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The inspiring work of the Glasgow Girls defending their asylum-seeker friends
We must never forget the power of kindness and compassion and the power of the collective, writes KATE RAMSDEN
DETERMINATION: (Left to right) Agnesa Murselaj, Amal Azzudin and Roza Salih who are members of The Glasgow Girls
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We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
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A FEW weeks ago I heard Amal Azzudin interviewed. Amal is one of the Glasgow Girls, a group of young asylum-seekers and indigenous Scots girls who attended Drumchapel High School in Glasgow.
These girls came together in 2005 to protest over the detention of their friend Agnesa, who was arrested along with her family in a dawn raid and locked up in Yarl’s Wood detention centre.
Sustained pressure from the girls, who took their campaign to the media, politicians and the wider community, resulted in the release of Agnesa and her family.
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