Thanks to your support, the campaign to stop the deportation of Osime Brown has grown to an unprecedented level.

We have over 300,000 signatures on our petition. Over the last few months, our social media campaign has reached a deafening volume. We have held protests at the Home Office. Thanks to supportive MPs Osime’s case has been raised in Parliament multiple times, and so far two national trade unions have given their backing to the campaign.

Osime has been allowed to return home, but we don’t know for how long, as the deportation order against his name still stands. We need to make sure this is not his last Christmas at home with his family

In this usually quiet winter month, we are asking all our supporters to continue the fight, and ensure that the UK government is not allowed to rest without hearing his name.

We have planned a number of activities in the coming weeks that you can be involved in to help this happen.

1. Local, socially distanced demonstrations

In the week of the 14-20th December we plan to take Osime’s fight to the local offices of MPs who have not yet signed the Early Day Motion in Parliament, to call for them to do so.

This will mean organising a group of supporters, with placards and signs, and appropriately following local covid guidelines (masks, social distancing), gathering at the office of your local MP to call on them to sign the Early Day Motion in Parliament that calls for the deportation order to be recalled. See: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/57531/justice-for-osime-brown

Take photos, share them on social media. Seek involvement of activist groups especially black and ethnic minority, autism and neurodivergent – as well as Labour Party and trade unions where appropriate.

Earlier this week, the Home Secretary Priti Patel hit back against those who had campaigned against the latest deportation flight to Jamaica.

2. Join our next Twitterstorm.

On the 23rd of December we will take to twitter and other social media to flood it with the demand that Osime’s local MP – Marco Longhi – signs the Early Day Motion, and that he publicly calls on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to order a public inquiry into Osime’s case.

Include @Marco Longhi MP in your tweet. Use the hashtags #NotHisLastChristmas #StopTheDeportation