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Occasional geographer | 🇱🇨 Author of Black Resistance to British Policing

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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Racist attack on Chinese takeaway in Blackburn. Solidarity with East Asian people facing racial violence in Britain and beyond
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This black barrister/defendant discussion reminds me of something a friend used to say: Liberal black academics ask why they're always confused for a cleaner. Radical black academics ask why all the cleaners are black.
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Looks like a few of the young organisers have been doing some history research outside the national curriculum #BlackLivesMatterUK
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4 years
A black man has died in British police custody after becoming “unresponsive” in a police cell in Devon
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2 years
Evening course - Stuart Hall: Hegemony, Culture, and Politics Want to read Hall but don't know where to start? Like Hall but want to know more? My online short course is returning this March. Registeration now open.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
I hate the bureaucratic language of BAME as much as anyone else, but focusing on language and labels in anti-racism, means the government can win easy points for doing nothing that addresses the racism which exploits, excludes and kills.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
A black boy of 16, attacked and seriously injured by far-right opponents of a Black Lives Matter demonstration in London, was stopped and searched by the policeman he had asked for help.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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A movement against climate change with literally zero analysis of state power. We’re doomed.
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Most police are reasonable people. Some are idiots. No different to the rest of society. We hope that the police will soon join with the rebellion, either passively or actively, in a move that would force the government to the negotiating table.
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The way people talk about Churchill, you'd have thought he defeated Hitler in a one-on-one gladiator-style battle to the death
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Looks like a few of the young organisers have been doing some history research outside the national curriculum #BlackLivesMatterUK
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The minister who resigned over the Windrush scandal now minister for equalities... a sign of things to come I guess
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
My adopted academic family and I have been trying to make sense of the multiple crises we face. We’re nearly ready to share it with the world. Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State Out early next year with Pluto Press
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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443 rejected a knighthood, MBE, OBE or other awards in recognition of their merit, service or bravery from 2011 to this year
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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Black woman with respiratory problems which deemed her 'at risk' is not signed off from her job at Victoria Station. She is spat at by a member of the public, and dies of Covid-19.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
A short video I made with @WiredUK about the campaign to defund the police in Britain
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
5 years
Masked fascists have stormed an anti-fascist event at SOAS today. The event is continuing regardless, but support and solidarity very much welcomed
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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In 2011, I wrote a series of blogs about working in Tottenham after the 2011 ‘riots’. 10 years of organising, learning & writing later has culminated in my first book. Hope it does justice to the incredible people & campaigns that made it possible
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
5 years
Black men basically start on a base-level of “minor-gangsters” until proven otherwise. Not to worry though, a source close to Rory Stewart assured Guardian readers: “if any offence was caused he’d be the first to apologise.”
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Pretty emotional right now, just got three years of collective thinking & writing in through the post. @sitainshort @Gargi_at_home @LukeEdeNoronha @NadineElEnany @KojoKoram @daliagebrial & Kerem, it’s been a long, enriching slog. Launch is tomorrow:
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Where’s the lie tho?
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Middleclass, liberal British racism is expertly subtle. Yet it plays a powerful role in criminalising black communities. A recent article by Mark Townsend for The Guardian called "Out on the 'microbeats' where police hope to reclaim London's streets from gangs" is a key example
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5 years
“I’m an American that pays fucking taxes. Since I’m paying a lot of taxes and everybody’s paying motherfucking taxes people should have motherfucking health care and free college in this bitch.”
