EVENTS

Below are details of upcoming and past events – which are not always organised by Docs Not Cops but are relevant to our work. If you would like a member of Docs Not Cops to speak at your event or run a workshop in your area, please get in touch.

Upcoming events

If you’re interested in getting involved with Docs Not Cops and the #PatientsNotPassports campaign, join the ‘New Joiners’ meeting online on 23rd November 2021 at 7pm to find out what’s happening across the country.

Past Events

Between 23-27th October we took part in the #NoBordersInTheNHS week of action with the #PatientsNotPassports campaign.

Read more about the No Borders in the NHS week of action, which included street stalls, vigils, leafletting outside hospitals, banner drops, and a demonstration in Bristol.

Thursday 19th March – Patients Not Passports, Standing up for migrant care, Brighton Friends Meeting House

6.30-8.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Ship St., BN1 1AF.

Brighton event poster - all details in text

Join Medact Brighton, Docs Not Cops, Sussex Defend the NHS, and others as we bring together people and organisations from across the city who are challenging racism and fighting for access to healthcare for all: “We aim to build a collaborative movement that stands in solidarity with marginalised people in our communities and fights the hostile environment in the NHS. As health care workers, activists, migrants and people of Brighton we stand together against the racist charging regulations that prevent people from fulfilling their right to health.

This event will bring together all those working to fight racism and improve access to healthcare across the city. We will hear from the key organisations and individuals doing fantastic work in Brighton and beyond, before breaking up in small groups to make tangible action plans, based on our existing strengths and resources, to see the end of the hostile environment in health in Brighton.

After the workshops please join us to continue the conversation and stay for delicious food provided by the wonderful Jollof Cafe, for a small donation.

Everyone is welcome, whether a seasoned campaigner or someone who is new to activism but is passionate about health justice. The food will be vegan and the venue is wheelchair accessible. The event is free but please register via this link. Email brighton@medact.org to find out more”

Facebook event: Patients Not Passports, Standing up for migrant care

Sunday 22nd March Migrant Healthcare: Pieces of the Puzzle, University of Birmingham Medical School

“1 in every 10 patients in the West Midlands will be a migrant. As the future generation of health and social care workers, are you aware of the current hostile environment that affects several groups of migrants? Do you feel prepared enough to provide adequate care to some of the most vulnerable patients in the West Midlands?

Whether you are a medical student, doctor, allied health professional or interested in migrant rights and healthcare – join us on 22nd March at in the Medical School for our conference, “Migrant Healthcare: Pieces of the Puzzle”.

This promises to be an interactive and engaging event with lectures, workshops, a discussion panel and a chance to network with professionals in the field of migrant health in the West Midlands and further afield.

Stay tuned for more information about our guest speakers and the interactive workshops we have in store for you.

Lunch will be provided and attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance for their portfolio.”

Sign up for Migrant Healthcare-pieces of the puzzle

Facebook event: Migrant healthcare – pieces of the puzzle

Friday 27th – Sunday 29th March – Medact Gathering 2020, Aston University, Birmingham

As part of this conference covering the broad range of Medact’s current work, one stream of sessions will explore Medact’s Access to Health work – including our shared work on the #PatientsNotPassports campaign.

Medact’s Migrant Solidarity Group look at how we can turn research into action through working with the Royal Colleges. The incredible Justice for Simba campaign will speak about the need to build strong communities in the face of hostile policy. A panel of experts including researchers from the New Economics Foundation will examine the history and current international context of the fight for universal healthcare. And we in Docs Not Cops will be there, with Migrants Organise and local Medact groups,  talking about how you can get involved in the coming year.

Find out more about the Medact gathering and register via this link.

7th March 2020 – Resisting the Hostile Environment: Training day – Docs Not Cops Glasgow

Docs Not Cops Glasgow are organising a free training day to help educate health care workers from across all disciplines on the negative impacts of the hostile environment and how we can come together to resist. No prior experience or knowledge is required.

