🚨Investigation: A teenager took his own life in a Birmingham hotel after waiting four months for his asylum application to be processed.

birminghamdispatch.co.uk/p/investigatio…

REVEALED

The government is facing calls to investigate the death of a teenage asylum seeker who it has emerged took his own life in a Home Office hotel while under threat of removal to Rwanda.

Our latest investigation with i newspaper and Birmingham Dispatch

inews.co.uk/news/teenager-…

If you're protesting this weekend, it's vital you know your rights

Save these bust cards, share with others, write phone numbers on your arm, look for legal observers if you need assistance and remember to say 'no comment' without a lawyer

Keep yourselves and each other safe

MASSIVE: Hay Festival suspends all sponsorship from Baillie Gifford 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thankyou Fossil Free Books for an inspirational campaign!♥️

Note to Hay: Artists exercised their agency - the only pressure was that of unfolding genocide and climate extinction!
hayfestival.com/news/blog.aspx…

🚨 Major BDS Victory – Anti-Boycott Bill defeated

We are delighted to announce the government’s toxic anti-boycott bill has been defeated. They tried to shut down campaigns against Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights. They failed. Our right to boycott campaign has won!

🚀 We've just launched our #GeneralElection defend the #righttostrike candidate pledge.

🤔Standing in #GE2024 ?

✍️Pledge to defend the right to strike: actionnetwork.org/forms/candidat…

#StrikeMap #GeneralElection 2024 Campaign for Trade Union Freedom

BREAKING: The ICJ orders Israel to halt its Rafah operations, and issues additional measures including preserving evidence and permitting aid.
Given Israel's disdain for previous orders, ICJP calls on the UNSC to invoke its A94(2) powers of enforcement 🔽
icjpalestine.com/2024/05/24/icj…

Protestors from Oxford Action for Palestine say that University of Oxford leadership refused to meet them to discuss grievances regarding the Uni's investments and partnerships.

In response to their occupying Uni Offices, Thames Valley Police then made 16 arrests, with alleged reports of excessive use of force.

Today ends 5 years of renters being fed false hope by the Tories. The Bill effectively died when the gov decided to side with landlord lobbyists long ago.

Now is a chance to start anew and demand the next government ban no fault evictions immediately and without condition.

🚨Our new report released with War on Want and CAAT reveals that Barclays UK has substantially INCREASED its financing of companies arming Israel’s genocide.

We must take action. Join the #BoycottBarclays campaign: palestinecampaign.org/boycott-barcla…

Bail granted for client facing removal to Rwanda.

Home Office claimed our client would be on a plane to Rwanda in June.

Judge referred them to the news & ordered the release of our client as removal is clearly not imminent 👇

theguardian.com/politics/artic…

🚨BREAKING: NO FLIGHTS TO RWANDA BEFORE THE GENERAL ELECTION

Rishi Sunak has just announced that there will be NO FLIGHTS before the general election.

Together, we have made it too hard for this inhumane scheme to go through.

The fight isn't over yet - will you join us?

🚨Breaking: No flights to Rwanda before the General Election on 4 July

Rishi Sunak has confirmed that NO flights will take off before the election.

The Rwanda plan has been performative cruelty from the outset.

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Oxford police are continuing their violent assaults and arrests of peaceful protesters, here seen taking away a student on a stretcher.

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🇵🇸SOLIDARITY🇵🇸

with activists in Universities with Palestine.

Image 1 - Vigil by Healthworkers for Palestine on Friday by Bham Liberated Encampment

Image 2 - Demands of Aston Uni Encampment

Image 3 - the new Durham uni Encampment

Keep going!

#FreePalestine

Using the threat of visa withdrawal in questions of university fees is a low move - solidarity with the protesting Nigerian students who have been withdrawn from their courses

🚨BREAKING: We have filed a claim in the High Court against the Home Office's Rwanda guidance. We argue that it unlawfully instructs caseworkers to ignore compelling evidence about individual risks of onward removal from Rwanda.

Read more here: asylumaid.org.uk/node/159

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Our EC member Carl Goode from the West Midlands branch is there!