War on Want fights the root causes of poverty and human rights violations, as part of the worldwide movement for global justice.
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‼️NEW briefing
Our new research reveals injustice at the heart of football.
9⃣ @premierleague football clubs are sponsored by corporations that are involved in Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people.
Read the full briefing: waronwant.org/resources/red-…
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McDonald's workers are going on strike next Tuesday 12 Nov. Watch this video to find out why! 👇👇👇
#McStrike #FastFoodGlobal
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#Breaking Wetherspoons workers have walked out on STRIKE! TGI Fridays, McDonald’s, Uber Eats and Deliveroo couriers are on strike today too. Pls RT this video & show solidarity with workers demanding £10/hr & a union. #FFS410 #SpoonStrike #McStrike #AllEyesOnTGIs #FastFoodGlobal
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BREAKING: Workers at Wetherspoons, McDonald's and other fast food chains are 💪coming together💪to demand #100Percent pay during the #CoronavirusLockdownUK.
Workers already paid a poverty wage can't afford a 20% cut.
Support the workers. Take action👇👇
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The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has just confirmed £ billions in welfare cuts in the #springbudget, while announcing a £2.2 billion increase in military spending.
The money is out there – and if the UK government taxed the wealth of the super-rich, there would be plenty.
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BREAKING: Banking giant HSBC divests from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit following pressure from human rights campaigners waronwant.org/media/banking-…
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Israel is committing war crimes by subjecting Palestinians to humanitarian catastrophe as collective punishment.
The UK must stop enabling war crimes and end all arms sales to Israel. 1/9
ALT Geneva conventions on protections of civilians. Articles, 3, 33, and 54. Dealing with collective punishment and damage of civilian infrastructure.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
UK oil and gas company Rockhopper has just successfully sued the Italian state for over €190 million plus (substantial) interest — over Italy's decision to protect its environment and its people by banning Rockhoppers' fracking project.
📺Here's how. 1/6
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Great news that none of the #Stansted15 will be jailed for standing up for human rights. It’s important we defend the right to protest - it’s protest that delivered all of the rights that today we take for granted 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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The #GreatReturnMarch is about Palestinians collectively raising their voices to demand their universal rights, including the #RightofReturn to their homes from which they were forcibly displaced. For more on the Right of Return, watch and share this short video.
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"What we are about to witness is the total destruction of civilian infrastructure and the mass ethnic cleansing [of the Palestinian people]."
Our Director @chilledasad100 speaks to @SkyNews about the crisis in Gaza. 1/3
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As one of the organisers of @UKStopTrump we want to thank all our members & supporters for making this day possible. In the biggest march for a decade, today 250,000 of us came together to reject bigotry & hatred #TogetherAgainstTrump #carnivalofresistance
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Paul Mason tells this week's #bbcqt why #TTIP is a threat to the #NHS and more. Excellent, @paulmasonnews
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In the wake of growing backlash against the policing of coronation protests, we are calling on all parties to commit to defending the right to protest, the right to strike and the right to boycott human rights-abusing companies and countries.
Act now: bit.ly/3VZBJvB
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1. Amazon could give each of its workers a Covid-19 bonus of $690,000 — and still be as rich as it was at the start of the pandemic.
This #BlackFriday is #MakeAmazonPay Day with strikes and protests in over 20 countries.
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"This will be a repudiation of the bigotry, the misogyny, the Islamophobia, that Trump and Trumpism represents." @owenjones84 on why we're marching #TogetherAgainstTrump today! #TrumpUKvisit #StopTrump #StopTrumpism
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Important statement by 80+ BAME & migrant groups reaffirming the right for communities to speak about and narrate their own experiences of human rights abuses suffered here and abroad, as well as their structural and historical causes. #palestinespeakup independent.co.uk/voices/let…
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No burger is worth this.
McDonald's must be made accountable when it fails to prevent human rights violations or environmental harm.
We need a #GlobalGreenNewDeal that stops deforestation and protects workers' rights.
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Today we joined thousands of others to form a red line around UK Parliament.
Genocide must be a red line.
Starving children must be a red line.
Israel’s genocide has killed over 17,000 Palestinian children.
