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Midlands Anti-Expansion Network

@MidlandsAEN

Campaigning against the development of HMPs Wellingborough and Glen Parva in the Midlands.

 West Midlands, England
Joined October 2018
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Don't forget our next meeting is next Tuesday the 3rd of Sept, 6pm - 8pm at @MixTheCafe in Balsall Heath, Birmingham! Come along and let us know if you'd like to but need any support to be able to
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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion12 May 2020
👀👀👀 spotted in Swindon, outside the home of Secretary of State for Justice @RobertBuckland - the MOJ MUST take immediate steps to release all incarcerated people #Release2SaveLives #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth #PrisonAbolition #fuckhmp
Two people holding a banner that reads “over 80 000 sentenced to death”. They are stood on the drive way of Secretary of State Robert Buckland’s house.

ALT Two people holding a banner that reads “over 80 000 sentenced to death”. They are stood on the drive way of Secretary of State Robert Buckland’s house.

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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion5 May 2020
Despite a global pandemic, the carceral state continues to push onwards with its new form of children’s prisons known as “Secure Schools”. #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth cape-campaign.org/secure-sch…
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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion1 May 2020
⚡️FREE TAYLOR 💥 TAKE ACTION NOW 🌈 Read this THREAD to find out how you can GET INVOLVED #smashipp #freetaylor #releasethemall4publichealth #releaase2savelives #carenotcages
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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion2 Apr 2020
🚨🚨🚨DAY 6 ACTION ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Today we are targeting @lucyfrazermp, the Minister of State for Prisons & Probation. Prisons are dangerous places to be during #covid19 - social distancing is impossible & people in prisons are immunocompromised after years of health care neglect
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New Internationalist@newint26 Mar 2020
The first British prisoner has now died from covid-19, head of the Prison Governors Association has said release incarcerated people or face a jail pandemic. Join @CAPExpansion in an online action to call on the @MoJGovUK to act swiftly and implement decarceration.
Community Action on Prison Expansion (@CAPExpansion) profile pictureCommunity Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion25 Mar 2020
JOIN US TO DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ALL PEOPLE IN PRISON ! We demand that the Government take swift and immediate action to release all people in prison and detention! Join CAPE for a week of online action - from TOMORROW March 26th 🗣️‼️ #FreeThemAll4PublicHealth
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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion18 Mar 2020
"Average wages in prison are £6 per week and phone calls are extremely expensive. Many people inside simply won't be able to afford extra calls to family in the absence of visits." Please give generously, if you can, to support prisoners!
Prisoner Solidarity Network (@psn_ldn) profile picturePrisoner Solidarity Network@psn_ldn18 Mar 2020
URGENT: Covid-19 emergency prisoner fund. Please share gofundme.com/f/covid19-priso…
Donate to Covid-19 Prisoner Emergency Fund, organized by Prisoner Solidarity Network London

Donate to Covid-19 Prisoner Emergency Fund, organized by Prisoner Solidarity Network London

The impact and uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic is difficult f… Prisoner Solidarity Network London needs your support for Covid-19 Prisoner Emergency Fund

