“England extends a red carpet to war criminals … that have played a role in the genocide of the Palestinians,” says political commentator Hasan Piker (@hasanthehun), “but then critics of Israel are considered to be real threats.” Piker, outspoken in his support for Palestinians, was just barred from entering the United Kingdom.
🚨BREAKING: Dem MI Senate candidate @AbdulElSayed joins Delaney Hall ICE protests on Day 13 of prisoner hunger strike.
"We need to abolish private prisons and abolish ICE! WE'RE LIVE ⬇️
Adam Hamawy has officially won the Democratic primary. It is now the second congressional candidate Hasan Piker has helped win during this primary cycle after pushing his audience to organize and rally for him.
Drop Site News was scheduled to host a panel discussion at SXSW London on June 3. We have informed the organizers we will not be moving forward with the event following SXSW’s refusal to condemn the British Home Office’s state censorship of our colleagues Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, who were also scheduled to speak at SXSW. The banning of our colleagues is part of an intensifying campaign by the UK government to stifle criticism of Israel and criminalize pro-Palestine activism at a time when the genocide in Gaza is continuing.
⭕️ Oxford Union vows to host Piker and Uygur remotely as backlash grows over UK ban
🔸The Oxford Union has refused to cancel its June 6 event with Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur despite the UK Home Office revoking both of their travel authorizations on the grounds that their presence would not be "conducive to the public good."
“This eleventh-hour call signals much more than democratic decline — it is a direct threat to free expression,” Oxford Union President Arwa Elrayess said. “We have never turned a speaker away because of their political beliefs, nor have we sought a permission slip from the state. We will not start now. Free speech does not require a visa.”
The fallout from the ban continued to grow:
🔸 Journalist and Novara Media editor Ash Sarkar withdrew from SXSW London entirely, writing: “If I were in their shoes, I would hope that any organisation which invited me to speak, and had their programming interfered with by the Home Office, would have had the minimal expected integrity to offer some defence of lawful free expression and condemn government overreach.” Piker himself responded that SXSW “totally didn’t defend me or Cenk at all”
🔸 The Labour Muslim Network called the ban “alarming” and demanded a clear government explanation, stating that “support for Palestinian rights, criticism of the actions of the Israeli government, and advocacy for international law and human rights must never be grounds for exclusion from public debate in the United Kingdom”
Hasan Piker: “Every dollar spent on a bomb that Israel drops on a school is a dollar stolen from you because that’s a dollar that could’ve been used to build a school in your neighborhood. That’s your productive output used for the death machine to kill other people’s kids”
reminder to watch Hasan's Cuba documentary where he spoke with doctors, scientists, and civilians about the US oil blockade and embargo they've had to suffer through for 64 years before the US government forces him to take it down
and download it to show everyone else
without class consciousness & political education, the masses in the imperial core will continue to self id w the politics of liberalism even if their desires for change go far beyond.
most communists/socialists in the us went on their ideological journey because of bernie’s insurgent “democratic socialist” campaign in 2016 when he ran as a democrat against hillary clinton. the electoral system is a viable route to reach the masses w an alternative. this is what the moneyed interest in both parties fear, this is why they spend against their left flank & fight it tooth and nail.
we must continue helping people awaken to the reality of this systems design that creates such inequality, it is not the migrant workers, nor trans people, or muslims or jews- but the billionaires and the parasitic forces of capital and its servants that are responsible for the deteriorating material conditions.
democrats. do not try to engage in china hawkery. please do not repeat your mistakes. the best and only path forward is peaceful coexistence and cooperation.
@VerminusM@elonmusk Do you think Elon Musk created the Gigapress casting machine that makes Tesla cars? Do you think he engineered the 3D printers that make space-x engines?
Workers created these things. That bit is already done. They just want to take their property back from the billionaires.
Nick Shirley is violating OFAC regulations in this video by staying in the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, which is on the U.S. State Department’s Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List
https://t.co/F9FpPuB2Dy
After Hasan Piker's rally Thursday with Chris Rabb in PA-03, the campaign reported a record of over 200 canvassers, more than any Philadelphia mayoral canvass in 2023
The Rabb campaign says they have also raised over $30,000 since the filing deadline
(📸: @TreyMadara)
Hasan Piker: “I am the danger. We are the danger. We’re dangerous to the corporate bottom line. I am a danger to those who seek profit and put the interests of profit over the interests of people. I’m beholden to no one but the American working class”