500 at least in Acton calling for
#ceasefirenow
and
#freepalestine
There is a non stop stream of beeps in solidarity from cars and buses going past
Biggest protest Acton has ever seen
“He’s got more front than Sainsbury’s!”
Mick Lynch
@RMTunion
on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s appearance at the
#ToriesOut
conference
He told me “The Tories don’t use the services we do. They are immune & isolated to what we go through. We must throw them out”
Every MP must listen to this speech by Tony Benn as Parliament is recalled tomorrow morning to debate
#Afghanistan
History must not be repeated.
Goose bumps
Yeah it’s really not fun trying to report while being booed and harassed by masses, told to go back to where I come from and having my camera op almost assaulted if it wasn’t for a fellow journo saying we are not the BBC. This is moments before I had to go live
#antivaxxers
Julian
#Assange
is turning 50 this week. His birthday will be behind Belmarsh bars.
MPs now demand to see Julian who has been denied this basic right.
I spoke to
@jeremycorbyn
who told me “Julian has stood up for truth and must not be extradited”
"Its horror, its horror, bombs are dropping like rain. Every call with my family could be the last."
@ShahdAbusalama
watches & prays her family in
#Palestine
will survive the night. Every night.
A heartbreaking and powerful interview.
#SavePalestine
As the UK abstains on the UN SC resolution on
#ceasefire
protestors shut down streets of London for a 9th consecutive week in support of
#Palestine
The campaign now steps up, piling pressure on MPs giving them an ultimatum...
#NoCeasefireNoVote
“At its height nearly one million ppl were on the streets, which is the equivalent of 10 cup finals” 🇵🇸⚽️
Next week’s national demo for
#Palestine
calling for
#ceasefirenow
is week 9 of action
Ahead of it
@jeremycorbyn
tells me people power DOES work & breaks down the numbers…
Lorry drivers understandably very frustrated stranded here in the IK, no food water or info. Johnson & Macron said all day they were moments away from a deal. Where is it? Thousands of lorries stacked up in
#Dover
and all police say is “get back in your vehicle”
#LorryDrivers
Watching the PM visibly teary and shakey answer Beth Rigby's questions... even he knows his time is up.
Every Q, including on resignation, is dodged by hiding behind the investigation led by Sue Gray
-the most important person you've never heard of!
#DowningStreetParty
A fire in
#NapierBarracks
has been going on for over an hour... Where are the firefighters? People inside are terrified. They say it’s like a war scene. It follows info NO more transfers.
#ShutNapier
Tonight’s meeting in Ealing calling for
#ceasefirenow
& freedom for Palestine is full to the brim, 90 seats taken up and dozens standing at the back
Comes as Braverman pressures police to ban Saturday’s demo.
@STWuk
@PSCupdates
say
#WeWillMarch
& will be biggest in London yet!
“Positive
#covid
cases are mixing with every1 else and still social distancing is impossible.”
I went to
#NapierBarracks
to find out if the site is Covid compliant after the transfer 75 ppl. It is not. & it appears the transfer system is a random lottery.
Hundreds in London are turning up and standing up for Palestine 🇵🇸
The attack on Jenin refugee camp is the biggest onslaught of the Palestinians in the West Bank in decades
#FreePalestine
#HandsOffJenin
It is with regret that I have now left RT.
I want to thank everyone at the channel for giving me the opportunity to broadcast globally on issues that I am passionate about. Best of luck to all my former colleagues.
“All they are is f**king cowards” Racist biggots accost asylum seekers at Napier Barracks, a prison-like camp with a mass covid outbreak. As if these brave men aren't going through enough... And this wasn’t the 1st encounter when I was filming yday.
#ShutNapier
#RefugeesWelcome
This is massive!
Tens of thousands -if not in the hundreds- are here today taking historic strike action.
They are striking for decent pay.
