rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/we-are-here-to-stay-organising-day-glasgow?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-we-are-here-to-stay-organising-day-glasgow' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Migrants' Rights Network https://actionnetwork.org/groups/migrants-rights-network https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/events/photos/001/954/692/normal/Copy_of_Abolition___Decolonisation_Workshop_(1500_x_600_px)-2.png We are Here To Stay: an organising day for disrupting migration systems and narratives Calling people to join the Migrants’ Rights Network and Ubuntu Women Shelter to organise and build local resistance to the racist structures that keep our communities oppressed. WHAT TO EXPECT Reflective Discussions: Explore critical topics like racist and anti-migrant language, colonialism and systemic racism. Personal Histories: Share and learn from our personal experiences of migration and colonisation. Together, we'll reflect on how these histories shape our present and our future. Community Resistance: Come and hear poems of resistance from Ubuntu Women Shelter. Learn and discuss how people are building local resistance to racist laws and structures. Network & Connect: Meet like-minded individuals, and activists who want to dismantle racist structures and systems locally. AGENDA Doors open at 9.45am. Please arrive on time to be seated for a prompt 10am start, which will be the welcome performance by Ubuntu Women Shelter. The rest of the agenda tbc. OTHER INFO Free lunch and refreshments will be provided. Speakers to be announced – stay tuned! Limited travel subsidies are available on a first come first served basis. WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR? Everyone who wants to learn, engage and discuss dismantling systems of oppression. We particularly want migrants, including refugees, Glaswegian activists, and more to join. We will prioritise racialised and migrant, including refugee, attendees. ORGANISERS Migrants’ Rights Network is a UK charity that stands in solidarity with all migrants in their fights for rights and justice. We co-curate campaigns using anti-oppression practices to create transformational change, extending beyond the individual impact on migrants’ lives, to tackle oppression at its source. Ubuntu Women Shelter is a Glasgow-based charity that provides unconditional practical support for destitute women and people of other marginalised genders who have no recourse to public funds and insecure immigration status in Scotland. https://actionnetwork.org/events/we-are-here-to-stay-organising-day-glasgow