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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The GLA has criticised London’s Green Councils for opposing immigration enforcement raids. You can read our quote in the Waltham Forest Echo. Full statement below ⬇️ walthamforestecho.co.uk/2026/09/14/g...
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GLA condemns Greens for refusing to cooperate with Home Office on immigration raids
Greater London Authority members have passed a motion condemning Green-led councils, including Waltham Forest, for refusing to cooperate with the Home Office on immigration raids
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
‼️ Important notice ‼️ There will be NO provision of Welfare Advice at the drop-in on Fridays 11, 18 & 25 September 2026. Normal welfare services will resume on Friday 02 October 2026. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📣 Our latest update has dropped ⬇️ In addition to the latest news … find out about our 'We Keep Us Safe' workshop with @migrants_rights_network and @antiraidswalthamforest. ➡️ More info & free ticket 🔗 on the newsletter! Happy b/h & carnival weekend 🧡 wfma.org.uk/2026/08/27/s...
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August 2026 update
We’ve been closed for a couple of weeks, settling into our new space – please keep sharing our news address: St Mary’s Welcome Centre, 8 Church End, E17 9RJ. The drop-in will reopen on …
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📣 We are recruiting support centre volunteers! Every Friday morning we run a drop in providing free immigration, housing & welfare advice. Are you compassionate, patient & passionate about migrant justice? Want to make a difference to people's lives? Then please get in touch! ⬇️
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Support Centre Volunteer | Waltham Forest Migrant Action (WFMA) | CharityJob
Apply now for Support Centre Volunteer. , Unpaid role, expenses paid, find a career with meaning today
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We’re having a little break this summer. Our weekly support centre drop-in will be closed on Friday 21st & 28th August. We will re-open on Friday 4th September as usual from 10.00 to 12.30. 🧡
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Refugee and Migrant Justice @rmjusticeuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
👏👏👏 "We know that those fleeing persecution are no different to us. They want to live in safety, contribute to their communities, and build a good life for their families." This is the UK at its best and we're proud to see so many faith leaders speaking out. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Dozens of religious leaders call on PM to lead 'fresh start' with asylum warning
EXCLUSIVE: Senior figures from the UK's Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities have jointly written to Andy Burnham calling for a 'fresh start' on asylum and saying this is a moment to choose what k...
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
⚠️ We’ve moved! Our new address: St Mary's Welcome Centre 8, Church End E17 9RJ Check the Support Centre page on our website - 🔗 below Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Please share widely with anyone who might need to know. 🧡
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Our summer newsletter has just dropped! 🔸 Find out what we’ve been up to, our take on Belfast, the new PM, the Immigration and Asylum Bill. 🔸… and then, there’s theglimmers of hope and solidarity! ☀️We'll be having some time breaks over summer. 🧡
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Summer 2026 Newsletter
It’s been a busy few months at WFMA, so expect an update packed with what we’ve been up to – that’s the good news! And, of course, there is the business as usual pile of bad news: B…
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Refugee and Migrant Justice @rmjusticeuk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
✍️✍️✍️ 14 years ago this week, Theresa May introduced the 10-year route to settlement. RMJ's Head of Campaigning @nickbeales.bsky.social has a new blog on our website explaining why this route is not only brutal for those affected but also counter-productive. 👇 www.rmjustice.org.uk/latest-news/...
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
📣 We have some big news: We're moving! 🚛📦📦 ⚠️ The centre will be CLOSED on Friday 17th July. 📍We will reopen on Friday 24th July at our new address: St Mary's Welcome Centre 8, Church End E17 9RJ 🧐 Check the Support Centre page on our website - 🔗 below. Pls share widely 🙏
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Have a read of Right to Remain's latest update, including: 🔸The campaign to Stop the expansion of Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre. 🔸Anti-racist movement event, 11 July 🔸 Refugee Week reflection - featuring our event at Walthamstow Trades Hall
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Electronic Immigration Network @ein-website.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Medical Justice says “shocking” immigration detention reforms will weaken existing safeguards for vulnerable detainees www.ein.org.uk/news/medical...
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Medical Justice says “shocking” immigration detention reforms will weaken existing safeguards for vulnerable detainees
New policy will focus on managing needs in detention rather than identifying people at increased risk of harm
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
📣 ONLY TWO DAYS TO GO!!! Wherever you live in Waltham Forest, there is still time to contact your local candidates & ask them to pledge their support for migrant justice! More details about the campaign ⬇️
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City of Sanctuary UK @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Telegraph is attacking schools for reading books that encourage understanding. Stories have always been how children learn to care for others. Show them that most people think that refugee kids deserve compassion & understanding - please support our work: www.justgiving.com/charity/city...
