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QCEA Associate Members’ Conference 7th-8th October 2000, Leuven

Ideas for Information, Reflection and Action by Individuals and Meetings:

• Invite speakers to Meeting for an ongoing clarification of thought.

• Counter anti-refugee sentiments (in the press and other places) with informed statements, including statistics and personal stories where appropriate.

• Challenge myths and stereotypes involving migrants wherever these are encountered.

• Encourage positive reporting in the media.

• Lobby politicians on local/national/European level.

• Seek to understand the root causes of migration.

• Seek to understand the causes of local anti-refugee sentiments.

• Activate/reactivate MM social action groups.

• Organise social events for/with refugees.

• Make available space in Friends’ Meeting Houses for use by refugee groups.

• Befriend individual refugees.

• Find out information on new asylum seekers arriving in the locality.

• Accompany refugees in their contact with local authorities.

• Support local refugee service initiatives (advocacy, literacy, language, orientation).

• Organise collections of furniture, clothes, dictionaries, toys, money.
  

Statement from QCEA Associate Members’ Conference, October 2000, Leuven

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