The Public Meeting

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[The Public Meeting @PublicMtg]

Reports have emerged that @Ahmed_Mansoor is on a 2nd hunger strike in prison in the #UAE, following a severe beating for his protests on the poor conditions of his detention. We continue to call for his immediate and unconditional release #FreeAhmed https://t.co/j6sR1mL2w4

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

🚨BREAKING: We’ve just flown a plane over the Manchester City game with a message for their owners:

Free Ahmed Mansoor.

#MCILIV

[matt horwood @matthewhorwood]

For too long, this Govt’s done everything in its power (including taking away ours) to shirk accountability for its actions.

We @libertyhq have just been granted High Court permission to take legal action against the Home Secretary for acting unlawfully:

https://t.co/H7rzhQBXIk

[The Public Meeting @PublicMtg]

Early #Halloween release in the form of Sunak's conference speech. 👻

[emily m @maitlis]

Mark Harper transport secretary has just said Tories will stop the “ misuse of 15 minute cities “ …
“what is sinister is the idea of local councils deciding how often you can go to the shops “. It is sinister. It’s also not remotely true… #cpc23

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

The developers pleaded they couldn’t afford any social/affordable housing

The Labour run council accepted these ‘assessments’

Now, we have runaway profits for corporate landlords who didn’t have to make any public contributions

Seems like a bad deal
https://t.co/qEyYrPnjuX

[Hugo Tagholm @HugoSAS]

People flee fires, floods & famines

Tories retreat from green policies

[Alex Thomas @AlexGAThomas]

Interesting from Amy on civil service grade inflation - see also our @instituteforgov chart on CS pay. Through the floor at each grade, but more stable for whole CS. Why? Presumably promotions…which as well as skill gaps means people left behind at junior grades &stuck at senior

[Hugo Tagholm @HugoSAS]

This is a huge win @StopCambo @oceana @GreenpeaceUK ✊🤙🌎

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A dark day for freedom of the press, for everyone who cares about it and for every journalist & news organisation that believes in public interest reporting.

A statement:

[Greater Manchester Tenants Union @gmtenantsunion]

Free Event: Manchester Off-shored: Raising concerns about transparency, value for money and ethics of the relationship between Mcr City Council & Abu Dhabi United Group 🌆 💸 6:30pm Tue 16th May at Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount St, M2 5NS Book tickets: https://t.co/uVCgzaIv9D

[Liam Hopkins @lazerian]

Great to see 'Message in a Bottle' listed as one of the 'Things to do in London' @cntraveller
The art installation is currently displayed in Borough Yards (next to @boroughmarket) until 8th May

https://t.co/kdE5LRHINw

[Adam Wagner KC @AdamWagner1]

This government claims to value freedom of speech but has presided over the criminalisation of "serious disruption", which directly clashes with the fundamental rights to freedom of speech and assembly. We will see on Sat how that plays out - not optimistic based on this 👇

[susan ferguson @sferg100]

House of Books & Friends: combatting loneliness, one book at a time https://t.co/iDqrlKV5Fe
@Northern_Soul_

[Amy Fairman (née Slack) @AmySlack_1]

There are crazy plans to release chemicals into St Ives Bay through the sewage network claiming to tackle climate change. There's been NO IMPACT ASSESSMENT and NO PUBLIC CONSULTATION. Join the protest.
🗓Sun, Apr 16 • 14:30
📍Gwithian Towans, Gwithian,
https://t.co/7YeMLpyx1f

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Okay so Bibby Stockholm is still being refitted in dry dock "somewhere"... but it's clear Sunak is personally driving the "seaborne accommodation project" and aims to get the Portland barge operational by July. HMG telling Dorset that refugees put in these barges will be "genuine" - ie already passed stage 1 of asylum process.

[Rosie Garthwaite @rosiepelican]

The brave young man in our film, Ali, who is fighting to stop gas flaring in his back yard in #Iraq so kids like him don’t get fossil fuel pollution linked cancers has relapsed He needs treatment for his leukaemia Please, please donate what u can https://t.co/RgnKL92K8n #SaveAli

[Just Fair - justfairuk.bsky.social @JustFairUK]

📣 Job alert: we are looking for a Human Rights Officer!

Are you committed to social justice and human rights, and the power of communities to make change from a rights-based perspective? Find out more: https://t.co/V7DXZKyVAs #charityjob #jobfairy

[Jemimah Steinfeld @JFSteinfeld]

This is the first known time people have been arrested in Hong Kong not for writing, not for publishing, just for possessing books. And children’s books at that. Let that sink in. #IStandWithHongKong

[About Manchester @AboutMcr]

As the sale of the club today moves to its next phase it’s between Britain’s richest tax exile and Qatar’s least plausible private citizen says @dannyxmoran https://t.co/QNIYqNVsjh

[Adam Wagner KC @AdamWagner1]

It does - and it applies not just to people arriving on small boats but those who arrive *indirectly*, that is having travelled through another country on the way to the UK. It's a de facto refugee and asylum ban