Mastodawn

“People need to hear a story like this now,” says Pinar Aksu … “We don’t always have a victory at the end of our stories, but hope is all we’ve got.”

The award-winning EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET premieres at the Glasgow film festival, 25 February

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/24/power-pyjamas-everybody-to-kenmure-street-glasgow-immigration

#Scottish #film #cinema #KenmureStreet #Scotland #Glasgow

Fight the power – in your pyjamas: the film about the day Glasgow kicked out immigration enforcers

A neighbour in nightwear, a local imam, a schoolkid, the activist known as Van Man – they and many more stood firm. The director of a prize-winning film about the battle of Kenmure Street reveals how he’s atoning for his absence

The Guardian

Alan Ferrier May 13, 2025

On this day four years ago, when Glasgow decided not to be part of an “island of strangers.”

“These are our neighbours. Let them go.”

#KenmureStreet

Alistair Davidson Sep 8, 2023

#KenmureStreet was a citizen uprising in #Glasgow where we prevented the detainment and deportation of two local men who don't have UK citizenship

Llosgi Nov 26, 2022

Does anyone know what became of the two people detained by #immigration forces at the #KenmureStreet protest, Glasgow in 2021? They are Sumit Sehdev and Lakhvir Singh. It was a fantastic #antiraids action, to be celebrated, but must always be about the people hounded for #deportation. I hope they are safe & living where they choose.