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🏴⚽️ Domestic abuse rises by 38% when England loses a match, and by 26% when they win or draw, according to research by Lancaster University.
We’re thinking of everyone tonight.
If you’re experiencing abuse, call the National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247
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Abolish the monarchy but also abolish private schools, the aristocracy and landed gentry, the elite old boys network which runs this country.
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Hundreds of passengers are stranded at Euston because of an issue with overhead wires at Watford Junction.
Rail bosses make six figure salaries while our privatised infrastructure crumbles. Merry Christmas.
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🇵🇸 Things we can do beyond posting AI paintings about Rafah:
- share direct testimonies from Palestinians on the ground
- donate to evacuation fundraisers
- buy eSIMS for Palestinians
- attend local & national protests
- join & support @Pal_action
- support student encampments
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We’re thinking of the Black and brown football players, and everyone affected by the racism that inevitably rises when football doesn’t go the way some racist fans want.
There’s no place for racism in sport. It shouldn’t even need saying in 2024.
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This is a highly political sentence intended to punish activists for telling the truth about the climate crisis and dissuade people from protesting climate inaction.
This is the authoritarian state on full display.
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Russell Brand peddles conspiracy theories and profits handsomely. Yesterday, even after the most heinous allegations came out, he was met with cheers at a sold-out Wembley show.
The cries that men's careers are ruined by cancel culture are bullshit ways to silence survivors.
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This is a key part of why Reform have done so well: the endless media platforming of Farage, in the Jungle, on political shows, while the Greens are consistently left out.
The mainstream media are fascist enablers.
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We’re also thinking of all the people working hard in hospitality this evening, the street cleaners, bus and train drivers, paramedics, nurses, and everyone else (not police) who keep our towns and cities clean and running. Thank you!
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It’s important to remember why people were even on the streets in Bristol in the first place. On 13th March, a serving Met Police officer was charged with the murder of Sarah Everard. That evening, the Met Police crashed a peaceful vigil in Clapham, shoving and arresting women.
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One of the Bristol #KillTheBill protesters has just been handed a 14 year prison sentence for riot, amongst other charges.
Thinking back to the violent footage of police attacking protesters and journalists on 21 March.
Matthew Dresch
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It is deeply disturbing that the media and politicians won’t name Islamophobia and racism as the cause of these fascist pogroms.
There’s fascists lynching Black and brown men, pulling hijabs off Muslim women, destroying mosques and burning down libraries and community centres.
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Hope everyone at the vigil outside Buckingham Palace stays safe tonight. We all know how the Met handle vigils. x
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It’s fucking audacious that the Met would even consider stopping this vigil when one of their own is the reason we must gather.
The police don’t protect us. We won’t forget what you did to Sarah, nor Bibaa and Nicole, and countless other women whose names we don’t know.
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Tomorrow our energy bills will rise by up to 54%, meanwhile British Gas profits are up 44%. Free parking ends for NHS staff tomorrow as well, but MPs will still enjoy free parking. While millions of households will be pushed into poverty, the rich continue to profit.
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🚨 Support an activist currently detained for protesting against the genocide in Palestine with @Pal_action.
Funds from ticket sales will help cover legal costs and other external costs like rent and bills. You can also donate even if you can’t attend 👇
tickettailor.com/events/baes…
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Fuck you Wes Streeting.
Trans kids have always existed. And will always exist. They deserve the basic right to grow up into trans adults.
Trans healthcare is lifesaving. Denying trans kids the right to bodily autonomy is utterly cruel and deadly. Love to all trans people.
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We featured assisted dying advocates in the last print issue of hate zine (in 2019!) and still feel it’s a really important thing for dying people to be able to choose how/when they die. *However* assisted dying being introduced in this current climate is a big worry.
Assisted Dying is something I’ve changed my mind quite dramatically on. I did think it was an unalloyed good and the only position reconciliation with taking bodily autonomy seriously, perhaps I still think this, but only under ideal conditions.
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“Powerful men shouldn’t be allowed to commit sexual crimes and get away with it.”
Powerful words from the protestor who was arrested on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile for calling Prince Andrew a “sick old man” as he walked behind the Queen’s coffin.
