I was there: freeing Baby Asha 2016

In February 2016, the refugee movement, backed by the union movement, went into battle to save a baby. Baby Asha was being treated in Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Hospital but faced deportation to Nauru. Hundreds of refugee supporters, backed by the Queensland Council of Unions, organised a vigil and blockade. We talk to Solidarity member Mark Gillespie, a long-term activist with the Refugee Action Collective in Brisbane, who was heavily involved in the successful campaign.