Olaf Stando 🌻
@olafdoesstuff
Scottish independence, migrants' rights & anti-austerity campaigner | Fighting for a fairer society | International Officer @YSINational | Vice President @EUJS
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09-01-2012 09:20:03
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🌊 HOW DO YOU SEE THE SEA? ⚰️
While holidaymakers enjoy their time on the beach, around 10 refugees drown in the Mediterranean every day.
We went to the Spanish coast to say it clear: Fortress Europe kills.
📲 Share this and demand #SafePassage routes for refugees now!
📣 First Minister Humza Yousaf at the SNP’s National Council in Perth:
“The more determined some at Westminster are to silence Scotland overseas, the more determined I am for Scotland’s voice to be heard loud and clear.”
On #UkrainianIndependenceDay , let's redouble our efforts to support Ukraine's struggle - and those of its labour movement.
One way you can help: contribute to our medical workers appeal, which closes tomorrow: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ukraine-work…
#UkraineIndependentDay #StandWithUkraine
📣 We’re at the HIAS Europe session about solidarity with refugees, and whether helping refugees is a Jewish responsibility.
🤝 Welcoming people fleeing oppression is a fundamental Jewish value, and we’re taking action to call for #SafePassage .
We have been visiting Muhammad while he’s been in Dungavel and supporting him in contacting other organisations to advance his case. Thanks to Student Action for Refugees Stirling 🧡, University of Stirling Amnesty, Stirling SU and NUS Scotland for this statement. Please sign the open letter.
The most immediate thing for now is to #ReleaseMuhammad and end his suffering.
👉 Sign the open letter: openletter.earth/solidarity-sta…
👉 Tweet and tag your MP
👉 Follow Student Action for Refugees Stirling 🧡 and University of Stirling Amnesty and support the campaign!
Pressure from our open letter with NUS Scotland , University of Stirling Amnesty & No Evictions Network has spurred on our university’s MP Alyn Smith MP 🏴🇪🇺 to write to the Home Office. This is a great step - we need to keep going until Muhammad is released! #CommunitiesNotCamps
thenational.scot/news/23718796.…
📣 Ellie Gomersall 🍉: “This is the Home Office’s hostile environment policy in action. The student has been unnecessarily and inhumanely detained for 7 weeks and denied bail despite his declining mental health.”
✊🏼 Home Office, #ReleaseMuhammad now!
thenational.scot/news/23718492.…
As a visitor with ScotDetaineeVisitors, I'm shocked by the experience of everyone I meet - indefinite detention is always incredible cruel and unfair. However, what has happened to Muhammad is particularly awful and catch-22 like. I urge you to sign this letter, share, and make some noise