E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Tuesday 22nd June 2010 @ 3:21pm
Hi guys,
Our volunteering wing of STAR is running a big summer party for all the young people from the Bridging project (a project in Oxford that works with young asylum seekers and refugees) and we really need some volunteers to help out with it. It is this Friday afternoon between 1-4pm at Pembroke Sports grounds on the Abingdon Road.
We are running several sports including football, basketball, cricket and Frisbee as well as a enormous picnic. We need people to help out/play the sports or just help with the food and hang out and chat in the sun. It is looking like it will be a great afternoon and should be a great way for Oxford students to hang out in a relaxed atmosphere with some of the young refugees from Oxford.
Send me an email asap if you are interested in helping out ellie.bates@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Ellie x
E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Wednesday 16th June 2010 @ 12:25am
Hi everybody,
Hope 8th week and exams, if you have them, is going well. Just a reminder about some of the events of Refugee Action Week and also details of the film night on Thursday.
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E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Saturday 22nd May 2010 @ 5:53pm
Hi guys,
If you can tear yourself away from the sun for a second please sign our petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/equal-access-to-university-for-asylum-seekers
If you want to pass our equal access motion at your college JCR or MCR please drop me an email we are collecting the colleges but we need more.
Also as usual we have our open commitee meeing tomorrow at 8.30pm in the Mitre Pub...
Hope to see you there and enjoy the sun.
Ellie
E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Saturday 8th May 2010 @ 8:05pm
Hi guys,
As usual we have an open committee meeting at 8.30pm in the Mitre Pub on the High street. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best,
Ellie
E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Sunday 2nd May 2010 @ 1:53pm
Hi guys,
Just a quick reminder that we have open meeting tonight at 8.30 in the Mitre Pub in the High Street. We have loads of important stuff to talk about including events for Refugee action week.As usual anyone is welcome even if you have never been before.
Thanks
Ellie
E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Tuesday 27th April 2010 @ 7:10pm
Hi guys,
Hope everyone is safely back in oxford through the cloud of ash and is enjoying the very ash free summer weather. We are having a open meeting (like all our meetings) on Sunday 2nd May at 8.30pm in the Mitre pub. Everyone is really welcome to come and it would be great to have new ideas and fresh thinking on board for the new term. (and we are a nice bunch).
Hopefully see you there.
Ellie x
E-mail newsletter sent by Bekah Sparrow, Tuesday 2nd March 2010 @ 7:31am
Oxford Libertarian Society present:
The Speak Easy - 'Arbitrary Detention in the United Kingdom'
Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 @ 7:30pm
Gladstone Room, Oxford Union (free entry, no membership required)
A regular forum organised by the Oxford University Liberal Democrats, Compass Oxford and the Oxford Libertarian Society, with discussion topics of interest to liberals of all kinds. Snacks, drinks and wine provided. This term we will meet every Wednesday from 2nd until 8th week at the Gladstone Room, Oxford Union.
7th week topic:
'Arbitrary Detention in the United Kingdom' - Hicham Yezza
Hicham Yezza was an employee of the University of Nottingham when he was arrested and detained on terrorism related charges in November 2008. When the case against him turned out to be lacking any substance, the Government continued to pursue him on immigration issues and attempted, and eventually failed, to deport him from the UK. He will discuss his experience of detention by the British state.
Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=hicham+yezza&init=quick#!/event.php?eid=475602580463&index=1
E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Thursday 25th February 2010 @ 5:54pm
Hi guys
Just to let you know that there is open meeting to talk about events for next term etc. Its 8.30pm Sunday at the Mitre Pub on the high Street. We will be sitting downstairs. Please come along if you want to get more involved, have any exciting ideas or just want to come along and have a chat with some nice people, you will be most welcome.
Thanks and take care
Ellie x
E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Tuesday 23rd February 2010 @ 3:26pm
Hi Guys,
Just to let you know that there is a Close Campsfield Demo this Saturday between 12pm and 2pm at the Campsfield detention centre.
