Waltham Forest Migrant Action
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Connections in Sound
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Connection in Sounds is a c...
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📣 Looking for a tangible way to support migrant justice?
We’ve been working behind the scenes to pull together what promises to be a magical & powerful event w/ music spanning genres & continents.
📆 11 December from 6.30 pm
📍Walthamstow Trades Hall
🎟️ £15 / £5
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We’ve been working behind the scenes to pull together what promises to be a magical & powerful event w/ music spanning genres & continents.
📆 11 December from 6.30 pm
📍Walthamstow Trades Hall
🎟️ £15 / £5
⬇️
wegottickets.com/event/680659/
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Dealing with sickness is scary enough as it is, nobody should feel like there will be consequences for seeking care. This is the sad reality of so many of our patients, stuck in our broken immigration and asylum systems.
For migrants, the NHS is a hostile environment
Asylum seekers are not receiving care they urgently need, and to which they are entitled
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Dealing with sickness is scary enough as it is, nobody should feel like there will be consequences for seeking care. This is the sad reality of so many of our patients, stuck in our broken immigration and asylum systems.
Reposted by Waltham Forest Migrant Action
Performative cruelty to appeal to voters who won’t vote for you anyway is just another level of moral decrepitude
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Performative cruelty to appeal to voters who won’t vote for you anyway is just another level of moral decrepitude
Our November newsletter is out & it's packed to the brim with information - including an update on the horrendous changes to the immigration system that the government proposed last week.
#WeAreMany 🧡
#WeAreMany 🧡
November 2025 Newsletter
It’s difficult to know where to start, because like you, we are overwhelmed and outraged by the daily deluge of anti-migrant news and hostile policies. While the UK faces multiple crises…
wfma.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our November newsletter is out & it's packed to the brim with information - including an update on the horrendous changes to the immigration system that the government proposed last week.
#WeAreMany 🧡
#WeAreMany 🧡
Excellent piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social about Shabana Mahmood, the new darling of the right and far-right, daughter of migrants spearheading the most cruel anti-migrant reforms.
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Excellent piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social about Shabana Mahmood, the new darling of the right and far-right, daughter of migrants spearheading the most cruel anti-migrant reforms.
There is absolutely no respite!
But we won’t stop fighting for migrant justice.
But we won’t stop fighting for migrant justice.
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
There is absolutely no respite!
But we won’t stop fighting for migrant justice.
But we won’t stop fighting for migrant justice.
a catalogue of failures and £££ billions squandered - straight in the pockets of the private sector … finally we are hearing some truths about asylum hotels!
Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation
Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
a catalogue of failures and £££ billions squandered - straight in the pockets of the private sector … finally we are hearing some truths about asylum hotels!
📣 Looking for a tangible way to support migrant justice?
We’ve been working behind the scenes to pull together what promises to be a magical & powerful event w/ music spanning genres & continents.
📆 11 December from 6.30 pm
📍Walthamstow Trades Hall
🎟️ £15 / £5
⬇️
wegottickets.com/event/680659/
We’ve been working behind the scenes to pull together what promises to be a magical & powerful event w/ music spanning genres & continents.
📆 11 December from 6.30 pm
📍Walthamstow Trades Hall
🎟️ £15 / £5
⬇️
wegottickets.com/event/680659/
Connections in Sound
We are thrilled to bring you what promises to be a magical and powerful evening - a wonderful journey across cultures, with music spanning different genres and continents.
Connection in Sounds is a c...
wegottickets.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
📣 Looking for a tangible way to support migrant justice?
We’ve been working behind the scenes to pull together what promises to be a magical & powerful event w/ music spanning genres & continents.
📆 11 December from 6.30 pm
📍Walthamstow Trades Hall
🎟️ £15 / £5
⬇️
wegottickets.com/event/680659/
We’ve been working behind the scenes to pull together what promises to be a magical & powerful event w/ music spanning genres & continents.
📆 11 December from 6.30 pm
📍Walthamstow Trades Hall
🎟️ £15 / £5
⬇️
wegottickets.com/event/680659/
Impt piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the flurry & folly of recent policy announcements set to create further discrimination & hardship for migrants.
