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Helen Tucker

@brujablanca.bsky.social

(she/her) Teacher of MFL, EAL/ESOL. Green Councillor - Cockermouth North. Chair - Cumbria Green Party. NEU workplace rep. #GreenParty #NEU #RefugeesWelcome #FreePalestine #ClimateEmergency

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How much more evidence does the world need to see of Israelโ€™s barbaric crimes.

02.12.2025 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This will take about 25 minutes of your time but worth every second to be aware of the latest in the Climate Emergency that the BBC, media outlets - and the Government - are ignoring.

Please sign the letter!

01.12.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'If we take action, we might survive' 'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders.

'This is no longer a risk, it is an emergency,' explain climate experts to more than a thousand British MPs and civil society leaders.

theecologist.org/2025/dec/01/...

01.12.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 304    ๐Ÿ” 183    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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โ€œOne sees Palestinian children bravely defying the best armed operaratives; I also need to show a bit of bravery.โ€

Tayo has been arrested under the UK Terrorism Act on at least two occasions for peacefully holding a cardboard sign.

Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org

Film by Bedbug Media

01.12.2025 19:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. Thatโ€™s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defenseโ€ฆ He runs around on a stage like heโ€™s a 12 year old playing army. Itโ€™s embarrassing.

01.12.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44095    ๐Ÿ” 11986    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1294    ๐Ÿ“Œ 777
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think This is not the video I had planned to make.

National Emergency Briefing - Thurs 27 Nov 25: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...

01.12.2025 12:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year Refugee Council says Home Office figures show safe and legal pathways are โ€˜disappearing when most neededโ€™

Labour isn't opening safe routes as Mahmood claims. Those laid out effectively already exist, and her proposals limit them more than they currently are.

What Labour has done though is close and curtail what safe routes there actually are for refugees. #r4today

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

01.12.2025 07:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 214    ๐Ÿ” 113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Print featuring rooks flying above bare trees against a wintery pink sky

Print featuring rooks flying above bare trees against a wintery pink sky

Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter

30.11.2025 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 891    ๐Ÿ” 164    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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โ€œDe-proscribe Palestine Action, it is not a terrorist organisation.โ€

โ€œThe Israeli State is a terror organisation.
The IDF is a terror organisationโ€

This brave sign-holder calls out Israel and their genocidal military while being arrested in Sheffield for holding a paper sign.

29.11.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Textile art collage resembling a sitting black and white cat with the stem of a red blossom in its mouth, all against a white backdrop

Textile art collage resembling a sitting black and white cat with the stem of a red blossom in its mouth, all against a white backdrop

Japanese artist Mika Hirasa, embroidery and appliquรฉ #WomensArt #Saturday

29.11.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 577    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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164 ARRESTS
(out of 250 sign-holders)

Today marks the final day of action across our November wave of Action. The seemingly-rigged Judicial Review against the ban is still underway, and it will likely take weeks before we hear the result.

Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
www.wedonotcomply.org

29.11.2025 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 85    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Palestine Action: Police in Sheffield arrest 18 peaceful protesters against genocide as outrage at free speech gag grows

36 police officers were required to arrest the anti-apartheid activists, in an episode described by a local councillor asย โ€œshamefulโ€.

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/pal...

29.11.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 387    ๐Ÿ” 195    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.

So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get.
Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

29.11.2025 07:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 384    ๐Ÿ” 130    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

In 24 hours this has now raised ยฃ150,000.

Thank you to the thousands of people who have donated.

Let's make small donations normal again!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

29.11.2025 07:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 972    ๐Ÿ” 269    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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The real 'benefit scroungers' are companies paying crap wages ...

meme via @spottednewsoff.bsky.social

29.11.2025 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 87    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How will the government fund scrapping the two child benefit cap? Talks about the fact it's important to remember public finances are not like household finances.

How will the government fund scrapping the two child benefit cap? Talks about the fact it's important to remember public finances are not like household finances.

Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail?

H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!