The UK government must #StopArmingIsrael
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Eighty years ago today people of London took to the streets against fascists. #CableStreet80
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We stand in solidarity with Chilean feminist movements denouncing gender-based violence, impunity and the widespread sexual assaults by security forces that have targeted social movement protests against inequality. #chiledespierto
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Around 20% of people in the UK lives in poverty. Over 68% of those in poverty live in working households.
Workers organising together is the best defence against poverty — and now it’s under attack.
#DefendTheRightToStrike.
✊ Act now: cutt.ly/x9HsFDy
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🚨#Breaking: McDonald's is in a Paris court right now, where a judge has just approved a settlement that will force it to pay a record €1.2 billion for its tax dodging behaviour. #McTax #TaxJustice #MCD 1/4
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Exposed: How McDonald’s uses a circular paper transaction to dodge £295 million in tax.
📺 Watch this 👇👇 to find out how McDonald’s did it. #McTax 1/3
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BREAKING: Congratulations to @GretaThunberg and other activists cleared of 'public order offences' for peacefully protesting against a major fossil fuel industry conference in London last year.
This is a victory for the right to protest:
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The far-right – emboldened by UK politicians & media – are attacking Black and brown people in the UK.
When politicians play the race card, minorities pay the price. We stand with migrants & people of colour against racism & Islamophobia & oppose those who divide working people.
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We've made it through to the refugee warehouse at Calais, beating the French blockade. Victoire au #ConvoytoCalais !
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🚨Our rights are under attack!🚨
Strikes, protests and boycotts have all historically been highly effective tools for building justice. But the UK govt wants to take away these rights and silence the justice movement.
We can't let that happen. 1/3
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NEW REPORT: #JudgeJuryOccupier exposes how Israel’s military court system upholds its illegal occupation.
Civilians should never be tried in military courts – the courts system, along with the occupation, must be abolished.
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We're outside Downing Street, where the people of the UK are making it clear - we will not accept UK complicity in Israel's war crimes.
#StopArmingIsrael
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🚨 REVEALED: @McDonalds is dodging at least £295 MILLION in UK tax. #TheyreLovinIt
But how does McDonald’s do it? This video explains the secrets of its tax labyrinth.
⚡️Share this video and let’s expose McDonald’s #SecretsAndFries to everyone.
#McTax
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Why is Israel trying to import over 10,000 Sri Lankan farm workers?👇
Since Israel’s escalation of violence against the Palestinian people, around 8,000 (roughly 1/3 of) foreign agricultural workers have fled Israel.
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In the face of ethnic cleansing and armed violence, solidarity with Palestinians protesting for their rights.
#SaveSheikhJarrah #StopArmingIsrael
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1/ If you’re looking to learn about what’s happening in Palestine (from #SaveSheikhJarrah, #GazaUnderAttack, to #PalestineOnStrike & #BDS), here's a range of articles by Palestinian scholars, journalists, and activists on the current situation and their views on how we got here:
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1/ #BlackFriday is #MakeAmazonPay day.
We were about to deliver a surprise to Jeff Bezos at Amazon's London HQ...
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BREAKING: MPs have put forward a motion calling for suspension of arms exports to Israel. Now is a key time to raise this issue with MPs when there is a concrete step they can take. We need as many MPs as possible to sign EDM 1305. #StopArmingIsrael secure.waronwant.org/page/24…
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We spoke with protesters outside HSBC’s AGM today. Here’s Alys explaining why Palestinians are calling on people on conscience around the world to demand #BDS, and ask companies like HSBC to #StopArmingIsrael. #HSBComplicity
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Palestinians are clear about what solidarity means:
1) speak up in support of their rights.
2) hold to account those complicit in their oppression.
The UK supplies weapons to the forces killing, maiming, and displacing Palestinians.
#StopArmingIsrael
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No to racism! No to fascism! #NoPasaran! Join us in London on Sunday to #StopTommyRobinson and the far-right from marching on OUR streets.
Assembling at BBC Portland Place, W1A 1AA, 11am.
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Right now, 44,000 Bangladeshi garment workers are facing arrest after protesting for a fair minimum wage.
We’re on Oxford Street to demand:
🪧An end to the crackdown on workers' rights in Bangladesh
💰A pay rise for the people who make our clothes
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Activists have shut down Elbit's Shenstone drone factory, demanding the UK #StopArmingIsrael waronwant.org/resources/armi…
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McDonald's workers are on strike for a living wage of £10 an hour, a choice of fixed hour contracts, and for their right to a union to be respected.
