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asad rehman

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Organising for climate, racial, economic & social justice. (tweets are always in a personal capacity)

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@chilledasad100

asad rehman

@chilledasad100

3 years

Poverty, the climate crisis, inequality and racism aren’t accidental, they’re political. Only our collective action can end this era of injustice & stop them sacrificing people & wrecking the planet. The system is rigged & we need another way! Join me!

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3 years

Germany, Belgium, India, Uganda, Burundi, China? Nope this is Turkey. These climate floods are happening at 1.2c - imagine what 1.5c & 3c will look like.

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We are the many, the fascists are the few ✊🏿✊🏾 solidarity to everyone standing up against the far right and their hatred. ✊🏿✊🏿

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If a mining giant had proposed blowing up Stonehenge which is just 5000 years old there would be global outage but blowing up a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site is business as usual. This is the reality of white supremacy in action.

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Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine

Mining company was given permission to blast Juukan Gorge cave, which provided a 4,000-year-old genetic link to present-day traditional owners

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1/ I was struck by how many parallels there are with #COP26 & the disastrous #COP15 in Copenhagen. There are the obvious ones, both cold, wet COPs in northern Europe. Both hugely expensive for the global South, with poor planning on basic things like affordable accommodation

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Folks rightly getting angry about Tanzanian security forces using live ammunition to force 1000s of indigenous Maasai people off their land in name of ‘western’ conservation - are in for a shock.

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lots of enviros saying ‘no place is safe’ in face of floods in Europe. It’s true no place is safe from climate violence but white folks are way safer than those in India, Uganda & global South who are denied resources. That’s reality of climate injustice.

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Taxi drivers attacked, Mosques targeted, & now frightened passengers on a bus. The casual & respectable Islamophobia & anti-migrant racism from Tory, Labour & Reform politicians - amplified & normalised by Musk & BBC has allowed fascism to grow.

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We are the many, you are the few! From Cable Street in 1930s to Brick Lane in 90’s & once again all over the country - it’s been the working class - black, brown & white - that have stood against the fascists - even when our media & politicians were backing hatred. #Walthamstow

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Honestly so fed up with the lies and spin from rich countries that I decided to rip up my speech about the #COP26 cover decision at today’s high level segment & bring the message from @COP26_Coalition into the halls instead

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My message on behalf of our #ClimateJustice movements to the Presidency of #COP26Glasgow #COP26 ‘hope rests with us not you & we don’t compromise on justice’

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Every video coming out of Gaza is the same - people trying to dig the dead & wounded out of the rubble with their bare hands. People reporting screams echoing throughout the night with no hope of rescue.

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Tonight Gaza faces heaviest bombing. Red Cross condemning Israel’s attacks on its hospitals - no bandages, operations without anaesthetics 3 Refugee camps bombed Whilst Israeli Minister calls for nuclear bomb on Gaza & IDF boasts 20,000 killed in Gaza

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5 years

Media offensive against ‘woke’ politics is a rehash of 1980s right wing media/Tory attack describing as ‘loony left’ ‘anti-racism, gay rights, disabled rights & feminism’. It has always been a political strategy to undermine progressive politics & its debate on structural issues.

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So the worlds biggest biggest machine capturing carbon from air is the equivalent of taking 800 cars off the road, but as it’s actually selling offsets to allow companies to continue to pollute - no real reduction in emissions will take place.

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World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland

Operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised

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At some point the question for the BBC will be - do you regret giving so much airtime to far right & extremist politicians who represent a minority view, whilst the Greens for example get hardly any prime time slots but represent significantly greater numbers of people?

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“Do you regret backing Rishi Sunak?” asks #BBCLauraK “Honestly, yes I do” says former home secretary Suella Braverman

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Today the family of Jean Charles de Menezes mark the anniversary of his murder at the hands of the police. Despite the families ten year battle those responsible were never held to account & justice never done. The person in charge that day is now the Met Police Commissioner

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Every black/brown family WhatsApp group are having the same conversation. ‘Not to go out tomorrow, how to stay safe from being targeted by fascist thugs’. The scale of trauma is akin to the 70/80s. This is on our politicians & media. You lit the fire! Smash the fascists!