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📣 ONE WEEK to go till the local elections!!  ... still time to contact candidates & ask them to pledge their support for migrant justice! You can find out more about the campaign & who your candidates are⬇️ Help us make 7th May a vote for migrant justice! In solidarity 🧡
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Local Elections Campaign
Make 07th May A Vote for Migrant Justice Why local elections matter The local elections will be held on 07th May 2026 – amid political turmoil in the UK and globally. These are likely to be s…
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Ask any candidate to pledge their support for migrant justice to get a sense of their value - it’s the ultimate litmus test!
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Our local elections campaign is in full swing. Last night we joined Waltham Forest Citizens to present our collective demands to @wfgreens.bsky.social & WF Labour. Now we need you to help us keep migrant justice on the agenda & ask your local candidates to pledge their support! Let’s do this! 🧡
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🗳️Local Elections on 7th May! Let's turn Waltham Forest into a true borough of sanctuary, where EVERYONE - regardless of their immigration status - is safe, welcome, supported and treated with dignity and respect.  📣 Get involved: Write to candidates or volunteer at one of our stall. More info ⤵️
wfma.org.uk
Local Elections Campaign
Make 07th May A Vote for Migrant Justice Why local elections matter The local elections will be held on 07th May 2026 – amid political turmoil in the UK and globally. These are likely to be s…
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
extremely worrying trend! www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis
In the past five years, MPs’ attitudes in the House of Commons towards immigration have swung harder to the right than at almost any other time in the last century
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Good morning to everyone who has stood against hate, racism and fascism over the weekend! Solidarity is a verb. Let’s do more to build the migration justice movement, and society that protects us all. Poster by @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social #migrationislife #nooneisillegal #thesewallsmustfall
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Please note our drop-in winter holiday dates. See you in 2026 🧡
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The final newsletter of the year is packed with updates, news, campaigns .... and of course your tricky dinner conversations' guide. Thank you for your support in 2025! Enjoy the winter break and see you in 2026. Together we are building solidarity 🧡 wfma.org.uk/news/
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In case there was any doubt left in your mind about the UK government’s stance on immigration, it has aligned itself w/ the most hardline countries, incl. Denmark, Hungary & Italy, to dangerously water down ECHR. Happy International #humanrightsday www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK joins call for Europe’s human rights laws to be ‘constrained’
Britain aligns with some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for change to allow Rwanda-style migration deals
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today is international #humanrightsday … so of course our PM announced curbing human rights! But we won’t stand for it. We will fight till the bitter end for dignity, justice, freedom and liberation for all! 🧡
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Curbing human rights won’t make anyone safer! Hands off ECHR. Seeking safety is a right. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
‼️Just over ONE week to go before Connections in Sound at Walthamstow Trades Hall w/ Leensaa, Jana Saleh, Zelt, Nkomba & Lewis from Mais Um Discos ... to say we are excited would be an understatement 🎉 See you on the dancefloor 🪩 🎫 Get your tickets today: wegottickets.com/event/680659
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Doctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Dealing with sickness is scary enough as it is, nobody should feel like there will be consequences for seeking care. This is the sad reality of so many of our patients, stuck in our broken immigration and asylum systems.
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For migrants, the NHS is a hostile environment
Asylum seekers are not receiving care they urgently need, and to which they are entitled
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Performative cruelty to appeal to voters who won’t vote for you anyway is just another level of moral decrepitude
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Our November newsletter is out & it's packed to the brim with information - including an update on the horrendous changes to the immigration system that the government proposed last week. #WeAreMany 🧡
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November 2025 Newsletter
It’s difficult to know where to start, because like you, we are overwhelmed and outraged by the daily deluge of anti-migrant news and hostile policies. While the UK faces multiple crises…
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Excellent piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social about Shabana Mahmood, the new darling of the right and far-right, daughter of migrants spearheading the most cruel anti-migrant reforms.
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
There is absolutely no respite! But we won’t stop fighting for migrant justice.
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UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
a catalogue of failures and £££ billions squandered - straight in the pockets of the private sector … finally we are hearing some truths about asylum hotels!
