Up to 65 people attended our public meeting on Thursday. Great to meet people already working on the same stuff and newer people alike. After a brief overview of raids and our rights, we broke up into groups and shared ideas of how we can fight them collectively. Here’s a snapshot of people’s thoughts:
Protest in the streets
Tower block alerts when raids happen, whistles blown – like in Glasgow where there were lots of raids in single blocks.
School protest when students are taken – e.g. Glasgow Girls, Save Yashika, Leonarda Dibrani case in France
Union support for workers
Twitter alerts for raids
Phone alert system for raids
Phone alert systems for local areas – markets etc. – need resistance to be local to be sustainable.
Working with more community groups, places of worship – getting messages out in different languages.
Someone to hack Home Office sites…
Posters at bus stops
‘Know your rights’ stickers
Map immigration raids
Shopkeepers – put up withdrawal of consent forms in in windows
Spread success stories
Be one step ahead of home office – where they go & try and snatch people, we need to already have been there – talked to people
Help people develop CONFIDENCE in the face of raids – as/more important than legal knowledge (law frequently abused by Immigration Enforcement anyway)
Posters saying Immigration Enforcement not welcome