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Today’s #ClimateStrike is in proud tradition of young people striking for justice. 1972 school strike against corporal punishment, 1980s black student strikes against racist violence, 2003 school strikes against War in Iraq ✊🏿✊🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Nothing to see but Italy having record breaking heatwave, floods & hail storms - but yeh the political class rage against a few folks for walking in the street not the lunacy of oil giants threatening humanity

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I have been involved in fighting fascism for nearly 40 years & throughout those years the National Front & BNP would march on Remembrance Sunday itself to the Cenotaph & then go on a racist rampage. No outrage from media or politicians - yet marching for peace on a Saturday is?

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Solidarity to the 100,000s taking to the streets in India led by women marchers to protest the plans of the far right Govt of Modi to strip Muslims of citizenship. Smash fascism ✊🏾✊🏿

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The Palestinian people are not alone: Jew, Muslim, Christian, Black, Brown, White, Trade Unionists, Parents, Young & Old all with one voice: #CeasefireNow #FreePalestine

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In the 80s the ‘loony left’ was attacked b/c it championed anti-racism, gay rights, opposition to apartheid. Today everyone pretends to have always been in support of our struggles. But we remember who stood with us in those fights @jeremycorbyn @johnmcdonnellMP @HackneyAbbott

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Gary Neville is spot on as usual. If you want to take on racism in football then let’s start with the PM & his comments.

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For 4 decades I’ve worked to end the occupation of Palestine & for the human rights of Palestinians, Tbh I don’t think I have ever witnessed the scale & normalisation of dehumanisation of Palestinians by politicians & the media. The racism is so deep & endemic it’s heartbreaking

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Overheard at #COP26 negotiator ‘the UK wouldn’t help us with covid vaccines, do they really expect us to believe they are suddenly serious about helping us with climate’

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When I hear net zero 2050 I always remember Ambassador Lumumba (the Chair of the G77) at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009 when he said 2c “certain death for Africa”, & a type of “climate fascism”. The UK, EU, Obama’s US supported by big northern NGOs opposed 1/1.5c target. 1/

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Heatwaves across Indian subcontinent & now flooding in Sylhet, Bangladesh - but hey let’s keep acting like the climate crisis isn’t serious

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Bolsonaro said ‘it’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry hasn’t been as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians’ This is what fascism looks like & our govt normalises it But the resistance is fertile & being led by indigenous women Lift up their voice #AmazonFires

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Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased 67% since President Jair Bolsonaro came into power. These Indigenous women are taking a stand.

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So a Lab shadow Minister says only when he was earning 80k as an ‘unqualified’ new MP was be able to clear his debts, get a mortgage & feel financially secure. Yet sees no hypocrisy in not even supporting a below inflation pay rise for nurses on 24k & teachers starting on 19k.

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"It wasn't until I became an MP that I felt financial security for the first time in my life" @wesstreeting MP tells @krishgm about growing up in poverty and how this experience from his life now informs his work in politics, in this week's Ways to Change the World podcast.

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🤬🤬 it’s this kind of climate denialism that sits at the heart of the rights discourse. The answer to the climate crisis is burn more fossil fuels. It’s genocidal thinking and these people have a massive platform

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Julia and poverty campaigner Asad Rehman come to blows over whether man-made climate change has caused Pakistan's extreme floods. @juliahb1 | @chilledasad100

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Solidarity to Jean Charles de Menezes family & their 10 year fight for justice after he was gunned down by police at Stockwell Tube Station in 2005. The officer in charge became Met Commissioner & the DPP who refused to prosecute the officers is likely to be the next PM.

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Today I will celebrate Jesus a brown skinned, bearded, Palestinian Jew, a socialist who loved the poor & preached against the rich, was a refugee, hung out with sex workers, and would have been hated by those who propagate racism, bigotry and hatred today. Merry Xmas 🎅✊🏾✊🏿❤️

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🧵reading so much shit about P*ki being just a word. On 17 July 1980 on a busy high street in Newham a young man, Akhtar Ali Baig, was stabbed to death by a gang of racists one of who shouted “I've just gutted a P*ki." They had bet £5 to who could kill the 1st P*ki. 1/

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A sea change is taking place - nearly 200,000 sign petition calling for #BDS , 150,000 March in London, players carry #Palestine flag at #FACupFinal this is exactly how the anti-apartheid movement grew in support of the South African people in the face of apartheid apologists ✊🏾✊🏿