Community integration is not about Alevel English & volunteering, it’s about ending austerity & actual investment in social infrastructure!
Community integration is not about Alevel English & volunteering, it’s about ending austerity & actual investment in social infrastructure!
A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Impt piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the flurry & folly of recent policy announcements set to create further discrimination & hardship for migrants.
Community integration is not about Alevel English & volunteering, it’s about ending austerity & actual investment in social infrastructure!
Community integration is not about Alevel English & volunteering, it’s about ending austerity & actual investment in social infrastructure!
Email you MP today ⬇️
Labour's proposed changes to settlement pathways could trap another 1.7 million people in a decade of instability and fear.
Email your MP today to ask them to join our parliamentary event on the 20th October sharing the impact of these policies.
act.praxis.org.uk/email-your-m...
Email your MP today to ask them to join our parliamentary event on the 20th October sharing the impact of these policies.
act.praxis.org.uk/email-your-m...
Email your MP and ask them to join our parliamentary event about settlement pathways!
On the 20th October, we're co-hosting an event on how Labour’s proposed immigration changes could affect settlement and citizenship pathways for people across the country. Here at Praxis, we already s...
act.praxis.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Email you MP today ⬇️
📣 Our October newsletter has dropped - packed with news, campaigns and events.
🔗 below.
The fight for migrant justice is and will continue to be urgent.
Together we are a community - one that welcomes migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum
wfma.org.uk/news/
🔗 below.
The fight for migrant justice is and will continue to be urgent.
Together we are a community - one that welcomes migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum
wfma.org.uk/news/
October 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📣 Our October newsletter has dropped - packed with news, campaigns and events.
🔗 below.
The fight for migrant justice is and will continue to be urgent.
Together we are a community - one that welcomes migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum
wfma.org.uk/news/
🔗 below.
The fight for migrant justice is and will continue to be urgent.
Together we are a community - one that welcomes migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum
wfma.org.uk/news/
Join Waltham Forest Migrant Action and Stories & Supper for a screening of Name Me Lawand.
📆 06 November
⏰ 6.30 pm
📍William Morris Gallery
🍹Refreshments and welcome talks from 6.30pm
🎬 Screening at 7pm
🧾 Tickets £10/ £5 concessions can be purchased here ➡️
bookwhen.com/storiesandsu...
📆 06 November
⏰ 6.30 pm
📍William Morris Gallery
🍹Refreshments and welcome talks from 6.30pm
🎬 Screening at 7pm
🧾 Tickets £10/ £5 concessions can be purchased here ➡️
bookwhen.com/storiesandsu...
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Join Waltham Forest Migrant Action and Stories & Supper for a screening of Name Me Lawand.
📆 06 November
⏰ 6.30 pm
📍William Morris Gallery
🍹Refreshments and welcome talks from 6.30pm
🎬 Screening at 7pm
🧾 Tickets £10/ £5 concessions can be purchased here ➡️
bookwhen.com/storiesandsu...
📆 06 November
⏰ 6.30 pm
📍William Morris Gallery
🍹Refreshments and welcome talks from 6.30pm
🎬 Screening at 7pm
🧾 Tickets £10/ £5 concessions can be purchased here ➡️
bookwhen.com/storiesandsu...
Reposted by Waltham Forest Migrant Action
Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere.
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
September 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere.
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity
(Letter,Times)
Cruel anti-migrant policies are bad for all of us.
We all know the saying, first they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out …
Our fight for migrant justice has never been more urgent.
Join us! 🔗 below in comments.
We all know the saying, first they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out …
Our fight for migrant justice has never been more urgent.
Join us! 🔗 below in comments.
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Cruel anti-migrant policies are bad for all of us.
We all know the saying, first they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out …
Our fight for migrant justice has never been more urgent.
Join us! 🔗 below in comments.
We all know the saying, first they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out …
Our fight for migrant justice has never been more urgent.
Join us! 🔗 below in comments.