#strikes
#TeacherStrike
#TeachersStrike
My mum is a barrister
Backing
#BarristerStrike
action,she quoted a colleague who just left the profession over pay…
“I earned more as a barista serving coffee than as a barrister serving justice”
The state of tht statement
She worked in a cafe to help fund her legal training
5 days b4
#Assange
’s final extradition hearing, key figures in the INTL campaign hold the
#BelmarshTribunal
to prevent this fate for Julian
This is far beyond the story of one man, but is abt fate of free journalism, holding powers that b to account & people power vs state power
100k+ on the streets of
#London
two weeks in a row for
#Palestine
As government figures attempt to clamp down, the British capital continues to show up
Live at Marble Arch as crowds gather before heading to Downing St
Hearing an aslyum seeker has bn arrested ths morn after trying to escape
#NapierBarracks
ovr barbed wire fence. He wanted to see a doc as there isnt 1 on site. It is a right of every1 in the UK to seek medical attention if need be. HO maintains asylum seekers r not being detained
Getting so f**** bored of being harassed while reporting these days. Guys, the media aren’t always the enemy. Listen to what I say b4 you start coming at me & my camera op while I’m live
If media r there, ultimatly it gets a story out, Or would u rather we didn’t cover ur story?
Priti Patel just said she isn't going to wait for
#BordersBill
to pass to allow maritime policy turning boats around
#EnglishChannel
is world’s busiest shipping lane, Uturning boats is like sending someone to walk back across a 5 lane motorway. This policy will see MORE deaths
Lorry drivers stuck in
#Dover
for nearly 48 hours with no food, water, toilet or information. They’re angry and want answers. Police giving them no info.
#LorryDrivers
#Covid19UK
Following High court ruling
#NapierBarracks
was UNLAWFUL...Will Priti Patel now resign? And will site finally shut its gates for good?
#AsylumSeekers
have been telling me for months the “prison like” conditions, and how they didn’t want to live anymore
LATEST STATEMENT FROM ASYLUM SEEKERS INSIDE
#NAPIERBARRACKS
FOLLOWING YDAY ACTIONS.
“Some may protest peacefully, some refuse to eat, some commit suicide and when you are even more ignored some may lose control. The majority of us are against violence as we escaped it.”
Home Sec
@pritipatel
response to
#NapierBarracksFire
threatening punishment. And also saying the site is good enough. No understanding that People inside r living in “sub human prison like conditions” and that they are at “breaking point, no hope and have nothing left to lose.”
“I feel like if there was bigotry on the pitch my team would stand up for me”
Today is
@stonewalluk
’s
#RainbowLaces
day🌈 &
@ActoniansLFC
are lacing up!
To celebrate, 3rds player, Saoirse, opens up abt her experience as a trans woman playing football🏳️⚧️⚽️
Ambulance has been called to
#NapierBarracks
to treat an asylum seeker who seems to be suffering a severe panic attack after being told he will NOT be transferred today.
Earlier one man told me amid transfers “for those left behind it is the most depressing feeling in the world”
The Home Office says NO
#COVID
TESTING IN
#NAPIERBARRACKS
for “approx 7 days”
It is a right of every person in the UK to be tested if you are displaying symptoms. There is a mass outbreak & if they leave to get one the recent threat is they could be arrested. This could be fatal
Asylum seekers staging peaceful protest at Crown Plaza hotel now being dubbed
#Napier2
as 400 asylum seekers ‘housed’ in what they say is totally inadequate conditions. Hotel now surrounded by 8ft wall. Signs read “where is humanity?”
#AsylumSeekersUK
Aslyum Seekers in a Reading hotel r now rejecting “degrading” food parcels tht are leaving them “hungry & unwell.” They are not given water so have to drink frm tap.
They are on
#HungerStrike
over “appalling” treatment.
They tell me “we r not human to them”
#HomeOfficeHotelFood
Last week High Court rules using
#NapierBarracks
was “unlawful” for
#AslyumSeekers
, this week Priti Patel says the “home office is not putting forward squalid conditions”
Today someone inside sent me their lunch, their broken/filthy bathroom & their still overcrowded bedroom
Hundreds outside the Israeli embassy in London
Do you know what is happening in
#SheikhJarrah
is ethnic cleansing?
Do you know that there’s a smear campaign in the UK against anyone that says “Free Palestine”
Anti Zionism is NOT synonymous with antisemitism
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
Allegedly around 100 asylum seekers are to be moved out of
#NapierBarracks
this week due to Covid 19 outbreak, and social distancing being impossible. Napier must b SHUT entirely. It’s not just about C19, the Barracks are NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE
“Shame on you!!!”