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1/ Plenty of mentions of the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes in relation to Met Commissioner Cressida Dick & police violence at #SarahEverard protest. So a quick reminder that the family of Jean (young Brazilian migrants) fought a 10 year battle to get Justice for Jean

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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ‘ This is a text book case of genocide’ ‘the government’s of the USA, UK .. are wholly complicit..Not only are they failing to meet their ..obligations under Geneva Conventions…arming Israel & giving Israel political & diplomatic cover’

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The climate justice movement stands with the people of Palestine - #CeasefireForGazaNOW

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5 years

Mark Field was applauded when he sat back down Let that sink in. Posh white people applaud assault because their dinner was being ‘disrupted’. Another set of posh people take to airwaves to justify it. Will there be a discussion about normalisation of violence in this ‘community’

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In this longer version of the video, you can see the woman apparently posing no immediate threat as she passes behind Mark Field. He marches her out of the room by her neck. I wasn’t there, so I can’t say she didn’t pose a risk, but it looks heavy handed.

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It’s depressing to see one of the filmmakers of #DontLookUp propose exactly what his movie warns against: Techno fixes like carbon capture (& net zero) that are promoted by big business to protect business as usual. We need real zero reductions by 2030 and a justice transition.

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Remember that 50c heatwave in Pakistan, now it’s flooding as glacial lakes burst. Some predict 40% of continent will face water scarcity & food crisis as glacial melting continues to escalate. Ohh & we are heading to 2.7c warming & rich countries like UK want to dig more oil/gas

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Hassanabad Bridge on KKH collapses due to Shishper glacial lake outburst flood in #Hunza #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

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This outcome is nothing but a betrayal - and no amount of spin or greenwash will mask the reality it fails the science and justice #cop26

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Maureen Lipman says ‘no one has the right to return’ Who’s going to point out that the whole basis of Israel’s argument for its right of return is people returning after 3500 years. But the Palestinians who are ethically cleansed as we speak can’t return.

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Enough is Enough - the deeply racist undertones that frame how the media & politicians talk about British citizens who happen to be Muslim - because they oppose war crimes & racist dehumanisation of Palestinians is no less valid than when parts of the Jewish community raised 1/

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UK in meltdown at 39c. Offices crank up A/C & airwaves issue health warnings. Now imagine 53.5c, no A/C, no electricity, water scarcity, extreme poverty meaning no choice but working in the heat. That’s reality for the poor in global South. #Climate doesn’t affect us equally.

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Shocking and a total own goal. For many working class people living in East London - often in the poorest housing, on low wages, long hours, insecure employment - simply getting to work is a huge stressful challenge each & every day. How can XR not predict that this would happen.

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Shocking moment angry commuters drag two #ExtinctionRebellion protestors off the top of a train in Canning Town and attack them.

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The forest fires in Australia & USA shatters one more liberal illusion about action on climate - that once impacts were felt in rich countries the political elite would agree to radical transformation. They prefer to burn rather than threaten neoliberal capitalism & their profits

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1/ Statues of slave traders are toppling both in USA & in the UK. But it’s not just statues, slavery is built into every brick of this country. Barclays Bank was founded with slave profits, Bank of England funded the slave trade,

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2 thoughts - the floods in Germany are in one of the richest countries in the world with huge infrastructure & resources. In the global South climate violence is a daily event but colonialism means no one has the resources to recover after such events.

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Q. Who fuelled the fires of racist violence? A. Daily Mail, the other right wing media outlets & politicians who for years stoked the fires of racism & now pretend to be shocked at the violence. Reminder that they did the same in the 1930s when they backed the Fascists.

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5 years

Want to see what a mass environmental protest looks like - a million people in Bolivia, 1 in 11 of the population, demanding protection of the forests. The #Rebellion of #ClimateJustice movements of the global South is the resistance of the frontlines. ✊🏾✊🏿

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#CabildoSCZ Confirmed: Over one million people at today’s Cabildo. #Bolivia #SOSBolivia

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When greedy bankers sunk global economy rich countries met in days & poured $16 trillion to rescue them. Yet 12 years of the broken $100 billion climate finance promise, & a refusal to act on Loss &Damage shows it's not a technical issue its a lack of political will #COP26

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Let this sink in - a German leader refuses to meet a prominent Jew - because he said targeting civilians is a war crime. The German Govt also accuse other German Jews of anti-Semitism & arrests them for standing up for human rights. This isn’t a Black Mirror episode it’s reality.