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Just 125 MPs voted for the SNP’s motion to call for a ceasefire.
293 MPs voted against the motion - voting against a ceasefire.
Shame on every single spineless one who enables the horror, violence and unjust loss of life to continue.
We will never, ever let you forget it.
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Far right thugs exploiting the tragic murders of three young girls to further their racist agenda is sickening.
We have a crisis of male violence against women and girls and this is how they respond. With more hatred. They are part of the problem.
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Shamima Begum has been denied her appeal against the decision to remove her citizenship and will not be allowed to return to the UK.
What a cruel and unjust decision against a vulnerable young person who was groomed and trafficked, and who has already endured unimaginable harm.
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This is the establishment media endangering Muslim communities even further. This is them green-lighting crackdowns on racialised communities who dare to defend themselves from fascist violence.
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Another week on plague island: the government will allow raw sewage to be dumped into rivers and seas, a bill to stop ‘fire and rehire’ practices was halted, and the government are considering limiting student places on arts courses which are already facing 50% funding cuts.
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Network Rail bosses should not get to make six figure salaries while their staff struggle and the network crumbles.
Passengers are rewarded with rising train tickets and poor services.
The system is truly broken.
ALT Screenshot from Transport Salaried Staffs' Association https://www.tssa.org.uk Network Rail top bosses and what they are paid 16 Feb 2021 Forename(s) Surname Total Pay Floor (£) Andrew Haines 585000 Jeremy Westlake 415000 Susan Cooklin 385000
ALT Screenshot from The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk Rail bosses spend £10000 a week on flights – because it's cheaper than trains 24 Jul 2023 — Network Railbosses splashed £10,000-a-week on air fares last year because it worked out cheaper than getting the train.
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It’s been ‘tough choices’, tightening of belts and austerity our whole adult lives.
Fucking sick of it. There is no hope in this country. It feels suffocating. We could so easily introduce a wealth tax that would solve so many issues but there’s NO political will. Ask why.
As millennials we have two choices: either accept that we’re going to live under austerity governments for our entire adult lives, or emigrate
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Fuck the monarchy AND fuck the persistent racism and sexism thrown at Meghan by the British establishment.
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Billionaires have the capacity to vastly improve our lives, and still own billions. That they don’t is telling.
Imagine owning that much money and trying to earn more. They don’t live in the same world, with the same problems, as we do. To them we’re just commodities to control.
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This International Women’s Day we just feel anger.
Anger that what began as a protest movement started by working class women has been so commodified by brands.
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Only 6% of people attend private school, but are nearly always the majority in Parliament, the Judiciary (74%), medicine (64%), the media (51%), and other professions. 1 in 10 MPs went to Eton and 42% of BAFTA winners were privately educated.
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TW: rape
Sadly, the most surprising thing about PC David Carrick's case is that he's been caught.
Carrick exploited his position to rape and abuse women over two decades - the Met police knew about it and repeatedly failed to act. Despicable.
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The #ACAB until a strategically placed police van gets burnt crowd are confusing.
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We're devastated and angered to hear that over 30 people have died trying to cross the Channel.
Boris Johnson and Priti Patel send their 'thoughts and prayers' yet they're also pushing through the Nationality and Borders Bill. Despicable. The government is totally complicit.
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Waking up to the news of Muslim and Black and brown communities in fear of far right attacks, mosques around the country under threat, a Muslim man stabbed in Liverpool, fascists with Nazi tattoos roaming the streets, and a Citizens Advice Bureau burned down in Sunderland.
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Congratulations to the Colston 4 who have been cleared of criminal damage.
One of the protesters, who spent years signing petitions to remove the statue of Edward Colston, described toppling it as "an act of love." ✊❤️
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TERFs don’t care about women, they’re driven by hatred (potentially also of themselves) and bigotry.
It’s actually offensive how they try and oppress trans women under the guise of ‘protecting cïs women’, meanwhile perpetuating oppressive, racist stereotypes of white womanhood.