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Honoured to have joined The Brooklyn Institute to teach a 4 week course on Policing, British Empire and Racism, open to the public. It starts in October, and is online, so you can learn from wherever you are. Details here
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5 years
Today, I’m thinking about the Bolivians, after Morales was deposed. The Haitians, after Aristide was kidnapped. The Brazilians, after Lula was imprisomed. All the way back to the Congolese after Lumumba’s assassination and the Ghanaians who lost Nkrumah.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Defunding the police does not mean an immediate end to policing, but instead investing in social policies that prevent people from experiencing violence and harm in the first place.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
The increase in police officers permanently stationed in UK schools have increased levels of criminalisation, according to a new report into racism in secondary schools.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
3 years
New report: Black girls twice as likely to be excluded as white girls. Also, 'mixed race' girls are excluded at the same rate as Black Caribbean girls, thus mirroring the situation with 'mixed race' boys relative to Black Caribbean boys (via @Gus_John )
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1 year
I wrote something about institutional racism, Black Power and abolition for one of my favourite journals
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Race & Class
1 year
Adam Elliott-Cooper shows the links between UK abolitionism now with Black Power politics & anti-colonialism in the c20th, questioning the failings of liberal anti-racism & the reluctance of authorities to accept the existence of institutional racism.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
When we say #RhodesMustFall we mean Oxford’s modern imperialism must fall. As a quick start The Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (funded by BP) The links with arms companies in the engineering department The Shell (oil) Geosciences Laboratory
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
6 years
Almost every campaign against a black death in custody in the UK is led by a woman In this article on Empire, respectability and black resistance, I try to better understand these struggles Massive thanks to the inspiring women that made this possible
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“I did it for maybe a week, hoping some ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could … kill him” Phenomenal how @guardian managed to report this story without using the word racism
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
8 years
#BlackLivesMatter in Britain #shutdown 5th August. Everywhere
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Every time I think I've seen the final nail in the Labour Party's coffin, something comes along and adds one more, just to be sure.
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Pimlico Academy calls the police on (mainly black and Asian) children for participating in a playground protest against racism in areas including curriculum and uniform
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He says a youth centre “would have been helpful as a place to organise and train young people who have nothing else to do here”. A community centre was instead sold off to a private company and rebranded as a gym
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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Thanks for the bigups everyone. But lets not be distracted - this government has US-style mass incarceration planned for our young people, and we have to start resisting it *now*. Follow @LCAPSV @4FrontProject @StaffordScott_ @npolicemonitor @JENGbA @CAPExpansion @UnitedBorders
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Jeremy Corbyn
5 years
This former youth worker says everything you need to know about the Tories' offensive chicken boxes.
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Queen Mary Students shut it down for Palestine 🇵🇸
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Queen Mary Palestine Solidarity
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Queen Mary Students have just set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine. More details to follow...
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Just got searched leaving Aldi without buying anything. Had to empty rucksack etc. The indignity... Don’t they know when academics shoplift, it’s at the self-checkouts at Waitrose? Oh the indignity of it all...
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
3 years
Educators, teachers, youth workers: me and my buddies made some free teaching resources on racism and policing.
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Trevor Smith, in his 50s, was shot dead by armed police during an operation in Lee Bank, Birmingham, West Midlands Police said
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This baby is already the most powerful black man in Britain.
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Just got fired from @bbc5live . For the record - it was red sauce. Always.
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Just finished watching Mangrove on BBC. For anyone wondering how much has changed, see defendant Darcus Howe being criminalised on BBC News in 2011
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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Beaming with pride at my friend and comrade @dereckapurnell bringing fire to The Daily Show, of all places. Few are as clear and irrefutable in making the case 4 abolition. Her new book, Becoming Abolitionists, is easily the best thing I’ve read all year
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The Daily Show
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Human rights lawyer and activist @dereckapurnell responds to common critiques of the police abolition movement, and breaks down why it could offer a more comprehensive solution to violence and crime.
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‘People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy,’ he said. ‘They are wrong. The Pentagon does have a strategy. It is: “Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it.”’
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
The fact that a bike being thrown at the feet of a horse is considered worse than a human being trampled by a horse, illustrates one of the many ways in which black life is devalued in this country.
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Eddie Hulme
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Disgraceful comments by you on the #bbcnews . A protester is captured throwing a bike at a horse and you blame the police. Shame on you and the rest of the lawbreakers during this time of coronavirus.
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It isnt insignificant that suspiciousness stop and searches doubled in the run up to the largest black-led protests against policing in British history.
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Thousands of people take to the streets protesting black deaths in police custody, prisons, healthcare and workplaces. In response, the government has Tony “black boys are feminised” Sewell publish a report on GCSE results.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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When Angela Davis says “Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root” she is directly paraphrasing Marx, who writes “To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself”. ⁦ @ChardineTaylor ⁩ on black feminism
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“George – people know me as this – the name of some old colonialist and you are so conceited it doesn’t even occur to you how lonely this is. What they did was pure evil and you can’t see it because that was your people.”