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German Social Democratic party leader Saskia Esken has boycotted a Bernie Sanders event over his supposedly anti-Israel statements. Bernie’s statement? “The targeting of civilians is a war crime, no matter who does it.”

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My parents used to say - ‘we have to be ready because one day they will find reasons to kick us out, because to them we will always wear our passports on our faces no matter what the actual colour of our passports’.

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New bill quietly gives powers to remove British citizenship without notice

Clause added the nationality and borders bill also appears to allow Home Office to act retrospectively in some cases

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Utmost respect to @OwenJones84 who has continued to speak up for humanity whilst others were happy to be complicit with Israel’s genocide. He is right - if 1 call from Biden can get Israel to open 2 crossings why not before so children weren’t being starved to death.

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"Why did it take 40,000 Palestinians being slaughtered?" "The fact it took Westerners' blood being spilt is diabolical." @OwenJones84 reacts to Biden calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and reiterates the death toll and obliteration of infrastructure. @alexisconran | #JeremyVine

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Remembering #JeanCharlesdeMenezes today, gunned down by police at Stockwell tube 15 years ago today. 11 bullets fired including 7 in his head. His family fought a decade long campaign to get justice as the police backed by Blairs Govt lied, covered up & killed with impunity. ✊🏾✊🏿

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But the one difference between 2009 and 2021 - between #COP15 and #COP26 - all of us - the climate justice movement cant be ignored, people power is stronger, our voices louder, our movements stronger. And the NGOs complicit in silencing demands for justice, or now cowering

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The Democratic leadership should be falling at the feet of Stacy Abrahams for turning Georgia blue

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The #cop26 should get out of their locked rooms & listen to the people calling for #ClimateJusticeNow - this is just the beginning we are rocking @COP26_Coalition & we aren’t going away ✊🏾✊🏿

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Chile the cradle of neoliberalism under the fascist dictatorship of Pinochet, aided & supported by the UK Govt as he murdered, tortured & imprisoned the left has fallen. Solidarity to all the peoples of Chile for their decades of struggle ✊🏿✊🏾

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European colonialism helped created a planet in crisis. ‘It is not of billionaires or tech that will save us, but instead a “vitalist mass movement”, driven by human spirit, that “may actually be magical enough to change hearts and minds across the world”.

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Today 250 million workers across India are taking part in a general strike called by 10 trade unions, supported by 175 farmers organizations, 60 student groups and many more. This will be the largest strike in history. There is power in the Union ✊🏾✊🏿

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I know this pic is doing the rounds but this is a pretty accurate depiction of mainstream climate NGOs, philanthropy, scientists, journalists & northern Govt policy folks & yes they look the same, talk the same, dress the same, socialise together & fight for same unjust outcomes.

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2 years

So very British to have a giggle at a bit of racism.

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1. The missing facts from #ClimateChangeTheFacts . The climate crisis is a direct result of neoliberal capitalism. Corporations were given the power to exploit people and the planet for profit . An ideology of free market fundamentalism - money was the only thing that mattered.

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Tbh I have waited nearly 24 hours before commenting on this posh white boy’s disgusting tweet. Only someone with their head so far stuck up his own arse could trivialise the violence we suffered at the hands of fascists in this way. That he gets paid for his opinions is shocking.

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There is no more racially divisive force in UK politics than Corbynism. It is more dangerous now than the NF or the BNP or the EDL.

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in corners - knowing that the streets are filled with us, that the call of people and our movements is for climate justice. That we will not accept the deliberate sacrificing of the global South. That this is a fight to uproot the system - economic, racial, social& political

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Imagine an advisor to Corbyn suggesting a policy that has its roots in policies promoted by Nazis to increase the Aryan population & now implemented by notorious anti-Semitic Govt of Orban b/c he believes that Jews are engineering the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ of white people

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“The brutal reality of a climate apartheid is unfolding before our eyes”. “Rich countries are committing arson on a planetary scale and refusing to stop pouring more oil and gas on the fire... It’s a deadly response shaped by a colonial mentality”

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Funding needed for climate disasters has risen ‘more than 800%’ in 20 years

Only about half the funds required are being provided by rich countries, according to a report by Oxfam

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

4 years

When we are talking about Britain coming to terms with its legacy of Empire - remember that’s not simply a historical fact, it’s an everyday reality of how U.K. & others in global North have continued to exploit & sacrifice black/brown people from colonialism to neoliberalism.

