You can say what you like about this young woman but she's got more guts than that complicit bastard Starmer and his pussyfooting media.
⚡The first of two videos in which I talk about putting myself forward for deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk 💚
Please get in touch if you'd like to support me and have a little look at the link below for more info about me and what I stand for!
linktr.ee/aantoinette
Congratulations Antoinette, and good luck!
Congratulations to @greenantoinette.bsky.social who has announced she’s running as deputy leader of @greenparty.org.uk !
We look forward to your campaign as the leadership contests ramp up.
Three of our committee members discuss Palestine and the importance of racial diversity in politics with @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social
@hamzaegal.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social @animahkosai.bsky.social
Brilliant to share this platform with @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social, Saiqa Ali, Cllr Mark Blake
To talk about real problems faced by everyday people and finding solutions through community organising
Such an energising, refreshing meeting
More important now than ever!
Educate, Agitate, Organise
We need more racial diversity in Green Party leadership so that @greenparty.org.uk truly represents all people who live here.
@mothinali.bsky.social takes up the call, standing as deputy leader.
Good luck!
Labour are failing us on equality. @councillorq.bsky.social knows that the threat to our communities is not arriving by small boat, but by private jet.
Asma Alam recalls her family experience - bricks thrown threw windows etc, back in days when racism was more overt.
She thought this would never happen again... but it is.
Asma is co-chair of Muslim Greens of @greenparty.org.uk
#GreenChai #Immigration
Part 2 here
"My parents come from the Caribbean. I sit with an embodied, deeply embodied, knowing of my truth, of our truth. And that energy, and how I choose to use my energy, is a very important concern when considering our responses." @drdianneregisford.bsky.social responds to Starmer's speech
#GreenChai
Green Councillor Hau-Yu shared her fears for her constituents - migrant workers who have been racially abused since last summer's riots, following Keir Starmer's immigration speech.
@tamhauyu.bsky.social
#GreenChai
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When we met @councillorq.bsky.social last weekend, she told us exactly what she thought of Keir Starmer's immigration speech!
#GreenChai
@mothinali.bsky.social reminds us that immigrants are people, “like my father and grandfather who came here to build this country literally back up from the ashes …”
He condemns Starmer’s rhetoric, “people are struggling,” demanding that real issues are addressed.
#GreenChai
Amanda says it's a "distraction from the fact that this government is unable to manage economic policy..."
Here on Twitter/ X:
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Following Keir Starmer's speech on immigration last week, we asked Global Majority Greens chair, Amanda Onwuemene for her views.
Video too large for BlueSky, but see on LinkedIn or Twitter
#GreenChai
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"We call upon the Labour government to withdraw its proposed immigration rules which are inhumane, unfair and unachievable for many.
The government needs to be lead by what's right, just and needed to support a sustainable UK economy to the betterment of all who live here."
"People of the global majority in the UK are feeling more unsafe since last summer’s racial riots and the rise of Reform in the recent local elections. What we need right now is a leader who truly understands the need for multiracial unity in our diverse society. Not someone who echoes Enoch Powell"
"We become strangers when the government cuts back on community services, council house building, sports, arts, preventing access to a full life, by making public transport expensive, cutting back PIPs, and social care.
"Becoming strangers has nothing to do with immigration.
"The Global Majority Greens find the Prime Minister’s racist immigration speech made on Monday to be an example of a government that is deflecting from its own incompetence in managing the country’s economy."
Read our full statement in the screenshots that follow
We haven't named all the countries, but if you have ancestors who fought in WW2 whether in Europe, Asia or elsewhere, tell us the country, even their regiment!
Britain and the Allies victory in Europe 80 years ago was supported globally as nations colonised by Britain contributed soldiers, medical workers, resources and capital.
India. Sri Lanka. Nigeria. Trinidad and Tobago. South Africa. Malaya and others across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean.
Wishing all Muslims in the UK and around the world, a blessed Ramadan.
The Green Party stands with our Muslim members and constituents, whether we are talking about Islamophobia or genocide: we see you, we hear you and we stand together in solidarity - Muslims and all faiths.
Save the Marcus Garvey Centre in Nottingham, a vital hub for Nottingham’s Black community
Sign and share
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Black Studies 101 with Kehinde Andrews starts next Thursday evening, for 6 weeks - online and in person.
Learn how vital understanding the contributions, perspectives and experiences of Africa and the African diaspora is to our future.
blackunity.org.uk/BlackStudies
Over 40 years, the Marcus Garvey Centre is a beacon of cultural pride, unity, and empowerment for Nottingham’s Afro-Caribbean, African, South Asian, and wider diverse communities. Now its future is now under serious threat.
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Please repeat after me: the flood-plain is not _beside_ the river. The flood plain is part of the river
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🤦♂️ So Labour are making ads boasting about deportations, with Reform-style branding.
Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates?
If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.
Just finished at the inner east youth summit, approx 100 children from different schools came along to get involved and see how democracy works in the city. absolutely fantastic to be apart of this
#gipton #Leeds #Harehills #community
The times we live in feel dangerous.
We can’t hang around and wait for the far right to win.
🤝 Take a stand, and join us ⤵️
https://join.greenparty.org.uk/?utm_source=joinask-social-Feb25
