John Grayson is an independent researcher and adult educator. He is an activist and campaigner with SYMAAG (South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group). He writes regularly for openDemocracy and for the Institute of Race Relations news service www.irr.org.uk
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Published in: Shine A LightAnother shambles as G4S is entrusted with running asylum seeker housing
While the world’s biggest security firm has suffered international humiliation over its mishandling of the London...
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Published in: Shine A LightOutsourcing charity – the G4S way
The security firm G4S has spread its tentacles far and wide in the UK. Now it is extending its reach into charity,...
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Published in: Shine A LightYorkshire campaigners claim small victory over world’s biggest security company G4S
Campaigning works, say Yorkshire groups, as G4S forced to drop private landlord UPM from asylum-housing contract.
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S asylum housing, the evictions begin: mother and baby dumped in substandard flat
The UK Border Agency gave a £30 million contract for housing asylum seekers to G4S, the world's biggest security...
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Published in: Shine A LightMobilising Outrage: campaigning with asylum seekers against security industry giant, G4S
A Yorkshire campaign deploys rigorous research to expose and resist the astonishing corporate takeover of Britain’s...
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Published in: Shine A LightPoliticians reap what they sow - the contradictions of electoral racism
The UK's mainstream parties should be confronting, not courting, Far Right populism