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🇵🇸 More things to do:
- boycott Israeli products & brands with links to Israel
- if you’re with Barclays move bank
- become a legal observer
- do ‘know your rights’ training
- do arrestee support after actions
- call/write to your MP: you won’t vote unless they back a ceasefire
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Fuck the Met Police. Traumatised and grieving people came together to mourn a life taken by one of your own. You do not serve us. You do not keep us safe.
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At least 30% of land in the UK is privately owned by the aristocracy. Seats of power bestowed for loyalty to the crown and held by the same family for hundreds of years.
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This is so, so wrong.
Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, have been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months respectively for throwing soup on glass.
Their crime? Pleading with governments to stop new oil and gas licenses, and stop contributing to climate breakdown.
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Met PC Wayne Couzens has admitted he murdered Sarah Everard.
The attack was premeditated, he hired a car and bought tape days before he kidnapped Everard, who he picked at random as she walked alone.
Our thoughts are with her loved ones today, and everyone affected by the case.
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Things that help us live with Covid:
😷 masks
💉 free vaccines
🔬 free and accessible testing
💷 proper sick pay from day 1
🦠 clear public health messaging and education
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"About 600 unaccompanied children have passed through the Sussex hotel in the past 18 months, with 136 reported missing. More than half of these – 79 – remain unaccounted for."
This is horrific. The Home Office are responsible and must be held to account.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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Trans women, femmes, non-binary people and GNC people all face violence from men. We can’t be safe until everybody is safe.
Solidarity with anyone who has experienced harassment from men because of their gender identity ♥️
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📢 We've curated an amazing line up of workshops and talks with @wideawakeldn for the festival this Saturday!
Can't wait to see you there 👀
ALT Poster with the workshop line-up for Wide Awake curated by hate zine and Wide Awake. Lewisham Anti Raids: How to Intervene in an immigration raid Acorn x Shelter: Tackling London's renting crisis Club Soda & Gig Buddies: Partying in plain sight Club Soda: Alternative accessible music with the carbonators Level Up: We Protect Us Bystander Intervention Training Fossil Free London: Banner Making (this workshop has since changed to focus on disrupting the fossil industry not banner making)
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No matter the temperature Euston is the seventh circle of hell
Euston on the hottest day of the year. All trains delayed. Feels like I’m being cooked alive, dripping with sweat. Thought I was at rock bottom and then a group of people started singing along to Hamilton on that godforsaken piano
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Why is it up to young, female uni students to protect themselves against spiking?
Social media is full of young women scared for their own and their friends safety on what should be fun, carefree nights out.
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The Green Party and Plaid Cymru both have 4 MPs. This was also a huge night for pro-Palestine MPs, with 5 Independents elected.
So why are Reform - who also got 4 seats - getting the most air time?
The establishment media platform and enable fascists.
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Protest security is vital. Please mask up at your next antifascist demo.
The police are gathering information (every officer has a bodycam that’s recording) and there are often special intelligence gathering officers with cameras directly filming crowds.
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Social media is not the cause of the deep seated racism at the heart of colonial Britain, let’s be real please. There was no social media in the 70s or 80s.
'When MPs are back in September, it looks like the discussion is going to move on to social media'
Sky's @tamcohen analyses Keir Starmer's focus on swift justice and preparedness ahead of a weekend of potential further unrest
Latest ➡️ trib.al/2xaMKsa
📺 Sky 501
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Remember when this happened to Russian anti-war protesters and it was widely condemned by the media?
Standard News
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The monarchy represent the ugliness at the heart of Britain. Our decaying, crumbling empire, our corrupt media who serve their interests, MPs who do their bidding and uphold the elite status quo. Don’t be surprised they’ve revealed their ugly, racist side. It’s all they are.
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These are valid questions. There is no art on a dead planet.
Why is there more outrage at soup over a painting—which is protected behind glass—than the climate crisis, devastating floods, storms, rising tides, extinctions, 70% of animal populations declining in the last 50 yrs?
“What is worth more, art or life? … are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”
@JustStop_Oil’s activists explain their action
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Climate chaos is one of the reasons govts are pushing xenophobia, tight borders, and letting billionaires and corporations trash the planet.
