layla-roxanne hill

writer+. co-author of Black Oot Here, Dreams O' Us + Look Don't Touch. trade unionist. 🥖, 🥀, 🍉 , love + dreams. survival pending revolution.

[layla-roxanne hill @LRH151]

by any means necessary - we must do everything in our collective power to destroy the imperialist system which has created conditions where suffering violence + death every minute of every hour of every day is the norm. if we experience discomfort, then so be it.

[IFJ @IFJGlobal]

#Lebanon🇱🇧: Journalist Amal Khalil was killed by Israeli airstrikes while reporting. She had taken cover in a building, but rescue teams were unable to reach her for hours. We reiterate that deliberate attacks on journalists constitute war crimes. https://t.co/G1pqFGzIbt

[layla-roxanne hill @LRH151]

@KennyFarq Come say hello to the NUJ delegation!

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

As of now, no cladding companies have been criminally prosecuted in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire, despite ongoing investigations. It’s been 9 years since the disaster.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Tunisian director Kawthar Ben Haniya declined her Berlin Film Festival award for The Voice of Hind Rjeb in protest of honoring Israeli General Noam Tibon.
She said: “Peace isn’t a perfume to cover up violence.”

Mad RESPECT

[NUJ @NUJofficial]

The NUJ stands in solidarity with all workers impacted by the appalling, cataclysmic cuts at the Washington Post.

We agree wholeheartedly with @newsguild that a newsroom cannot be hollowed out without compromising its credibility, its reach and its future.

[Peoples Dispatch @peoplesdispatch]

🔥INTERNATIONAL DOCKWORKERS STRIKE

Dockworkers in more than 20 ports across the Mediterranean marked a historic moment on Friday as they launched an international day of strike and protest against war and rearmament. Workers also protested the privatization and militarization of port infrastructure.

Read more about the historic strike: https://t.co/nuMEpinAH7

[CAF Online @CAF_Online]

If this looks unreal, it’s because it is. Senegal’s homecoming. 🇸🇳🤯

#TotalEnergiesAFCON2025 | #WeCelebrateDifferent

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

*BREAKING*. As the world’s gaze turns to Greenland, Israel “bulldozes” UNWRA in occupied E.Jerusalem.

UNRWA reports that Israeli forces "stormed into" its premises in occupied East Jerusalem this morning.

Statement goes on to say bulldozers then entered and began demolishing buildings inside the compound, which is "a United Nations site."

UNWRA describes it as an "Unprecedented attack" against the agency, and "constitutes a serious violation of international law, and the privileges and immunities of the United Nations."

A spokesperson said, “This should be a wake-up call. What happens today to UNRWA can happen tomorrow to any other international organisation or diplomatic mission around the world."*

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel

[Peoples Dispatch @peoplesdispatch]

Anti-ICE protests sweep cities across the US

People from dozens of cities in the US have been taking to the streets to protest Trump's mass deportation campaign and the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). The people of the US are calling for a complete abolition of the agency after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 7.

Groups have pledged to continue with protests against ICE, mass deportations, and for immigrant rights for as long as it’s necessary.

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

Three Palestine Action prisoners, Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie Chiaramello, are risking their lives on hunger strike in protest of prolonged imprisonment without trial. Heba reached 71 days without food on 12th January, Kamran 64 days, and Lewie 49 days. On the same day, a fourth prisoner, Umer Khalid, announced he had restarted his hunger strike.

Heba Muraisi is now struggling to breathe and suffering uncontrollable muscle spasms, which are possible signs of severe neurological damage.

They are among the Filton 24, charged with disrupting the manufacture of weapons at an Israeli-owned Elbit factory near Bristol. The hunger strikers are demanding immediate bail. Under UK law, the maximum time a prisoner should spend on remand is six months. Yet Muraisi and Ahmed, arrested in November 2024, may remain in prison until June 2026, which is 20 months without trial, and Chiaramello, arrested in July 2025, faces a provisional court date in January 2027, which is 18 months remanded.

Their protest evokes memories of Bobby Sands, who died on 5 May 1981 on the 66th day of his hunger strike in Maze Prison while fighting for political prisoner status.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

📹NEW VIDEO -- No food for 2 months: Inside England's longest hunger strike

Kamran Ahmed, who has not eaten for over two months, told Declassified on Sunday that his body was “twitching” uncontrollably and he fears heart failure👇
https://t.co/yPuM5ubQxa

[NUJ @NUJofficial]

Support the #STVStrike!

Tomorrow NUJ members at STV will go on strike over damaging cuts to jobs and programming.

Please share solidarity messages or join them in-person if safe to travel❄️locations and times⬇️

[VSC @VenSolidarity]

🚨We utterly condemn the military aggression against Venezuela ordered by Donald Trump — an illegal and dangerous US regime-change operation against a sovereign nation.

Follow @VenSolidarity for details of emergency actions.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

In its bid to continue the genocide in Gaza, Israel has banned 37 aid organizations from entering the decimated, militarily occupied coastal enclave.

