When United Kingdom Home Secretary Theresa May announced her plan to shut down the UK Border Agency (UKBA), members of the Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary (MFJ) celebrated this victory. At the same time, our happiness in seeing the demise of the corrupt, torturous and racist UKBA is tempered by our fears that [...]
SIGN AND CIRCULATE THE PETITION TO GRANT ASYLUM TO MFJ LEADERS TACKO, PROSCOVIA, & ASUMAN Many of you will have signed the petition calling for asylum for Tacko, Asuman, Andrew, and Proscovia -gay Ugandan and Senegalese asylum seekers and tireless leaders of the fight for equality and justice in Britain and around the world… On June [...]
You all took action to prevent Edy’s deportation; thousands signed petitions, wrote letters & articles, blogged, demonstrated and spread the word. His case became famous – a cause for people fighting to reverse the racism, homophobia and hypocrisy of an immigration system that has been prepared to deport so many to pain and death. Edy was talked [...]
Gay Tanzanian Activist & Refugee, Edy Cosmas, on Brink of Securing Asylum We are very close to securing Edy refugee status in Britain as a gay Tanzanian. Edy, a member of Movement for Justice, has been a public leader in the struggle for equality and respect for lesbian, gay and transgender refugees, exposing the persecution of gay [...]
March 9, 2012
BAMN
Immigrants Rights, LGBT
Bring down the Government! On the 30th November over two million workers will go on strike. Schools and colleges will be shut down. With thousands of students joining mass demonstrations and marching this will be the biggest day of protests so far against the Coalition Government’s savage attacks on our social welfare protections, public education [...]