Marxism in Scotland 2022: revolutionary ideas for an era of crises
Marxism in Scotland 2022: revolutionary ideas for an era of crises
Sat, Oct 22, 12:00
Queen Margaret Union • Glasgow
£5.98 - £22.15
Resisting The Hostile Environment
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Description
A day of workshops & talks about fighting back against the UK Border Regime.
- How is the Hostile Environment currently functioning?
- How are people resisting it and fighting back?
- What actions can we take locally?
Featuring workshops and talks from:
Docs Not Cops, Unis Resist Border Controls, Corporate Watch (launching their new book 'The UK Border Regime'), Living Rent Glasgow & Unity Centre
Travel expenses and childcare available for anyone who needs them. Please book a free ticket via Eventbrite, and if you are able donate towards the event costs it would be very appreciated.
Day Schedule:
10.00-10.30 Arrive
10.30-11 .00 Welcome statements
Ubuntu Women’s Night Shelter & Unity
11.00-12.00 Docs Not Cops Workshop
12.15-13.15 Unis Resist Border Controls Workshop
13.15-14.15 Lunch
by donation in The Space Cafe
14.15-.15.15 Living Rent & Unity Workshop Resisting the Serco Evictions and Linking Struggles for Housing
15.30-16.30 Corporate Watch - Talk & Book Launch: The UK Border Regime
16.30-5 - Closing Discussion with MORE and Unity: What Next In Glasgow?
More info:
UNIS RESIST BORDER CONTROLS
The Unis Resist Border Controls resistance workshop focuses helping lecturers, staff and students understand how the hostile environment policy is practiced inside higher education so
that we can create the tools to resist this deeply racist and xenophobic policy.
Our workshop will have participants explore through different exercises the Home Office's hostile environment policy and how this is affecting migrant students and university workers, creating visible and invisible barriers that is turning the university into a panopticon of surveillance and intimidation. This surveillance primarily is affecting migrants students and university workers who are Black, Muslim and PoC. These barriers leave migrant students, lecturers, and university workers vulnerable to institutional racism and xenophobia, housing discrimination, health discrimination, the changing landscape of immigration laws, job precarity, disability, policing, UKVI surveillance, gendered violence and poverty.
We will discuss ways that you can get involved with our growing national movement against border surveillance, detention and deportation of migrant students and their family members.
Contact info:
E-mail: UnisResistBorderControls@gmail.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/UnisResist.BorderControls/
Twitter: @UnisNotBorders
UNITY CENTRE
The Unity Centre gives practical support and solidarity to all asylum seekers and other migrants in Scotland. We also support anyone detained in any UK Detention Centres. The Centre is run by the Unity Centre Collective. We are No Borders. We believe everyone should have freedom of movement. Our office is based in Glasgow, less than 100 metres from the Home Office. Anyone who is required to sign at the Home Office reporting centre on Brand Street can stop by our office on their way to sign into our signing book. This means we can act quickly if anyone gets detained by the Home Office. We try to share information and training about the asylum process so that we can all be better informed about the system.
LIVING RENT
Living Rent is Scotland’s tenants’ union. We are a democratic organisation run by and for tenants. We want homes for people, not for profit; to redress the power imbalance between landlords and tenants; and ensure that everyone has decent and affordable housing.
Living Rent and Unity worked together on the recent campaigns to stop SERCO's planned evictions of hundreds of asylum seekers from their accommodation, and will be doing a joint workshop on this campaign and future ways of linking up housing struggles in the city with people in the asylum and immigration system.
DOCS NOT COPS
No one should be afraid to go to the doctor, either because they can’t pay or might be punished. And doctors should not have to police the people they treat.
Since 1948, the NHS has given free health care to UK residents. Its founding principles were healthcare free for all, regardless of ability to pay. This was a universal right, which applied to all who lived in Britain.
On Monday 23rd October 2017, NHS England introduced regulations requiring ID checks for all patients accessing most secondary (non-emergency) care. This includes but not limited to maternity/ante-natal care, paediatrics (children) and cancer treatment. Trusts are forced to charge upfront those who cannot provide ID to prove their eligibility for NHS treatment. These regulations follow the introduction of a Health Surcharge – paid on top of Visa application fees. Both policies are introduced following the 2014 and 2016 Immigrations Acts.
Docs Not Cops is a campaign group of NHS professionals and patients who believe health is a right and not a privilege. This policy is a public health disaster that will add more pressure to A&E as people fearful of discrimination and fees will only turn up to hospital when their illness has been an emergency instead of taking preventative steps to avoid a crisis.
CORPORATE WATCH
Corporate Watch is a not-for-profit co-operative providing critical information on the social and environmental impacts of corporations and capitalism. Since 1996 our research, journalism, analysis and training have supported people affected by corporations and those taking action for radical social change.
They will be launching and discussing their new publication 'The Uk Border Regime', which brings together Corporate Watch’s recent research on the “hostile environment” against migrants in the UK, and the companies that profit from it. It also includes a lot of new research and analysis, and looks at the history of recent migration struggles in the UK, asking what has been effective.
https://corporatewatch.org/new-book-the-uk-border-regime/