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Antiracist Refugee & migrants homelessness & human rights charity since 1995 | Pioneered refugee hosting | Sheltered more than 5K / www.linktr.ee/positiveactionh

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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Positive Action in Housing is a Glasgow-based, Scotland-wide, independent, Black & Minority Ethnic led, antiracist homelessness and human rights charity (Scottish charity reg SCO27577) dedicated to su...
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Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“To every multilingual child in Glasgow and beyond, we say bravo. The evidence is clear that growing up with more than one language is linked with cognitive strengths in attention, flexibility and problem solving." Robina Qureshi, @positiveactionh.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/politics/wes...
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Increase in number of refugee students in Fife schools
Education bosses at the local authority have outlined their progress in supporting new arrivals across the region.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Unnecessary Detention Camps to be built in place of desperately needed homes for everyone - Positive Action in Housing
The housing crisis was created by decades of underinvestment, shrinking social housing and political failure — not by refugees. Yet instead of offering a serious, costed programme to build homes for w...
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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High court: no duty to evacuate Gaza families - but ministers must decide individually - Positive Action in Housing
The High Court has confirmed there is no automatic legal duty to extract families from Gaza. Read that again. Yet for those already found eligible in principle to join relatives in the UK, the questio...
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Refugees did not create Glasgow’s housing emergency, but a dangerous narrative is taking hold regardless - Positive Action in Housing
Decades of underinvestment, rising rents and shrinking social housing created this crisis. But as housing pressures grow, blame is being pushed onto the very people most harmed by the political failur...
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
UK: Alongside over 120 orgs, we are calling out the UK govt’s proposals on earned settlement. The govt proposals would disproportionately punish refugees & racialised communities, by imposing hierarchical & discriminatory standards for those pursuing settlement. www.statewatch.org/news/2026/fe...
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Statewatch | UK: More than 120 organisations call out government's proposals on earned settlement
Alongside over 120 organisations, Statewatch is calling out the UK government’s proposals and the accompanying consultation on earned settlement. The government’s proposals would disproportionately pu...
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
You can’t miss this unique event! An hour of Jagjit Singh Ghazals followed by sitar recital by one of the top sitar artists from India. Group discounts for 10 or more tickets priced at £35 each. For tickets send a WhatsApp message to Sraboni at 07905287088 #glasgow #jagjitsingh #ghazals #culture
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Our Homelessness Team returned to a backlog of 245 housing and homelessness referrals. Here is one of the referrals we received from Glasgow, a Syrian family faced with a neighbour who threatens his young children with a knife. Increasingly, depressingly common.
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 31/12/2025
ORG partnered with @positiveactionh.bsky.social to produce a toolkit for migrants to know their data rights ✊ We're empowering people to find out what organisations know about them, to correct errors and make a complaint. Find out more ➡️ www.openrightsgroup.org/publications... #ORG2025
Text: Empowering People to Exercise Rights – ORG launched a toolkit for migrants and the sector on how data is used for immigration control and how to access their data. Image: Green and pink textured abstract background.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
🧵1. The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal - We are raising vital funds to provide humanitarian relief to refugee families, children, lone women and men fleeing war and persecution. Each year we assist, advise and represent over 4,000 families in need. Donate: paih.org/donate
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Donate Today and Help Rebuild Lives - Positive Action in Housing
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A message from one of our refugee service users received an hour ago.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem issued a statement urging Israeli authorities to grant permits allowing children in Gaza diagnosed with leukemia to reach Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem for life-saving treatment. (Ihab Hassan)
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A message from one of our refugee service users received an hour ago.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal - We are raising vital funds to provide humanitarian relief to refugee families, children, lone women and men fleeing war and persecution. Each year we assist, advise and represent over 4,000 families in need. Donate: paih.org/donate
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Donate Today and Help Rebuild Lives - Positive Action in Housing
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
12. George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
11. Without immigration, there will, within generations, be no Europe and no UK. Today’s racist obsessions will look incomprehensible to our ageing descendants, desperate for young people to look after them & keep their country running. Before long, we’ll be fighting to attract people from overseas
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
10. Switching to a plant-based diet or from fossil fuels to renewables, by contrast to altering the size of the human population, are things we can do immediately, humanely and effectively. But blaming other people requires no change, and no confrontation with power.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
9/ Population growth is a highly convenient scapegoat for, and distraction from, the impacts of consumption: wealthy people in the global north can blame much poorer Black and Brown people in the global south for the environmental crises they themselves have caused.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
8/ Ironically, the person who might have caused the greatest depopulation is the self-professed pronatalist Elon Musk, whose dismantling of USAID could, according to an estimate in the Lancet, cause 14M deaths. He wants to see more children born, but appears to care little about whether they survive
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
7/ As a UN report explains, “Considerable population growth continues today because of the high numbers of births in the 1950s and 1960s, which have resulted in larger base populations with millions of young people reaching their reproductive years over succeeding generations.”