It is about a half an hour cycle away and their is a group cycling from the war memorial meeting at 11.15am or there is a bus that leaves at 11.17 from the bus stops outside the randolf. The bus number is 2a, 2b or 2c and ask the driver to let you off at Campsfield.
Hope loads of you can make as it is really important to make our voices heard against the scandal of detention in this country.
Hope the sleetly horror is not getting you down
Ellie x
E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Thursday 11th February 2010 @ 5:57pm
Yarl’s Wood detainees on hunger strike
Protest in support 2.30-4.30pm, this Friday 12 February
Serco Offices, 18-20 Hand Court (off High Holborn)
84 + Women on Hunger Strike, behind the Wire @ Yarl’s Wood IRC
End the Detention of Foreign Nationals Now!
Since the 5th of February 2010, we the residents at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike which involves over 84 + women, who are protesting against the period of time spent in detention and the treatment that they receive while being detained.
The strike was sparked to protest and demand that the frustration and humiliation of all foreign nationals ends now.
We are demanding the following actions
*Allow enough time and make resources available to residents who need to fully present their cases.
*To end all false allegations and misrepresentations by the UKBA regarding detainees in order to refuse bail or temporary admissions.
*Access to appropriate medical treatment and care as in the community, access to edible and well cooked food, phones with good mobile connections, with camera and recording facilities to back up cases.
*To stop the forceful removal and degrading system of deportation of detainees
*To put law into practise, European rules governing standard of conditions of detention for migrants and asylum seekers and the length of time in detention.
*The abolition of detention for asylum seeker and torture victims
*Detention should be by a standard procedure prescribed by law, authorised by judicial authority and be subjected to periodic judicial reviews.
*To end the detention of children and their mothers, rape survivors and other torture victims, to end the detention of physically, mentally sick people and pregnant women for long period of time.
*To end the separation of children from their mothers being detained whether in detention or destitution.
*To end the detention of women detention after serving time in prison.
* To abolish the fast track system, in order to give asylum seekers a fair chance with their application, while understanding the particular needs of victims of torture, and access to reliable legal representation which the fast track system denies.
*To end the repeat detention of women granted temporary admission while reporting or signing after a short period out of detention.
*To a set period of time allowed to detain women, which should be no longer than 1 month, while waiting decision either from UKBA or court proceedings.
* Finally instead of detention of foreign nationals, there are alternatives to detention stated by the *Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). ‘The detention of asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Europe ‘, Adopted on the 28th January 2010, extracts below.
Full Text: Council of Europe – Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1707 (2010)1
The detention of asylum seekers and irregular migrants in Europe
http://tinyurl.com/Resolution-1707
Please support our concerns, lobby your MPs, Councilors, MEPs, demanding our immediate release and an end to arbitrary detention.
With Thanks,
Women behind the Wire @ Yarl’s Wood IRC
Messages of support/solidarity to: WomenBehindTheWire@ncadc.org.uk
http://www.ncadc.org.uk
See also:
Yarl’s Wood women remain on hunger strike
E-mail newsletter sent by AmandaCraig, Tuesday 2nd February 2010 @ 8:01pm
Hello all,
I'm a student in the Forced Migration MSc program at Oxford, and as part of a group project this term, I'm wondering if any STAR members would be interested in participating in interviews or focus groups about about the proposed policy of active citizenship and refugees in the UK. Participating wouldn't require any knowledge whatsoever about the actual policy of active citizenship, as we're exploring some of the issues behind it, like the push towards British values, integration and concepts of citizenship. The group project is for our Research Methods class, but we may also publish our findings.
If anyone is interested in participating in either an interview or focus group in the next couple of weeks (ideally by week 6), please let me know! We'd be extremely grateful, partly in the form of tea and snacks. It would only require about an hour or less of your time, and we're entirely willing to work around your schedule, of course.
Many thanks!
Amanda
E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Wednesday 27th January 2010 @ 6:05pm
Hi guys,
We are kicking off our equal access campaign in style this weekend. Come along to Hollywell street on Saturday at around 1.30pm for a really secret and special event! Not to be missed...
