Stop the war on asylum seekers

Message from the Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers (CDAS)

Dear Friend,

Below the text of a statement intended for publication in the press at this time of heightened hysteria against asylum seekers.

People who have already signed:
Tony Benn, MPs Alan Simpson, Lynn Jones, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, Labour Party NEC member Christine Shawcroft, Arlington Trotman of the Church’ Commission on Racial Justice, Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui of the Moslem Parliament, the entire national executive of the Fire Brigades Union, including general secretary Andy Gilchrist, John Edmonds of the GMB union, Bill Spiers, general secretary of the Scottish TUC, Mick Rix of the train drivers’ ASLEF union, Mark Serwotka , general secretary of the civil servants’ PCS union, Paul Mackney, leader of the lecturers’ NATFHE union, Billy Hayes of the postal workers’ CWU union, Jeremy Dear of the journalists’ NUJ, film director Ken Loach, civil rights lawyers Louise Christian and Gareth Pierce, poet Benjamin Zephaniah and actor Corin Redgrave

Download the statement with in PDF format:

Download the statement as a petition in PDF format:

Please raise support wherever you can, among friends and work colleagues, but also in your political organisation, trade union, community group, wherever. Please give the position (if any) of those who sign. Please also forward the statement to others you think might be interested.

Money is also needed to publish the statement, so please try to get individuals or organisations to make a donation.

Pete Firmin, for the Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers

Enquiries/ further information:
Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers (CDAS)
BCM Box 4289
London WC1N 3XX
phone: 07941 566 183
info@defend-asylum.org
http://www.defend-asylum.org/

Source for this page: Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers
info@defend-asylum.org

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