Thursday, May 20, 2010
Join the Release Carnival – help end child detention!
Child detention has not ended yet. Join the Release Carnival in London on 5th June with musicians, circus acts, dancers as well as ex-detainees to call for an immediate end to the detention of asylum seeking children.
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Release Carnival, 5th June
On Saturday 5th June there will be a demonstration to protest the detention of asylum seeking children.
STAR will be joining the Release Carnival organised by the SOAS Detainee Support Group with musicians, circus acts, choirs, dancers and clowns joining activists and ex-detainees with one goal: to unite the community against the abhorrent practice of detaining children for immigration purposes.
The demonstration is in conjunction with Liberty, Bail for Immigration Detainees, The Children’s Society, Refugee and Migrant Justice, End Child Detention Now, Clare Sambrook, The Woodcraft Folk and Right to Refuge and Helen Bamber Foundation.
There’ll be juggling, clowns and live music – everything from samba bands to church choirs and much more besides.
The day will be fun, inclusive and educational and a positive way of challenging one of the most horrific aspects of the asylum system. We hope you can join us!
Download the invitation
Release Carnival Invite
When and where?
Saturday 5th June.
The Carnival will assemble at 12pm in Torrington Square (between Birkbeck and SOAS) for speakers.
At 2pm the march will begin to Downing Street where a small procession will deliver a letter demanding a change in the policy of immigration detention.
Finish no later than 4pm.
Take Action!
Email the Minister
The new Government made a very welcome commitment last week that they would “end the detention of children for immigration purposes”.
This was followed shortly afterwards by a statement from Damian Green, the new Immigration Minister, setting out their plans for “a comprehensive review” and his hopes to have “plans agreed within the next few months”.
It soon became clear that the Government intended to continue detaining children while their review took place – on Monday a mother and her eight-month old baby were detained at Dungavel detention centre in Scotland. But then almost immediately, following pressure from the Scottish Government, the UK Border Agency announced that no families would be detained in Scotland. Instead, families would be transported to Yarl’s Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire… Read more about this story
Support the campaigns OutCry! and End Child Detention Now and continue to lobby the Government, urging them to follow their commitment with immediate action to end the detention of children and families, and to do so in a way that puts children’s welfare at the heart of any new policy.
It’s crucial that we all keep up the pressure. Please help by taking action…
Email the Minister
It only takes a minute to send Damian Green, the Immigration Minister, a quick email.
He deserves congratulations for committing to end the immigration detention of children – something the previous Government did not do. But he also needs to know that he must act now.
Join the Students Against Child Detention facebook group to keep up to date and take immediate actions.
Posted by James Fisher on 20/05/2010 at 02:23 PM
in Refugee News
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