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E-mail newsletter sent by Ellie Bates, Friday 15th January 2010 @ 4:32pm
Hello everyone welcome back to a still slightly snowy Oxford and an action packed STAR term.
We are focusing on the Equal Access Campaign this term, putting pressure on Oxford University to remove barriers to higher education for asylum seekers living in Britain.
For more information see:
http://www.star-network.org.uk/index.php/young_people/index/why_STAR_campaigns/
We have a committee meeting this Sunday (17th) at 5pm at the Mitre Pub on the high street to plan our events and campaign strategy for the term. It is an excellent opportunity to join the STAR team and get more involved in the planning and organization of events. We are a friendly bunch and our meetings are very informal (in a pub!) so please feel free to just turn up, have a drink and join in.
Hope to see loads of you on Sunday,
Ellie
Posted by Ellie Bates, Friday 15th January 2010 @ 4:02pm
Commitee Meeting, everyone welcome
E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Thursday 15th October 2009 @ 10:27pm
Hello STAR people!
Thanks to those who signed up at the Freshers' Fair, and thanks also to all of you old-timers!
Lots of stuff in this week's email: lots of things to campaign about.
If you'd like to learn more, or want to get involved in volunteering or other action, please come to our first meeting on Monday. It'd be great to see you there.
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E-mail newsletter sent by Shaan Gandhi, Monday 5th October 2009 @ 11:51pm
Dear all,
Michaelmas term is upon us, which means STAR is back in business! We will be at Freshers' Fair (at Exam Schools) this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 am to 4 pm - if you're free, e-mail shaan.gandhi@magd.ox.ac.uk to pick a time to help us at the stall (we'd love to have you!).
On a related note, watch this space for the time and place of our first meeting. Tentatively, it is scheduled for Monday of 2nd week (19 October) at 8:30 pm in the Old Law Library of Magdalen College, where we'll talk about our ideas for this term and hear from James Fisher from the National Office of STAR.
Enjoy 0th week!
Regards,
Shaan Gandhi
E-mail newsletter sent by Shaan Gandhi, Wednesday 30th September 2009 @ 6:52pm
Dear all,
I hope you have enjoyed your summer and are looking forward to starting the new year in a few weeks' time. I am writing to call your attention to the following news item regarding financial support for seekers of sanctuary. Please take a minute to register your opposition to the new Government policy.
Dear STARs,
We need your help!
It will take you only ONE minute to tell Alan Johnson not to cut asylum support. Together we can stop this!
Click here to take action:
http://e-activist.com/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=121&ea.campaign.id=4220
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The problem
The government has announced it will cut support to single asylum seekers over 25 years old to just £5 a day (£35.15 per week) from October.
People seeking asylum who start receiving support will have to manage on nearly £7 a week less than current rates– leaving them to survive on just a little more than 50% of standard income support rates.
We think this is too low to cover anything that an individual might need while waiting for a decision on their claim.
Asylum seekers are among the most vulnerable impoverished groups in our society. They have often experienced unimaginable traumas, including torture, rape or other forms of violence, and have come to the UK with nothing. They deserve our help and compassion, not to be penalised.
Find out more
http://www.star-network.org.uk/index.php/news/comments/urgent_stop_cuts_to_asylum_support/
Regards,
Shaan Gandhi
E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Friday 19th June 2009 @ 3:54pm
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
E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Monday 15th June 2009 @ 6:21pm
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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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E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Thursday 11th June 2009 @ 12:14pm
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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E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Tuesday 9th June 2009 @ 9:20am
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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E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Thursday 4th June 2009 @ 11:22am
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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E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Tuesday 26th May 2009 @ 12:39am
REFUGEE FORUM
Tuesday 26th May
Oxford Union (non-members £3)
5pm – 6:30pm
OUSU, The Union and The Council For Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) present a Refugee Forum with four superb panelists - not to be missed. The issue of refugees is one which affects everyone, especially here in Oxford, given the close proximity of Campsfield Detention Centre and the often forgotten issue of refugee academics.