✊Solidarity to the #McStrike! ✊It's time to #EndPrecariousContracts
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A US–UK #TradeDeal "would be a deal in favour of US multinationals where we'd have our NHS and our public services opened up to being taken over." @owenjones84 speaking at the #TogetherAgainstTrump march yesterday. #TrumpUKVisit
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BREAKING: The UK’s public advisory body on climate change, @theCCCuk calls on UK govt to exit the #EnergyCharterTreaty (ECT) as it "represents risk to both a timely climate transition and to the taxpayer."
🧵The ECT allows fossil fuel investors to hold our planet to ransom. 1/5
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The people of Western Sahara have been struggling for liberation for over half a century.
✊ 🇪🇭 Show your solidarity with the Saharawi people: demand that the UK government ends its complicity in Morocco’s occupation: bit.ly/38Rpmxy
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As crucial climate talks begun at #COP28UAE, our Director @chilledasad100 delivered a reminder to all those attending.
“There can be no #ClimateJustice without human rights.”
Our movement stands in solidarity with Palestinians in demanding a permanent #CeasefireNOW. 1/3
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Until the UK government calls for a permanent ceasefire and suspends its arms sales to Israel, it is complicit in the slaughter of civilians in Gaza.
Our joint letter in @thetimes today with @christianaid, @GlobalJusticeUK & @oxfamgb.
#CeasefireNOW
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By November 22, countries must decide whether or not to abandon the destructive Energy Charter Treaty — that made this case possible.
We have to end it.
Join us, call on the UK to withdraw from the ECT and, drop ISDS from all our trade deals. 6/6
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Workers at #McStrike, #AllEyesOnTGIs and #SpoonStrike have walked off the job on strike for £10 an hour & union recognition. #UberEatStrike and Deliveroo food couriers are also on strike. Share this video to spread the word! #FFS410 waronwant.org/FFS410
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A massive general strike is happening in India, possibly the largest strike in history. Over 250 million people, including workers, farmers and their allies, joined the national strike on 26 November, and protests are still taking place. 1/5 peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/…
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The text of the ‘modernised’ Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) has been LEAKED.
It's clear that the revised treaty is still a major threat to climate justice. We must #ExitECT.
Call on the UK government to leave the ECT today: cutt.ly/lVCIR0K 1/3
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🧵“Leaders of developed countries have stood at this very podium claiming they want to defend 1.5c, that they believe in the science, that people matter, that they care. Empty words. Hypocritical words. Lies."
📺✊🏾Our ED @chilledasad100, speaking truth to power at #COP27. 1/7
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The UK labour movement stands in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of farmers in India and the wider trade union movement in India fighting for a just future. #StandWithFarmers waronwant.org/news-analysis/…
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As far as the eye can see - people are on the march saying no to politics of bigotry and hatred. The biggest protest since the anti war protests 2003 #TrumpProtests #TogetherAgainstTrump
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Israel "committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians", states @amnesty report — a position we've long argued.
The first step in dismantling injustice is calling things what they are. 1/6
Our official new report looks at the decades-long suffering of Palestinians under Israel’s rule. We've concluded that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians throughout Israel & the Occupied Palestinian Territories amounts to apartheid.
Read for yourself. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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The fashion industry isn't sustainable. Its huge profits & limitless growth are 'sustained' by:
🪡Low wages & poor working conditions
🏭Pollution & environmental degradation
It's time to end the greenwash and #FashionTheFuture for people and planet. 📖 bit.ly/3QEEL83
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Happening now: our 30m banner on Waterloo birdge as London Fashion Week starts #dontmentionthegarmentworkers #LFW
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"Green New Deal conversations should be a basis for rupture, for movement building, to build class conscience.