The govt is announcing one cruel decision after the next.
Yesterday they chose to abolish one of the only safe routes.
We need more, not less, safe routes
(safe routes info: @freemovement.bsky.social)
Yesterday they chose to abolish one of the only safe routes.
We need more, not less, safe routes
(safe routes info: @freemovement.bsky.social)
September 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The govt is announcing one cruel decision after the next.
Yesterday they chose to abolish one of the only safe routes.
We need more, not less, safe routes
(safe routes info: @freemovement.bsky.social)
Yesterday they chose to abolish one of the only safe routes.
We need more, not less, safe routes
(safe routes info: @freemovement.bsky.social)
Reposted by Waltham Forest Migrant Action
This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.
Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants
Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined our Together with Refugees solidarity action yesterday at St James Big Street Big Local summer fair, visited our stall or came over for a chat - the message is clear: #refugeesarewcomehere
#walthamforest 🧡 #refugees
@refugeestogether.bsky.social
#walthamforest 🧡 #refugees
@refugeestogether.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined our Together with Refugees solidarity action yesterday at St James Big Street Big Local summer fair, visited our stall or came over for a chat - the message is clear: #refugeesarewcomehere
#walthamforest 🧡 #refugees
@refugeestogether.bsky.social
#walthamforest 🧡 #refugees
@refugeestogether.bsky.social
🧡Join Waltham Forest Migrant Action & Together with Refugees at St James Street Big Local Summer Fair for a solidarity action.
📆 Sunday 31st August
⏱️1.30 pm
📍 Stoneydown Park, Walthamstow, E17 6NJ
Bring your family and friends.
We are many ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
📆 Sunday 31st August
⏱️1.30 pm
📍 Stoneydown Park, Walthamstow, E17 6NJ
Bring your family and friends.
We are many ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
August 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🧡Join Waltham Forest Migrant Action & Together with Refugees at St James Street Big Local Summer Fair for a solidarity action.
📆 Sunday 31st August
⏱️1.30 pm
📍 Stoneydown Park, Walthamstow, E17 6NJ
Bring your family and friends.
We are many ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
📆 Sunday 31st August
⏱️1.30 pm
📍 Stoneydown Park, Walthamstow, E17 6NJ
Bring your family and friends.
We are many ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
📣Our August newsletter has dropped 🧡
Have a read before you head off for the bank holiday weekend & get those dates in the diary! 📆
#RefugeesWelcome
wfma.org.uk/2025/08/22/m...
Have a read before you head off for the bank holiday weekend & get those dates in the diary! 📆
#RefugeesWelcome
wfma.org.uk/2025/08/22/m...
August 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
📣Our August newsletter has dropped 🧡
Have a read before you head off for the bank holiday weekend & get those dates in the diary! 📆
#RefugeesWelcome
wfma.org.uk/2025/08/22/m...
Have a read before you head off for the bank holiday weekend & get those dates in the diary! 📆
#RefugeesWelcome
wfma.org.uk/2025/08/22/m...
Reposted by Waltham Forest Migrant Action
🔴The Reform and Conservative Politicians Mingling With Neo-Nazis and Fascists at Asylum Hotel Protests
The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/t...
The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/t...
The Reform and Conservative Politicians Mingling With Neo-Nazis and Fascists at Asylum Hotel Protests
The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups
bylinetimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🔴The Reform and Conservative Politicians Mingling With Neo-Nazis and Fascists at Asylum Hotel Protests
The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/t...
The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/t...
📣 We are looking for 2-3 compassionate individuals with a strong interest in migrant justice to join our Board and make a tangible difference to the lives of migrants and refugees in Waltham Forest. For more details and how to apply 👉 wfma.org.uk/2025/08/20/t...
August 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
📣 We are looking for 2-3 compassionate individuals with a strong interest in migrant justice to join our Board and make a tangible difference to the lives of migrants and refugees in Waltham Forest. For more details and how to apply 👉 wfma.org.uk/2025/08/20/t...
We did it then and we will do it again!
Fascism has no place in our community.