Chairing the Panel:
LORD JOHN KREBS (Kt, MA, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci, Hon Dsc)
Principal of Jesus College and Son of Hans Adolf Krebs, the German biochemist who described the uptake and release of energy in cells (the Krebs cycle).
Members of the Panel:
GUSTAV BORN
Professor of Pharmacology at KCL and son of the Nobel Prize winner Max Born.
KATIE GHOSE
The director the British Institute of Human Rights and a member of the taskforce advising the government on the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
‘LAYLA’
Libyan academic in Human Rights Law. Imprisoned in 2002 for criticising the Gaddafi regime in her postgraduate thesis. She fled Libya and sought asylum in the UK later that year.
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E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Monday 25th May 2009 @ 12:03pm
Dear STARS
Mobilising meeting for Calais No Border Camp: happening TONIGHT in Wadham. All Welcome!
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OXFORD MOBILISING MEETING FOR CALAIS NO BORDER CAMP
7.30pm-8.30pm, Monday 25th May
Wadham Refectory
This meeting is for all Oxford-based activists who are hoping to go to the
Calais No Border camp (23rd-29th June), and/or the big demo from Calais town
centre to Coquelles detention centre on 27th June.
The meeting will cover practical questions, such as how we co-ordinate travel
from London to the camp and/or demo, and how we mobilise for Calais over the
next month. There will also be some info sharing about the demo and what is
happening during the camp.
We will also discuss the possibility of solidarity action(s) in the UK on 27th
June, for those who are unable to travel to Calais.
Hope to see you there,
London No Borders
E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Friday 22nd May 2009 @ 12:15pm
Dear STARs
Below are the minutes from the meeting yesterday,
See you all at the Refugee Forum, Tuesday 5-6.30 at the union!
Elle x
STAR minutes Week 4
1) present: Olly, Edgar, Richard, Zoe, Scarlett, Habiba, Elle, Sara, Dom, Laura
2)Refugee week
Richard has written letter asking for donations for football tournament. Sara to check and hand out for distribution
3)Social event with Amnesty at end of 7th week. Edgar to organise with representative from Amnesty (possibly Babylove)
4)Living on £35 worth of sainsburys vouchers a week in 7th week. Make T-shirts to promote what we are doing. Use praxis to exchange money with vouchers, so it is also practical. Use network of charities in Oxford to make this a big thing. Elle to contact other groups and make Facebook group
5)POSTER campaign. Loong discussion. Many ideas on how to get across the unfairness of the system, combining Let Them work and vouchers:
idea 1) profile of a professional with brief details of how much they could be earning/contributing towards society, and how much they are being given in vouchers.
Idea 2) Olly suggested subverting mastercard advert:
Night out: $10
Weekly shop: $25
Living without fear of persecution: priceless?
We all have the right to live without fear of persecution.
Driven from their homes, skilled people from all over the world come in the hope of finding sanctuary
They are detained, forbidden from working and given just $35 a week to live on.
Could you live on $35 a week?
Is this freedom?
Any other ideas, please email them to me , and Ill send them around! Elle to contact Oxhub poster making person, anyone else with graphic skill, please get involved!
6)Campsfield Protest next Sunday,. It would be really goof to have a student turn out. We will have a stall next Friday on Broad Street to persuade people to come. Elle to bring banners from rally. Sara to do cheap photocopying at OUSU of the anti-detention leaflets (if that’s okay Sara?- I will send you the leaflet)
7)Mobilising meeting for Calais No Borders Camp in July
Room booked in Wadham from til 10.
8)Project with female refugees. Laura has been given some money to put together a publication focused on the experience of female refugees and asylum seekers in this country. STAR will be involved in this in Michealmus. Email to be sent out to mailing list to gage interest.
E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Thursday 21st May 2009 @ 12:18am
Hello hello
(Please look at this in HTML - it's prettier that way)
Here's a reminder about a STAR meeting, today, Thursday 21st May at 6pm in the KA pub. Please do attend if you want to get involved! We need committee members or just friendly faces who want something to do...