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Mark Curtis

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Old and new colonialism. On left - colonial control 1914. On right - mining companies listed on London Stock Exchange currently working in Africa; they control over $1 trillion of resources. Taken from my report with @waronwant ).

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asad rehman

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Solidarity to sisters & brothers from the Jewish community who are saying #NotInMyName and calling for #CeasefireNow - if only our political class had an ounce of their compassion

@rafaelshimunov

Rafael Shimunov ✡️ 🍉

@rafaelshimunov

11 months

Jews calling for #ceasefirenow have taken over NYC’s grand central station in the name of Palestinians of Gaza we say not in our name.

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asad rehman

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I think some people might not have got the memo about #ExtinctionRebellion protests being banned. We have to stand up for human rights and the right to speak truth to power!

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asad rehman

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5 years

There is a lot to applaud about #ExtinctionRebellion & also lots that need to improve. But disrupting public transport in East London is a tactical mistake on many levels. Many better targets of #ClimateEmergency that impact lives of people in global South

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Extinction Rebellion rush-hour protest sparks clash on London Underground

Commuters clash with demonstrators over morning rush hour disruption

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

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And if you got this far - it is possible for everyone to live with dignity and in harmony & balance with Mother Earth. It’s just not possible under a system of racialised capitalism.

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asad rehman

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3 years

I would like to say that smearing someone as being anti-Semitic simply for sharing a picture of Palestinians is shocking. But it’s not - its the inevitable result of a far right strategy which has been normalised by mainstream voices that seeks to erase all mention of Palestine

@dannydanon

Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון

3 years

10 points from Gryffindor for being an antisemite. @EmmaWatson

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asad rehman

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2 years

🧵”It’s a question of justice, Pakistan is paying the price of something created by others” says UN Sec General. Latest estimate is $30 billion let alone the costs in human misery.

@antonioguterres

António Guterres

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2 years

I have never seen climate carnage on the scale of the floods here in Pakistan. As our planet continues to warm, all countries will increasingly suffer losses and damage from climate beyond their capacity to adapt. This is a global crisis. It demands a global response.

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@chilledasad100

5 years

Not to put any pressure on UK climate movements for #COP26 - but #COP25 Madrid just saw 500,000 people march for #ClimateJustice . Note the centrality of whose demands framed the protest.

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

4 years

He sat silently, tears rolling down his face, put his head in his hands & said “We have been asked to sign a suicide pact.” & that Africa is being asked to “celebrate” this deal for $10 billion. “$10 billion is not enough to buy us coffins”. This is a colonisation of the sky 2/

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

3 years

Those shocked at rich countries blocking a #PeoplesVaccine might want to hold on to their hats when I tell them this is exactly their response to the climate crisis. They would rather accept a 3c warming of the planet than end racial capitalism & sacrificing poor for profit.

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

2 years

The new generation of leaders in S America are the only things giving me hope these days. President Pedro of Colombia’s speech was 🔥🔥🔥

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

3 years

3/ Both heavily policed COPs with civil society locked out of negotiations. Both COPs with an inept host government that failed to listen to developing countries, and wanted to railroad through unjust outcomes. In 2009 the Chair of the G77 said 'we are being asked to sign a

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asad rehman

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5 years

This is what trolling the #ClimateEmergency looks like. Pushing everything back to the individuals behaviours whilst continuing to burn the planet & destroy peoples lives for profit. The only answer is legislate them out of existence.

@bp_plc

bp

5 years

The first step to reducing your emissions is to know where you stand. Find out your #carbonfootprint with our new calculator & share your pledge today!

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

4 years

Check out our launch webinar for the Global Green New Deal project a collab w/ @TheLeap_Org from Crisis to Justice So excited to moderate discussion w/ @NaomiAKlein & Arundhati Roy, on Tuesday May 19th 11am EDT / 4pm BST / 8:30 pm IST Register here- …

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

5 years

Boris says a few words in Latin and journos wet their pants about how clever he is. Someone speaks Spanish because he has a bilingual family and that’s ‘bizarre’. Wait till they go round to any Asian houses - they might find that we talk Punjabi/Hindi/Urdu to our families.