When we say uproot the system, the system has a name - it's called capitalism"
@safbf
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"If you want to tackle climate change, you have to tackle root causes: capitalism, colonialism, and racism. And they are happening in #WestPapua right now." @Raki_Ap_
At 'The global story of climate change' #TWT19
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What do we do to #StopTrumpism now that the #TogetherAgainstTrump rally is over? "We have to take these fights into our own communities...we've already seen the rampant scapegoating of migrants. Instead we've got to push an alternative message." @OwenJones84 #TrumpUKVisit
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‘We are workers and we refuse to be divided. We refuse to pitch rail workers against nurses…We are no going to have it anymore. We are the working class and we are back.’ — Mick Lynch, @RMTunion
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#Blackfriday is now #MakeAmazonPay day!.
From Brazil to Bangladesh, workers are rising up in the largest mobilization against Amazon in history.
Join the movement. Spread the word. Support striking workers.
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Looks like over 250,000 people marched in #London today to #StopTrumpism making this the biggest demonstration since we marched against the Iraq War over a decade ago. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
#CarnivalOfResistance #TogetherAgainstTrump
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Today marks the 70th anniversary of UN #Resolution194, which affirms the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the homes from which they were forcibly displaced. Please watch and share this video explaining the Palestinian #RightofReturn.
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This announcement that the USA will brand BDS-supporting organisations as 'antisemitic' is alarming. #BDS are tactics have long been used to campaign for justice and accountability. Depicting these campaigns as 'antisemitic' is pure misinformation. 1/3 independent.co.uk/news/world…
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Thousands of us have written to Barclays to demand it stops arming Israel.
Today, we went to @Barclays HQ to personally deliver our message. #DontBankOnApartheid
📨Join us and let's build the pressure, email Barclays now: cutt.ly/mVDsn1y
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Israel's apartheid regime is made possible by the complicity of international governments and corporations, such as Barclays.
📺Watch the video below to see how with your solidarity we can end this crucial support.👇#StopBankingOnApartheid
Act now: cutt.ly/5XdyGSr
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UK aid money should be used to eradicate poverty & strengthen human rights not to support armed groups #PritiPatel amp.theguardian.com/world/20…
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‘A total of 32 Israeli companies are amongst the international exhibitors, including Elbit Systems... The event’s promotion brochure describes Elbit’s technology as “battle-proven”…’
…that is, used to destroy Palestinian lives and communities. #StopDSEI theguardian.com/world/2019/s…
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✊ 11 trade union leaders – representing 3.3 million people – are demanding the UK government back the #UNTaxConvention.
This bold new treaty could help tackle tax dodging by the super-rich and big corporations.
Now, will you ask your MP to back it?🧵👇secure.waronwant.org/page/15…
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‼️ The UK Foreign Secretary, @DavidLammy, denies that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
The Foreign Secretary’s statement is not only misleading – it's wrong.
Read more to find out why 🧵
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Huge #BDS victory! HSBC divested from Israeli arms company Elbit after our campaign pressure. People of conscience are answering the Palestinian call for BDS to end complicity in Israel’s violations of their rights, and it’s working! #StopArmingIsrael
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“Unfortunately, the richest countries in the world — whilst they’re sending their condolences to Pakistan — at the same time they’re expanding [the extraction of] fossil fuels.”
Our director @chilledasad100 explains the hypocrisy of the UK's response to Pakistan floods. 1/2
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With Syria in ruins, Yemen on fire, Iraq ravaged by decades of conflict – and now a further escalation of tensions between the US and Iran – the universal truth is that ordinary people always pay the price of wars created by those in power.
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"#MakeAmazonPay it's workers, pay their tax and pay for their impact on climate"
We joined the demo outside the UK @amazon HQ earlier today to demand they pay their fair share and in solidarity with Amazon workers striking and protesting in over 30 countries worldwide.
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Please share the great news of our victory for local democracy and the fight for human rights! #localdemocracy #BDS goo.gl/F9Ksbg
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BREAKING: The International Criminal Court has opened a formal investigation into war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory. This investigation is crucial to ensure that Palestinians have access to justice, which they are currently denied. icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?…
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After years of attacks on trade unions and workers’ rights, are we really to believe that after #Brexit this government will enshrine in law rights like paid holidays, sick pay, maternity pay, parental leave and equal pay – rights all hard won by trade unions?
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Amazon workers worldwide have united to send a message to Jeff Bezos. Listen to us Amazon, your workers are not robots, they deserve dignity and respect.