The day will be at Civic House, 26 Civil St, G498H from 10am til 5pm on Saturday the 7th of March.

Confirmed speakers include: Medical Justice, Scottish Detainee Visitors, Unity, Ubuntu, Freedom from Torture and Just Right, Doctors of the World

There will be a series of workshops including:

  • An Introduction to the Asylum System
  • How the hostile environment impacts health
  • Living in Detention: Effects on Health
  • How Healthcare Professionals can resist the Hostile Environment
  • Working with survivors of torture
  • Mental health and the Asylum System
  • Legalities and realities of Healthcare Access
  • Systemic racism within the NHS

There’ll be free lunch and coffee throughout the day. Civic House is accessible to wheelchair users, please contact with any queries regarding accessibility. We will also have Childcare available throughout the day.

The day is free but ticketed, please confirm attendance via this link as places limited. All healthcare workers welcome!

Any questions about the day please email: docsnotcopsglasgow@gmail.com

Docs Not Cops Glasgow are currently fundraising for this event – donate!

25th January 2020: Patients Not Passports: The fight for our NHS in East London

When? 11:00 – 16:00, Saturday 25th January

Where? St John on Bethnal Green, 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PA

How Much? Free! Please register via Eventbrite – 25th Jan 2020 Patients Not Passports event

The NHS as we know it is under threat, budget cuts and chronic staff shortages have brought it to breaking point. At the same time successive Governments have eroded the founding principles of the NHS, restricting access to care for migrants and introducing up-front charging, denying care to hundreds of thousands of people.

Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS, is rumoured to have said “The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it” so join us on Saturday 25th January to find out how you can join the fight for our NHS.

Across East London campaign groups have been fighting back against the racist charging regime and the introduction of a Hostile Environment in the NHS, forming A powerful coalition of community groups, NHS workers, faith institutions, unions, and people affected by NHS charging. Whether you work in the NHS or not we invite you to join our #PatientsNotPassports campaign, come along for a day of talks, workshops, and action planning to find out what you can do.

Whats on? Full schedule coming soon, but you’ll hear from local campaigners, healthcare workers fighting back against charging, local politicians, and people researching the impact of the Hostile Environment.

Facebook event: Patients Not Passports: The fight for our NHS in East London

21st November 2019 – The challenges of accessing healthcare for “Illegal” and vulnerable migrants

Murray Learning Centre, LG 14, University of Birmingham, 5-6.30pm

Yajur Arora and Hanna Ellis from Docs not Cops Birmingham, and the University of Birmingham Medical School will join Universities Resist Border Controls and others speaking at Borders, Refugees, Solidarity, Resistance, hosted by Capital and Class/CSE Midlands.

This workshop aims to bridge the gap between academia and activism in relation to these questions of borders, refugees, solidarity, and resistance. It brings together researchers, practitioners and activists around a shared goal of both highlighting, and resisting, the damaging effect of Britain’s ever-worsening border regime.

Facebook event: Borders, Refugees, Solidarity, Resistance

20th November 2019: Justice For Simba – Ending the Hostile Environment

Victoria Hall, Norfolk Street, Sheffield, S1 2JB, 7-9pm, hosted by Migrants Organise, South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group, ASSIST Sheffield, Medact and Docs Not Cops

Simba Mujakachi had bleeding in his brain followed by a stroke in the summer which resulted in him being paralysed down his left side. Simba is a 30 year old fitness trainer, a Zimbabwean national and a refused asylum seeker. He came to the UK in 2003, is not supported by the Home Office and has no recourse to public funds. He was living with his British partner of several years in her flat before the stroke. He currently has no income and has been charged over £100,000 by the NHS for the care he has received. Simba and his family are active members of the local community and involved in many campaigns. Simba has suffered gross injustices, neglect and failures of duty of care.