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Well done to everyone at @RunnymedeTrust for this brilliant report on stop & search, and getting some well deserved news coverage England stop and search pilot scheme does not cut violence, thinktank finds
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Tony Sewell, the academic chosen to lead the prime minister’s new racial equality commission, despite denying existence of institutional racism and making homophobic comments in the past, is facing a legal challenge to his appointment.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
3 years
My book launch is tomorrow! Join me, @Gus_John and @graciemaybe as we discuss Black Resistance to British Policing.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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Everyone stop what you’re doing and listen to the new Dave album. Good lord
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4 years
The police are criminalising black protest.
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My brother is wanted by the @metpoliceuk because he said on Instagram that he was going to the BLM protest last Saturday but he did not even go. They came bursting into my sisters house while her child was there ransacked it and searched every where. @BorisJohnson how is this ok?
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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In the last 48 hours, we've seen more prisons, anti-terror powers and the deployment of the army proposed for dealing with knife crime. Feels like a countdown until those found with a knife simply have their citizenship revoked.
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New report: Challenging racial justice in the criminal justice system in the UK: A history of legal action 1975-2020. Authored by myself and @KojoKoram
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It was a huge honour to give the 2023 Antipode RGS-IBG Keynote Lecture. Many thanks to @antipodeonline for the invitation and everyone at @RGS_IBG for hosting. Video: Decommissioning Anti-Racism: Police Power, State Capture, and Black Radical Traditions
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
3 years
Abolish everything. Now: “Activists go head-to-head in challenges to promote their causes, with their success measured via online engagement, social metrics, and hosts’ input, with the winners going to the G20 Summit in Rome, Italy.”
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
5 years
Such Centre-left policies include “a ban on wearing the Islamic burqa and niqab in public, as well as a widely-criticised “jewellery bill” allowing police to seize refugees’ valuables to help pay the cost of their treatment by the state.”
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
5 years
The defeat we feel is only a fraction of what has long been experienced across the world, as imperialism has snatched social change from peoples movements and their elected leaders. I don’t want to dismiss the work we put in and the struggles we face. But perspective is helpful.
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Let’s talk, sing, shout, drink, comfort eat and weep together. But when we’re done, let’s remember we’re still part of the many. A global majority. We must ensure we are part of an international movement against proto-fascist populism.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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Running a police monitoring/stop and search workshop in East London tonight. Open to all. 6:30pm start. Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial street E1 6LS
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
9 years
Women's prison mass jail break after inmates in dominatrix gear handcuff male guards expecting 'mass orgy'
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
3 years
'Mixed race' is such a problematic term. Not only does it infer that some people are somehow racially pure, but it also creates the false impression that 'mixed race' is not also Black, a fact, as @ChardineTaylor just reminded me, any fan of Bob Marley would struggle to deny.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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This defeat isn’t ours alone. It’s connected to an international list too shamefully long to recount. This generation’s never had a more united, organised, outward facing Left in Britain. Let’s make sure the global struggle against the rise of the right bring us with it.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
3 years
Was scheduled to do an event with Dawn this evening. Shocked and saddened to hear of her passing. A tragic loss of a writer and activist in her prime
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James B
3 years
We are immensely saddened to announce that our dear friend @DawnHFoster died suddenly at home this week, related to her long-term illness. I, and I know many of you, loved her deeply, and it is a terrible loss.