Help others to see this message by sharing this video. @GMB_Union
#AmazonWeAreNotRobots
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Reuters has exposed how a ‘deepfake’ journalist was created to spread false allegations about a War on Want staff member. These smears are part of a broader disinformation campaign aimed at attacking and discrediting human rights defenders. More info: waronwant.org/media/reuters-…
New: A deepfake disinformation operation is targeting UK lawyer Mazen Masri and Palestinian rights campaigner Ryvka Barnard - a sign of how this technology is being popularized as a propaganda-spreading tool.
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10 reasons to #StopTrump, #3: The ‘war on migrants’ has seen families separated with incredible violence. The UK is also locking up people in immigration detention with no time limit. We must oppose the agenda of walls and fences! #TogetherAgainstTrump waronwant.org/media/ten-reas…
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If the government really wants to see fewer protests then it should stop supporting fossil fuel giants, eroding workers’ rights & arming repressive regimes.
Hear from our Director @chilledasad100 addressing the crowd at today’s #KillTheBill London day of action.
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"Companies like McDonald's say that they are with #BlackLivesMatter but if they’re with us then why don’t they recognise our union? If they are with us why don’t they pay us a living wage?” – Muadh Abdelhafid #McStrike #StrikeForBlackLives
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As climate breakdown forces more communities from their homes, we must defend people's right to move safely and with dignity when staying is not possible.
We're at #glastonbury2024, connecting the dots between climate & migrant justice.👇
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“The richest are ignoring their obligation to do their fair share of action — their broken promises [...&] empty words no longer fool anyone."
Our Director @chilledasad100 spoke yesterday as countries are unable to reach an agreement at #COP28 & negotiations were extended... 1/8
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Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Over 7 million Palestinians are refugees, and they are demanding their #RightofReturn. It's crucial that we learn about and campaign for the right of return. #PalestineDay
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Important discussion on how the Palestinian struggle for justice is central to all other struggles.
'Why we are all Palestinians’ with Ghassan Abu-Sittah, @OBarghoutiWCU, @Sidi_Breika, Shanice McBean, @OwenJones84, @millan_moira & @little_a91
#AndStillWeRise #CeasefireNOW
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1. Israel intends to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, a flagrant breach of international law. This follows decades of policies and practices that have robbed Palestinians of their land and their lives, and taken aim at their inalienable rights. #EndApartheid #StopAnnexation
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SIX YEARS ON FROM 2014: END ALL COMPLICITY, #STOPARMINGISRAEL!
National Day of Action, Saturday 22 August: facebook.com/events/59568326…
As Israel continues to murder Palestinians with impunity, the UK must hold Israel to account with a two-way arms embargo.
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Today, we wrote to HSBC over its shareholdings in Caterpillar Ltd. Caterpillar sells bulldozers to the Israeli military, which uses them to destroy Palestinian homes. We're calling for HSBC to #StopArmingIsrael by divesting.
Read the letter in full: waronwant.org/media/hsbc-cat…
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Workers in the UK today are facing:
🔴A crackdown on workers' rights
🔴Zero-hours contracts
🔴A cost-of-living crisis on top of increasing inequality
🔴Ignored trade union demands for real living wages
📢Demand action from the next UK government: secure.waronwant.org/page/15…
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STOP ARMING ISRAEL NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION: 22 AUG
Six years ago, Israel bombed and invaded the Gaza Strip, killing over 2,200 Palestinians.
Yet UK institutions are still complicit in Israel’s ongoing war crimes. They must #StopArmingIsrael!
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A huge victory as Barcelona stands up for Palestinian rights and international law — thanks to tireless grassroots campaigning.
BDS is a crucial tool in the fight for justice.
Barcelona’s Mayor announced the suspension of institutional relations with apartheid Israel, including the city's twinning agreement with Tel Aviv, “until the Israeli authorities put an end to the system of violations of Palestinian human rights.”
#BarcelonaSaysNoToApartheid
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You might have noticed a flurry of announcements every day at #COP26. It isn't unprecedented action. It's an illusion.
Rather than embedding plans in legally-binding agreements among countries, unenforceable commitments are being made in press conferences. #GreenWash
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Mick Lynch, General Secretary of @RMTunion, is retiring after many years of standing up for working people's rights ✊
Here he is speaking at our 'And Still We Rise' festival — a celebration of resistance, resilience, and solidarity — last February.
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