Simba’s case is not an isolated one – there are many others in similar situations to Simba across the country, who are being charged extortionate fees to access the care they need. The Hostile Environment is a sprawling web of immigration controls embedded in the heart of our public services and communities, making life impossibly difficult for so many people in our communities, and particularly for migrants.

Join us at this event where we will highlight the negative impact of the Hostile Environment policies on individuals and communities.

We will hear from Simba himself and from his father Victor, talking about how we can build a solidarity campaign, as well as:

Sarli Nana – Yorkshire & Humber Organiser, Migrants Organise
Aliya Yule – Access to Healthcare Organiser, Migrants Organise
James Skinner – Medact
Dr Sophie – Docs Not Cops
Stuart Crosthwaite – South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group

Please come and show your support for Simba, his family and all the people suffering under the Hostile Environment, and to learn more about how we can win Justice for Simba, and end the Hostile Environment

Justice for Simba Facebook event

12th November 2019 – Bristol Patients Not Passports organising meeting

St Paul’s Learning Centre, 94 Grosvenor Rd, Bristol BS2 8XJ, 7:45pm

Bristol Patients Not Passports on Facebook

11th November 2019 – Round 2 of St Mary’s Hospital Strikes

Docs Not Cops supports the strike by members of the United Voices of the World union, and recommend visiting the picket line near Paddington station in London. “The workers are demanding full equality of pay and T&Cs with NHS staff on the AFC contracts. The workers are currently outsourced to a cut-throat multinational called Sodexo which makes around £1 billion a year profit and treats the workers like dirt. There is no excuse for a two tiered, segregated workforce in the NHS, or anywhere, and the St Mary’s workers will strike until equality is won!”

St Mary’s Hospital Strikes Facebook event

7th November 2019 – Docs Not Cops Birmingham organising meeting

Location TBC, 6pm.

Email docsnotcopsbrum@gmail.com for more info – or see the Docs Not Cops page on the University of Birmingham Medical Societies website

6th November 2019 – Docs Not Cops London organising meeting

The Grayston Centre, 28 Charles Square, Hoxton, N1 6HT, 7pm

We will be de-briefing/reflecting on our 23rd of October actions and discussed exciting upcoming plans – new members & those who have not attended meetings more than welcome!

If you have not been to a Docs Not Cops meeting before and would like more details – or if there is anything you’d like to add to the agenda send us an email: docsnotcops@gmail.com

Facebook event: DNC London meeting

2nd November 2019 – addressing the National Health Action Party 2019 conference on the Patients Not Passports campaign

23rd October 2019 – Counting the Cost of the Hostile Environment in the NHS

rally behind banner with "No borders in the NHS" banner

Vigil & protest for the victims of the Hostile Environment

Please join us on October 23rd for two actions to mark the 2 year anniversary of the expansion of charging and ID checking across the NHS. There will be events happening simultaneously across the country – in London, Bristol, Birmingham, and Manchester.

We will highlight the harm done by racist Hostile Environment policies in our NHS. We will commemorate those who have died and suffered, and those who are currently suffering, as a result of these policies.

Join us to demand an end to all forms of immigration control in our health service and universal healthcare for all.

London facebook event

Vigils outside:
– Royal London Hospital, 17.00-19.30pm
– Lewisham Hospital, 17.30-19.00pm

Bristol facebook event (5.30-7.30pm at Bristol Royal Infirmary, hosted by Bristol Patients Not Passports)

Birmingham facebook event (5.30-7pm at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, hosted by Docs Not Cops Birmingham)

Manchester facebook event (5.30-6.30pm at St Peters Square, hosted by Docs Not Cops, Unis Resist Border Controls and Greater Manchester Keep Our NHS Public)

Brighton facebook event (17:30-18:30 outside Royal Sussex County Hospital/RSCH Brighton, hosted by Docs Not Cops Brighton)

For more information on charging in the NHS and challenging the Hostile Environment, see patientsnotpassports.co.uk

17th October 2019 – Banner making: Counting the cost of the Hostile Environment

6-9pm, Thursday 17th October at Medact, Grayston Centre, 28 Charles Square, N1 6HT.

