Community Action on Prison Expansion

This is MASSIVE Blocking this mega-prison delays the New Prison Programme & stops the creation of more racist cages. Amazing community effort, we aren't crying, you're crying. Support @SwapAirfield opposing prison expansion in Essex! We got this! lep.co.uk/news/politics/…

Plz support freedom for Taz!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

🚨 URGENT CALL TO ACTION 🚨 The Home Office are trying to deport our friend Andrei on Tuesday morning. He has been on hunger strike for 7 days to protest the inhumane treatment he has been subjected to, and the threat deportation poses to his life. ⬇️ How you can help: ⬇️

HMP Whitemoor are stopping mail, because they are sadistic and they know how much it is lifting Dwayne & Flo. Please, keep those letters coming! Fuck HMP today & everyday

Do this!!!

and they want to build more prisons to put more people in solitary confinement 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

📢Action Alert 📢 HMP Foston Hall are targeting and harassing Ms. Bibi. She is being targeted as Muslim, penalised because she was praying. She has been transferred to a wing that is freezing cold & without room to pray Please take action now & share! actionnetwork.org/letters/action…

700 new people arrived at Manston yesterday according to Kent Police because of the petrol bombing in Dover, and the BBC reports that numbers have reached 4,000. The max capacity of the site is 1,600. This is a humanitarian catastrophe.

The camp is already overcrowded - and we saw hundreds more people arriving on coaches and buses, exhausted and spent. We saw 13 coaches full of people arrive in just 3 hours. Only one coach with a handful of people, including security personnel, left during that time.

The camp is highly securitised and isolated - surrounded by fences, police and security personnel. Mitie - known for managing violent detention centres - runs the camp, while other companies such as MCT - known for brutalising children in youth jails - provide security.

Through one of the gated entrances to the camp, we saw a father walking around with his faughter inside a cage, unable to leave. And we saw piles of blue bags containing the belongings confiscated from the detained people upon arrival.

They said conditions were “not nice” and that some of them were getting sick. They said there are no doctors. No lawyers. We asked them how long they’d been there: 3 days, 20 days, 30 days, 40 days.

Using a megaphone, we managed to speak to people across the fence. We asked them where they were from: Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Sudan.

We arrived outside the camp and saw people - men, women, children - behind the barbed wire fences. Security guards ordered them to go inside. The children ran away from them and crawled through a fence to be heard.

We visited the Manston detention camp in Kent yesterday. This is what we saw and heard: 🧵

The Met Police said there was a chase, they said there was a pursuit. There was no pursuit, there was no chase, there were no lights, there were no sirens. The gaslighting by the Met comes from a long history of them twisting the truth. independent.co.uk/news/uk/london…

Dozens of young children are being held at Manston detention camp in Kent. Mothers, fathers, children and babies from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere. We went today and heard them chanting for their freedom. This is persecution. FREE THEM AND CLOSE IT DOWN.

Anyone who knows me, please try to clear your Saturday 29th October to attend the UFFC procession in solidarity, mourning and rage with families who have lost loved ones to state violence from police + prisons. 12 noon, traf sq. Parallel in Edinburgh? Don't let them walk alone.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Glasgow tonight, it was a very moving vigil. It is a powerful act to come together and publicly mourn the Essex 39 and condemn the conditions which led to their deaths. #RememberTheEssex39, and keep resisting violent borders.

Last night, tear gas was used on the prisoners in segregation in HMP Belmarsh. This is a chemical weapon in an enclosed space with barely any ventilation. Everyone on the landing was harmed & no healthcare provided. actionnetwork.org/letters/hmp-be… Please take part & share

Today marks 3 years since the deaths of the #Essex39. Friends in glasgow, please join us for a vigil outside the home office at 5pm, then at Buchanan street steps at 6pm. #RememberTheEssex39