🎉We've been to our first Council meeting!🎉
Now we need your help to show the Council that there is widespread support for relocating refugees among York residents!
📩Email your councillor! Use our simple email template - just add your name & send! 📩
https://t.co/1JktQl86as
It's great news that York is preparing to take a number of refugees from Afghanistan. We are proud to be a city of sanctuary and are dedicated to supporting refugees and asylum seekers. #RefugeesWelcome#Afghanishtan#AfghanistanCrisis#York https://t.co/h77CeeWPyt
This week is #VolunteersWeek we at UK Must Act are made up of an amazing and motivated group of volunteers! We would like say to thank them all 🥰🙌💪 If you would like to join us please get in touch!
The High Court has ruled that the decision to house people in "squalid" Napier barracks was UNLAWFUL - 300 people are still housed there.
After months of tragedy & scandal, at what point does treating people like human beings become the obvious option?
https://t.co/CGCgk5uoxh
🌟VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT🌟
🌈 Today we're continuing to shout out our simply amazing volunteers!
🌈 Check out the images to get to our newest volunteer Evie. Welcome, Evie!
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An incredible show of community and support for refugees from the people of Glasgow today!
Community action works, peaceful protest works.
#RefugeesWelcome#EuropeMustAct
https://t.co/YDepfV2RtJ
"I was born here, I've lived here my entire life... I just want to compete on a level playing field" Sam, a JCWI client, faces deportation to a country he's spent just 10 days in.
ICYMI - Am I British?" is on BBC iplayer now https://t.co/1nJus3I3jK @WeBelong19@Praxis_Projects
UK Must Act are proud to be part of #TogetherWithRefugees - a coalition of more than 100 national, local, refugee-led and grassroots groups, who believe in showing compassion to people fleeing war & persecution. #WhoWeAre.
📢VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT📢
☀️York Must Act is made up of some wonderful volunteers! Let's shout them out!
☀️Today we’re shining the spotlight on Emma, who does great work on action days and campaigns.
Get to know Emma ⬇️
We need your help to show the Council that there is widespread support for relocating asylum seekers from the Aegean Islands among York residents!
⬇️ Use our easy email template to your councillor ⬇️
https://t.co/1JktQl86as
#YorkMustAct#WeHaveSpace
💡 Don't forget to email your councillor to tell them you support the relocation of asylum seekers on the Aegean Islands to York!
Template email here:
https://t.co/1JktQkQuLS
Click the images for more info ⬇️
#YorkMustAct#WeHaveSpace
📢VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT📢
☀️York Must Act is made up of some wonderful volunteers! Let's shout them out!
☀️Today we’re shining the spotlight on Helen, who has been with us since last July and does some amazing work on our social media!
Get to know Helen ⬇️
The hostile environment deters many migrants from seeking healthcare, including the vaccine.
81% of undocumented migrants we surveyed feared accessing care. Government must scrap the hostile environment to ensure maximum vaccine take-up.
https://t.co/0voqX8yPPK
Human Rights Watch has warned that #migrants living in an area of a camp in #Lesbos contaminated with lead are at serious risk.
Children and pregnant women could develop lead poisoning if the government fails to act, they said.
#refugeesgr#Lesvos
https://t.co/Re60xk75i1
This is from a resident of a camp on #Lesvos. 6000+ people live here with limited access to heating, electricity & sanitation.
This cannot be the best the Europe has to offer people who have fled war & persecution. Seeking asylum is not a privilege, it is a legal & human right.
TAKE ACTION: The government’s new plan for immigration is cruel, misleading and will destroy lives.
Protecting people fleeing war and persecution must come first.
Take 1 min to call on the government to scrap this cruel and destructive plan 👉https://t.co/tT7pfVptie