We are holding an event on 23rd October to remember those who have been affected by the Hostile Environment (see below).

To prepare for this we will be having a banner making session at the Medact offices on Thursday 17th October (facebook event link). Snacks, Smiles and Solidarity all included!

Anyone is welcome to come help and feel free to bring any creative items, music or food.

3rd August – Akram Salhab at Labour Against Racism and Facism conference

When: Saturday 3rd August, 5-6pm as part of conference 12-7pm
Where: SOAS University of London, Thornhaugh St, WC1H 0XH.

Akram Salhab, Campaigns officer at Migrants Organise, who organises with us at Docs Not Cops, will speak on the closing panel at the Labour Against Racism and Fascism conference, titled “Everyday Antifascism”.

LARAF Summer Conference Tickets (£0-5)

Facebook event: Labour Against Racism and Fascism conference

29th July – Docs Not Cops speaking at Reclaim the Power protest

Two members of Docs Not Cops joined the #PowerWithoutBorders protest outside the Home Officer – with Reclaim The Power, All African Women’s Group, Unis Resist Border Controls, Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants and others.

WATCH: Video of part of the talk we gave on the harm caused by the Hostile Environment in the NHS and the Patients Not Passports campaign.

25th July – Docs Not Cops speaking at Wimbledon Labour Party AGM

Dr Sonia Adesara spoke about our work. Wimbledon Labour Party AGM write-up.

24th July – Fck Govt Fck Boris

Boris will be sworn in as PM on 24th July. Docs Not Cops will join those ready to greet him. We will be ready to reject him. And we will be ready to reject every single one of his cronies and everything they stand for.

At the time he gives his first speech as PM, we will hold a street festival celebrating the power of our communities. There will be music and art. There will be noise.

Bring your friends + bring the volume – bring rigs, sound systems, portable speakers, whatever you have.

We will make ourselves heard – we will not let this man become PM without a fight.

Facebook event: Fck Govt Fck Boris

Follow Fck Boris on twitter

11th July – Healthcare for all: a free evening of training and discussion around new NHS charging policies for migrants

When: Thursday 11th July 7pm to 9:30pm
Where: Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol. Hosted by Medact Bristol.

Understand the legislation & your role as a healthcare professional in today’s climate of uncertainty. Hear expert accounts of the impact of these policies on people’s health.

With speakers from:
The Haven (Bristol’s Refugee & Asylum Seeker specialist Primary Care service)
Bristol Refugee Rights (focal point for migrant support in Bristol)
Project MAMA (Maternity support charity for vulnerable migrants)

Free Pizza & Pudding!

Eventbrite – Healthcare for all: a free evening of training and discussion around new NHS charging policies for migrants

29th June – Docs Not Cops workshop at Edinburgh Anarchist Feminist Bookfair

When: Saturday 29th June, 3-4pm
Where: City of Edinburgh Methodist Church

Docs Not Cops first formed in London in 2014 but more recently a group has come together in Glasgow. Come and find out what work they’re doing to resist the hostile environment within the NHS and how you can be a part of it.
Find out more about the bookfair and venue.

20th June – Experiences of Migration – film screening for World Refugee Day

When: Thursday 20th June, 6.30-8.30pm
Where: Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG London.

Join Medact, Medact Refugee Solidarity Group, MSF Take Action Group, and Docs Not Cops for an evening of short films, and discussion to celebrate #WorldRefugeeDay.

We will be showing a selection of shorts exploring the themes of identity, inclusion and how we can contribute.

SCREENING

HAMSA – Caroline Spearpoint

Only My Voice – Myriam Rey

Flight – Laura Wadha

Entitled – Adeyemi Michael

We are delighted to be joined by Caroline, Myriam, Laura and Adeyemi who will introduce their films and join us in a discussion exploring people’s experience of migration and the impact of the Hostile Environment on migrant communities.