gofundme.com
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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion2 Mar 2020
TODAY! 📞🔥PHONE BLOCKADE PRISON PROFITEERS @LendleaseGroup🔥📞 Full text and details: instagram.com/p/B9OweL6hgz2/
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Prisoner Solidarity Network@psn_ldn24 Dec 2019
Huge thanks to everyone who has called so far! Please keep calling, insist on being put through to the safeguarding team. You might find it helpful to refer to 1.5 and 1.11 here: justice.gov.uk/downloads/off…
Prisoner Solidarity Network (@psn_ldn) profile picturePrisoner Solidarity Network@psn_ldn24 Dec 2019
⚡️URGENT PHONE ZAP⚡️TODAY⚡️ Kevan sufferered a racist attack yesterday afternoon. Call HMP Full Sutton on 01759 475100 and demand Kevan be moved out of the CSC to a safer location. Feel free to use sample script and your own words 🖤 More info: Iwoc.iww.org.uk/protectkevan
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End Deportations Birmingham@EndDeportBrum26 Nov 2019
We're hanging out at @MixTheCafe Brum, to promote #MigrantVote & #RenterVote 📣📣 ** DEADLINE TODAY ** gov.uk/register-to-vote At a time when border violence is evermore rife, we cannot let this election go by without raising our collective voices !! #NoHostileEnvironment
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micha@micha_frazer21 Nov 2019
IT'S COMPILED – a list of everyone who can vote in the general election. If you're currently homeless, detained under the MH act, or are a prisoner who has not been convicted, you, like many others, might not know that you can vote! READ & REGISTER NOW gal-dem.com/a-definitive-lis…
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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion15 Nov 2019
A thread outlining why we took action against @kiergroup this morning! #buildcommunitiesnotcages
Community Action on Prison Expansion (@CAPExpansion) profile pictureCommunity Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion15 Nov 2019
Today we disrupted the Kier AGM, hanging banners, chanting and releasing alarms attached to balloons. In the lead up to the AGM sites where the company works have been targeted. Kier have been contracted to build a mega prison that would incarcerate 1500 men in Wellingborough
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Welcome to prison... You may have your freedom taken away from you but hey look the walls are colourful 🤮 thetimes.co.uk/article/demen…
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3 years to get to this decision! This is not okay. PoC folk and others are being brutalised on a daily basis by the police whilst we wait around for 'justice' bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-englan…
Dalian Atkinson: Police officer charged with footballer murder

Dalian Atkinson: Police officer charged with footballer murder

The unnamed officer is accused of killing former Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson who was tasered.

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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion6 Nov 2019
Thread: Labour have given us the opportunity to tell them what we want to see in their manifesto! We Have until 11.59 TONIGHT Let’s get a moratorium on prison expansion on the agenda! CAPE has drafted some words - all you have to do is copy and paste labour.org.uk/manifesto-2019…
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End Deportations Birmingham@EndDeportBrum23 Oct 2019
**TONIGHT** come down if you're able !! And an article from @DocsNotCops to learn more about how health charging is entirely antithetical to a free-at-point-of-access, public healthcare system: opendemocracy.net/en/opendem… #PatientsNotPassports #EndHostileEnvironment
End Deportations Birmingham (@EndDeportBrum) profile pictureEnd Deportations Birmingham@EndDeportBrum19 Oct 2019
To call for an end to the #HostileEnvironment in the NHS, join @DNCBrum and others on Wed 23rd Oct @ 5:30pm to remember those who’ve been devastated by such policies, and call for an end to charging. For more info: facebook.com/events/45743504… #PatientsNotPassports #AbolishBorders
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Sisters Uncut@SistersUncut18 Oct 2019
solidarity with @CAPExpansion who are currently taking over the SODEXO lobby in central london to protest the recent murder of a baby in Bronzefield prison #NoMorePrisons
Sister not Cister UK (@NotCisterUk) profile pictureSister not Cister UK@NotCisterUk18 Oct 2019
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@CAPExpansion are taking over the lobby of SODEXO right now
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If you had any doubts about the violence our prisons enact daily, this was another terrible and glaring example of it. This wasn’t an anomaly. This is how we value lives in prison. Get to this if you can
Community Action on Prison Expansion (@CAPExpansion) profile pictureCommunity Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion14 Oct 2019
On 27th September, a new-born baby died in the UK's largest women's prison, HMP Bronzefield. Join us on Friday 18th October in central London to protest this shocking, if not surprising, consequence of our violent criminal "justice" system. Details👇 m.facebook.com/events/785601…
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Community Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion15 Oct 2019
TODAY!!! 🔥🔥🔥 see you all tonight
Community Action on Prison Expansion (@CAPExpansion) profile pictureCommunity Action on Prison Expansion@CAPExpansion12 Oct 2019
Only three days until this event! Our panelists will be talking about building strong and resilient communities outside of a harmful and racist criminal justice system. Come! Share! Bring a friend! Join the conversation! m.facebook.com/events/241349…
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