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By Admin26th November 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S Break Asylum Housing Contract: Investigate G4S!

Once again, private security company G4S, has failed to meet its obligations to fulfill a contract paid for by public money. This time it’s the COMPASS contract to re-house people seeking asylum in Yorkshire and…

By Admin25th November 20120Asylum, Sheffield

When SYMAAG met Nick

Just before the last general election SYMAAG sent an “Asylum Election Pledge” letter to all candidates in South Yorkshire. The letter was backed by 30 refugee community organisations, campaign groups, faith groups and trade union…

By Admin24th November 20120Campaigns, Migration

Campaigning Against the New Family Migration Rules

“This Approach Puts a Price on Love” On 25 September 2012, at a well attended public meeting organised by SYMAAG, the following resolution was passed unanimously: ‘This meeting deplores the Home Office’s…

By Admin7th November 20120General

November 8th National Day of Action – Stop Barnardo’s Detaining Children

Thursday 8th November – Any Time – Any Barnardo’s Shop/Office As Medical Justice put it: “they ruined the campaign to end the detention of children, which campaigners felt could be achievable as the government had…

By Admin29th October 20120Asylum, General, Migration

“It’s Kill or Be Killed” – Refugees and the Syrian Uprising: SYMAAG meeting

We were pleased to welcome two refugees from Syria to our last meeting on Tuesday 30th October who gave us an update on events in Syria. One was a long-standing refugee in Sheffield and the…

By Admin26th October 20120Campaigns, G4S

Don’t Invest in G4S: Pension Fund Protest

SYMAAG and Barnsley Asylum Support Group activists picketed the Annual Meeting of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund WYPF) in Huddersfield on Friday 26th October with the call DO NOT INVEST IN G4S. WYPF has significant investments…

By Admin4th October 20120Campaigns, G4S

National Stop G4S Campaign formed: latest report

‘The company you need to target is G4S’. Opponents form strategic alliance Critics of the world’s biggest security company are banding together. A report from the Stop G4S Convergence campaign. Sixty people came…

By Admin23rd August 20120General

“United By Love, Divided By Theresa May” public meeting. Report and campaign proposals to follow soon…

Public meeting to discuss what the new family migration rules mean and how we oppose them. When: Tuesday 25th September 7pm Where: Quaker Meeting House, 10 James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Speakers from Migrant Rights Network,…

By Admin23rd August 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S, Sheffield

Asylum Housing Campaign Guide: Challenging Instructions to Move Home – UPDATED

It’s everyone’s right to live in decent, suitable housing, regardless of their immigration status or where they were born. Many people seeking asylum in South Yorkshire will be asked to move house, sometimes to a…

By Admin23rd August 20120Asylum

UKBA: “No evidence that returnees to DRC are at risk”

Latest: “No reliable evidence..that a returnee has experienced harm or ill-treatment after being returned to the DRC from the UK” – UK Government. When MP Tom Blenkinsop asked this question in Parliament he received the…

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