There will also be an opportunity to hear about what Migrant Solidarity Group, Medact, Docs not cops, and the local MSF group are doing in refugee and migrant health and meet other folk from the group.

The event is free to all, no one will be turned away.

Facebook event – Experiences of Migration, including trailer links

15th June – Hostile environment in the NHS: migrant charges

Where: Keep Our NHS Public Annual Meeting and AGM, Unite the Union office, 33-37 Moreland St, EC1V 8BB

When: Saturday 15th June, 2.30-3.30pm

Docs Not Cops campaigners James Skinner and Dr Sophie Williams spoke about our work at the KONP Annual meeting.

30th April – Patients not Passports: Challenging Far Right Policies in the NHS, Euston

St Pancras New Church, Euston Rd, NW1 2BA, London

Patients Not Passports event image with banner drop on Westminster Bridge "No Borders in Healthcare" pictured

Through successive immigration acts, the Government has introduced a border regime into the National Health Service. Migrants are now charged upfront to use the NHS, denied care when they cannot prove their eligibility or pay, and are having their sensitive data shared with immigration officials, making many afraid of seeking care altogether.

Join Docs Not Cops, Migrants Organise, Medact, and supporting organisations for the launch of the Patients Not Passports toolkit and learn how together we can bring down the Hostile Environment in the NHS.

Those affected by the policy, as well as healthcare workers and campaigners, will be on the platform. Speakers to be announced. Please book a space.

The evening will also include a free meal. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Facebook: Patients not Passports: Challenging Far Right Policies in the NHS

29th April – Bristol Patients Not Passports meeting

St Pauls Learning Centre, 94 Grosvenor Road, BS2 8XJ, 6.30-8pm

50 protestors outside University Hospitals Bristol Foundation Trust

Bristol Patients Not Passports is a new group who believe that healthcare is a universal human right and should be accessible for all. This meeting follows their “No Borders in Maternity Care” protest held to mark International Women’s Day (audio report). Go along to get involved in their campaign to end hostile environment in healthcare.

Facebook: Bristol PNP meeting

9th April 2019 – Ensuring Universal Healthcare in the NHS, UCL

Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford St, London WC1N 1EH, 6.30-8.30pm

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In October 2017 the NHS underwent a fundamental shift in the way it provides care – for the first time since the NHS was founded, Trusts are required to charge patients upfront for treatment.

Join Docs Not Cops, UCL Institute for Global Health, Medact, and Health Professionals for Global Health to find out about the impact of NHS charging regulations on migrants and the role healthcare workers have in improving access to care for all. This event will launch Medact’s Patient’s not Passports Toolkit and showcase a variety of speakers who will discuss how the policy may directly contravene the principles of universal healthcare.

This is a ticketed event – book for Ensuring Universal Healthcare in the NHS

Facebook: Ensuring Universal Healthcare in the NHS

27th April – Challenging the Hostile Environment in the NHS, Birmingham

St Martins Youth and Community Centre, Gooch Street, Birmingham B5 7HE, 2-5pm

"Hospitals Should not be a Hostile Environment" spray painted placard

The hostile environment in the NHS has had a devastating impact on migrant health, attacking the rights of patients as well as undermining the professional duties of healthcare workers. Upfront charging and ID checks are deterring people from accessing treatment and are completely at odds with the founding principles of the NHS. Find out more about:

  • How NHS policies are affecting patients and healthcare workers.
  • How we can join together to challenge the hostile environment in the NHS.

Everyone welcome. Organised by Migrants Organise and DocsNotCops Birmingham.

