Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

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Obstinate clinging to counterproductive cruel policies. It’s not immigration that cripples public services, it’s ultra wealthy elites sucking up all resources for unbelievably gross luxury living. Immigration decline starving caring services of staff

Border staff who 'stole cash from small boat migrants' are bailed Officials appear in court charged with stealing from small boat arrivals and money laundering.

Immigration officers "conspired together to steal cash from migrants on small boats" and "worked together to take money and share it out". This is symptomatic of an immigration regime that encourages the degradation and exploitation of people seeking safety
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NO RELEASE: Immigration, Location Tracking and Control The Social Harm, Crime and Violence Research Centre (School for Policy Studies) invites you to the screening of the film No Release.

Book to join us for the Bristol screening of 'No Release' on 18th March with @monish.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-release...

A new era of blatant white supremacist/fascist propaganda. Definitely has a terrifying/atrocity/demonic ring to it… How embarrassing for the American people to see more junk published by the “department of state”.

This analysis of the housing issue will be of interest migration.bristol.ac.uk/2026/02/09/w...

Powerfully written! The sector is not just stretched, it’s rigged & dismantled- set up to fail families with extortionate rents & some profiting from the slow erosion of stability, dignity and childhood. Yes to social & affordable housing!

Announcement: Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti will join Lambros Fatsis as a Guest Editor for our upcoming issue: Towards an Anti-racist Anti-Criminology.

Publishing: March 2027.

All info here:
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Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"

Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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YouTube video by Katie Phang ICE Caught RED HANDED After DEATH Ruled HOMICIDE!!!

An ICE detainee is the victim of “homicide” according to an autopsy report, and he is just one of 3 deaths in 44 days at this Texas ICE detention facility.

I've got the latest details, including DHS' efforts to silence and deport the eyewitnesses to this homicide.

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The last time the government released figures on numbers of US military personnel in Britain (January 2024) they disclosed 13,437.

But this only covered seven US bases.

The government has just said "approximately 11,000" are here, but refuses to provide numbers at each base.

Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.

Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.

This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

"[M]asked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday...[the agent] led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”

3,000 people have read our @environmentalpol.bsky.social article in its 1st month online

The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest - a repertoire of repression

With @crossdale.bsky.social, C Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & T Franco Brotto

‘They’re emboldened’: British far-right activists step up harassment of asylum seekers in northern France Aid groups say rise of far-right rhetoric in politics has fed into intimidation, vandalism and hate graffiti around migrant camps

When “Operation Raise the Colours” started attaching flags to lampposts, you couldn’t analyse it in the media without the reply, “it’s just people innocently expressing national pride”. Now the same people are travelling to France to intimidate refugees.

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Brilliant Brighton welcomes visitors, but who wants to come and see us looking like an oppressive police state?

Sussex Police, with no legal basis, has put live facial recognition vans on our streets. As MP, I will stand up to its unlawful use, and vote against this intrusive tech in Parliament.

Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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Home Office TikTok account posting deportation footage accused of turning ‘brutality into clickbait’ Video of raids and migrant arrests shared by profile with slogan ‘restoring order and control to our borders’

The punitive populist race to the bottom goes on www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Renee Nicole Good: Who was the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis? - BBC News A mother of three and award-winning poet, Good's sudden death sparks protests across the US.

Maybe the answer is too obvious, but hopefully people are also asking why they shot her, since she was a US citizen, mother and poet, who was there as a legal observer of ICE? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Precisely! This was homicide, committed by ICE, and supported by Trump, showing his routine disregard for human life.

Cruel & inhumane- it shows how atrocities go ahead in plain sight at the hands of ordinary people, including those in bureaucratic jobs - presumably someone pressed send on the letter. Thinking of his family.

How the ICE shooting in Minneapolis unfolded BBC Verify breaks down how the shooting which killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis unfolded.

Any news outlet that values truth should state unequivocally that US government officials are lying when they say that Renee Nicole Good tried to harm the ICE thug who killed her.

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My new year hope: an end to austerity After a tough and often disappointing 2025 for the UK, we need a serious injection of hope into politics in 2026, and I aim to help bring it.

Young people turning 20 this year will have been aware of literally nothing but cuts and communities forced into hardship for their whole lives.

My new year wish is for austerity to finally be shown the door.
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Epstein seems to have been relegated down the news agenda.

Infrastructure in UK cities after several years of cuts is an absolute embarrassment. Today I saw a child and an elderly person fall in icy pavements, and a working age neighbour off with a foot injury. At best, this shows a systemic short sighted way to govern. Another reading is deadly neglect.

This paper sets out a repertoire of repression operating to criminalise and repress recent climate and environmental protest globally. Deploying a novel mixed methods approach, involving a comparative quantitative and qualitative analysis of a sample of 14 countries, we identify that repression and criminalisation are global phenomena – spanning the Global South and North. The repertoire of repression includes: i) enactments of new anti-protest laws; ii) creative and strategic use of existing legislation and legal processes; iii) police action, such as arrests, surveillance, harassment and other forms of police violence; iv) disappearances and killings; and v) vilification. We argue that this repression is a complex eco-system involving state and non-state actors, laws and legal processes, social and media discourses which operate to deplete, deter and delegitimise protest, and distract attention from violent or harmful political structures.

New article!

The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression by
@crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & Tie Franco Brotto.

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Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank New West Bank settlements mark a 50 per cent increase in Jewish presence under the present government, deepening divisions and complicating peace efforts

Netanyahu’s extremist government continues to colonise the West Bank, while his Western supporters and ‘peacemakers’ continue to treat him as if he isn’t a war criminal.

www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social

Undercover police officer who deceived woman showed ‘sadistic tendencies’ spycops inquiry told Activist says treatment of her by Mark Jenner, with whom she had five-year relationship, left her devastated

#Spycops officer who deceived woman showed ‘sadistic tendencies’ spycops, inquiry told. Report from yesterday's moving, harrowing testimony from 'Alison' about how undercover Mark Jenner abused her for 5 years. Jenner himself gives evidence next week.

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