REFUGEES - THEY'RE WELCOME HERE!
MONDAY 14TH JUNE 2010
COMMUNITY BASE, 113 QUEENS ROAD, BRIGHTON
6.30PM FILMS+FOOD
7.30PM SPEAKERS+DISCUSSION
SPEAKERS
• Jonathan Ellis director of policy and development at the Refugee Council on the new
government and refugees
• Mary-Jane Burkett of Brighton Voices in Exile on supporting refugees in Brighton and Hove
• Ariel Safdie of the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns on campaigning against deportations
• Chris Eades of Asylum Aid on the treatment of unaccompanied asylum seeking children
FILMS
• Here and There 'Here and my home country' - a short film by young people in Brighton
• 1000 Voices - a group of teenagers get a lecture on the merits of the UK's efficient and humane asylum system
• Every single woman - a film about the treatment of women asylum seekers in the UK
• The Immigrant - a film about a 14 year old's first day at a new school
A free Community Base event for refugee week 2010
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