Gracie Mae

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  1. 2 hours ago

    well! see you in court,

    BREAKING: the High Court just granted permission to bring a legal challenge against 's sharing of patient data with to help them track down migrants. This is vital to protecting patient confidentiality for us all:
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  2. 6 hours ago

    plus, despite encouraging tone of recent lab immigration speech, there was no promise to close even one detention centre - only to conduct a 'review'. the movement to end detention is bigger than any one party, any one detention centre, or any one group of people. let's do better

    It's disappointing to see the Yarls Wood hunger strike framed as a Tory issue, when there was a riot there in 2003 a year after Labour opened it, and David Blunkett had plans to deport 2,500 asylum seekers per month.
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  3. 9 hours ago

    very much hope proceedings go well today for colleagues and everyone affected by this diabolical data-sharing arrangement. here's why:

    The snow can’t stop us! At High Court representing with : immigration enforcement should not be linked to health care provision
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  4. Feb 28

    Home Office: SHAME ON YOU! Close Yarl's Wood, close all detention centres.

    Big turnout for the solidarity demo in London outside Home Office. We will hear from women on hunger strike over the phone. Home Office will HAVE to hear their demands.
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    Feb 28

    Women in Yarl's Wood continue their hunger strike. Please join the protest today outside the Home Office from 4-5pm. (2 Marsham St, SW1P 4DF) Brave the cold in solidarity with detainees. Esp all you amazing university staff on strike!!

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  6. Feb 28

    this sounds how i felt in the snow this morning

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    Feb 25

    After an initial 3 day hunger strike where the Home Office refused to acknowledge the hunger strike, it is clear that they are not listening to us. On Monday 26/02/18, we will cease to participate in detention, we will not eat, use their facilities or work for them.

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  8. Feb 23

    old paper floating around at ... ‘controlling the data banks’. some things never change.

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  9. Feb 22

    a list of demands from the women on hunger strike in immigration detention. close yarl's wood, close all detention centres.

    The Hunger Strikers' Demands:
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  10. Feb 22

    whether they're on sky news or making numbers with tweets about stormzy, it's disappointing and absurd that a whisper network seems to be the most we can hope for.

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  11. Feb 22

    conversations around oxfam are also making me think about the many, many men outside the NGO context who are known to have caused harm to multiple women and yet somehow remain so popular in left-wing circles. i guess because 'the cause'?

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  12. Feb 22

    ah, this thread, and this piece, are miserable reading. and the points raised about abuses of power are salient well beyond the context of harassment and assault. lots of people starting out in NGOs are no stranger to casual exploitation and wage theft - i certainly wasn't!

    Totally agree with this. I worked at Save the Children in Brendan Cox’s department btwn 2014-16, it wasn’t just ‘some’ women he made feel uncomfortable, the rumours alone made MANY feel uncomfortable. It was easily the worst working experience I’ve had
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  13. Feb 22

    two of the people discussed in this article where unable to visit their own dying mothers because they feared they wouldn't be able to get back into the country if they left. this cannot be the kind of society we are content to live in.

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  14. Feb 22

    "When you are in this situation you cannot get a job, healthcare, a place to live. It locks you out of the system."

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    Feb 21

    On the 21/02/18 the Yarl’s Wood Detainees began a hunger strike

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  16. Feb 21

    and in terms of essential measures (that any rights-respecting govt could implement): an end to the hostile environment, equal access to services, lawful work and welfare benefits for all regardless of status, an end to detention, an end to raids.

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  17. Feb 21

    encouraging tone/proposals in Diane Abbott's speech on immigration today. but whatever labour promises, we have to fight for a society in which no one group of people has their fundamental rights sacrificed on the altar of "legitimate concerns"

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  18. Feb 20

    "it seems law, rights, and blatant discrimination are not as important to Government as maintaining its constant anti-migrant campaign" - another timely warning from on devastating aspects of the

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  19. Feb 18

    sad to finally put down tony parker’s ‘lighthouse’. a gentle, eerie oral history of britain’s last lightkeepers and their ways of life, from rock lights to sea lights to towers. the lights are all automated now.

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  20. Feb 16

    funny that, i wonder why Government is trying to help the Home Office to wriggle out of its obligations under the new Data Protection Bill...

    New post: Guest post: how we got an asylum seeker £15,500 damages for misuse of his asylum information
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