Israel's intel-tied Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has demanded that all staffers of aid orgs prove they do not support calls to boycott Israel, that they do not support armed struggle or oppose Israel's existence as an exclusivist Jewish state; that they do not "actively advance delegitimization activities against the State of Israel."

They must also demonstrate that they have never questioned the established history of the Holocaust or challenged official Israeli narratives about October 7 – including, presumably, that Palestinians committed "mass rape."

Israel has also demanded that Doctors Without Borders provide COGAT occupation administrators with the personal data of its staff and donors, an unprecedented move by a belligerent in a conflict which few, if any, aid groups would honor.

It seems obvious that the Israeli government is using the absurdly onerous new registration standards as cover to ban virtually every credible international aid organization from entering Gaza. In doing so, the apartheid entity seemingly seeks to deprive Palestinians living inside the yellow occupation line of sustenance, forcing them to leave Gaza, or to move into one of the high-tech concentration camp-like "smart cities" mapped out in the dystopian new "Project Sunshine" proposal marketed by Trump cronies Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

Here's a list of all the aid orgs banned by Israel from operating in Gaza:

1. Accion contra el Hambre - Action Against Hunger
2. Action Aid
3. Alianza por la Solidaridad
4. Artsen zonder Grenzen (Medecins Sans Frontieres Nederland)
5. Campaign for the Children of Palestine (CCP Japan)
6. CARE
7. DanChurchAid
8. Danish Refugee Council
9. Handicap International - Humanity and Inclusion
10. Japan International Volunteer center
11. Medecins Du Monde (FRANCE)
12. Medecins du Monde Switzerland
13. Medecins Sans Frontières Belgium
14. Medecins Sans Frontieres France
15. Medicos del Mundo (Spain)
16. Mercy Corps
17. MSF Spain - Doctors Without Borders Spain
18. NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL
19. Oxfam Novib
20. Premiere Urgence Internationale
21. Terre des hommes Lausanne
22. The International Rescue Committee (IRC)
23. WeWorld-GVC
24. World Vision International
25. Relief International
26. Fondazione AVSI
27. Movement for Peace – MPDL
28. American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
29. Medico International
30. PSAS - The Palestine Solidarity Association in Sweden
31. Defense for Children International
32. Medical Aid for Palestinians – UK
33. Caritas Internationalis
34. Caritas Jerusalem
35. Near East council churches
36. OXFAM Quebec
37. War Child holland

[Black Alliance for Peace @Blacks4Peace]

BAP Solidarity Network stands in absolute solidarity with the ongoing collective hunger strike in British prisons by Prisoners for Palestine.
https://t.co/QHoF21ACpN

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

A Thread 🧵

The US launched airstrikes in northwest Nigeria, claiming to target ISIS militants in a mission to protect Christians. But as the smoke clears, analysts and Pan-Africanists alike are questioning the true motives behind this intervention.

Critics suggest these strikes are less about Nigerian security and more about US domestic politics. By framing the bombing as a "crusade" for the evangelical Christian right, the Trump administration is using Africa as a stage to pander to one of its key voter bases.

Nor has the significance of oil been missed. Following attacks on Iran and Venezuela, Nigeria is now the third oil-rich nation the US has struck this year. History shows that whenever the US "exports democracy" or "protection" to resource-rich lands, the result is rarely stability. From Iraq to Libya, the pattern is clear: military intervention is the precursor to economic extraction.

While some Nigerians have cheered the strikes, Pan-Africanists are more sceptical. This mirrors the early days of the NATO intervention in Libya, which some locals initially viewed as promising until it spiralled into a decade of state collapse and militia rule.

The "protecting Christians" narrative falls apart when held up against US foreign policy elsewhere. While the US claims to be the guardian of the faith in Nigeria, it continues to provide unconditional support to Israel, which has systematically targeted and displaced some of the world's oldest P*lestinian Christian communities.

Ultimately, a Western power conducting unilateral strikes on African soil is a direct assault on Global South sovereignty. Real security cannot be granted by a foreign imperial power. When they enter your house to "clean" it, they rarely leave the keys behind.

[SACC Campaign @SACC_Campaign]

Sunday 14 December, Glasgow
Our conference will look at the alarming pattern of Islamophobic and racist incidents in Scotland and the equally alarming repression of dissent by the UK Government.
#RefugeesWelcome #FreePalestine
https://t.co/VirjFzNnxS

[Unite Hospitality @FairHospitality]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

@Village_Hotels Leisure Workers Join Strike

Workers from across the lucrative leisure department - including personal trainers and poolside workers - walked out to join the picket lines tonight.

We are growing every day and won’t stop until we win Equal Pay

[Clyde 1 News @Clyde1News]

🚨A conference in Glasgow has been stormed by Living Rent protestors

The group representing tenants broke into the event during Cllr Susan Aitken’s speech, while FM John Swinney sat in the front row

Sources say some staff suffered minor injuries when the doors were rushed

[Grenfell United @GrenfellUnited]

Our hearts go out to all those affected by the horrific fire in Hong Kong.

We are thinking of every family waiting for news, mourning loved ones, or holding onto hope for those still missing.

To the families, friends and communities, we stand with you. You are not alone.