{"id":58748,"date":"2026-08-15T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/demonstrations-held-a-year-after-first-protests-at-falkirk-asylum-seekers-hotel\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:41:33","slug":"demonstrations-held-a-year-after-first-protests-at-falkirk-asylum-seekers-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/demonstrations-held-a-year-after-first-protests-at-falkirk-asylum-seekers-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrations held a year after first protests at Falkirk asylum seekers hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karen Morrison, organiser for the Unison union in the Forth Valley, said the march was about building community after the events of last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I understand why people are angry,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But they are angry at the wrong people. Asylum seekers are not to blame for the ills of our society, social housing, jobs; we need to go back into communities to help people understand that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want to send a message of hope, that things can get better and we don&#8217;t need to be fighting each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Figures from the Home Office showed that 6,587 people were seeking asylum in Scotland as of 31 March this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than half of those are based in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c62qql915q7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Morrison, organiser for the Unison union in the Forth Valley, said the march was about building community after the events of last summer. &#8220;I understand why people are angry,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But they are angry at the wrong people. Asylum seekers are not to blame for the ills of our society, social housing, jobs; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2323,16338,11623,2748,2067,732,7348,653],"class_list":["post-58748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-asylum","tag-demonstrations","tag-falkirk","tag-held","tag-hotel","tag-protests","tag-seekers","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58750,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58748\/revisions\/58750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}