Solidarity with Stansted 15
Those of you who came to one of our Hornbeam suppers last autumn will have heard Mel Strickland talk about the night, in March 2017, when she took part in direct action to prevent deportation. Mel and 14 others locked themselves onto a plane at Stansted airport, which was about to remove 60 people to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. With a banner that read ‘mass deportations kill’, they were acting in the belief that the lives of those on board would be in danger if they were