In
the many countries we come from we could not practice freedom. We
were forced to leave to seek safety, freedom and equality. We have
walked many journeys to get to the UK. Many people lost their lives
along the way, trying to cross in to Fortress Europe. Since 1990,
20,000 people have died in the Mediteranean region as a result of
Border Controls. No human is illegal. No human should die.
Abolish
Dublin III, Frontex, Eurosur and Fingerprinting
We
made it. Luckier ones. But we have to continue walking. We are scared
that we will be put in to detention prisons and deported. We feel
sad for our friends who are already in detention centres or who have
been deported. We are motivated by the migrant
protest march in Europe and want to come
together here in the UK with many people so we can also walk to seek
freedom and dignity.
Stop
Detention and Deportation of Refugees and Migrants
We
are an advantage to the UK. We want to be allowed to contribute, to
pay taxes. Instead, the Home Office is a nightmare to us. We have to
wait long time, often many years, for an answer to our asylum claim.
They put us through inhumane interviews and then wrongly refuse our
asylum
cases and our lives are stuck for years, prohibited from working or
from claiming benefits. The government politices make many of us
destitute. We
are frustrated that we are scapegoated for problems we did not cause.
Freedom
of Movement and Residency for All
We
are the backbones of you here. Migrants do many jobs which keep this
country going and contribute a lot in taxes. Also, many white British
people have been in our countries: Congo, Eritrea, Iran, Syria,
Zimbabwe. They went to our country to exploit us, to bring resources
back here. Yet, when we come here, they treat us as non-entities.
This is racist and injust.
Freedom
and Dignity for all