sarah chander 🇵🇸

Director/Co-founder @Equinoxrji

Working toward a world without police, prisons, borders & racist tech

[sarah chander 🇵🇸 @sarahchander]

Looking forward to host the next European Colour of Surveillance in Berlin! #COS2024

We're organising w/ @iwspace & @We_Liberation to talk liberation in times of fascism, centring migrant justice organising against digital surveillance.

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

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The 2nd European Colour of Surveillance Conference is nearly here!

Brought to you in partnership with @iwspace & @We_Liberation #COS2024 will centre migrant justice organising and liberation practices in times of fascism.

Find out more: https://t.co/gZAEpmHX4Y

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

🚨 The EU’s new “Return Regulation” is really a Deportation Regulation.

It expands detention, weakens safeguards & creates profit for private contractors at the expense of people’s dignity & communities.

200 organisations call for it's rejection!

https://t.co/ztzwNWRfIS

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Last week I wrote to Coventry City Council about their £500,000 contract with Palantir.

Palantir is a partner in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, collaborates with ICE in the US & is embedded in our NHS.

Coventry (& the NHS) must divest from genocide & protect jobs, services & data.

[Peace & Justice Project @corbyn_project]

“I was routinely asked to amend my reports to make the situation sound less bad…”

The Gaza Tribunal is hearing from Mark Smith, a former civil servant who resigned from the Foreign Office over the UK government’s arms sales to Israel.

📺 Watch: https://t.co/RXSVySjXKi

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

UK government never wanted you to see this

They spent 20 months concealing flight path of RAF spy missions over Gaza for Israel

But they recently contracted it out to a US company - and new pilot soon forgot to turn off his transponder

This is evidence for a war crimes trial

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I met Chris Smalls in Coventry in 2023, standing with Amazon workers fighting to unionise.

He has been abducted & brutally assaulted by Israeli forces for trying to deliver vital aid to Palestinians in Gaza with 20 others on the @GazaFFlotilla.

We demand his immediate release.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

We believe in a more equal and peaceful world. Do you?

Sign up at https://t.co/0bhBHhWvVa

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

The @EU_Commission 2028-34 budget proposal is a war budget.

Under the guise of "innovation" and "competitiveness", it slashes funds for workers, farmers, migrants & climate action to hand billions to arms dealers & tech giants.

https://t.co/kzPMPUlY9W 🧵👇🏿

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

"You are not a tech bro, you are a modern day factory worker"
Seen in Oakland, California

[Karishma @KarishmaPatel99]

I pitched Hind Rajab’s story to @BBCNews while she was still alive. I will never stop fighting for the newsroom conditions in which her story would have been told long before she was killed by Israel. We’d have seen immediate wall to wall coverage of a 5-year-old white girl.

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

#Europol want more funding for surveillance of migrants to collect more biometric data of migrants and exchange this data between agencies.

We demand #ProtectNotSurveil instead of the criminalisation and securitisation of migration.

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

The Paris AI Summit shows how AI is being marketed as the 'solution' to various social problems - in areas as wide as government services, policing, the military, education & climate.

But the ramifications, especially for racialised people, are vast and largely overlooked 🧵

[Luca Bertuzzi @BertuzLuca]

‼️The Commission's guidelines on the #AIAct's prohibited practices are finally out. A whopping 140 pages long. A lot of information to digest. The guidelines on the AI system definition are not ready yet, but will be out 'soon'.
https://t.co/fiP0atuskS

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Brussels 🇨🇩🇵🇸✊🏽✊🏿🔥

[Arthur Neslen @ArthurNeslen]

@Euractiv This is vile Islamophobic propaganda and it should have no place on your website. That it masquerades as Holocaust memory makes it even more sickening. Embarrassed that I once wrote for you. https://t.co/lZ3CN4kfh1

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

Europe’s backlash against Syrian refugees has not been about safety, dignity or human rights; it’s about racist scapegoating of refugees to curry favour with a rising far right.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

https://t.co/To1e3mOWzT

[numun @numunfund]

The @AWID #AWIDForum is about to start!

@APC_News @WhoseKnowledge & @numunfund are co-hosting the "Feminist Tech Gardens", two spaces to connect & reclaim tech with hope and resistance.

JOIN US and read the full list of activities at https://t.co/J5FX5N5KQC

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

Our very own @sarahchander will be speaking at the People's Summit 2024: How to Shape the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy? 🌍

She will be part of the group discussion on how to use EU funding to eradicate poverty with @enrico_tormen from @SaveChildrenEU & @JMachacova from @EAPNEurope‼️

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

1/ Last night, Magnus Brunner, former Finance Minister of Austria and von der Leyen’s pick for Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, faced his Commissioner confirmation hearing.

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

📢 We've launched a position paper challenging the EU’s proposed set of draconian migration reforms called the Facilitator's Package that will further criminalise migration.

But what is the facilitator's package?

https://t.co/ofy7zZGmTK