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E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Monday 18th May 2009 @ 6:48pm
Dear STARS,
Please find below the minutes from last weeks meeting....
See you again on Thursday 6PM in KA
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MINUTES
-Meeting with Close Campsfield and London No Borders to promote the Calais No Border camp in June. This will hopefully happen on 25th May in Wadham refectory.
OLLY to check out room
-Football tournament: SARA needs helium, and cake donations. RICHARD to draft letter asking for donations.
-Richard’s idea for a campaign this term: Comparing facts and figures. Ie. How much an MP has claimed on expenses for a luxury pot plants, and how much an asylum seeker is given to live on. These will be a poster campaign as well as giant banners stuck everywhere
EVERYONE TO GO AWAY AND RESEARCH
Letter writing event- joint with amnesty/liberty
Other ideas
Social event with Amnesty at the beginning of 8th week? To mark the beginning of £35 week. Need someone to organise this!
Cage. For use in raising awareness. ELLE will make/find
E-mail newsletter sent by Eleanor Mortimer, Thursday 14th May 2009 @ 2:20pm
Hi STARS,
Just a reminder that there will be a meeting TODAY 5pm in the Kings Arms
Come along if youre thinking of getting involved...
Elle x
E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Wednesday 13th May 2009 @ 1:16pm
Hello lovely STAR people
This email looks better in html, apparently.
If any of you are interested in helping STAR out with Refugee Week at the end of this term - you can do everything from football tournaments to putting up posters - then please do come to the King's Arms Pub at 5pm on Thursday. We will be the friendly-looking group with 'STAR' stickers on.
In other news, there is a panel discussion on Monday 18th May (4th week) at 7.30pm on the topic of 'Healthcare for Asylum Seekers' (see below)
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E-mail newsletter sent by Sara Bainbridge, Monday 27th April 2009 @ 10:44pm
STAR SOCIAL
7-9PM Week 1 Wednesday 29th April at THE HOUSE COCKTAIL BAR
(Blue Boar Street, OX1 4EE...down Wheatsheaf Yard, just off the High Street).
Interested in getting involved with projects ranging from street theatre to
rallies to 5-a-side football with Asylum Welcome’s youth team? On the
mailing list but unsure of how to actively get involved? Or are you a member of
another group interested in hearing about possible collaboration with STAR’s
activities? STUDENT ACTION FOR REFUGEES is launching its trinity term card
with an informal gathering at THE HOUSE cocktail bar (upstairs), and we would
love for YOU to drop in for a chat. ALL are welcome! Look forward to seeing you
there!
For more information/queries please see our facebook group page
(http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2418522144&ref=ts#/group.php?
gid=2418522144&ref=ts) or email victoria.obrien@stcatz.ox.ac.uk
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E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Monday 20th April 2009 @ 3:28pm
Welcome back all, hope you had a great vac. Plans for next term are well underway, there will be a social, speaker event, Union debate, Campsfield demos, and it culminates with Refugee Week in 8th week which is an UK wide programme of events which celebrate the contributions of refugees.
We'll be having a meeting to discuss all this this Wednesday at 5pm in the Kings Arms, new faces welcome as always.
STAR
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PS And here's a couple of simple things you could do to make a refugee's life better.
Help abolish voucher schemes
Neil Gerrard MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for an end to the use of supermarket vouchers to support asylum seekers, see:
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=38144&;SESSION=899
Help generate support for this EDM to see the voucher scheme abolished for good!
Simple Acts Campaign – Refugee Week
If everyone does at least one of these simple actions, we could make a big change to the way refugees and British born people see each other.
Do a Simple Act
E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Wednesday 11th March 2009 @ 8:55pm
Hey all,
There are a couple of events tomorrow night that people might be interested in (which, for all those who are really keen and wanted to go to both, unfortunately clash). 'The Illegals' is testimonies of undocumented migrants, while Citizens for Sanctuary are a grassroots political charity working to change the British asylum system.
There are also a couple of things that it would be great if everyone could do when they have a spare minute - signing a petition supporting the Let Them Work campaign, and if you have a few more minutes, get your MP to support the early day motion. More details on this and other events are below.