Facebook: Challenging the Hostile Environment in the NHS, Birmingham

7th April 2019 – Your Health Day with PHM-UK, Tower Hamlets

Meet at Royal London Dental Hospital Car Park, E1 1DE, 1-4pm

This year on World Health Day people and communities from all over the world will come together to call for progress towards Universal Health Care. In the UK we are seeing the universal principles on which the NHS was founded constantly undermined by the privatisation and dismantling of our public health system and through the racist policies of the Hostile Environment. Increasingly people are being denied access to the services they need or being forced to pay for care they cant afford.

We’ll be joining Peoples Health Movement-UK in Tower Hamlets, at a soon to be announced location in Tower Hamlets, for an afternoon of creative action to celebrate Your Health Day and say it’s time to #ReclaimYourHealth.

Facebook: Your Health Day with PHM-UK

No Borders in Maternity Care – Bristol, Saturday 9th March 2019

Supported by Project Mama, Bristol Refugee Rights, Bristol Defend the Asylum Seekers Campaign, Protect our NHS and others – 12-2pm, St. Michael’s Hospital, Bristol

no borders in maternity care text on graphic of pregnancy

To mark International Women’s Day join Bristol Patients not Passports to demand free NHS care for all

Meet outside St Michael’s Hospital 12.00
March to BRI to hear migrants, medics and campaigners speak.

Supported by Project Mama, Bristol Refugee Rights, Bristol Defend the Asylum Seekers Campaign, Protect our NHS and others.

Scrap the charges for migrants in the NHS!

Since the hostile environment has entered hospitals, women without secure immigration status have not been accessing maternity care because they are scared of unpayable debts. This is unsafe for babies and mothers and increasing risk of poor outcomes, including death, low birth weight and the transmission of various diseases.
Women who have just given birth – are being sent threatening NHS bills and some had been chased by debt collection agencies. Women who do have the right to care are being deterred from accessing care & treatment they’re fully entitled to. This is an attempt to turn midwives into part of the hostile environment and causes extra stress for these frontline workers.”

Facebook: No Borders in Maternity Care, Bristol

Docs Not Cops Workshop – Liverpool, Sat 24th November 2018

Hosted by Liverpool Migrant Solidarity Network St Michael in the City, Upper Pitt St, L1 5BD

FB event page – DNC Workshop Liverpool

“Did you know medical staff are being told:

To racially discriminate against patients? To make patients pay for NHS care? To refuse treatment to patients if they do not present a passport?

Are you a: Medical professional? A patient?

Would you like to learn how to: safeguard the principles of the NHS? help members of your community? Start/get involved in a campaign?”

Resisting the Hostile Environment – Glasgow, Sat 10th November 2018

10am-5pm, The Space, 257 London Road, G40 1PE. Resisting the Hostile Environment Facebook event. Please book a free ticket via Eventbrite.

A day of workshops & talks about fighting back against the UK Border Regime.

Featuring:
Docs Not Cops, Unis Resist Border Controls, Corporate Watch (launching their new book ‘The UK Border Regime’), Living Rent Glasgow & Unity Centre

– How is the Hostile Environment currently functioning?
– How are people resisting it and fighting back?
– What actions can we take locally?

Travel expenses and childcare available for anyone who needs them / if you are able to donate towards the event costs it would be very appreciated.

New to the UK: Exploring the maternity needs and experiences of immigrant, refugee and asylum seeking women, Oxford, Saturday 10th Nov 2018

8:45am – 15:30pm, Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BP. New to the UK midwifery conference website

With the world in the middle of “one of the worst forced displacement crises ever” (Refugee Council, May 2018), we are presented with a number of healthcare challenges.
 
This conference will explore:
  • The needs of migrant women during pregnancy, birth and beyond. Their experiences of current maternity care provision in the UK.
  • Strategies to improve the pregnancy, birth and early days of motherhood experience for migrant women and their families.
  • Strategies to optimise maternity caregiver knowledge and skills when caring for this client group.

