🇵🇸I've set up a new crowdfunder for Sabr's food and solidarity initiative in Deir al Balah. The camp is growing and the needs with it.
Give what you can and pass it on please ✊
Horrified by this. I knew Yusri and worked with him as an ambulance volunteer during the war on Gaza 2008/9. Here's a photo I took of him back then.
Yusri was so solid. Decades saving lives in invasion after invasion, the march of return, daily. Rest his soul.
#Gaza
#CeaseFire
Here is a response to the Daily Mail hit piece today that uses me and genuine anxieties about anti-semitism to attack Jeremy Corbyn, Momentum and TwT.
It's also a response to some of my Jewish comrades who were hurt by my actions.
Also this is the wall in question for context
I wrote this in response to Len's comments about clamping down on migrant workers to make Labour more electable to 'the white working class'
I'm a Unite member and a proud trade unionist and I think our union needs to live up to its' name 👇
Hi folks, here is a statement from myself and Yonatan Shapira in response to Andrew Gilligan's hit piece in the Sunday Times yesterday.
We hope it clarifies some of the misrepresentation and misinformation.
So, another hit piece is being planned for tomorrow. Taking a comment in a private email from 2002 to another level.
I'm getting ahead of the game with the statement below 👇
Everyone deifying Andy Burnham today, please remember everyone's council tax has been raised in Manchester to pay for *More Police In Schools*.
We weren't consulted on this. Community orgs, young pple, teachers & parents have asked him to withdraw this plan - he has ignored us.
BREAKING: Teachers and Staff at Keir Hardie Primary School in Canning Town
#Newham
have voted in favour of strike action against academisation by the Agate Momentum Trust. Strike day is February 22nd. They join Avenue and Cumberland in a joint
#NewhamStrike
#HandsOffKeirHardie
I'm sharing this as an example of the opposite of dehumanisation journalism - which Andrew Gilligan and co are key architects of.
It was written after volunteering as a medical rescuer throughout the biggest military attack on Palestine since 1967.
Hey Paul Dacre, your paper focuses on stories of 'migrants driving down wages'. Here is a group in your office trying to raise them for all workers. It's time for a Living Wage for migrant cleaners at the Daily Mail - Sign the Petition!
People shocked by scenes from
#Poland
's far right march earlier this month shouldn't be. The rising fascism is a logical consequence of Neoliberalism and it is being cultivated from the top. But, grassroots resistance is fertile:
Ace train staion flashmob by
@LondonPalestine
just now. 60 raised up their keys in solidarity with the right of return for Palestinians to their land and homes. This is what people in
#Gaza
have been dying for. It's being denied tonight at the
#Israel70
party in London
#Nakba70
🔑
My Arabic teacher in
#Gaza
was feeling shame 2day for not being able to come online.The reason is 7 nights of Israeli bombardment, 4hrs electricity per day due to 13yrs of internationally sanctioned siege & generations of occupation
The shame's on everyone who lets this continue
See this image? It's from Israel's attack on the Beit Lahiya Elementary school during the
#Gaza
2009 massacres. I was there when the 2nd phosphorus shell hit, volunteering with medical rescuers. 2 young boys were killed.
#EurovisionYouDecide
support
#BDS
to stop these war crimes
I’ve worked as a union organiser for over a decade. I’ve supported workers to strike and win. But I have never been on strike myself. Until today. And my employer is a trade union.
We walk the talk 👇🏻
If you read one thing today make it this. It's the closing statement to the jury from
#Stansted15
defendant
@melllevans
. She represented herself during this 8 week trial
The 15 face terror charges for stopping a deportation flight
Verdict could be today
MASSIVE VICTORY! Keir Hardie Primary School in Newham will not become an academy! Combined union and community campaign has won! Governing body unanimously voted to stay a community school
@NEUnion
@NewhamNUT
and
@ParentsE16
did it! 👏🎉📣✔️
Structural racism, toxic politicians, party policies, mainstream and media dog whistle editors and pundits have created the conditions for a culture where defending people from being deported to death and persecution is an imprisonable offence
@EDeportations
#Stansted15
.
@Lowkey0nline
on the GE result: Jeremy Corbyn took the 2nd largest vote in 2017 and 2019 the 5th of any Labour leader.
He has been demonised because he is anti-colonial.
54% of 18-24yr olds voted for Labour
@NEUnion
#TellTheTruth
#DecoloniseEducation
I can’t quite believe it. The film I started making 6 years ago, spanning 3 continents, first shoot in Colombia, is having a big screen debut at my favourite London cinema🫣
I’m beyond excited. See some of you there 🎆
Folks asking what can I do?