The ruling classes know what’s coming—why else build bunkers?—they just don’t think it’ll touch them and don’t care how it touches us.
for decades now, the trends have been pointing to a future that will not be survivable to most life forms—except in small patches of the planet—by the 2060s if we don’t make very sudden changes. even the ones who are climate-resistant may feel cascade effects bc of food webs
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There are 7 assisted travel buggies full of people whose trains are cancelled due to ongoing disruption at Watford Junction, and families are sitting in the concourse because there aren’t enough seats.
The renovation of Euston is a joke.
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Ronaldo, Giggs and now Greenwood.. Football doesn't have a problem with violence against women. Men do.
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Yesterday a protester was charged with criminal damage & fined £887 for chalking the pavement outside Murdoch’s NewsUK HQ.
Today, Ryan Roberts was charged with rioting at a Bristol Kill The Bill protest in March and sentenced to 14 years.
The PCSC Bill hasn’t even passed yet.
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"While we struggle to heat our homes, we have to pay for your parade. The taxpayer pays £100m for you and what for?”
Extremely valid points from a heckler in Cardiff today. Charles should be reminded of this wherever he goes.
Sky News
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With schools now highly likely to be closing, we need to get behind #CancelTheExams!
@CorbynistaTeen is sharing great resources on this campaign. Write to your MP, sign the petition and back students who have already had a pretty shitty 2020.
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🚨 URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED TO RESIST DEPORTATIONS 🚨
WEST LONDON
📍 Eaton House, 581 Staines Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW4 5DL
SOUTH LONDON
📍 Lunar House, 40 Wellesley Road, Croydon, CR9 2BY
Contact @sdetsup if you can get down now!
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Fuck Tory scum.
🚨Inflation expected to rise 7.25% in April
🚨Interest rates rise to 0.5%
🚨Post-tax income predicted to fall by 2%
🚨 54% energy price cap increase = annual energy price rise of £693+
🚨UC cuts
🚨NI rising 1.25%
🚨Student loan repayments rise up to £150 for some
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It’s no surprise that the monarchy, an archaic relic from the past, refuses to be accepting to a woman of colour, even in the 21st century. They are built on elitism, oppression, racism, sexism and classism. We’ve heard their racist words, we know Philip was connected to Nazis.
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Matt Hancock’s affair is scandalous. Not because it’s with his aide, or because it’s cringe to imagine him sexually, but because his aide has links to a lobbying firm, and her brother is the strategy director of Partnering Health Limited, who were afforded multiple NHS contracts.
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activists of the month: Extinction Rebellion hatezine.co.uk/home/2018/10/…
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Some of the most dedicated and hardworking activists are unable to work in this sense due to disability or poor mental health.
The contributions they make to movements are invaluable and so important. The idea that only economic work is valid is harmful, ridiculous and ableist.
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🚨 Support needed to stop forced removals to the Bibby Stockholm 🚨
📍Location: Driscoll House, 172 New Kent Road, London
Remember: under what power, no comment, no personal details, no caution, no duty solicitor.
Follow @ukblm, @SLAntiRaids, @sdetsup for updates.
ALT Driscoll house
ALT Under what power? No comment No personal details No duty solicitor No caution Face masks, nondescript clothing, no photos of fellow protesters faces! Protest support line: 07946 541 511 ITN Solicitors: 0203 909 8100
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🚨 Get to know your rights!🚨
Sign up for free Know Your Rights Training workshops hosted by @zedhas3 and @we_level_up, this evening, and Wednesday evening from 6pm ✊
eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-protec…
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📢 we’re hosting a zine fair at @wideawakeldn! 📢
If you’re at the festival on 27th May, come down and say hi 👋
ALT Poster for hate zine’s fair at wide awake festival. Zine fair curated by hate zine 12-6pm with hate zine, it’s freezing in LA! Grrrl Zine Fair, Lumpen, Feminist Library, Remember + Resist, Baesianz, Aghh! Zine, Writing Our Legacy, Dog Section Press, Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives, Between Borders Magazine, No Borders MCR, Stephanie Francis-Shanahan, FEM zine, Sweet-thang, Hard Mag, Nancy ArtMusic, Frogs Teeth, RAT ZINE. Over 20 independent publications covering everything from music to activism, the environment, feminism, folklore, literature, outsider art and more!
