If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesnβt impact you, you are wrong.
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
24.06.2025 06:48 β π 1514 π 601 π¬ 64 π 23
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
24.06.2025 05:17 β π 2256 π 996 π¬ 57 π 97
Boiling with rage hearing on the radio that Labour is welcoming in Refugee Week with the announcement that instead of asylum hotels theyβll be expanding the
Disastrous
Dehumanising &
MORE EXPENSIVE
βMassβ accommodation sites at places like ex-army bases.
There are not enough facepalms.
15.06.2025 17:06 β π 797 π 222 π¬ 48 π 20
The obvious problem with Starmer's 'island of strangers' immigration speech
Far from 'strangers', new statistics show that people seeking safety in the UK have deep roots here, writes Refugee Action's Tim Naor Hilton.
Our CEO on why new Home Office immigration stats make it clear people seeking safety here are not the "strangers" the PM claims: "more than two-thirds (68%) of people who applied for asylum ... were from a country that was directly affected by British colonial rule"
www.bigissue.com/opinion/immi...
04.06.2025 07:54 β π 108 π 53 π¬ 2 π 2
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powellβs βRivers of Bloodβ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
12.05.2025 12:50 β π 5136 π 1585 π¬ 333 π 182
There is a really key point in this interview with Zoe where she's asked why more cruelty won't stop immigration. Her answer is absolutely accurate:
"Why because in these circumstances migration is life" (not doing so being death).
Cruelty is no deterant. It's just cruelty.
04.05.2025 07:45 β π 136 π 29 π¬ 0 π 2
'I'm separated from my one-year-old son due to Home Office visa rule - it's agonising'
Leighton Allen was just a month away from being able to bring his baby and partner to the UK - until the rules suddenly changed
It's amazing how many people, including MPs, don't realise just what Minimum Income Requirements mean, and the impact they have on families. More than half the UK population is basically ineligible to be with a foreign born partner, leaving families ripped apart.
search.app/knp1jekwwRJP...
01.02.2025 08:12 β π 225 π 115 π¬ 10 π 11
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
Is Europe abandoning Syria AGAIN?
There is a sickness in European culture.
A sickness we have never reconciled. A catch-22 we trap people escaping unimaginable danger in.
And we use them, after they've lost everything, as a lightning rod for our hate.
Will Europe abandon Syria again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohsa...
10.12.2024 13:34 β π 179 π 61 π¬ 7 π 5
The fall of Bashar al-Assad is undeniably a moment to celebrate, and that's what today should be about, but, big but, as someone who works in/studies displacements there are things which need to be addressed quickly. 1/
08.12.2024 10:17 β π 374 π 120 π¬ 4 π 17
This whole thread β€οΈ
08.12.2024 13:14 β π 38 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0
Opening the Borders to Nigel Farage
Keir Starmer's attempts to mimic the rhetoric of the Reform leader will end as badly for him as it did for his Conservative predecessors
Wrote this about a deeply dangerous shift by Keir Starmer this week towards embracing the anti-migrant rhetoric of Nigel Farage, and what he should be doing instead www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/opening-th...
30.11.2024 11:34 β π 552 π 176 π¬ 37 π 16
After Grenfell
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traum...
"After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance, Response" - 50% off till 5th Dec: www.plutobooks.com/978074533958... With contributions from Ben Okri, Tony Walsh, Lowkey, Phil Scraton, Daniel Renwick, Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan, Gracie Mae Bradley, Robbie Shilliam & The Radical Housing Network.
24.11.2024 14:29 β π 5 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
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