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
6/ Once the fertility rate falls below 2.1, it keeps falling, and the slide towards zero looks inexorable. This doesn’t mean I’ve become a “pronatalist” (wanting to see rising birthrates).
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
5/ Of course, the Trump administration appears to see “civilisation” as a white and western property, threatened by Black and Brown people, regardless of whether they were born here or have recently arrived.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
4/ The maths doesn’t care what you think. TheTrump administration claims that immigration, among other factors, will result in the destruction of European civilisation. In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
3/ I know what “civilisational erasure” looks like. The European Commission published a chart of total fertility rate: the average number of children born per woman. The EU rate appears to be declining once more, and now stands at 1.38. The UK’s is 1.44. A population’s replacement rate is 2.1.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
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The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
🧵1. The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
#BREAKING | Israelis and Palestinians protest in front of Israeli prisons where Palestinians are being imprisoned and tortured. This is DESPITE the high danger and persecution of Israeli protesters - So far, more than 1,500 anti govt protesters were arrested in the last two years
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Superb. @sutrscotland.bsky.social
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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Today is a massive step forward for the anti-racist movement in Scotland and all those who want to push back the advance of the far-right ✊✊✊
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Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
SUTR SCOTLAND ANALYSIS PIECE: Falkirk unites against the far-right, Inverness humiliates the fascists Anti-racists and anti-fascists across Scotland scored two crucial victories today.
Photo of thousands on the march behind the Falkirk United against racism banner
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
No child should be used as a political punching bag. Farage’s attack on #Glasgow’s multilingual pupils is code for attacking the children of those of colour and of refugee or immigrant backgrounds. Targeting migrant children is just another dog whistle and an utter disgrace. Shame on #NigelFarage.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Beyond the paywall. Shabana Mahmood is engineering the biggest humanitarian emergency this country has seen in decades. With the latest shakeup of asylum and immigration policy - and it will fall to civil society to clean up the carnage.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
🧵1. The BBC frames “asylum seekers using taxis” as if people are gaming the system. But every example shows contractor abuse: inflated mileage, pointless dispatches, bill-padding. This is a procurement racket the Home Office built and refuses to regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 12/11/2025
Asylum is life-saving.
Asylum is life-saving.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Beyond the paywall …
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
5. Who books the taxis? Who chooses the route? Who profits from dead runs and long hauls? Contractors. Who gets blamed on the BBC? Asylum seekers. This framing is a moral failure. The facts point in one direction, and the government points at the people with the least power.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
4. The Home Secretary is milking inflated taxi journeys to score racist points. Cutting medical transport won’t stop contractor waste. It will only block access to healthcare. This isn’t cost-saving. It’s punishment dressed up as reform, built on a story that misidentifies the culprit.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
3. £15.8m isn’t an “asylum problem”. It’s the price of the government’s choice to use the most expensive, least efficient accommodation model. Move people into communities, let them work, end profiteering contracts, and the taxi “issue” disappears.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
2. The real cause is the Home Office isolating thousands in hotels far from GPs and dentists, giving them one bus pass a week, and outsourcing transport to firms incentivised to maximise mileage. Create dependence, engineer inefficiency, then blame the people trapped in it. Classic scapegoating.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
🧵1. The BBC frames “asylum seekers using taxis” as if people are gaming the system. But every example shows contractor abuse: inflated mileage, pointless dispatches, bill-padding. This is a procurement racket the Home Office built and refuses to regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
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Positive Action in Housing @positiveactionh.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th. Via @jvp.bsky.social
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