Texas is installing a “floating wall” across the Rio Grande with netting intended to snag & drown border-crossers.
River currents will trap debris in the nets & alter river flows. People & wildlife will drown.
This is Gov Abbott’s deadly abomination…
Outrageous power abuse: 57 West Bank schools are under threat of demolition by the Israeli occupation forces.
Attacks on education or destruction of schools destroy the future of young Palestinians.
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@hyjpang_ The language of "tolerance" is always a threat and assertion of authoritarian power. I remember it well from the Blair days of "multiculturalism" and "tolerance" - a threat then too, to brown people, to know your place. Disgusting. And to be called out and rejected.
Khader Adnan spent 8 years of his life in Israeli prisons without charge or trial. He died today practicing a form of civil disobedience used by political prisoners around the world. We created this visual during his second, 66-day hunger strike in 2012.
https://t.co/k5VaSe7s0O
"I feel I have been kicked out, to be honest"
Dr Abuldrahman Babiker, a registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, tells Newsnight he is disappointed to be told he is not eligible for evacuation from Sudan on UK government flights.
#newsnight https://t.co/y5ICy3zMSx
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1/ A new report from @hrw sheds light on the horrific treatment of Syrian asylum seekers and migrants at the hands of Turkish border guards. The report details accounts of torture and indiscriminate shootings by border officials.
https://t.co/TKYMnJb89g
📸:@AliHajSuleiman
🚀LAUNCHING TODAY🚀
HOLDING OUR OWN: a guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence
The start of a ground-breaking campaign collab to move away from police + punishment and give power + resources back to communities so our young people can thrive
#HoldingOurOwn
Campsfield detention centre should not be reopened. Detention is inherently unjust and cruel.
Please read and sign this petition from someone who was detained there for 9 months before it was closed in 2018.
Solidarity with @CloseCampsfield.
https://t.co/krZ5FIBCQE
High Court: the absence from the Immigration Rules of family reunion provision for parents of child refugees doesn't breach s55 duty (as SSHD hasn't discharged a relevant function in this regard) or Article 14 ECHR: https://t.co/uyLmZzriJB
The BBC invited me to talk about Al-Aqsa, but *of course* had two “experts” (who I didn’t know were gonna be there) condescend to me about rockets instead.
IF you have any spare pennies please help @NdolvuNico keep his podcast running.
Siyakhuluma is a ray of light, run by people seeking asylum for people seeking asylum to have their voices heard.
They need new equipment and Internet please help:
https://t.co/M1ntz5coYD
Croatia has always denied any knowledge of violent & illegal operations by its own police forcing people seeking asylum back out of the EU
Now we can reveal that top Croatian officials were part of a secret WhatsApp group where such activities were shared & encouraged
I wrote this last year but sadly it’s very relevant today due to Braverman’s false claims. It’s about misinformation, hidden agendas & politically convenient stereotyping around “grooming gangs”. For @The_NewArab https://t.co/452t3Pkrjg
STATEMENT: We have received reports of death by suicide within Colnbrook detention centre (near Heathrow) this week.
Those inside have told us that “things are at breaking point”. 🧵
Thread: Global Affairs has issued an ultimatum to the foreign mothers of Cdn children who are detained in Syria. They must make a decision to relinquish guardianship of their kids by Friday in order to get them to Canada, according to a lawyer. Bkrgd:
https://t.co/qpmFg38Tfm
April is National Poetry Month. In celebration of poetry’s vital necessity, we put together a list of poetry books that contain stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world. https://t.co/GzgwExtS5l