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The Partygate revelations are infuriating. The government repeatedly broke their own rules—rules that banned people from seeing dying loved ones, fined people £10k for gathering, rules which Wayne Couzens used to arrest Sarah Everard, and which the Met then used against mourners.
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Aside from leaving men out of the equation, data like this completely ignores why 50% of 30 year old women don't have kids today.
It's personal, but it's also highly political. 🧵👇
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Andrew is an alleged child rapist. The Queen recently vetted 1,000 laws as an unelected official. The monarchy’s departure is long overdue. That we have a sitting monarchy in this country is an offence to any effort for real progress and equality.
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Solidarity with all the women who’ve bravely come forward with their experiences of sexual misconduct at the hands of Tim Westwood.
Some of the women were as young as 17 and 19 when the events took place. The earliest alleged incident took place in 1992.
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The Nationality & Borders Bill passed its third reading today.
Take your rage and hurt about the government's secret party and channel it into action. It's not wrong to be upset that we're being lied to and mocked, but our communities need us and will do so now more than ever.
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So excited to vote for @CroydonRiaPatel tomorrow 💚
Ria is a hardworking, dedicated and passionate activist who shows up when and where it matters.
We’d be so lucky to have her as our MP in Croydon West. Come on Ria! Come on @TheGreenParty ✊💚
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Billionaires should not exist. Such excessive wealth hoarding in incongruous with a healthy planet - as we are so clearly and painfully witnessing. Acquiring billionaire status relies on exploitation; of people, of resources, of taxation. Billionaires are bad for the planet.
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We’re heartbroken and angry to learn of Zara Aleena’s murder in Ilford on Sunday. Another woman killed while simply walking home. When will this end?
We send so much love and solidarity to all who loved her.
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Terfs obsess over people’s reproductive organs, physical characteristics and presentation. They see themselves as the gatekeepers of womanhood.
But the thing is trans people have always existed, across cultures, which is beautiful. And ideas of womanhood are constantly shifting.
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Why isn’t this illegal? In the midst of a climate emergency and a cost of living crisis it really should be. We urgently need a proper windfall tax and public ownership of energy companies.
BP reports huge profits of nearly £7bn ($8.45bn), the second highest in the company's history, after oil and gas prices soared bbc.in/3vBEfw3
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No we don’t.
BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has said Britain stands with Israel and warned he is "deeply concerned" that the Middle East "is on the brink"
news.sky.com/story/starmer-s…
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Refreshing to hear @mikaelaloach speak at @WOWisGlobal on the need to dismantle white supremacy, capitalism and the patriarchy if we have a hope of tackling the climate crisis.
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We should be able to attend a vigil in solidarity with a woman murdered by a police officer, and in solidarity with one another and all victims of police and gender violence.
Met Police should have stayed far, far away from this.
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Is it honestly surprising Starmer and Labour HQ are silent about the racially motivated attacks across the country, when they’ve buried reports about internal anti-Black racism and failed to address Islamophobia within the party and against Muslim MPs.
Shame on them.
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Loads of you in London, Hull, Sheffield, Liverpool, Bristol, Brighton, Wigan, Southend and so many other places showed up tonight and saw fascist scum off our streets - if they even turned up!
But we cannot get complacent. There is so much work and community building to be done.
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For unelected officials, the land owning aristocracy and the upper classes wield extraordinary power. The House of Lords is a prime example.
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Starmer is way out of his depth. This is absolutely wild. Not a peep about what’s going on, aside from calls for more police powers.
Reform now have their foot soldiers activated and we have a month-old incompetent, spineless government. How long will Labour actually last now?
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The same brands who give you ‘welovewomen15’ discount codes yet pay their garment workers pittance.
Or companies who use IWD as a tick-box exercise to highlight their diversity of staff while paying female employees less than male employees, or offering shit parental leave.
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If Anonymous really wanted to help they could start by wiping people’s debts, medical debt and student loans? 🥺
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