Oxford Student Action for Refugees

Campaigning for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. We are currently supporting the still human still here campaign, which calls for an end to the destitution of asylum seekers many of whom are forced into destitution. We organise speaker events, fundraising band nights and encourage volunteering with local asylum charities, for example through food collections.
We have close links with the Oxford University Amnesty International group and often hold joint events and campaigns with them.

Contact Name: Sara Bainbridge
E-mail: sara.bainbridge [at] mansfield.ox.ac.uk
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Category: Charity & Voluntary
Networks: Oxford University, Oxford Hub

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FREE CAKES AND DRINKS TOMORROW

E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Friday 19th June @ 2:54pm

Hello all -

It may be the end of the academic aear but it's not the end of Refugee Week!

Tomorrow (Saturday) you can get FREE cakes and drinks by just dropping into Bonn Square. Find STAR in New Road Baptist Church from 11 til 2, where you can hang out, listen to music, have a cuppa and find out more about refugee and asylum issues by just having a friendly chat.

Then head over to the Ultimate Picture Palace in Cowley at 4pm to watch 'Grow Your Own' This comedy centres around a group of gardeners at a Merseyside allotment, who react angrily when a group of refugees are given plots at the site, but after they get to know them better, soon change their minds.

And on Sunday at 4pm, Ultimate Picture Palace will be showing Ken Loach's 'It's a free world'.

Hope to see you there to celebrate Refugee Week 2009!

STAR xxx

STAR Monday Roast Tonight!

E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Monday 15th June @ 5:21pm

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  Refugee Week Social - at the Monday Roast, The Cellar, 8.30pm, £4
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Just a reminder that as part of next week's Refugee Week events,
the Monday Roast (the much loved Sunday Roast, but on a Monday)
will play host to the Oxford Refugee Week Social, with a stall
run by STAR and Amnesty. There will be petitions and letters to
sign, plus some extremely tasty supportive cakes.  

This is the last Sunday Roast this term: - a roast based GARDEN
PARTY with flowers, picnic items and the requisite bunting. Come
down for: 

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OPEN STAGE 
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a melee of oxford's finest strummers and warblers. 
please contact daisy or cat (facebook/ gmail) if you'd like to
play (or nominate someone else to play) 

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STAR biscuits!
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STAR commitee elections today!

E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Thursday 11th June @ 11:14am

Hello all,

Just a reminder to come along to the KA at 6pm if you want to be involved in STAR next year. Even if you don't want to hold a position, come anyway!

Positions available are:


President 
Treasurer 
Secretary 
National STAR Liaison Officer 
Campaigns Coordinator 
Volunteering Coordinator 
Publicity Coordinator

 


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COMMITTEE ELECTIONS and REFUGEE WEEK!

E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Tuesday 9th June @ 8:20am

NEXT MEETING: 6pm, Thursday, in the KA.

We'll be discussing how the Refugee Week publicity is going, our SOCIAL with Amnesty, other Refugee Week stuff, our poster and banner campaign and having COMMITTEE ELECTIONS!

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Pppose dentention centres- Letter writing tomorrow!

E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Thursday 4th June @ 10:22am

Letter writing session STAR/Amnesty/Liberty. Friday 5pm The Lamb and Flag. St Giles
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Oppose the Campsfield Detention centre and the building of Bullingdon Removal Centre.
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Over 3,000 immigrants are indefinitely detained in the UK at any one time. Having claimed asylum in this country men, women and children are locked up while the government deal with their claim. This process can take months, or even years. They are often treated badly, and suffer from mental health problems, not knowing when they will be released. A recent study highlighted the case of one man who had been shuffled around UK detention centres for 8 years. His only 'crime' was arriving here without the correct documentation. These people do not have a voice in the UK.

20 minutes from Oxford, in Kidlington Campsfield Detention Centre holds 200 innocents. The government has plans to build another detention centre in Bicester. This will hold 800 people, and will be the biggest in Europe.

Stop this happening. Come and write to your MP!
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