Jacob Rees Mogg walks thru the
#ToriesOut
protest in Birmingham met with hundreds shouting at him in fury & anger
He may have walked thru deliberately, you can see him sneering
I tried to ask him about the Tory policy & ppl forced into poverty. No reply
The High Court grants permission to challenge the use of
#NapierBarracks
as asylum seekers accommodation in case arguing serious “risk to life”
Asylum seeker from Napier reacts telling me “this is a battle not just for human rights but against racism and xenophobia”
So proud of the
@ActoniansLFC
squad. Today players brought all these donations for women
#AsylumSeekers
to training.⚽️🙏🏾💙
The tragic deaths in the
#channel
are a horrific reminder that everyone can do more to show
#RefugeesWelcome
No human being is illegal
Britain First’s Paul Golding was at Crowne Plaza, Heathrow today
#AsylumSeekers
tell me he was spouting racial hatred & scaring them
Last week he was at
#NapierBarracks
Acc to
#HumanRights
Act, asylum seekers must b protected frm inhumane & degrading treatment, incl harassment
“Priti Patel’s
#immigration
policy will destroy our lives & future. If I knew her rules, I would prefer to die in my country.”
4 aslyum seekers tell me how scared they are of Home Sec
@pritipatel
’s new rules.
They ask her to put herself in their shoes as life is not worth living
The HO is reportedly detaining
#asylumseekers
in
#detention
centres with intention of deporting them WITHOUT even considering their claims
Campaigners say this is huge breach of INTL law & even worse than
@pritipatel
’s
#bordersbill
… if that’s possible
My team and I made this doc about
#NapierBarracks
last Nov.
I am resharing for all the ppl who say the facility is good enough. How about you spend a night in there...would you still say it’s suitable?
How on earth is Priti Patel still in the Cabinet after all the controversy around her???
She is likely to stay on as Home Secretary
Hard to believe she isnt top of the list to go
#Reshuffle
Hundreds outside Downing St for the vigil for the victims of the Ahli hospital attack in Gaza
Under a sea of umbrellas people hold pictures of victims, flags and candles in memory as the crowds shout
#FreePalestine
Aslyum Seekers at
#NapierBarracks
say that they have been informed there will be NO more transfers. They have lost hope, they can’t live in prison like conditions they are fighting for their lives now.
#ShutNapier
Apparently I’m an “anti white hate monger”
Am in 2 minds to post but ths is 2nd time I’ve been accosted in 2 weeks while trying to do my job, he never mentioned
#NapierBarracks
but his tweet later does which says it all...
Scarily he knows a lot about me
There’s still 11 people left on the scheduled flight to
#Rwanda
tomorrow, down from 130.
Hundreds protest outside the Home Office to say NO TO DEPORTATIONS
Very important demo that could change the lives of asylum seekers forever
#StopTheFlights
#RefugeesWelcome
Gary, where are ya?
Thousands march the streets of London (rain ☔️or shine) to oppose the
#RefugeeBanBill
& say
#RefugeesWelcome
The gov’s hostile environment is essentially moving policy toward an asylum ban
@AntiRacismDay
Thousands of students across UK walked out of classrooms today for
#Palestine
Swapping school bags for Palestinian flags defying gov clampdown
I spoke with an organiser
@ShabbirLakha
from
@STWuk
and students of all ages from primary to uni students demanding
#ceasefirenow
“We can’t go to lectures as normal, we can’t continue our life as normal.”
Thousands of school and university students across the UK have staged a nationwide school walkout for Palestine defying the government clampdown on strike action
.
@Ryanair
policy is NOT to officer help to
#singlemothers
She was expected to carry her pram with baby down 3 flights of stairs ALONE
After helping, I went back to boarding desk & was told it’s not “company policy” & “her own fault for travelling alone & not asking for help”
Thousands here at
#Grenfell
on the 6th anniversary of the entirely preventable tragedy taking 72 lives
Many of the surviving families still in temp accommodation
How many more anniversaries will the community spend calling for justice?
#Justice4Grenfell
💚
#ForeverInOurHearts
A 24yo Sudanese asylum seeker died on sunday @ crowne plaza , Heathrow
His friends at hotel grieve for him whilst being scared who’s next
Many tell me the have suicidal thoughts daily
Protesters demand rights while
#bordersbill
is being rushed thru
Stella Morris just walked in to High Court to hear the fate of her partner
#JulianAssange
Supporter shout to her “we are with you Stella”
Will High court allow Assange to take his extradition appeal to Supreme Court? Decision expected within minutes
It’s breaking point for asylum seekers in
#NapierBarracks
as their protests have long fallen on deaf ears. Today a large
#fire
broke out damaging parts of the site, as ppl inside react to the rumours that there will be NO MORE TRANSFERS out.