1. Find your local demo this Sat and bring your pple
2. TONIGHT Check out
@Pal_action
’s mtg on DA to
#StopArmingIsrael
3. Join
@BDSmovement
4. Share anti-racist & collective liberation resources about
#Palestine
5. Call out antisemitism!
📢BREAKING 📢We have won our dispute over the victimisation of our union rep in London Region NEU.🧵
The formal first written warning against our rep Michael Gavan - which would have remained on his file for 6 years - has been withdrawn and replaced with an informal warning.
When me and my friends spent 7 days up a chimney resisting fossil fuel dependency we got sued by EDF for £5mil
A petition signed by 70k people helped our case. EDF withdrew
We got community service not jail
Please sign this for the
@FrackFreeFour
It will help their appeal
Petition by
@reclaimthepower
calls for the Joint Committee on Human Rights (
@HumanRightsCtte
) to hold an inquiry into the declining space for civil society to oppose the fracking industry
Don’t let pple say UK police are less violent than US
Joy Gardner was killed in front of her 5yo son by police winding 13ft of tape around her face
She could not breathe. That was in 1993. Over 1740 deaths in custody since
@Channel4
show
#InjusticeFilm
The Diocese of Southwark sacked the board or governors at
@Thejfschool
over their decision to support author
@simonjamesgreen
to deliver lecture about his books.
@NEULondon
members are on strike in solidarity with LGBT+ staff & students impacted by this 😱 decision
#LGBTstrike
Vital thread. Tories want to legislate against Travellers by updating the Criminal Justice Act, criminalising an entire way of life and distinct culture. It will spell the end of the traveller communities in this country. Share the below widely 👇
Strike action over institutional racism in schools is needed. The fact
@NEUnion
members at
#PimlicoAcademy
have shown solidarity with students, passed a vote of no confidence in the Head, and are moving to a strike ballot is incredibly inspiring. Which school will rise up next?
Thread
1) Da*ly M*ail is mobilising antiblack&antisemitic racism + associated trauma in its’ smears on BLM. How? By smearing Palestine solidarity activism as inherently antisemitic. And raising mine & Yonatan’s action 9yrs ago on an artists’ wall where the Warsaw Ghetto was
MACHYNLLETH: Vigil just taken place outside the hospital. It been a quiet gathering space for grief for any lives lost and affected.
#StopGazaGenocide
#GazaDayofAction
This is massive and folks involved need solidarity. Trial of the
#Stansted15
starts Monday. They face terror-realted charges and years in prison for stopping a deportation charter flight
Given the
@FrackFreeFour
ruling this week, I'm worried
@EDeportations
#NooneIsIllegal
Big trouble looming. Govt changed advice on vulnerable children Dec 30 to include all without a device. But since their promise last lockdown, haven't provided devices. In some schools that's almost every child. Most disadvantaged children's families will be put at health risk.
It's still not too late to buy your young ones this amazing abolitionist book by
@prisonculture
via
@haymarketbooks
I got it for my nephew 🧡
1 in 28 American children have an incarcerated parent. 1 in 9 Black and 1 in 28 Latino children have a parent in jail
#AbolishThePIC
❗️BREAKING❗️
7 Syrian men are on hunger strike in Wędrzyn prison on the German-Polish border. Wędrzyn is an operational military base with shooting practice - traumatic for refugees. 20 men to a room. Just a bed as personal space. No sleep. Poor food. No access to smartphones.
Kolejny strajk głodowy w Strzeżonym Ośrodku dla Cudzoziemców w Wędrzynie. Siedmiu Syryjczyków protestuje przeciwko dramatycznym warunkom w ośrodku i przedłużającym się procedurom.
@UdSC_gov_pl
nie poprawia sytuacji w ośrodku, mimo kolejnych protestów i doniesień o złych warunkach
France has suspended gas, water, electricity bills And rents
UK Govt is taking no responsibility for the low wage, low hours, high rent, high exploitation economy it has been fostering for over a decade.
People will not just die of
#Covid19
if social security isn't prioritised.
Folk offended by
#spycops
facts in their face on the high street? What's it like when it's in your bedroom and intimate life? When you've lost a loved one to state violence? Love and solidarity to all who've suffered invasion for striving for justice and a better world.
@LushLtd
BIG win today for 10 Peruvian migrant workers, working for Orion services in Canning Town. After their manager told them to 'fuck off' for asking for health and safety basics, they took wildcat strike action. Read what
@uvwunion
won in just ONE DAY.
#OrionWildcat
Too much to be able to put into words and here.
#JeremyHardy
was a close friend. It's important to know in this time of grief that he knew in these last weeks just how much and how deeply he was loved. There was so much tenderness around him. His spirit and intentions live on.
Canvassed in Blackpool. There's a lot of transience, trauma, DV survivors. A Black woman from London opened the door, said she didn't vote. I asked 'What do you care about?' She took a breath and said 'Today'. Its 1 day at a time for so many pple living in poverty&struggle
#GTTO