Episode 57: People power vs the UK's Rwanda scheme

In this episode we speak with Agustina Oliveri, campaigns manager at the UK-based human rights organisation, Free from Torture.   Agustina talks to us about Freedom from Tortures' brilliant campaigns against the British government's plans to exile asylum-seekers to Rwanda by targeting the airlines that are willing to do the government's dirty work.   ---Get in touch---   Twitter: @FleetCivil   Mastodon: @[email protected]   Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social   Instagram: thecivilfleet   [email protected]   civilfleet.com   Support:   ko-fi.com/civilfleet   ---Show Notes---   For more on Freedom from Torture, see: freedomfromtorture.org   Check them out on Twitter, here: @FreefromTorture   Or On Instagram, here: instagram.com/freedomfromtorture   Join Freedom from Torture's campaign calling on Jet2 and AirTanker to stand on the right side of history: https://secure.freedomfromtorture.org/page/148549/action/1?ea_tracking_id=web   Check out this video of Agustina on the phone with Jet2 about the Rwanda scheme: https://twitter.com/FreefromTorture/status/1785646030723194902/video/1   Check out this video of Freedom from Torture presenting Privilege Style with the Worst Airline of the Year Award in 2022: https://twitter.com/fl360aero/status/1581635733554548741/video/1   Watch Freedom from Torture's video of Joan, a Holocaust survivor, confronting Suella Braverman on her hateful language here: twitter.com/FreefromTorture/status/1614172335921303554   Here's a photo of Freedom from Torture crashing the Real Madrid vs Barcelona FC match in 2022 with a message about the Rwanda Scheme. https://twitter.com/FreefromTorture/status/1582026657854259203   Read The Civil Fleet's exclusive story on the 40 people who died in Home Office asylum-seeker accommodation in 2023:  https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2024/04/30/at-least-40-people-died-in-home-office-asylum-seeker-accommodation-in-2023/   Read The Civil Fleet's stories on the UK's Rwanda scheme: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Rwanda/   Read the UN statement condemning the UK's Rwanda scheme: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/04/uk-rwanda-asylum-law-un-leaders-warn-harmful-consequences   For more on Samos Volunteers, see here: samosvolunteers.org   For more on the Bibby Stockholm, check out Episode 44 with Reclaim the Sea   For more on the UK holding asylum-seekers on former military bases, check out Episode 32 with journalist Bethany Rielly   Check out Episode 42, with journalist Nicola Kelly, on asylum seekers being abused and intimidated by staff at Home Office hotels.   Ben mentioned the Australian policy of exiling asylum seekers to an island nation, but couldn't remember which. It was Nauru. Read this Amnesty International investigation exposing the abuse of refugees there: amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/australia-investigation-discovers-appalling-abuse-refugees-nauru   Read about the direct action in the courts and in the streets which stopped the first deportation flight to Rwanda: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2022/06/15/britains-first-rwanda-deportation-flight-grounded-due-to-action-in-the-courts-and-on-the-streets/   Read this 2023 Human Rights Watch report on the UK Supreme Court finding the UK-Rwanda scheme unlawful: hrw.org/news/2023/11/15/uk-supreme-court-finds-uk-rwanda-asylum-scheme-unlawful   Here's a video of British cops rounding up people set to be deported to Rwanda:  twitter.com/BennnyH/status/1786305873196839313   Here's the Home Office's video of cops rounding up people set to be exiled to Rwanda:  twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1785635671316537510   Read this story in The National on the government of Belize denying it is negotiating with the UK over its inhumane deportation policy: thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/11/03/belize-denies-negotiating-with-uk-over-inhumane-deportation-policy/   Here's a video of people preventing a deportation raid in Peckham, southeast London on May 2, 2024: https://twitter.com/TobyonTV/status/1786034196038693135