The crisis in Ukraine is ongoing and we know it can sometimes feel a little overwhelming to find practical ways to help.
Follow our thread for a short list of charities & organisations that are taking donations to help Ukrainian refugees and those on the front line 🧵
.@UNICEF is working across eastern Ukraine to supply safe water to conflict-affected areas, psychosocial care to children, and hygiene and emergency education supplies as close as possible to communities near the line of contact. unicef.org/ukraine/en/tak…
Donate and support this fundraiser by Coalition To Support Black People In Ukraine. Many Black people are denied access to trains, buses, and even the possibility of crossing the border.
The @UNRefugeeAgency's High Commissioner for Refugees said they are "working with the authorities, UN and other partners in Ukraine and is ready to provide humanitarian assistance wherever necessary and possible".
Donate here 👇 donate.unrefugees.org.uk/general/~my-do…
Check if you can donate items locally to help collect items for new arrivals moving from Ukraine.
If you’re in #London, @WhiteEagle_club in southwest London is accepting donations for refugees. Make sure to check them out!
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1/ Today, the @Conservatives Party Conference starts in Blackpool.
While the Tories distract from the rampant #Islamophobia that runs deep within the party, we thought we would remind you of recent events 👇
A thread 🧵
2/ We recently produced a dossier on #Islamophobia within the Tory Party and sent a copy of our submission to the Singh inquiry to all 360 Tory MPs.
The dossier revealed over 30 different MPs, councillors and other senior figures guilty of engaging with anti-Muslim hate online.
3/ Much to our surprise, not one Tory MP engaged with our submission to the Singh inquiry adequately despite the party’s problematic Islamophobic nature.
The word p*ki has come back into the public eye, so we thought it might be useful to give a brief overview of the words racist history.
A THREAD 👇🏽🧵
After South Asians were invited by British employers to rebuild post WW2 Britain, many nationalists and members of the public felt their ideal of the majority White Britain disappearing.
Soon came the bullying in the 1960s-1980s which was to be coined ‘P*ki-bashing’
These attitudes threatened the livelihoods of immigrants and British Brown residents and were exacerbated by the media and politicians like Enoch Powell.
1. Focus on places and people, to avoid a slow recovery in the areas which can least afford it. A drive to improve resilience must recognise the reasons for economic decline in different areas.
2. Invest in integration, so that communities can be as resilient, optimistic, and open as possible. The past few years have seen major budget reductions when it comes to cohesion and community work.
Just over a year ago, former White Rose player @AzeemRafiq30 first made allegations of institutional racism at the club. The subsequent investigation by @YorkshireCCC found that p*ki is just "good natured banter" #RunRacismOut
While the report found that it was “not reasonable for Azeem to have been offended”, it did find that Rafiq had been a victim of “racial harassment and bullying”.
The club issued an apology, however were “pleased” to announce that no further disciplinary action would be taken.
"I am proud to support this campaign by HOPE not hate. When investigating racism, the process needs transparency, not only so people know what happened, but so we can learn from it.
Tomorrow, @BorisJohnson will be hosting Hungarian PM Victor Orbán in Downing Street. This week Johnson said, “where we have concerns about human rights we do not shy away from raising them”. Here's just some of Orbán's views he should raise...
Orbán’s illiberal, repressive and authoritarian brand of politics has won himself and his party admiration from across the global radical and far right scene, many of whom laud him as a ‘strong leader’ who understands the threat of ‘Islamisation’ hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/18/vik…
Orbán has seemed happy to have far right support, writing to a Greek Nazi MEP in 2018, he expressed: ‘gratitude for your support’ and ‘wish you ... much success in your highly responsible duties’ hopenothate.org.uk/2018/10/09/vic…
Today we remember the tragic murder of George Floyd, but also the inspiring energy that arose in the space that was left. Together we rise to say enough is enough.
An injustice for one is an injustice to all and we stand in solidarity with all those fighting for change.
The renewed momentum of the BLM movement sparked by the death of George Floyd has opened up spaces for a global struggle against racialised violence, oppression and neocolonialism - @jacobinoire
"The anger, pain & despair that poured out in the streets of America were so powerful that they shook the whole world, inspiring solidarity protests in dozens of countries, which gave more ammunition to challenge police state violence and the legacies of colonialism" @jacobinoire