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

4 years

Green capitalism will happily sell you more things that are labelled 'eco-friendly' whilst continuing to exploit their workers & amassing huge wealth. Separating environmental sustainability from economic, social & racial justice demands is a dead end!

Amazon launches 'eco-friendly' shopping platform

Site will show shoppers 40,000 sustainable products but campaigners say it is ‘tip of iceberg’

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

10 months

Never been so proud of our movements - indigenous, workers, feminists, climate justice activists saying no to occupation, ceasefire now at - #COP28

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

3 years

It’s ordinary people who make & change history. ✊🏿✊🏾

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Indian PM Narendra Modi to repeal farm laws after year of protests

Repeal of ‘black laws’ designed to modernise agricultural sector is huge victory for farmers

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

3 years

Can we finally stop talking about UK Climate leadership which consists of setting weak targets, failing to meet them, but continuing to green light more fossil fuel expansion, whilst leaving many in global South unable to attend #cop26 .

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asad rehman

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2/ Both billed as the last chance to save the planet. In 2009 Obama had just taken over from Bush who left the Kyoto Protoco. In 2021 Biden took over from Trump who left the Paris Agreement. In 2009 the promise of $100 billion was made, in 2021 it was broken (again).

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

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Gaza is on its knees, Palestinian men, women & children are being brutally slaughtered, Israeli officials are openly saying their goal is ethnic cleansing. Every international body, World Health Organisation, the Red Cross to every human right group are saying the same thing.

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ICRC

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Thousands of buildings have been destroyed. Mass casualties are unlike anything seen in past years. The medical system is on its knees. 🏥 As Gaza loses power, hospitals lose power 🚰 Water cannot be pumped ❌Sewage systems will likely flood People have nowhere else to go.

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asad rehman

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3 years

This might sound controversial but if your main takeaway from #DontLookUp is ‘listen to the science’ thats about as meaningful as saying ‘take action on climate’. Both are vacuous & empty statements that ignore questions of equity, justice & power.

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

3 years

‘Boris Johnson is a waster’ as thousands take to the street to oppose the draconian attack on our rights #killthebill - #PoliceBill

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

11 months

Climate justice was coined by our movements to locate it as a struggle against genocidal racial injustice, colonialism & apartheid. If your climate justice doesn’t stand with the Palestinians against colonialism & apartheid - then your ‘climate justice’ has no justice in it.

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asad rehman

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Racist gangs have set alight the hostel where terrified migrants are huddled and are now storming it. This is a joint enterprise to commit murder. Those involved aren’t just these thugs but the politicians & media outlets that have normalised racism.

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

4 years

The global North want to ignore historical emissions & allow their citizens to carry on emitting & prevent African countries from lifting their people out of poverty. “It is unfortunate that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we are still considered disposables“.

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

3 years

Every #COP26 headline should be leading with this. The UK/US/EU blocked, removed & basically said we refuse to help you even as ‘we burn your house down.’ It’s simply criminal.

@SaleemulHuq

Saleemul Huq

3 years

The proposal for setting up the #GlasgowLossandDamageFacility was submitted by all the 138 developing countries representing 5 billion people was in the text yesterday but removed from the final text by the US UK and EU! This was how the rich polluters treat their victims!

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asad rehman

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9 months

Starmer justifies military action against Yemen as ‘preventing civilian casualties’ in Red Sea - but is unwilling to call for a ceasefire to end Israel’s genocidal & industrial killing of Palestinian civilians. The hypocrisy won’t be lost on anyone

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asad rehman

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4 years

Will say it again if you’re saying #ClimateJustice is racial justice & #BlackLivesMatter you better be calling for global North to be at zero emissions by 2030 + transfer of trillions to global South, food/energy as public goods, universal public services & an end to capitalism

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asad rehman

@chilledasad100

9 months

Dear @BBCNews @BBCWorld please explain the editorial decision not to cover the South African presentation at the ICJ genocide case - but today you have a reporter on site for Israel’s response - @Ofcom is this fair & balanced reporting of an issue of interest to millions in UK

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BBC News (World)

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Israel says South Africa distorting the truth in ICJ genocide case

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asad rehman

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4/ suicide note, with the money on the table not even enough to pay for our coffins as rich countries pushed the 2c target' In 2021 developing countries saying that 'inaction by rich countries is the willful & deliberate killing of millions and that 1.5c to barely stay alive and

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