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5 June 2020
After George Floyd: How to be an anti racist ally
This week has seen protests worldwide in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. People of all colours and all political parties have joined the protests in America. Globally, people now recognise we can’t go on without addressing the problems of systemic racism and police brutality. #BlackLivesMatter began in 2013 after…
14 May 2020
Appeal for donations to pay for Glasgow burial of Adnan Olbeh, 30, of Al Suwayda, Syria
Latest update can be found on this Facebook post: *** More info: https://www.paih.org/appeal-for-donations-to-pay-for-dignified-muslim-funeral-for-adnan-olbeh-30-syria/ Donate: https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/13165#!/DonationDetails For other ways to donate go to www.positiveactionh.org/donate This (Sadaqa) Appeal aims to raise £2,730 towards the costs of Muslim burial of 30 year old…
13 May 2020
Letter to the First Minister About Glasgow’s “hotel asylum seekers”
Coronavirus: Letter to Scotland’s First MinisterDownload Letter to the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon asking the Scottish Government to investigate why the Mears Group, in Glasgow, the largest and most densely populated city in Scotland, forcibly moved up to 400 vulnerable men, women and children from their homes…
11 May 2020
Coronavirus: Letter to the Home Secretary About the Death of Adnan Olbeh and the Treatment of “Hotel Asylum Seekers” in Glasgow.
letter to home secretary 11 May 2020Download We have today written to the Home Secretary to: • Urge her to restore the weekly allowance of £35.50 to Glasgow’s “hotel asylum seekers” and to move people back into self-contained accommodation before a further tragedy occurs. Our greatest fear…
11 May 2020
Glasgow’s “hotel asylum seekers” and the “unexplained” death of Syrian refugee Adnan Olbeh
Normally we would send out a “press statement”, but this time we are publishing only to our web page and social media in protest against the below the line comments about this young man’s death in an article in The Glasgow Times. There’s a…
22 April 2020
Glasgow asylum seekers’ lives put at risk as Home Office cuts financial support and Mears puts people into hotels without social distancing in place
More than 300 men and women seeking asylum in Glasgow have been moved over the past ten days into city centre hotels by the private housing provider Mears, which is subcontracted by the Home Office. Amongst them, are many vulnerable people, including single women , families, pregnant women, young people, survivors of…
20 April 2020
Mears moves over 300 Glasgow asylum seekers into hotels where social distancing is ‘impossible’
Positive Action in Housing said it is aware of asylum seekers being accommodated in hotels and having all their financial support withdrawn, leaving them unable to top up their phones to keep contact with lawyers, caseworkers and GPs, or buy extra food or hand sanitiser. More worrying still, many…
20 March 2020
Letter to the Home Secretary calling for Suspension of Travel for Asylum Seekers Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
We are a coalition of Scotland and UK based refugee charities and groups working directly with people from refugee and asylum seeking communities. In light of the Coronavirus outbreak, we are dismayed to learn that asylum seekers are still being forced to go to Liverpool to hand in documents despite…
2 March 2020
Anger after Edinburgh Council Officials recommend massive cuts to BME Services for children and families
A broad Coalition of Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) charities and anti-racist organisations providing services for and/or supporting BME Communities in Edinburgh have condemned plans by City of Edinburgh Council officials to recommend massive cuts to BME Services. The BME charities are deeply concerned about the news that services…
30 January 2020
Shame on the racist thugs who attack our immigrant shopkeepers
rotest against racist attacks against Pakistani Muslim brothers Nadeem and Mudassar Akbar in Niddrie, Edinburgh today 4.30 pm Cragmillar Library – please attend. https://www.facebook.com/events/570448223539709/ Positive Action in Housing condemns the vicious racist attack on two defenceless Pakistani Muslim brothers trying to provide a livelihood for their families. …
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