phone call before, but i cannot bear the thought of these people being forced onto planes and sent back to terror, persecution and death. so i’m picking up the phone. please join me, and please do it now, before you can put it off, before these flights take off. do the brave thing.UPDATE: There is now an emergency protest planned for this evening at London Stansted Airport. See here for more details. -- source link
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