South Asia is sleepwalking towards climate catastrophe. It's the highest populated & among the most climate change vulnerable regions in the world, yet there's hardly any public awareness or policy discussions on the unlivable conditions, crop failures & mass migrations to come.

I am at Charles De Gaule airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French Senate today. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.

🧵Today is #AltabAliDay , and marks 46 years since the murder of Altab Ali.

Altab Ali was a 25-year-old Bangladeshi worker who was murdered on 4 May 1978, as he walked home from work.

His murder sparked mass protests against racism led by the Bangladeshi community & its allies.

Family Homes for Ukrainians. Six to a room on a floating barge if you are an Afghan teenager.

📣VICTORY FOR PALESTINE AT GOLDSMITHS📣

Goldsmiths management has conceded to Goldsmiths for Palestine demands‼️

We have won the first undergraduate Palestinian scholarships at a British university and huge wins on all of our other demands.

We're hosting an emergency session on what you can do in the event of an immigration raid. Now the Rwanda Act is in force, raids are set to increase.

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A friend, living in a hotel for asylum-seekers in Elephant & Castle, sent me this video of immigration enforcement leading an individual out of the hotel.

He said that 10 people have been detained from where he lives.

People are so scared they're leaving to sleep in parks.

Boris Johnson turning up at the polling station without photo ID

BREAKING: President Gustavo Petro of Colombia announces the termination of diplomatic relations with Israel.

In my novel (out next week!) my main character is fixated on the horrors of the Great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Today, I can think of nothing but the horrors in Gaza, so I put them in conversation with each other. scalawagmagazine.org/2024/05/hell-a…

they want to convince you that broken glass is more violent than chopped up limbs. resist them.

BREAKING: Weapons manufacturer L3 Harris will leave Brighton as the landlord refuses to renew the lease

The 20yr campaign against the Israel-supplying weapons firm involved breaking inside & destroying weapons, blockades, camps and community mobilisation theargus.co.uk/news/24295714.…

So I'm hearing that occupying buildings is actually violence? Interesting. I wonder if there's another situation where we could apply this logic... hmmm

⚠️Family of mother and three children currently being detained at Brand Street immigration centre. They are being placed in a taxi and moved down to Bradford.

Friends have asked for people to attend asap to stop the taxi from leaving

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No Evictions Network Maryhill Integration Network

This study finds it's technically possible to provide a decent standard of living for 10.4 billion people without surpassing important ecological boundaries. The problem, as the paper says explicitly, is transition. 1/2

“There’s a difference between peace and liberation, is there not? You can have injustice and have peace… so peace isn’t the answer, liberation is the answer. That’s the white man’s word Peace, Liberation is our word.” — Kwame Ture

🚨 URGENT: SUPPORT NEEDED NOW. Huge police presence and arbitrary arrests in Peckham SE15 5EU.

💥 We will wait until our friends are released. NO ONE LEFT BEHIND.

🔊 No comment. Do not accept a caution. Take down Green & Black Cross arrest support number: 07946541511.

Becoming very clear that by “peace” so many people mean “quiet”

The Home Office coach in Peckham is not going anywhere right now.

A tyre has deflated itself (roads these days huh) & lime bikes have appeared underneath.

But we need to maintain a presence throughout the day to stop any attempt later.

If you can come later, please join ❤️