Join the fight for migrant justice and against far-right violence:
- Attend the radical solidarity hub hosted by @right-to-remain.bsky.social
- sign up to our newsletter🔗 ⬇️
Our solidarity knows no borders.
Fascism has no place in our community.
Join the fight for migrant justice and against far-right violence:
- Attend the radical solidarity hub hosted by @right-to-remain.bsky.social
- sign up to our newsletter🔗 ⬇️
Our solidarity knows no borders.
August 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
We did it then and we will do it again!
Fascism has no place in our community.
Join the fight for migrant justice and against far-right violence:
- Attend the radical solidarity hub hosted by @right-to-remain.bsky.social
- sign up to our newsletter🔗 ⬇️
Our solidarity knows no borders.
Fascism has no place in our community.
Join the fight for migrant justice and against far-right violence:
- Attend the radical solidarity hub hosted by @right-to-remain.bsky.social
- sign up to our newsletter🔗 ⬇️
Our solidarity knows no borders.
Our summer newsletter’s just dropped.
Find out the latest migration justice news!
Please sign up & share widely.
Together we can build a community where everyone, regardless where they are from, is welcome.
#RefugeesWelcome
#solidarity
wfma.org.uk/2025/07/25/n...
Find out the latest migration justice news!
Please sign up & share widely.
Together we can build a community where everyone, regardless where they are from, is welcome.
#RefugeesWelcome
#solidarity
wfma.org.uk/2025/07/25/n...
July 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Our summer newsletter’s just dropped.
Find out the latest migration justice news!
Please sign up & share widely.
Together we can build a community where everyone, regardless where they are from, is welcome.
#RefugeesWelcome
#solidarity
wfma.org.uk/2025/07/25/n...
Find out the latest migration justice news!
Please sign up & share widely.
Together we can build a community where everyone, regardless where they are from, is welcome.
#RefugeesWelcome
#solidarity
wfma.org.uk/2025/07/25/n...
We stand with people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants - today and every day!
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July 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We stand with people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants - today and every day!
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Continued far right violence in Epping is glaringly reminiscent of what we witnessed across the UK last year and is being fuelled by incessant anti-migrant rhetoric, not least by the government.
It is putting people at risk and needs to stop!
It is putting people at risk and needs to stop!
Hundreds take part in protests near asylum hotel in Epping
Hundreds take part in protests near asylum hotel in Epping
More than 400 people attend demonstrations near a hotel that is being used as migrant accommodation.
www.bbc.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Continued far right violence in Epping is glaringly reminiscent of what we witnessed across the UK last year and is being fuelled by incessant anti-migrant rhetoric, not least by the government.
It is putting people at risk and needs to stop!
It is putting people at risk and needs to stop!
#RefugeeWeek - it’s a wrap!
📣 Find out what we got up to last week 🔗including the London Legal Walk, our ‘Community Celebration’ & an interview with our trustee, Peter Ashan - pictured here on the Wood Street mural.
Thank you everyone for your support!
wfma.org.uk/2025/06/24/r...
📣 Find out what we got up to last week 🔗including the London Legal Walk, our ‘Community Celebration’ & an interview with our trustee, Peter Ashan - pictured here on the Wood Street mural.
Thank you everyone for your support!
wfma.org.uk/2025/06/24/r...
Refugee Week – it’s a wrap!
As we close Refugee Week 2025 (16 – 22 June), we are left with a warm, fuzzy feeling from the support we had from people across Waltham Forest – and more determined than ever to continu…
wfma.org.uk
June 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
#RefugeeWeek - it’s a wrap!
📣 Find out what we got up to last week 🔗including the London Legal Walk, our ‘Community Celebration’ & an interview with our trustee, Peter Ashan - pictured here on the Wood Street mural.
Thank you everyone for your support!
wfma.org.uk/2025/06/24/r...
📣 Find out what we got up to last week 🔗including the London Legal Walk, our ‘Community Celebration’ & an interview with our trustee, Peter Ashan - pictured here on the Wood Street mural.
Thank you everyone for your support!
wfma.org.uk/2025/06/24/r...