Windrush Lives

🗣️ We need a Windrush Inquiry 🗣️ Break the Hostile Environment

[Windrush Lives @WindrushLives]

The far-right is a real threat, and is rising as part of a coordinated effort with international links. All this happened before btw, in the 1920s and 1930s. Literally the same stuff, now featuring some of the same groups. This government is sleepwalking into civil war.

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

One interesting thing about Berlin is how comfortably people with fascist ideologies move through it. Last week, on my way to coffee with a friend in the middle of town, I saw three guys dressed like this on our street. They weren't making a fuss - they were right at home.

[Lou Calvey @LouCalvey]

'I fled LGBTQ+ attacks in Kenya - but the Home Office say it's safe for me to go back'

Virginia is an extraordinary woman, running her own campaign to stay in the UK. Please share her story & let’s help her stay here in safety & freedom. https://t.co/SawuNAfmau

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

De/Post/Anticolonial Approaches are academic theories that deserve serious engagement, they are not an evil ploy by the commies to make you try falafel. Watching Youtube videos sprinkled with a little Fox News does not make you qualified to engage with them at an academic level

[Aamer Anwar✊🏾🏳️‍🌈#BlackLivesMatter @AamerAnwar]

For 9 years they’ve fought for justice & as 2 year death in police custody public inquiry reaches its final chapter, Sheku Bayoh’s family ask you to mobilise 1 more time for the start of the inquiry on Tues Oct 1st. Join the vigil & attend the hearing 👉https://t.co/mu5C5rM4PT

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

The Metropolitan Police is officially characterised as institutionally corrupt, racist, misogynist and homophobic. It needs to be scrapped and replaced. Tinkering at the edges will not work.

https://t.co/BmPlSHA0st

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

This one simple table explains SO MUCH about the world https://t.co/c3VAA4Ahrx

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

This is bizarre… are you suggesting with a straight face that the correct historical method is to approach history from the assumption that colonised people liked being colonised???? Seriously there’s mountains of literature you really need to review

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

"My olives, my olives"

Israelis uprooting olive trees with chainsaws and bulldozers.

Only a colonizer with no attachment to the land could be so cruel.

[Monisha Rajesh @monisha_rajesh]

Journalists need to stop asking Starmer about his fucking football tickets and ask him why he’s backing Israelis throwing Palestinians off rooftops, blowing up pregnant women whose foetuses are dug out of rubble, and maiming children every single fucking day while we all watch.

[Jeff Crisp @JFCrisp]

Forced migration, Israel style:

[Windrush Lives @WindrushLives]

The first line of this post by Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs reads (according to G-translate):

"Lebanon, even though it has a flag and even though it has political institutions does not meet the definition of a country."

Every despot, everywhere, every time.

[עמיחי שיקלי - Amichai Chikli @AmichaiChikli]

לבנון, למרות שיש לה דגל ולמרות שיש לה מוסדות פוליטיים לא עונה להגדרה מדינה.

בהיעדר מונופול על הפעלת הכוח הן כלפי פנים והן כלפי חוץ ממשלת לבנון היא לא יישות ריבונית. על מרחב הגבול עם לבנון המאוכלס ברובו באוכלוסייה שיעית עויינת שולט באפקטיביות ארגון חזבאללה שבשמונה לאוקטובר פתח במלחמה כנגד מדינת ישראל. הארגון למי ששכח נולד עם נחיתתם של קציני משמרות המהפכה בבקעא בשלהי מלחמת לבנון הראשונה ועד היום הוא משמש דה פקטו כמיליציה הפועלת במימון ובהכוונה איראנית.

במבט רחב יותר גם סוריה וגם עיראק לא עונות כיום להגדרות של מדינה לאור העובדה כי מיליציות שונות, צבאות זרים וכוחות צבא מקומיים שולטים על אזורים שונים במדינות הנ״ל. קווי השרטוטים של סייקס ופיקו, שהתבססו על חלוקת אזורי השפעה ומשאבים בין בריטניה לצרפת לא שרדו את מבחן הזמן, קווי השבר העדתיים והדתיים, תוואי השטח הטופוגרפי ועוצמה צבאית הם אלה המעצבים את גבולות האמת שבין האוכלוסיות השונות במרחב.

תמונת המציאות הנוכחית שהביאה אותנו לפנות עשרות אלפי תושבים מביתם מחשש מפלישה קרקעית של מיליציה איראנית, חשש הנשען הן על התכניות האופרטיביות המוצהרות של הארגון, והן על הניסיון המר של אירועי השבעה באוקטובר, מחייב אותנו לחשב מסלול מחדש לגבי קו הגבול מול היישות המכנה את עצמה מדינת לבנון.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

🧵For Refaat’s (@itranslate123)
birthday, I want to honour him by sharing what I learned from him:

1. Even in face of the worst brutality, we still have a choice of how to resist: to set fires or to plant seeds. Both are form of resistance. But we still choose.

(Cont’d)

[Mish Rahman @mish_rahman]

We have to ask Labour, it's PLP, trade unions & the Labour movement

- What is the moral purpose of our nation?

It's certainly not to starve children, freeze pensioners or exchange immigration notes with the grandchildren of Mussolini.

Me at @AntiRacismDay fringe today

[Windrush Lives @WindrushLives]

I wish I had the confidence of a White man failing upwards.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“I lost my seat because of Gaza.”

Independent MPs “squawking from the sidelines” have not informed the Labour government calling for a ceasefire, says former shadow secretary of state for work and pensions @JonAshworth.

@ayeshahazarika

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Jonathan Ashworth has got more air time than all of the Independent MPs combined. The irony is they are getting on with the job of representing their constituents while Ashworth squawks from the sidelines attacking them with the help of his lobby journalist pals.

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

Currently, migrants are subjected to immigration checks when renting as a result of the #HostileEnvironment policy.

Until this policy ends, there can be no decent homes for UK's migrant communities, @AngelaRayner & @UKLabour.

#Lab24

[Windrush Lives @WindrushLives]

Here, the @metpoliceuk commander puts Carnival in the same bracket as JSO and PSC protests, and all such protests (inc Carnival) waste time when the police could be out solving crimes. Because protest cops are the same as detectives, obviously. https://t.co/4LJa64ptns