Live report;
Day 1 of High Court hearing on mammoth case over LEGALITY of using
#NapierBarracks
Judge hears site poses 'immediate risk to life', covid outbreak 'inevitable', 'prison like conditions' & numerous suicide attempts
Despite upcoming ruling, HO transfers
#AsylumSeekers
IN not OUT
The High Court will decide if the Home Office acted illegally by placing asylum seekers into Napier Barracks.
RT UK's
@ShadiaED
explores the evidence levied at the Home Office.
Today protestors join MPs & Stella Morris, Assange’s partner. He remains locked up in Belmarsh prison despite courts ruling NOT to extradite him to U.S back in Jan.
This sat marks his 50th. Yet another year gone by separate from his family.
@DEAcampaign
RIP 5yo
#MohammedMunib
Majeedi who died aftr falling frm hotel window days after fleeing Taliban
This tragedy could have been prevented; back in 2019 worries raised abt this hotel’s windows, “which can open very wide”
#AsylumSeekers
must b placed in SUITABLE SAFE accommodation
British Medical Association Doctor
@ahmedaftab68
says “it is impossible to keep each other safe in facilities where 20+ ppl are sharing one bedroom and one bathroom”
#COVID19
#NapierBarracks
Tune in to RTV tomorrow at 7pm when I'll be on Chris Williamson’s resistance tv with
@DerbyChrisW
and author, Faith Gakanje about how
#asylumseekers
have been treated during 2020 with the
#COVID
crisis.
Here's the link to join the livestream discussion: …
Soooo NHS warned Home Office social distancing ‘impossible’ at
#NapierBarracks
during
#Covid
outbreak, according to report seen by
@maybulman
Yet leaked audio file I shared yday shows the Home Office is planning to place NEW ARRIVALS in barracks despite ALL of these warnings
Electricity down yet again in
#NapierBarracks
. Since 6am there's been no hot water/heating & electricity. Private comp running site (Clearsprings Ready Homes) STILL yet to communicate w asylum seekers. This is 2nd time elec down since Fri. Staff say that they're trying to fix it
“I’m so scared, it’s like a war scene”
Asylum seeker tells me he is terrified on FaceTime, as
#NapierBarracks
reaches boiling point as ppl uprise against the HO after being told No more transfers
This month
@ActoniansLFC
awarded me ‘Club person of the Season’ following our
#FootballWelcomes
events for asylum seekers
Last night I was elected newly created Community Officer - so proud esp during
#RefugeeWeek2022
Can’t wait 4 next season to continue our charity work!
💙⚽️
“Some 200 asylum seekers will be coming inside”
Security staff at the barracks tells my colleague that there will be mass transfers of asylum seekers INTO
#NapierBarracks
in next few days.
London is out in full force for a 4th weekend in a row to call for freedom for
#Palestine
and ceasefire now
Trafalgar Square’s max capacity is 20,000 there’s double that spilling over into all the roads to say
#FreePalestine
For
#GreenFootballWeekend
@ActoniansLFC
took on
@ClaptonCFC
to fundraise for the creation of 1st of its kind, community biodiverse park in East London to transform an industrial area into a green paradise 💚
We ran our socks off to turn this green vision into reality 💙⚽️🌿
Another 30 people have bn transferred out of
#NapierBarracks
2night with just 10mins notice & no idea where they are going. The selection process seems haphazard random selection, regardless of
#Covid
pos/neg. For those tht leave the future is uncertain &those that stay its bleak
Just sharing a glimpse of the personal attacks I’ve had online over my
#NapierBarracks
reporting recently...
The devastating thing is that it’s just a drop in the ocean compared to what people have commented about
#AsylumSeekers
On many occasions while reporting on
#Assange
this week,
#MSM
crews shooed me & told me to get out of the way. Who the hell are you & where the hell have you been? A BIG reason why Assange is where he is has a LOT to do wth a lack of MSM coverage. So, no,YOU get out MY f***** way
The streets have been FULL of placards saying “Sack Suella” for 5weeks now as 100s of thousands gather weekly to demand a ceasefire
1st she tried to ban waving 🇵🇸 flags, then chants, then the march altogether
None worked
Her sacking is a victory for protestors
#BravermanSacked