Speakers include:

Lucy Halton – Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Marie-Clare Balaam – University of Central Lancashire
Dr Melanie Cooper – University of Bradford
Dr Rayah Feldman – Maternity Action
Amanda Firth – University of Leeds
Rose McCarthy – Refugee Council
Refugees who are Experts by Experience
Tickets
£35 full price, £20 students (lunch not included)
 

Health for all? Liverpool, Sat 3rd November 2018

10am-4pm, St. Bede’s Church. Health for all? Facebook event

An event aiming to bring together communities in the North West to hear more about the devastating impact of NHS charging regulations on individuals and the NHS more broadly, and collectively discuss building campaigns to challenge this policy. All welcome!

With Rayah Feldman (Maternity Action), Kitty Worthing (Docs Not Cops), James Skinner (Medact), Jo Rylands (Junior Doctor), John Grayson (South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group) and John Nicholson (Immigration Barrister)

Organised by: Keep Our NHS Public Merseyside, Save Liverpool Women’s Hospital campaign.

Supported by: Docs Not Cops, Medact, These Walls Must Fall, Refugee Women Connect, Asylum Link Merseyside, South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group.

Time to Get Organised! – Countering the Hostile Environment in Birmingham

11am to 2pm at the Meena Centre (located in the former Divya Group building) on Sat 1st December. The meeting will include a light lunch.

EventBrite: Countering the Hostile Environment

“The government’s hostile environment policy is permeating our society and services. It’s turning public sector workers and ordinary citizens into border control agents; causing incredible harm to migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers; and isolating and dividing our communities. Come along to [Migrants Organise’s] meeting on Saturday 1st December to learn how the hostile environment is affecting people in Birmingham – and what you can do to help organise our city’s response.

At the event you will be able to:

  • Gain a better understanding of the hostile environment and its damaging impacts
  • Learn more about what communities in Birmingham are doing to counter the hostile environment
  • Explore how you can unite with others to take practical action”

For more information, please contact sian@migrantsorganise.org

Docs Not Cops Glasgow/Scotland – Open Meeting, Thurs 17th Jan

FB event page – Glasgow Docs Not Cops meeting

“We would like to propose an initial meeting to gather some people who might be interested, to start getting the ball rolling, to think about the biggest barriers are for migrants accessing healthcare in Scotland, what we might like to do and what actions we need to take to move forward.
Hopefully this evening will be space for brainstorming and action points.

EVERYONE WELCOME! Please spread the word, the more the merrier. This meeting is not exclusive to healthcare workers but anyone who has experience of these barriers, is interested in campaigning for no borders in the NHS. Also please don’t worry if you can’t make the first event, hopefully this will be the first of many.”

Bristol Patients Not Passports Meeting, Sat 2nd February 3-4.30pm

Hosted by Bristol Refugee Rights – St Pauls Learning Centre, 94 Grosvenor Road, BS2 8XJ

FB event page – Bristol Patients Not Passports meeting

“a new group is being formed to take forward plans for:
– Launching a Bristol Group of Patients not Passports
– Contacting the CCG/local NHS trusts to show our opposition to the regulations
– Working with local GP surgeries to become Safer Surgeries
– Public demonstrations against this aspect of the Hostile Environment”

Immigration Bill demonstration – London, 28th Jan (postponed from original 16th Jan date)

Hosted by Schools Against Borders for Children – College Green, Westminster. Group photo 1.15-1.30pm

FB event page – Immigration Bill demonstration

“On Wednesday January 16th, Parliament is holding the second reading of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (pdf).

This Bill gives the government a blank cheque to repeal the EU law that gives EU nationals and others free movement and associated rights. It also gives ministers (rather than Parliament) more powers to amend existing immigration law through regulations, which are barely scrutinised by Parliament and rarely meaningfully opposed.The British public, rightly, was outraged by the violations suffered by the Windrush generation as a result of the hostile environment. The new Immigration Bill and White Paper do not learn any of the lessons of the Windrush scandal. Instead, they continue the worst aspects of the hostile environment, couched in the language of compliance.”