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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group
Fighting for migrants and against racism
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TOMORROW - join us for the Visions festival at SADACCA! The festival will give people the chance to hear new ideas, take part in discussion, and get organised! Workshops will cover local, national and international issues and provide a space for radical, collaborative and creative political education. Tickets for the daytime festival are on a sliding scale from £0 to £15. Book your place at sheffieldtransformed.org/visions or through the link in our bio! Across the day, there'll be ten interactive sessions covering: ♦️ The power of international solidarity ♦️ Resisting AI and the hostile environment in healthcare ♦️ Protest songs and communal singing ♦️ Youth organising and youth groups ♦️ Sheffield's radical history ♦️ The politics of nature ♦️ Community organising across social divides ♦️ Life as an activist parent ♦️ Samba drumming workshop Sessions will include contributions from a wide range of groups, including: ♦️ South Yorkshire Migrant and Asylum Action Group ♦️ Sheffield Tenants Union ♦️ Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign ♦️ Anti Raids Sheffield ♦️ Chile Solidarity Network ♦️ Powerful South Yorkshire ♦️ Woodcraft Folk ♦️ Sheffield Socialist Choir ♦️ Chilypep ♦️ No Palantir in the NHS ♦️ 5 Rivers Rising Samba Fusion band We want children and parents to be able to enjoy the Visions festival together, so there'll be play areas and kid-friendly sessions! Local activist groups will also be running stalls and we'll be holding a book swap too, so bring along your old books and pick up something new to read! Graphic for "Sheffield Transformed: Visions," happening Saturday 19th September 10am–5:30pm at SADACCA (S3 8JB).
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✊️ Activist stalls at Visions festival! Throughout the festival, a broad range local activist organisations will be running stalls. Groups will cover anti-fascism, trade unionism, migrant solidarity, youth politics, tenant organising, feminism and more! Learn about the exciting campaign work that is taking place in our region and find out how you can get involved! Sheffield Transformed will be hosting our own stall, where we’ll be selling t-shirts, tote bags and prints! Please come over if you have any questions about Sheffield Transformed or if you would like to join our organising team. Sheffield Transformed's Visions festival is taking place on Saturday 19th September at SADACCA. Check out the full programme and book your ticket at sheffieldtransformed.org/visions or through the link in our bio! Graphic promoting activist stalls at Sheffield Transformed: Visions festival.
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This Saturday, we'd love for you to join us for the official launch of the Dr Pious Nyandoro Campaign 📅 Saturday 12 September 🕚 11am–5pm (feel free to drop by for any amount of time!) 📍 SADACCA, 48 Wicker, Sheffield, S3 8JB 🔗 Link to register in bio Rooted in Pious’s life, work, solidarity and memory and shaped by the recent and tragic passing of our beloved comrade and former RJN trustee, Professor Jason Arday, this campaign seeks to turn remembrance into collective action. As we remember both Pious and Jason, we want to create space to reflect together on *Black grief, racialised dehumanisation, and the political conditions in which our communities live and experience loss.* At the launch, we’ll share the campaign’s aims, introduce our living campaign blueprint, and invite those present to help shape where the work goes next. Expect food, time to connect, movement building, a roundtable discussion, storytelling, and collective discussion of the campaign blueprint. Any questions, drop us a message In solidarity VVIDY #sheffield #saturday #campaign #justice #launch
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📣Announcing.. South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group! South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) have co-organised our session on ‘Solidarity Not Charity: Harnessing the Power of International Solidarity’. The session will feature two members of SYMAAG's organising team, Maria Vasquez-Aguilar and Anahita Hosseini Lewis. Maria is a local activist and trade unionist who sits on UCU’s NEC. She works in Adult Ed and is doing a PhD on the political activism of Chilean refugees in the UK and its impact on the 2nd generation. She is Chair of SYMAAG. Anahita has a background of activism in Iran. She is a researcher and scholar in middle eastern studies, currently on the staff of Birkbeck University. She is also the deputy chair of SYMAAG. @symaag_ was formed in June 2007 to campaign for the rights of all migrants in South Yorkshire. The group is part of the national and local movement against the government’s hostile environment policy. This session is part of the Visions festival at SADACCA on Saturday 19th September. Check out the full festival programme and book your place at sheffieldtransformed.org/visions or through the link in our bio! A graphic promoting the Visions festival. It features an image of a crowd in holding a banner reading "DIGNITY NOT DETENTION" and signs like "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL" The graphic also features the SYMAAG logo.
