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25 Nov, 5 tweets, 6 min read
1. “The narrative around #Thanksgiving today ignores our history”

The story of America is incomplete without understanding the genocide of Indigenous populations

It is a day of national mourning #ThanksgivingDay #Thanksgiving2021 #NationalDayOfMourning
aje.io/6zdc3f
2. “To me, #Thanksgiving is a reminder of our resistance as Indigenous People navigating this settler society that continuously tries to erase & destroy us, yet we are still here.”

#MUSTREAD 2018 essay by @lilnativeboy
#ThanksgivingDay #Thanksgiving2021
papermag.com/thanksgiving-n…
3/. For Indigenous Americans, #Thanksgiving = a #dayofmourning

For other Americans, #ThanksgivingDay = a day to start along the road of redemption

Redemption requires:
🌻Acknowledgment
🌻Contrition
🌻Penance (i.e. making amends)

At COP26 this man took two steps along this path
4/. “If you’ve come here to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work together”

Redemption isn’t easy, but it is essential #NationalDayOfMourning #Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2021
newint.org/features/2021/…
5. “None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cos none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside & look? Ooh
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfil the book”
#Thanksgiving

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24 Nov
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is not

Let’s not close our eyes or bite our tongues

We’re all responsible for each other
& we can all make a difference

This photo of refugees (@Rober_Astorgano) was taken in Greece a few years ago but it could have been taken today in many places
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark
No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.”
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“A ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Med. Audience much amused”

Today's Channel deaths = sadly predictable, as are crocodile tears & the "serves them right" reactions
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21 Nov
Andrew Marr is leaving the BBC

In Sept 2020, #Marr wrongly & publicly cast aspersions about me

I asked him for a retraction & an apology

I’ve been waiting 14 months

I’ll accept @AndrewMarr9’s apology if given - publicly or privately - in good faith

A proper apology is needed
#MARR: Is it raining?

#HANCOCK: No

MARR: But we're standing here getting wet, so surely - even by your own definition - it’s raining - & why are you holding an umbrella?

@MattHancock: I'm holding an umbrella to keep the bloody rain off me.

MARR: I see.
A fortnight after @AndrewMarr9 had failed to comprehend my criticism of his @MattHancock interview & had insulted me on @Twitter, I was in a pub & he & his wife sat nearby me

My friend said I should say something to him

I let him eat his supper in peace.
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20 Nov
1/. “I will continue with my hunger strike for as long as my health permits as it is the only way I see of to try to get the govt to bring Nazanin home”

89-year-old Margaret Owen has gone without food for 5 days in solidarity with #NazaninZaghariRatcliffe theguardian.com/news/2021/nov/…
2/. “When I heard about Richard Radcliffe’s hunger strike I went to meet him & was struck by his incredible courage. I went back several times & made a promise to him that I’d do all in my power to help end this terrible injustice”

Follow @ElectionMargie for updates #FreeNazinin
3/. “I cannot bear the idea that Richard Radcliffe’s three-week hunger strike would have been in vain”

89-year-old @ElectionMargie says she is one of several people across the UK who are hunger striking to demand the govt take action to free #NazaninZaghariRatcliffe
#FreeNazanin
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10 Nov
Tap the gif
Stop the bra
Support the moobs
(via @Agitate4Change) #BorisJohnson @BorisJohnson
How many goes did it take you to get the bra on #BorisJohnson?
"No bra can support that tit" @OLovekill

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7 Nov
1/. “For two weeks, Scotland has become the centre of the world. Not just a place where we can meet one another, but a place where we can truly recognise one another.” Mindahi Bastida, Mexico

A delegation of 140 indigenous people have come to #Cop26 with a message. #COP26Glasgow
2/. “We came here to #COP26 because we knew world leaders would be here. But these world leaders are not listening to our leaders; to the indigenous leaders”

Uboye Gaba from Mexico (& his 1 year old son, Mene)
#COP26Glasgow @MingaIndigena #IndigenousPeoplesDay #IndigenousPeoples
3/. “We are physically kicking out loggers, mining companies & land grabbers every day. We need your support. We need you to help to bring attention to what’s happening”

Puyr Tembe, president of @FEPIPA_Oficial in Brazil speaking at #cop26 #COP26Glasgow on #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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6 Nov
1/. As millions around the world gather today to demand #ClimateAction a QUESTION...

Would you buy grapes that were individually wrapped in plastic?
#COP26Glasgow #COP26  #ClimateEmergency #plasticpollution #ClimateJustice #ClimateMarch #ClimateActionNow
2/. “Every single grape wrapped in plastic! What the actual f***!”

You would probably be outraged like my friend Diane was! #COP26Glasgow #COP26  #FridaysForFuture #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #plasticfree
#ClimateMarch #ClimateJustice
3/. CONFESSION

The individually wrapped grapes in the video aren’t real

But the plastic wrapped passion fruit were

& so is this footage

& so was Diane’s reaction

& so too was the outrage you perhaps felt

It’s time to channel the outrage into action
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