When news broke on Friday about the Park Inn, I felt dread, not shock. And I was furious. Of course we're still waiting on more information - however, what we know already is that people have been shouting about the mounting crisis in those hotels for *months* 1/
People with a disproportionate experience of trauma, violence, war; living with chronic stress in constant, hyper-vigilant survival mode, all taken from small, safer flats & put into hotels with hundreds of strangers, communal meals & a communal tea urn in a global pandemic. 2/
Jul 19, 2018 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
RIGHT. i am so fucking angry. We have established that Trump is a monster, yes? Let's talk about my past 24 hours and what that says about our esteemed UK government
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So Tuesday night i got a call from a church minister in a total panic because one of her congregation had recieved a letter, out of nowhere, saying her she had 24 hours to vacate her accommodation because her asylum support was being stopped.
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Jun 13, 2018 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
⚠NEWS⚠
DUC IS OFF THE PLANE.
He will not be deported today. He is still in detention but he is SAFE.
WE DID IT. WE WON TODAY. This is my happy tears face when i got the news.
It's complicated, let me make a thread -
#DucMakesGlasgow1/ ok so HOW? Well we had 3 strategies all at once:
a) political - get Immigration Minister to respond to Duc's MP
b) legal - get an application for Judicial Review in there - this stops removal