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@Michael_BHunter @BarbaraNtumy About two weeks ago, but racist attacks on East Asian people has escalated massively since the lockdown
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
6 years
Let's be real: This is the logic of Jim Crow America. This is the logic of the KKK. This is the logic of lynchings @catherineshoard
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I’ll be teaching another four week set of evening classes (or afternoon, if you’re in the US), on Stuart Hall this March. Details below
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Brooklyn Institute
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Stuart Hall: Hegemony, Culture, and Politics | March BISR Online Courses |
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Probably the most stressful interview I’ve ever endured
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New Economy Organisers Network
5 years
If we only focus on conviction rates, we become blind to the fact that the criminal justice system and the policing that leads up to those convictions may be institutionally racist. @adamec87 discussion race and criminal justice on the #moralmaze
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6 years
You guys should organise some kind of Berlin Conference to discuss the details
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Guy Verhofstadt
6 years
Let’s create a single Euro-African economic area. It would have an enormous potential that remains untapped: 1.5 billion consumers, 20 trillion in value, able to rival with China. #ALDEPAC
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Watching Channel 4 News #blacktofront yesterday made me think about the groundbreaking 'It ain't haf racist, mum' presented by Stuart Hall & Maggie Steed in 1979. It remains essential viewing for anyone interested in racism and media representation
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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All cleaners on zero hours contracts at UCL have been fired by Sodexo, the firm UCL pays for cleaning. Please sign and share the open letter, and email the UCL Provost (michael.arthur @ucl .ac.uk):
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Very excited to be invited back to teach another online public course at The Brooklyn Institute in March. This one seeks to uplift and inspire! British Black Politics: From Anti-Colonialism to Abolitionism
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We can only feel like giving up if giving up is an option. For many across the world, it isn’t. As long as darker peoples drown in the Mediterranean, Africa and the Middle East face plunder and bombs, climate catastrophe ravages the earth, giving up cannot be an option.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
9 years
I'll just leave these here. #simondanczuk
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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I support the strike & will donate 2 the strike fund bc workers withdrawing labour is 1 of the most effective ways 2 collectively win the pensions, pay & conditions ALL workers deserve. Victory will help the most oppressed academics - POC, queer, disabled, women, WC - the most
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UCU
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BREAKING NEWS: UCU announces eight days of strikes starting on 25 November at 60 UK universities #USS #UCUBallot
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Excited about the official launch of my first book with @Gus_John and @graciemaybe Wed, 26 May, 19:00 BST Register here
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Excited to have authored this report on the policing of the BLM protests in the summer of this year. Tune in for the launch this Thursday
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3 years
Unpopular opinion: I don’t think the language of “erasure” is helpful. It seems to be used to essentialise racial categories, frame systems of power as unconnected to each other, claim culture/politics as private property and fetishise the liberal politics of representation.
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Black people: We’re unsurprised when we encounter racism in a public sector job. Why are we surprised that it exists in an institution based on hereditary aristocratic purity and imperialism?
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Am debating at the Cambridge Union tomorrow, if you’re in that part of the world and into that kind of thing. The motion: “British identity is inherently racist”. Will try my best to be a good sport etc etc
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5 years
Ok, so what’s the quickest way to leave the Labour Party?
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9 years
Teachers called police after a primary school student uses a broken ruler as a pretend sword http://t.co/X6VRbj3qDd http://t.co/c8AtqTy1oV
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
10 years
ITV pundits discuss the penalty while Brazilian protesters get battered by police in the background. Welcome to dystopia
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4 years
Thanks!!
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5 years
“They told us last week that they don’t have enough money to pay holiday for us so if we don’t feel safe we can go home unpaid,” he said. “My partner asked about sanitiser and gloves and she was told ‘why not bring your own’?”
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
3 years
Honoured to be in conversation with @dereckapurnell this Friday discussing Black Resistance to British Policing. Friday 14th May 6pm GMT / 1pm EST / 10am PST
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
3 months
Filling some very big shoes this week - standing in for James Meadway on the Macrodos podcast. This week, we’re talking the economics of prisons
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MACRODOSE
3 months
Since the early 1990s, the prison population of England and Wales has almost doubled 📈 NEW EPISODE: For the second episode in our summer series @adamec87 took over the show to discuss the political economy of prisons. Listen to the full episode 👇
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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If you are going to a protest in London, please download this onto your phone. Write one of the phone numbers on your arm. Pass it on to anyone going to a protest. Stay safe #blacklivesmatter #GeorgeFloyd
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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Well done to Cafe staff at Greenwich Uni in their industrial victory. They’ve achieved London Living Wage (10% wage increase for catering, 23% increase for cleaners), Sick Pay and Holiday Pay. This shows how unionising and striking can work! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
5 years
Masked fascists have stormed this anti-fascist event at SOAS today. The event is continuing regardless, but support and solidarity very much welcomed
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SouthAsia Solidarity
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Middle class white people couldn't be more different. They fall in love. #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly http://t.co/pkH6RoWpiL
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
Trevor Phillips reaches a new low, describing the measured and scholarly critiques of the Sewell Report by some of Britain’s leading black minds as “Mandingo fighting”, allegedly reminiscent of a scene from Django Unchained.
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
4 years
I’ve now been told the video is from Bury (Greater Manchester), not Blackburn
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