CivicLeicester

Community media channel & Indie publisher | Highlighting conversations since 2010 | Email: [email protected]

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

charity: water (@charitywater) - Take Your Time https://t.co/BuFDLCzvJF

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

The true indictment of our political time is that we have succeeded in building a world where such precarious journeys are the only bridge between the dispossessed and the hope for a future. #EnglishChannel #LaManche #Refugees #SafePassageNow #AsBritishAs https://t.co/F4SmdgeeMT

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

How can poetry/ arts-based forums challenge how African & Asian refugees are being left to drown in the English Channel? @safepassageint @DOTW_UK @AU_ECOSOCC @UNOSAA1 @AfricanUnionUN @UNESCO_Addis @refugeecouncil @IMIX_UK @Refugees @RefugeeWeek @englishpen https://t.co/P3M73EOL6G

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

23 June 2026 marks a decade since the #Brexit referendum

#BollocksToBrexit: An Anthology of Poems & Short Fiction (CivicLeicester, 2019) is an essential aid to understanding how we got here & what this means for our collective future.

https://t.co/bBne9BdZ31

[Rumbidzai @SamanthaVazhure]

I wrote ‘Paw paws from Pill’ recently for my upcoming poetry collection ☺️💛

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Videos showing apparent anti-immigrant attacks have been posted on social media in South Africa, where new protests have been held demanding government action on undocumented immigration.

[Rumbidzai @SamanthaVazhure]

Delighted to share my review of From Here to There: 101 Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration (@CivicLeicester), featured in Issue 9 of Exiled Writers Ink Magazine - Home and Return 🧡

Read the magazine here: https://t.co/nZvd59cqUQ

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

@refugeecouncil @APPGRefugees @AlfDubs @tonyvaughanMP @RefugeeAction @Refugees @CityofSanctuary @FreefromTorture @AsylumMatters @ZoeJardiniere @JCWI_UK @STARnational @AmnestyUK @libertyhq @BARACUK @MigrantVoiceUK @InfoMigrants @leicesterliz @leicslive @LeicesterSUTR @TRECLeicester @LeicesterLGBT @ShockatAdam @GawainLittle @LeicSecSoc @BameFor @ShareefaEnergy @CMARMigration @OpBlackVote @RaceJustice @guardiannews @johnmcdonnellMP @IanByrneMP @RachaelMaskell @KimJohnsonMP @NeilForPoole @RichardBurgon @carla_denyer @sianberry @AdrianRamsay @EllieChowns @BrightonSanct @RefugeeTogether @RegulariseUK @Independent @Holly_JoyB @AVIDdetention @AubergeMigrants @BIDdetention @CalaisAppeal “Two people have died & another is missing after trying to cross the Channel from France to the UK on Wednesday morning. It is the first fatal incident in the Channel this year. [...] [in 2025] at least 24 people died [...] [and] [...] 73 in 2024.” https://t.co/4py7hueN08

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

Asylum seekers from conflict zones incl. Sudan, Afghanistan & Iran, accuse the Home Office of 'subjecting them to arbitrary detention, denial of legal representation, inadequate medical care, degrading treatment & severe psychological harm'. https://t.co/GFKtfwWjjc

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

@refugeecouncil @APPGRefugees @AlfDubs @tonyvaughanMP @RefugeeAction @Refugees @CityofSanctuary @FreefromTorture @AsylumMatters @ZoeJardiniere @JCWI_UK @STARnational @AmnestyUK @libertyhq @BARACUK @MigrantVoiceUK @InfoMigrants @leicesterliz @leicslive @LeicesterSUTR @TRECLeicester @LeicesterLGBT @ShockatAdam @GawainLittle @LeicSecSoc @BameFor @ShareefaEnergy @CMARMigration @OpBlackVote @RaceJustice @guardiannews @johnmcdonnellMP @IanByrneMP @RachaelMaskell @KimJohnsonMP @NeilForPoole @RichardBurgon @carla_denyer @sianberry @AdrianRamsay @EllieChowns @BrightonSanct @RefugeeTogether @RegulariseUK @Independent @Holly_JoyB “[...] within just 6 months of its implementation, many of us have witnessed first-hand & independent clinicians have documented the profound harm this scheme has caused to people seeking asylum.”—@AVIDdetention @AubergeMigrants @BIDdetention @CalaisAppeal
https://t.co/waZX6reVds

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

This week, Ghana will table a historic resolution at the UN to recognise the transatlantic trafficking and enslavement of Africans as a crime against humanity.

I’ve written to the government to ask whether they will support this and, if not, why?

[AU-EU Youth Voices Lab - Power of the Collective @aueuyouthvoices]

🎥 Ready to tell stories that matter? Lens of change is here!

In this new opportunity, in collaboration with @RestlessDev, we invite you to join our Filmmakers Network and document the power of youth-led change across Africa and Europe 🌍

If you're a filmmaker aged 18-35, this is your chance to turn real stories into impact-driven documentaries.

What's in it for you?
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If you’re passionate about storytelling for impact, this is your chance to contribute to a global movement.

📩 Learn more & apply: https://t.co/ab79jy8nab

🤝 Share this opportunity with your network and invite filmmakers to join us!

@aueuyouthlab
#AUEUYouthLab #AUEUYouthVoicesLab #PoweroftheCollective #YVL_LensOfChange

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

Congo Calling: An African Orchestra in Britain (BBC Documentary, 2014) https://t.co/St4cOmcJEn

[Nqobizitha Mlambo @cdemlambo]

Wrote an article about this issue as well....

https://t.co/koGsJ0V44l

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism — #AJOpinion by Tafi Mhaka.

🔗: https://t.co/Txo9CwfuST

[Cassava Republic @CassavaRepublic]

We're on Substack! Our first essay, is a reflection on 20 years of Cassava Republic Press by editor Layla Mohamed. From launching in Abuja in 2006 to becoming a Global Black publisher, she looks back at the milestones that shaped the journey.

Read here ➡️https://t.co/g1udTgnUSQ

[Rumbidzai @SamanthaVazhure]

Huge congratulations to fellow Zimbabwean author @andrew_chatora on launching @FriesianPub! Submissions are open - please send in your best work 🧡📚

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems & short prose focusing on Edward Nkoloso, Afronauts & the 1960s Zambian Space Programme.

For details & submission guidelines, see: https://t.co/m8nhr8Vg1V

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

@UNmigration @GiuffridaA @guardian “The deaths of 22 children while trying to cross the Channel in the last two years, along with the mistreatment of thousands of others, were due to “catastrophic failures” of the UK & French governments,”—@projectplayfr @guardian @UN_SPExperts @UNICEF_EU https://t.co/HyFkCxhEIj

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

EU Member States, Britain & African neo-colonies are using #necropolitics #antiblackness & #borderviolence to relegate African & Asian refugees & migrants into the zone of nonbeing

—Will @_AfricanUnion @CARICOMorg @ASEAN @UN_SPExperts @UNDGACM_EN @UN & @CIJ_ICJ intervene? 🧵

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

“A least 606 people trying to reach Europe in search of refugee have been reported dead or missing in the Mediterranean since the beginning of 2026, marking the “deadliest start to a year” in more than a decade [...]”—@UNmigration @GiuffridaA @guardian https://t.co/j0fQn8Yzs6

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

Gil Scott-Heron - Alien (Live at the Wax Museum Nightclub, 1982) https://t.co/6A8TwMpbQR

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Zimbabwe's government has suspended exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrates with immediate ⁠effect until further notice https://t.co/ciNev0j5to