29.11.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1151    ๐Ÿ” 304    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63    ๐Ÿ“Œ 22
โ€˜Echoesโ€™ mural on Mabgate in high summer

โ€˜Echoesโ€™ mural on Mabgate in high summer

Day 28: Mural. I love this mural titled โ€˜Echoesโ€™ on a pub in Mabgate, inspired by Burmantofts tiles and a tribute to the cultural heritage of Leeds, by the artist Add Fuel #Museum30

28.11.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 338    ๐Ÿ” 52    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The right to trial by jury has been a fundamental feature of the British Justice System for over 800 years. Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed

28.11.2025 09:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 120    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"

โ€œShe is doing things that I think are letting this country down".

Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...

28.11.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 568    ๐Ÿ” 215    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Photo of a black bird with red wing facing right while perched amongst small twigs with beak open and with whisps of golden breath leaving trails in the cold morning air

Photo of a black bird with red wing facing right while perched amongst small twigs with beak open and with whisps of golden breath leaving trails in the cold morning air

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

29.11.2025 05:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1560    ๐Ÿ” 325    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
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'Like a parking ticket': Scottish activists face ยฃ100 fines for 'terrorism' SCOTTISH prosecutors face claims they have reduced terrorism to the level of a parking ticket after asking activists accused of supporting aโ€ฆ

Scottish activists offered ยฃ100 fines for 'terrorism' offences

Prosecutors face claims they have reduced terrorism to the level of a parking ticket after asking activists accused of supporting a proscribed group if they will pay fine instead of going to court.

www.thenational.scot/news/2565626...

28.11.2025 13:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 123    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Second Palestine Action Prisoner Hospitalised | Novara Media Exclusive: Teuta โ€˜Tโ€™ Hoxha has been taken to hospital after 20 days on hunger strike, following the hospitalisation of Kamran Ahmed earlier this week. Harriet Williamson reports.

A second prisoner held on remand for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action has been hospitalised after refusing food for nearly three weeks.

Teuta โ€˜Tโ€™ Hoxha was hospitalised on Thursday 27 November due to her rapidly deteriorating health

novaramedia.com/2025/11/28/s...

28.11.2025 21:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Photograph of a desert like landscape in purple light with the words in gold neon on the ground 'I WISH YOU WERE HERE'

Photograph of a desert like landscape in purple light with the words in gold neon on the ground 'I WISH YOU WERE HERE'

South Korean artist Jung Lee, from the neon series #WomensArt

29.11.2025 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 346    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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UN compares UKโ€™s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is โ€˜an unnecessary and disproportionate restrictionโ€™ on fundamental human rights

UN compares UKโ€™s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia

UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is โ€˜an unnecessary and disproportionate restrictionโ€™ on fundamental human rights

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org

28.11.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 143    ๐Ÿ” 69    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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France to approve new plans to halt small boats crossing the Channel Keir Starmer has urged the French government to intervene before asylum seekers board vessels heading for the UK

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I absolutely despise Starmer and the whole government for how far to the right they have gone on attacking vulnerable people. UK pushing for this shows a complete disregard for the lives of people crossing the channel.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

28.11.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 151    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Books and films by artists who back Palestine Action may disappear from Britain, Sally Rooney tells High Court ARTISTS who support Palestine Action may no longer be paid for works published in Britain in โ€œa truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression,โ€ the High Court heard today....

Books & films by artists who back Palestine Action may disappear from Britain, Sally Rooney tells High Court

Author Sally Rooney told a judicial review that books may be withdrawn from sale after Downing Street said she risked committing a terrorist offence

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/book...

28.11.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Opposing genocide is not terrorism.

Make your choice.

www.wedonotcomply.org

27.11.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 315    ๐Ÿ” 226    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Today, leading organisation Amnesty says the genocide is not over.

Of course UK media has completely ignored this, I mean why would this be newsworthy for our one trip ponies who prefer stop the boats, housewives of Cheshire or โ€˜immigrantsโ€™.

27.11.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dance! Heal! Rebuild! Gig in Support of Medical Training in Palestine (THF) Dancing to the tunes of Palestinians music, raggae, ska, combia, R&B & afro beats, the gig will raise funds for the Hanoon Foundation

www.eventbrite.com/e/dance-heal...

28.11.2025 06:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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