Hastings Community of Sanctuary joins new national coalition to build a fairer asylum system
Felicity Laurence and Pal Luthra from the HCOS Campaigns Team explore an alternative to the government’s new plans for refugees 14th-20th June was Refugee Week. Never has it been so pressing to focus upon our fellow human beings fleeing persecution,…
Lifting the Ban
The view from Hastings Community of Sanctuary Campaigns Team: Felicity Laurence, Lead for HCoS Campaigns Team, and Jay Kramer, Campaign Lead, Lift the Ban People seeking asylum have been part of our Hastings community for over twenty years, when the…
Cross-Channel Migration –The Fallacy
As those who campaign on behalf of asylum-seeking refugees point out, there is a fundamental fallacy at the heart of the Home Office policy spelt out by Immigration Minister Chris Philp (see the parliamentary exchanges here). Mr Philp refers to…
Afghanistan: Hidden Voices From A Forgotten War By Maya Evans
Voices for Creative Non-Violence, £5 Review by Kay Green 180 years of conflict and misery, and no end in sight. We talk about Iraq, we talk about Syria and Palestine – there’s usually a remarkable silence on events in Afghanistan.…
A Celebration of Sanctuary
On 13th June the “open” project at Open on sea-front was launched with its first exhibition of photographs by Andrew Grainger. This venue is to be run by the 20 refugee families who have so far arrived in Hastings as…