The Nationality and Borders Bill evokes a chilling history for the UK’s East And South-East Asian Communities mediadiversified.org/2021/12/15/the…
"Indeed, it’s tempting to imagine how different Britain’s Chinese community might look now had an actual community of politically vocal ethnically Chinese been allowed to develop and grow"- @DanielYorkLoh
'the perpetrators and defenders of this frankly terrifying piece of legislation will argue long and loudly that the Bill’s powers will only apply to the most dangerous of criminals and the law-abiding majority need have nothing to fear.
Ironically this is the very same justification the Communist Party of China government are using to negate dispute on the draconian and authoritarian National Security Law that they have imposed to shut down democratic protest and rights in the former British colony of Hong Kong'
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I know you trying to be supportive & are happy to see us back. But yes it is temporary & whilst I understand that the calls for us to stay are coming from a place of caring, and need it puts an ENORMOUS amount of pressure on me. I feel like I'm letting people down. Please stop?
My phone hasn't been working for 2 days and that has given me the first semblance of peace had in the last 10 days cos now i only have to deal with stuff from my laptop, emails, dms, insta, facebook et. Can you imagine how stressed someone has to be to be happy their phone broke?
I've gone to my local pub @eaglealehouse 4 times in the last 6 days because they don't have wifi, so I can get away from things for a bit. Also cos they have the best ale, community and staff in London. but that's by the by i used to go once every 2 weeks...🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Hey Everyone a huge apologies for the delay in starting this Twitter storm … I am embarrassed to say there were a few IT issues…So could not get in!!!! What a way to start the convo on border violence
This is @kguilaine I’ll be around until 20h30 ish on this account.
So we have an under hour or so…which means I need to be concise! If you have questions send my way. Let’s GO!
My name is Guilaine I am here to talk a little bit abt the article I wrote for MD you can still read & share it
Pls read about the plan beyond the petition that we didn't start but are happy to support
⚡️ “Fightback: Why and how we resist" twitter.com/i/events/14700…
There's also a protest being organised on 5th January, with involvement of Sikh Council, Muslim Association Board, South Asia Solidarity, End Violence & Racism Against ESEA Communities, BEATS, No Borders Manchester, Steve Symonds of Amnesty, Migrants Organise, BLM & BID Detention
“The Nationality and Borders Bill should force us all to rethink representation politics – if we have not already, and to accept many of the premises that sustain the quest for ‘equality’ are ill-conceived”
“The outdated and oversimplified notion that racism = prejudice + power (which is usually taken to mean within western contexts that people of colour do not have the social power to enact racist violence) has a lot to answer for.”
I (Sam) wouldn't have taken the decision to start publishing @WritersofColour again if I had not seen this thread by @KGuilaine I knew that there wouldn't be a commissioning editor in the UK who would approach her and ask her to expand on this.
that would just simply be a waste. I've seen it time and again. Cosy, lazy editors getting the same privileged cosy legacy writers to submit any old tired column in. Well we have never done that @WritersofColour and aren't about to start.
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