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📣Announcing... Solidarity Not Charity: Harnessing the Power of International Solidarity! Hear from three local activists — Maria Vasquez-Aguilar, Anahita Hosseini-Lewis and Jonny Feldman — with a wealth of experience in building international solidarity. They’ll draw on their personal experience to explore the key principles that underpin effective solidarity work, discuss the complexities and challenges of this work, and answer questions from the audience. The session has been organised in partnership with South Yorkshire Migrant and Asylum Action Group, Chile Solidarity Network, and Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign. This session is part of the Visions festival at SADACCA on Saturday 19th September. Check out the full festival programme and book your place at sheffieldtransformed.org/visions or through the link in our bio! Graphic with header "Sheffield Transformed: Visions" and session title "Solidarity Not Charity." The graphic features a photograph of a Palestine solidarity protest.
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Tomorrow 12pm Sheffield Town Hall and SADACCA ~ Sacred Golden Pod Breaking Ceremony🍫 The Ceremony marks World Chocolate Day, in memory of Dr Pious Nyandoro, reflecting on memory, migration, resilience and colonialism, through cocoa. The event is the next step in the campaign for justice for Pious. We will expose why we know Belgium and Swiss chocolate, but not the names of Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon or The Ivory Coast, who produce the cocoa. The event is free, will begin at 12 as a march with African Royals, drummers and dancers, through the city to the Town Hall, to greet the mayor. There is then a reflective ceremony in the Town Hall which there is limited free tickets for. Please see the link in bio to register. At its centre will be one simple but powerful act: the ceremonial breaking of a golden cocoa pod. But this is not simply a ceremony about chocolate. It is about people. It is about the people whose hands cultivate cocoa but whose names and stories are too often absent from the chocolate we consume. It is about the histories of colonialism, extraction and migration carried between Africa and Britain. And, in Sheffield this year, it is about remembering a man whose life insisted that people pushed to the margins must never be rendered nameless. We ask.... What if a cocoa pod could speak? Whose hands would it remember? Whose journeys would it carry? And whose names have disappeared by the time cocoa becomes the chocolate we consume? It would be amazing to have you there. Please could you share or invite with members of your community who would value this event Let us know if you have any questions. In solidarity VVIDY #sheffield #tomorrow #saturday #march #justice
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Sheffield Transformed is hosting the Visions festival at SADACCA on Saturday 19th September. And we’re so excited to be able to share our full programme with you! Across the day, there'll be nine interactive sessions covering: 🔸 The power of international solidarity 🔸 Resisting AI and the hostile environment in healthcare 🔸 Protest songs and communal singing 🔸 Youth organising and youth groups 🔸 Sheffield's radical history 🔸 The politics of nature 🔸 Community organising across social divides 🔸 Being an activist parent The festival is a chance to meet people, join workshops and share in collective action, as we consider some of the biggest issues facing South Yorkshire, the UK and the world. Tickets for the daytime festival are on a sliding scale from £0 to £15. Check out the full programme at sheffieldtransformed.org/programme or through the link in our bio!
