vaidehee

human & labour rights, env justice, big love for agroecology/agroforestry / via @ShareAction / views my own

[Runnymede Trust @RunnymedeTrust]

With 80 anti-racist and migrant rights organisations, we've written to @Keir_Starmer asking for Parliament to be recalled to address the scale of this crisis.

The new govt must change the dial, and foster zero tolerance for far-right, racist and anti-migrant narratives.

[Politics For You @PoliticoForYou]

🚨POV: You’re a female Muslim politician asked to talk about your experience of racism on British morning television.

[Sian Berry @sianberry]

Anyone with eyes can see the difference between these violent, tanked up, racist, vigilante rioters and ‘protesters’. Could those in the police and the media still using that description please just stop being so untruthful?

[vaidehee @vai_sachdev]

You underplaying what is happening is contributing to a narrative that this is just “disorder” when brown + black communities everywhere are increasingly living in fear for their lives. You have a job to reflect the facts not pander to manufactured concerns about immigration.

[vaidehee @vai_sachdev]

It might be worth more accurately reflecting what is actually happening, rather than simply describing it as “violent disorder” why aren’t you also describing the racially motivated attacks and risks of public lynching happening seemingly at random up and down the country.

[Nick Eardley @nickeardleybbc]

Govt’s emergency Cobra group meeting this morning at 10 after violence over the weekend

No 10 sees it as chance to bring senior police around table to discuss next steps

Home Secretary pledging “reckoning” for rioters and those whipping up tensions online

[Runnymede Trust @RunnymedeTrust]

.@BBC insisting on reporting racist rioters as 'protestors' and 'demonstrators' is a gross misrepresentation of the violence impacting communities of colour across the UK. Language matters.

[Juliet Phillips @_JulietPhillips]

This is key 👇 High prices are ALREADY baked in, and the energy price cap is set to rise again this winter. Whoever wins the election will urgently need to set out plans to support households this winter, alongside permanent solutions to bring down bills.

[Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber]

The Dept. of Labor has filed a child labor complaint against Hyundai in Alabama, alleging the employment of a 13-year-old.

[James Farrar @jamesfarrar]

Diane Abbott, MP Hackney North. Ousted in purge of left. Trailblazer, socialist, champion of workers, scourge of gig economy bosses.

Emma O'Dwyer, Labour Hackney North member/activist.
Former Labour SPAD now Uber's head of "Labour Relations", oppresser of workers.
Just sayin'.

[Ruwan Subasinghe @RuwanSubasinghe]

Hugely significant intervention by @EuroParlPress.

#Amazon lobbyists BANNED from the EU Parliament following the company's failure to appear at a key labour hearing.

Time to have a wider convo about eliminating corporate influence and access to policy elites.

#BizHumanRights

[Ben Schalman @OfficialT_P_V]

India’s largest maritime union has announced that they refuse to load weapons destined for israel.

This is a landmark achievement for workers and unions, India as a country and humanity as a whole.

Let this be a reminder that not all of India supports israel.

[vaidehee @vai_sachdev]

@lukehildyard @PlutoPress hooray! finally all that excellent stuff in your head is in a book I can read! Maybe you and Ingrid Robeyns do a few events together to thrash it all out, please?!

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

Seriously people - look at what's happening in terms of GDP/capita (which is what ultimately matters for our living standards). This is a proper recession just being hidden by having more people - GDP/capita declined 0.7 per cent in 2023 with falls in every single quarter

[Juliet Phillips @_JulietPhillips]

As predicted, the warm homes plan is likely to be on the chopping block. Some thoughts...🧵
https://t.co/FPxdgaBrgV

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

Three years ago, I wrote in @guardian about the fiscal fundamentalists in power, denouncing their 'maxed out card' as bad macroeconomics, pro-capital distributional politics
Starmer's labour now clearly in that camp.

[Emiliano Mellino @Mellino]

A Nepali worker who was underpaid by nearly £1,500 by a British farm is bringing a landmark legal challenge over wage theft and indirect discrimination.

She is the first person on a seasonal worker visa to take her bosses to an employment tribunal. 🧵
https://t.co/5Yj0qb2RYf

[Phoebe Weston @phoeb0]

Looking to speak to UK farmers who've had/are having bad experiences selling their produce to supermarkets. Ideally on the record but can keep anonymous. Plz RT 🙏 [email protected]

[Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar]

Push through disastrous amendments to Forest Conservation Act despite widespread criticism, including from your own tribal affairs ministry & then greenwash with a sapling for #COP28

[Starbucks Workers United @SBWorkersUnited]

Solidarity with Starbucks partners in Japan, who are forming the country's first Starbucks union!!! LETS GO ✊

LINK: "Starbucks Japan workers form labor union, plan to urge staff at other cafes to join"
https://t.co/CuPAn7sMM0