Also, plans for next term are well underway, there will be a social, speaker event, Union debate, Campsfield demos, and it culminates with Refugee Week in 8th week which is an UK wide programme of events which celebrate the contributions of refugees. Look out for a termcard.
Hope you have a great end to Hilary,
STAR
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E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Friday 27th February 2009 @ 10:53am
Thanks to all who made it to the rally yesterday, it was brilliant!
One more notice of a protest today that you may be interested in:
EMERGENCY PROTEST - GORDON BROWN IN OXFORD
Oxford Radical Forum, Oxford Students' Stop the War Coalition, Oxford SWSS and other
student groups are calling for a demonstration against UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown who is speaking at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford on Friday 27 February (TODAY):
_affairs/events/romanes_lecture.html
In the last week we've seen 850 job losses at the BMW plant in Cowley. Billions have been spent bailing banks, but Brown hasn't acted to save the jobs of thousands of people. People not Profit!
As a key architect of Britain's occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, blind supporter of the 'War on Terror', self-avowed 'friend of Israel', and supporter of immigrant detention, Gordon Brown must know how passionately Oxford students deplore his policies:
Please be outside the Sheldonian at 12:30pm- bring banners, placards,
whistles, leaflets and BE PREPARED TO SHOUT!
E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Saturday 21st February 2009 @ 2:14pm
Dear STARs,
Somehow 6th week is almost upon us, which means it's time for STAR Action Day. Whoop! This year we're going to holding a rally protesting against the detention of refused asylum seekers. This is a particularly pressing issue for Oxford, with Campsfield Detention Centre just a few miles away from us, and there being proposals for a new huge centre in Bicester, which isn't far away either.
The rally is THURSDAY 6th wk (26th) 1:30, we'll be meeting outside the Sheldonian and then marching to Bonn Square where a couple of speakers will give their views on why detention is so wrong.
As usual we'll be meeting on Sunday at 5 in the Mitre if anyone wants to come and help with last minute preparations. We're hoping to plaster posters all over the city so please let us know if you can help out with getting them around your college/department/wherever and we can pidge them to you.
STAR
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E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Monday 9th February 2009 @ 10:36am
It's very late notice, but if anyone's interested there's a meeting about the detention centre in Bicester tonight. Bill, bmackeith@btinternet.com, has one spare car seat if required.
STAR
In light of the government's proposal to build an 800-place immigration
detention centre, the local campaign in opposition has called a public meeting
tomorrow Monday evening in Bicester. All are welcome! As of now the roads are
open and passable and public transport running!
Bill MacKeith, Treasurer CABIRC
NO DETENTION CENTRE IN BICESTER!
PUBLIC MEETING
IMMIGRATION DETENTION: THE REALITY
7:30pm, MONDAY 9TH FEBRUARY
St Edburg's Church Hall, Bicester
Speakers
Apollo Milton Okello, a refugee from Uganda, on the realities of detention,
Andrew Hornsby-Smith, Kidlington Parish Councillor, on the UK Border Agency's
planning application,
Peter Townsend, visitor to Campsfield House for local charity Asylum Welcome,
Organised by Coalition Against Bullingdon Immigration Removal Centre (CABIRC),
PO Box 377, Bicester, OX26 9FT www.cabirc.org.uk
E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Saturday 7th February 2009 @ 6:37pm
Just a quick message to say we'll be meeting as usual on Sunday (tomorrow) at 5pm in the Mitre to discuss our upcoming events, hope to see you there.
And if you haven't already, read the article in the Cherwell about Campsfield (and get all your friends to read it too.)
STAR
E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Friday 30th January 2009 @ 4:01pm
Dear All,
This term is going to be full of events concerning detention, with street theatre (see the OUDS website or contact victoria.obrien@stcatz.ox.ac.uk if you're interested), a huge poster campaign, a debate and more, with details coming your way soon.