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11 days ago, Eve and Jake completed #5MarathonsIn5Days for Mental Health, Solidarity and Justice. This video gives a glimpse of the incredible community that came together to make the challenge possible. 🫂 30 people (and 2 dogs) joined them. 🥾 Together, they walked 584.26 miles in solidarity (equivalent to over 22 marathons). 🤝 24 organisations from across the country supported the challenge, alongside countless individuals, pubs, cafés and businesses who welcomed walkers as Sanctuary Stops. 🙏🏼 Thank you to everyone who has donated, shared, encouraged, cooked, hosted, and joined the walkers on the route. From the send-off at The Sanctuary, through the beautiful Peak District and local Sanctuary Stops, to the final miles into Sheffield and the community meal. Every part of this challenge was shaped by people coming together. We all walked in #solidarity for Dr Pious Nyandoro, for everyone whose lives are harmed by a dehumanising asylum system, and for a future where people seeking sanctuary can live with dignity, safety and hope. But we still need your help. We have over £2,000 left to raise to reach our £12,000 target. After everything this #fundraiser has achieved, let's reach (and smash) it. 🎯 🔗 Please donate or share via the link in our bio #WalkForPious #SolidarityWalk
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🎉We officially completed #5marathons5days for Mental Health, Solidarity and Justice, July 28th-August 1st 2026! People and community power held us through this incredible experience, traversing over 4 Ben Nevis' in height 🥾💫 Every step was resistance against the system that killed our late friend and comrade Dr Pious Nyandoro, who's anniversary nears. Rest in Power, 15/3/77~10/8/2025 🫂Thank you to every single person, organisation, venue and business who has donated and made this challenge possible. With your generosity, encouragement, logistical support and care, we were able to cross the finish line for our finale community meal at @sheffieldcityofsanctuary 🐕30 people and 2 dogs joined us to walk over a staggering 584.26 miles in solidarity with freedom seekers and the impact of the migration system on mental health, supported by 24 organisations. We shared Pious' story and those like him, raising awareness of the intentional cruelty of policies that harm migrants and confronted misinformation and propaganda against our migrant communities 🔗We are so close to our fundraising target, with an incredible nearly £9000 donated so far. Every share or donation no matter how small will help us smash our target, to help recover the community funds used for Pious' repatriation and funeral costs, commission a mural in his memory and support VVIDY, an organisation he co-founded. Follow the link in bio to find out more about the cause and our challenge💜 This challenge tested out physical and mental limits, but we walked for Pious, system change and hope👣follow to continue this journey for justice with us Together, our power is limitless In solidarity #challenge #fundraiser #justgiving #sheffield
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Day 1 ~ 5 Marathons in 5 Days for Mental Health, Solidarity and Justice 🥾 Yesterday, 27.36 miles in the bag What an incredible start to our fundraising challenge 👣every step has been for Pious, and every other individual who has lost their life because of the impact of migration policies We cannot thank everyone for the support, donations, shares, love....our community is made this challenge a possibility. We are deeply grateful This is a VERY hard challenge! Please keep sharing the link in our bio, tell your friends, family, work colleagues, community, networks; every donation and person who reads about our challenge gives us power to make the changes that need to happen to stop this harm In solidarity Eve and Jake #5marathons5days #fundraiser #challenge #share #sheffield
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🏁Join us for our Celebrations and Community Meal ~ Solidarity Walk Finale Next Saturday 🕖4:30pm~7pm: Complete the final 2 miles of #5Marathons5Days with Eve and Jake up Abbeydale Road to The Sanctuary, Sheffield City of Sanctuary, stopping at @broadfieldalehouse @abbeydalebeerworks @rumkeg876 during @abbeydalerdbeerfestival 😋🍛7pm~9pm: Community Meal at The Sanctuary prepared by VVIDY, a menu bringing flavours of the Ivory Coast to Sheffield If possible let us know if you are joining us for food! 🥾Please share, join us and celebrate our challenge completion 💸Donations for the community meal are welcome 🫂Thank you for everyone for their continued support, donations, engagement and shares. A special thank you to @sheffieldcityofsanctuary for allowing us to begin, and end, our challenge with them ✊️People power has no limits; it is within our power to create joy 📩Any questions, drop us a message In solidarity #Sheffield #Saturday #fundraiser #challenge
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🤗Our beautiful #5marathons5days flyers are making their way around Sheffield and locations across the challenge ! 🤞Thank you to all the incredible support, conversations, solidarity and donations from local businesses, organisations and community spaces. Holding a space to remember Dr Pious Nyandoro in our community is deeply appreciated; we want to share his story, and the story of those like him, far and wide 🗣 If we've missed any space and you would like some flyers, send us a message! 📩 To everyone who has donated, shared, and engaged in the challenge, we are so grateful. We action turns grief into hope, power and resistance ✊️ The link in our bio takes you to our fundraising page where you can find out more about the challenge 🔗 In solidarity #sheffield #challenge #fundraiser #hike
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