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Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation
Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📣 Looking for a tangible way to support migrant justice? We’ve been working behind the scenes to pull together what promises to be a magical & powerful event w/ music spanning genres & continents. 📆 11 December from 6.30 pm 📍Walthamstow Trades Hall 🎟️ £15 / £5 ⬇️ wegottickets.com/event/680659/
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Connections in Sound
We are thrilled to bring you what promises to be a magical and powerful evening - a wonderful journey across cultures, with music spanning different genres and continents. Connection in Sounds is a c...
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Impt piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the flurry & folly of recent policy announcements set to create further discrimination & hardship for migrants. Community integration is not about Alevel English & volunteering, it’s about ending austerity & actual investment in social infrastructure!
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A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Email you MP today ⬇️
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
📣 Our October newsletter has dropped - packed with news, campaigns and events. 🔗 below. The fight for migrant justice is and will continue to be urgent. Together we are a community - one that welcomes migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum wfma.org.uk/news/
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Join Waltham Forest Migrant Action and Stories & Supper for a screening of Name Me Lawand. 📆 06 November ⏰ 6.30 pm 📍William Morris Gallery 🍹Refreshments and welcome talks from 6.30pm 🎬 Screening at 7pm 🧾 Tickets £10/ £5 concessions can be purchased here ➡️ bookwhen.com/storiesandsu...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our politics and media have become viciously obsessed with immigration. Farage has made sure of it. And in that obsession, they’ve all lost sight of the people they target. Fellow human beings trying to live and belong somewhere. Shame on everyone responsible for this daily inhumanity (Letter,Times)
Reform's plan for a benefit clampdown
Sir, Regarding Reform's plan to ban foreigners from claiming benefits ("Farage visas would make it harder to settle in the UK", news, Sep 22;
"Time's Up", leading article, Sep 23), in my small company for the past ten years we have employed, on a yearly average, 32 eastern European people, two of them in senior management positions. They all pay British taxes and have had little or no unexplained absences to date. Sick leave for them is extremely low. As far as I am aware, none of them is claiming benefits for dependants. These diligent people provide compassionate care for their clients, living with them for a few weeks at a time. During the pandemic they were responsible for ensuring zero transmission of the virus to people in their care. I feel utterly ashamed that many of them will be reading about Nigel Farage's plan on their various social media platforms
this morning.
Chrstina Sell
Managing director, Arbour
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Cruel anti-migrant policies are bad for all of us. We all know the saying, first they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out … Our fight for migrant justice has never been more urgent. Join us! 🔗 below in comments.
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The govt is announcing one cruel decision after the next. Yesterday they chose to abolish one of the only safe routes. We need more, not less, safe routes (safe routes info: @freemovement.bsky.social)
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.
theguardian.com
Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants
Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined our Together with Refugees solidarity action yesterday at St James Big Street Big Local summer fair, visited our stall or came over for a chat - the message is clear: #refugeesarewcomehere #walthamforest 🧡 #refugees @refugeestogether.bsky.social
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🧡Join Waltham Forest Migrant Action & Together with Refugees at St James Street Big Local Summer Fair for a solidarity action. 📆 Sunday 31st August ⏱️1.30 pm 📍 Stoneydown Park, Walthamstow, E17 6NJ Bring your family and friends. We are many ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📣Our August newsletter has dropped 🧡 Have a read before you head off for the bank holiday weekend & get those dates in the diary! 📆 #RefugeesWelcome wfma.org.uk/2025/08/22/m...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🔴The Reform and Conservative Politicians Mingling With Neo-Nazis and Fascists at Asylum Hotel Protests The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/t...
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The Reform and Conservative Politicians Mingling With Neo-Nazis and Fascists at Asylum Hotel Protests
The recent wave of anti-migrant protests are providing a bridge between right-wing elected politicians and extremist groups
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
📣 We are looking for 2-3 compassionate individuals with a strong interest in migrant justice to join our Board and make a tangible difference to the lives of migrants and refugees in Waltham Forest. For more details and how to apply 👉 wfma.org.uk/2025/08/20/t...
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We did it then and we will do it again! Fascism has no place in our community. Join the fight for migrant justice and against far-right violence: - Attend the radical solidarity hub hosted by @right-to-remain.bsky.social - sign up to our newsletter🔗 ⬇️ Our solidarity knows no borders.
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Our summer newsletter’s just dropped. Find out the latest migration justice news! Please sign up & share widely. Together we can build a community where everyone, regardless where they are from, is welcome. #RefugeesWelcome #solidarity wfma.org.uk/2025/07/25/n...
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Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We stand with people seeking asylum, refugees and migrants - today and every day! 🧡
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