Why We Stand for StatusNow4All: An Invitation for You to Join Us
The North-West Regional group of Status Now is delighted to invite you to join us on Monday, the 4th of October from 6pm to 7.30pm when, with a keynote contribution from the MP for Rochdale, the Rt Hon Tony Lloyd, we Stand4StatusNow4All to the NW signatories. Please see the programme below:
Why We Stand4StatusNow4ALL: 4th October 2021 at 6pm
| TIME | ITEM | SPEAKER | Description |
| 17.50 | Waiting Room | Lift Me High Music | A Song from Cats on the Run |
| 18.00 | Opening & Welcome | Mariam (Meeting Chair, from WAST) | Who we are… everyone… Sheila? to help at the back |
| 18.05 – 18.10 | Achievements of Network | Nazek (Migrant Voice) | What’s happened so far |
| 18.10-18.20 | Why we Stand4StatusNow4All | Our Keynote: Tony Lloyd (Rt Hon MP for Rochdale) | A candid speech about how he came to support Status Now and what he thinks about the network and its importance for the future |
| 18.20 – 18.30 | Living without Status | Tandrima from WAST | The challenges of being a woman without status |
| 18.20 -18.30 | Why we Stand4StatusNow4All | Amanda Shah (Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit) | Why GMIAU have joined the network and how they hope to advance the call |
| 18.30 – 18.40 | Living without Status | A speaker from RAPAR | The challenges of being a man without status |
| 18.40 -18.50 | Asylum Housing | Florence (WAST) and Grace (MigrationUK and SARAG) | Knowing and Acting on Our Rights |
| 18.50 – 19.00 | Organised and Organising Labour | Ameen Hadi (Black Members North West TUC) | How can this improve? |
| 19.00-19.15 | Depending on the size of the meeting, we may go into breakout rooms. What’s the three most important points for the Network in the North West to take forward? (Facilitators to be identified at the meeting tomorrow (Friday 1st October) at 6pm) | ||
| 19.15-19.25 | Feedback from break out rooms and Thanks | Mariam (Meeting Chair from WAST) | 3 Points from each group Plans for the NW going forward: when the NW group meets, email address to make contact etc. |
| 19.25 – 19.30 | Closing remarks and performance… | Loraine (CARAG) | A Poem: The Limbo Land |
Please contact northwest@statusnow4all.org for log in details and share this notice.
Thank you.