Nation Wide Online: Palm Sunday Actions

• • Justice for Refugees petition
  • Safer at Home Petition

Make signs to display in your window or street

• • JUSTICE-FOR-REFUGEES-sign
  • REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE-sign

View and Share the Virtual Event   from 11am on Palm Sunday.
Speakers include:
Moz from Manus (Mostafa Azimitabar) musician now detained in a Melbourne hotel, Shamindan Kanapathi, Sri Lankan Tamil refugee detained in PNG, Tom Ballard, comedian and advocate for refugees, Nazeem Hussain, comedian, TV personality, writer and activist, Faith leaders, and Lucy Honan, founder of Teachers for Refugees.

Add a Justice for Refugees FB frame to your profile – find options Here

Social media actions from 11am on Palm Sunday – make a post on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter and use the  use hashtag  #justice4refugees to get this trending. Some suggestions for your post: (1) take a selfie holding a sign calling for justice for refugees, or (2) make a 1 minute video describing the changes you wish to see. Find a selfie sign template  here  – or make your own sign or placard!

Key themes: 

• • Give refugees Permanent Protection Visas –#Justice4Refugees
  • Medicare and Centrelink for All – #Justice4Refugees
  • End the detention of refugees – #Justice4Refugees
  • Refugees are Welcome –   #Justice4Refugees   #WelcomeRefugees

• Check our Palm Sunday Facebook page regularly this week for additional information and suggestions.

Not using social media ?  see how to get involved here.

Find out how your faith group can get involved .  You might consider using some of the video clips in your online services – see here for more info.

Go to Speak Up for Justice for Refugees for templates and ideas, and background information on the issues.

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PALM SUNDAY in NEWCASTLE
Newcastle Palm Sunday Online actions: Stop Using Refugees!
Two Palm Sunday Newcastle online Zoom meetings.

HASA will live stream to our FB group for people who can’t get in or don’t have zoom
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hunterasylumseekeradvocacy/

1. 1. For local people in Newcastle to collaborate on letter writing
   2. A public meeting

• • • 2pm: collaborative letter writing
    • 3pm: Public Meeting: Stop Using Refugees!
    • https://amnestyau.zoom.us/j/807893640

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PALM SUNDAY – MUMS FOR REFUGEES – online actions

To mark this year’s Palm Sunday, Mums4Refuges have built an online large-scale expression of solidarity for all refugees who continue to experience the brutal effects of indefinite, mandatory detention.

On Sunday, the 5th of April take the following steps:

• Add our Facebook frame to your profile picture
• Take a picture of yourself holding up a sign (can be as simple as an A4 piece of paper) with one of the following statements
  • Coronavirus crisis got you feeling isolated? Imagine #7yearsIsolated#FreeTheRefugees
  • Lack of freedom from coronavirus crisis? Imagine #7yearsNoFreedom#FreeTheRefugees
• Medical care not detention – not in hotels, not anywhere #FreeTheRefugees
• Detention is an infection risk #FreeTheRefugees
• Post to your Facebook, making sure to use the hashtags listed above.
• Tell your friends and family to get involved, we want this to be BIG!
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Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA), CROSSING BORDERS VIRTUAL PALM SUNDAY EVENT

• Post a photo of yourself holding a sign that says
• Today at home I’m marching for refugees around the world

or 

• Today at home I’m standing for refugees around the world
• Send the photo to AMSA so we can post it for you.
• Hashtag: #DetentionHarmsHealth
• Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA), is sponsoring (at $5 a photo)
  the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown.
• Facebook event here

For up-to-date information please see: