Walking in solidarity with refugees - detained indefinitely in UK. @refugeetales @gdwg

breaking them in for The Refugee Tales next week!!

Writing Against Expulsion: David Herd discusses this important, 'profound and inspiring' new book with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, 17th October. All welcome
University of Kent
The Refugee Tales
Kamila Shamsie

The excellent The Refugee Tales starts this Sat

Inspired by the Canterbury Tales, it's a migration pilgrimage

They walk together in the day and at night share food, music and stories from people in immigration detention

Join them for these evening events:

Yesterday one of our Delegates spoke to The Refugee Tales at the The Labour Party Conference & spoke to them about some of the great work #Sevenoaks WelcomesRefugees volunteers & Sevenoaks Labour Party activists do, & how #Sevenoaks became the first Town Of Sanctuary.
#RefugeeTales
#LabConf23

I went and joined the wonderful The Refugee Tales over the weekend. It’s a great project

Their big multi-day walk is next month. It stops in a diff town every night to hear stories of migration. You can do the whole walk, only a bit, or just come for the eve

refugeetales.org

#TreeClub walking up to Ditchling Beacon with The Refugee Tales today (First long walk of the season and I needed lots of muscle gel once I got home - happy but aching!)

Making hundreds of cups of tea and serving 130 walkers, hungry to end indefinite immigration detention The Refugee Tales

‘the possibility of trust / In language / To hear the unsaid spoken / And then repeated / Made / Unambiguous and loud’ (David Herd, early in Walk Song) #refugeetales #rights #refugeeeswelcome

Sending greetings to The Refugee Tales walkers everywhere from South Beach, Aberystwyth

The Refugee Tales Reading this beautiful publication. Thank you for your work.
P.S. my compliments for the poem in the Prologue by David Herd

Thanks The Refugee Tales for such a wonderful talk to our students at the The Cambridge Union. Ali Smith and Bernardine Evaristo were amazing! The students, and our English Dept, were buzzing when they came back! #notjustintheclassroom #getreading

#RefugeeTales

Accompanied one of my clients to their Home Office #Asylum Interview:

My words of advice to him (permission to share given):

“Read each word of your statements as if they were the notes of a song.

This is your story, your voice, your song, YOUR LIFE, and…

'Rooted in the work of Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, Refugee Tales shares the tales of people held in immigration detention and those who work with them.'
The Refugee Tales

Walking in solidarity with The Refugee Tales in a hot and sunny Brussels!

To open #RefugeeWeek 2023 with No to Hassockfield, we’re highlighting the brilliant work of #RefugeeTales .
Refugee Tales is a great example of turning compassion into action: refugeetales.org

#RefugeeTales spring-cleaning at home -came across this letter from a former client

I always refer to the impact lawyers can have in empowering our clients to change the trajectory of their lives.

The Home Office is committed to a political agenda #BanRefugeeBill

#law 🙏🏾

It was an honour to stand with you in hope for the better imagined only 6 days ago. We weep with you today,
The Refugee Tales Gatwick Detainees but we will all fight on for those whose voices struggle to be heard...

Standing room only at our packed The Refugee Tales Gatwick Detainees fringe meeting today #Lab23 talking about the #CostsOfDetention and why we call for an end to indefinite immigration detention