We'll be having another meeting on Sunday (1st Feb) at 5pm in the Mitre (corner of High Street and Turl Street) to discuss our progress, would be great to see you there.
Below are details of some other events you might be interested in.
STAR
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E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Thursday 22nd January 2009 @ 12:45pm
Dear STARs,
This term we're going to be focussing on detention (just like Obama). With Campsfield Detention Centre just outside Oxford, and plans to open a new centre in Bicester, it's vital that we show that many of us are oppposed to the unjust and indefinite detention of refugees and asylum seekers.
So we're planning on having a series of events drawing attention to the shocking policies pursued by the British government and bringing the stories of forgotten people to the public's attention. We're looking at having a number of days of street/guerilla theatre, and combining this with a big poster/leaflet campaign and more, aiming to really spread the word about the inhumanity of detention.
We'll be meeting on Sunday at 5pm in the Mitre (corner of High Street and Turl Street) to plan the term's events. It would be great to see many of you there, this could be a really powerful movement and we need your help.
Dom
E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Sunday 23rd November 2008 @ 11:33pm
Dear STARs,
This is just a reminder about events this week as well as to let you know that we'll be meeting on Tuesday at 6pm in the Mitre (on the corner of Turl St and High St) to discuss STARry stuff. Please do come along, even if you've never been before, we're all very friendly and would love to see some new faces!
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Dom
PS Last time I meant to welcome all those who hadn't been getting our emails before, and apologies that you've missed out on half a term's worth of communication.
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E-mail newsletter sent by Dom Weinberg, Wednesday 12th November 2008 @ 5:01pm
Dear all STARry people…
Some dates for your diaries below.
For more information on any of these events, please email sara.bainbridge@mansfield.ox.ac.uk
We are also looking to set up new volunteering projects, especially with this group http://www.ocvc.ac.uk/bridging-project
If you’re interested in volunteering, please send an email to sara.bainbridge@mansfield.ox.ac.uk and include any areas you may be interested in – working with young people, teaching English, drama groups, playing football – anything really!
Lots of love,
STAR xxx
PS As you'll all probably notice, we've finally switched to using groupspaces and hopefully email addresses have been transferred properly and everyone who's asked to be unsubscribed before has been. Apologies if not, please let me know (dominic.weinberg@balliol.ox.ac.uk).
Dom
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Posted by Anup Patel, Monday 27th October 2008 @ 3:31pm
Refugees have helped London become a great city
Are you proud that for centuries London has been a place of safety for people fleeing persecution?
Would you like to see today's refugees given a warmer welcome?
If so, find out more about a brand new venture
London: City of Sanctuary
Launch - including speakers and performance by Actors for Human Rights
For more info see: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36144626366&ref=nf
Posted by Jenny Allsopp, Friday 23rd May 2008 @ 11:16am
Taking the launch of the first Independent Asylum Commission report as a starting point, this question-time style panel discussion will tackle the many issues surrounding the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK today, both in terms of policy and public response.
Chair:
Anthony Bradley, research fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford.
Panel members:
Commissioner Canon Nick Sagovsky, Independent Asylum Commission
Professor Roger Zetter, Director, Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development (QEH), University of Oxford
Sushila Dhall, Counsellor, Refugee Resource
Ghislaine Safari, Oxfam worker and interpreter for Refugee Resource
Rt Hon Evan Harris, Member of Parliament
Refreshments will be available after the event.
See www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk to download a copy of the latest IAC report, Saving Sanctuary
This event is bought to you by STAR (Student Action for Refugees) and Refugee Resource as part of the Oxford Hub Series
Posted by Anup Patel, Saturday 24th February 2007 @ 2:22pm
SPEAKER EVENT: Frances Webber an experienced immigration barrister from Garden Court Chambers will be speaking on asylum law and its practice. We will be discussing how well the existing system works and whether there is a fairer alternative.
Posted by Anup Patel, Saturday 24th February 2007 @ 2:16pm
As part of the national Star Action Day we will be having a stall near the Sheldonian theatre. Come to the stall to sign the action day petetion against ending free english lessons for young asylum seekers.
Manage