Max Lawson
@maxlawsontin
Head of inequality policy at Oxfam. Co- Chair, Peoples Vaccine alliance. @peoplesvaccine. Co-host @EQUALShope podcast. Tweets mine and my personal opinion.
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So proud of London, we saw through the hate and misinformation from the Tories to elect Sadiq Khan #LondonMayorElection
Change is coming! Join my campaign to ensure we vote out the few remaining Tory MPs in London faizashaheen.co.uk
636 primary school classes. Imagine that.
That is the number of children who have been reported killed in Gaza by Israeli forces.
It's sickening. It's reprehensible. There can be absolutely no justification for this.
#CeasefireNOW and those responsible must be held to account.
14,500 children have been reported killed in Gaza.
50,000 children are acutely malnourished.
Over 1 million children are in need of mental health and psychosocial support.
This situation is incomprehensible, and urgent action is needed. #CeasefireNow
At UMass Amherst and Ideas conference on debt and climate crisis where the brilliant Jayati Ghosh just explained low and middle income countries are now facing *falling net financial outflows*, while all we hear in media is ODA fatigue in global North #reversetheflows #reparations
Some of the best people discussing the worst ever sovereign debt crisis - led by Jayati Ghosh at UniMass Amherst ...umass.edu/events/soverei…
We have a once in a generation chance to remake an unjust global tax system.
Honored to speak on behalf of Oxfam International as historic negotiations for a #UNTaxConvention get underway.
A 🧵on why we need international cooperation to tax the ultra-wealthy and tackle extreme inequality👇
“As the spotlight shines on student-led protests this is a moment to reaffirm the humanitarian community’s commitment to the people of Gaza (and) to assert the rights of students to peacefully protest without threat of abuse or brutality…”
By Abby Maxman politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/a-moment-to-re…
Amazon's wealth should not be built on unsafe conditions for the warehouse workers who make it all happen. Together we can demand an Amazon where the price of home delivery is not workers' injuries.
Great to see action in the US Senate to #MakeAmazonPay for unsafe conditions
As ever comrade Daniela Gabor is ahead of the intellectual game. What does make Shafik tick? The community of Columbia University needs rather urgently to know.