Headlines AfricaMay 16, 2025
Africa: UK Government Must Immediately Close Wethersfield Mass Containment Site for Asylum Seekers: [MSF] For over one year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in partnership with Doctors of the World (DOTW) UK, ran a general healthcare mobile clinic outside the main gates of the former Royal Air Forces base at Wethersfield, in the United Kingdom (UK). Between November 2023 and December… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKnxXm #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #MédecinsSansFrontières #HealthcareAccess #Wethersfield
nate mcmullinDec 30, 2024

The Cove Warehouse - Wethersfield, Connecticut by @plgraphics.com

#wethersfield #thecove #wethersfieldcove #covewarehouse #ctriver #mastowarehouse - original cold storage solution (pre-Glacier).

nate mcmullinDec 5, 2024
Got these great dog jammies at Mill Street Marketplace in #wethersfield #shoplocal #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #wethersfieldct
SubtleBlade ⚔️Feb 16, 2024

#HomeOffice warned of #violence and #arson risks at #Essex airbase holding #AsylumSeekers

Exclusive: #ImmigrationWatchdog says ‘#hopelessness caused by boredom’ at #Wethersfield site will inevitably lead to #harm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/16/ministers-warned-over-risk-of-violence-and-arson-at-essex-wethersfield-airbase-holding-asylum-seekers
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ToryInhumanity

Home Office warned of violence and arson risks at Essex airbase holding asylum seekers

Exclusive: Immigration watchdog says ‘hopelessness caused by boredom’ at Wethersfield site will inevitably lead to harm

The Guardian
Bram MeehanFeb 11, 2024

Wife follows this site and just shared; took me back to reading “Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires” https://www.weslpress.org/9780819571700/food-for-the-dead/ — this was what I pictured whenever there was talk of a house, for me just so quintessentially New England: https://lostnewengland.com/2024/02/buttolph-williams-house-wethersfield-connecticut/

#Wethersfield #Connecticut #vampires #Folklore

Food for the Dead – Wesleyan University Press

Startling true stories behind New England's vampire legends—back in print with a new preface by the authorFor nineteenth-century New Englanders, "vampires"...

Wesleyan University Press
JuneSim63 💚Jan 9, 2024

"I was detained and tortured for seven months in Libya. I came to the UK for a safe future, and when I arrived the government sent me to a prison camp"

The Home Office has quietly sent 100 asylum seekers to hotels from the grim Wethersfield detention centre, in a tacit acknowledgement of its unsuitability.
#AsylumSeekers #Refugees #Asylum #PrisonCamp #Wethersfield #UKPolitics

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wethersfield-base-asylum-seekers-patel-migrants-b2474927.html?lid=mn3utcn6mg2x

Asylum base condemned by home secretary moves ‘torture victims’ into hotels

Exclusive: Crisis evacuation of some 100 migrants from a camp that Priti Patel said was unfit for purpose and James Cleverly promised to close, government forced to reveal to Independent

The Independent
Bike West HartfordNov 1, 2023
Free CT-AMC bike rides led by BWH Ambassador Leo Pon
Thu Nov 2nd 11am Tour of #westhartford #CT
Sat Nov 4th 10am Tour of #wethersfield #CT
Details and registration link at https://bikewesthartford.org/rides-with-leo-nov-2023/
#BikeTooter
Rides with Leo Pon, Thu Nov 2nd & Sat Nov 4th – Bike West Hartford

David AnthonyOct 23, 2023
Today I was going to shoot some photos in Finchingfield but the bridge was closed, so it's Wethersfield today, no not the one in Corrie 🙄😂
#wethersfield #essex #village #asylumcentre #photography
CT History NewsOct 10, 2023

Today in #Connecticut History, October 10: Home-Schooled Wethersfield Native Engineers the Erie Canal

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/10/10/october-10-home-schooled-wethersfield-native-engineers-the-erie-canal/

#19thcentury #benjaminwright #canals #civilengineering #connecticuthistory #economichistory #expansionandreform #farmingtoncanal #october #railroads #transportation #wethersfield #williamweston

October 10: Home-Schooled Wethersfield Native Engineers the Erie Canal

  Benjamin Wright, the chief engineer behind some of the most famous civil engineering projects in United States history — including the Erie Canal — was born to Grace and Ebenezer…

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CT History NewsAug 3, 2023

Today in #Connecticut History, August 3: Delegates To a Congress of Future Revolutionaries.

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/08/03/august-3-choosing-delegates-for-a-congress-of-future-revolutionaries/

#18thcentury #americanrevolution #august #Bostonteaparty #coerciveacts #connecticuthistory #eliphaletdyer #firstcontinentalcongress #intolerableacts #rogersherman #silasdeane #wethersfield #windham

August 3: Delegates To a Congress of Future Revolutionaries.

  Today, Americans are so familiar with the imagery and  legends surrounding the Declaration of Independence that they often forget just how radical that event was. The very notion that repres…

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