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Mar 15 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
We’re back up at Coventry for the midway point in the weeklong #AmazonStrike with hot drinks and snacks for the picket line, with @GMBMidlands and @GMBStuart! Excited for tonight’s rally ✊✊✊ Image
Builder’s tea and pastries keeping folks on the picket warm 😊☕️🥐 Image
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Keeping the coffees flowing as the rain picks up here on the picket at the Coventry #AmazonStrike. Solidarity to every worker standing up against Bezos’s exploitation ✊✊✊ ImageImage

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Mar 17
‼️NEW: an @openDemocracy investigation has found that every hospital in England has been told to put patient data into Palantir *this month*.

This is a clear breach of the gov't's promise not to extend Palantir's NHS role without talking to the public.
opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-pe…
We are aware of no legal basis for this.

It also creates 'facts on the ground' to help Palantir win a huge £480m deal for the 'operating system for the NHS' - the FDP.

We've sent a legal letter on the FDP deal for @NPCUK, @TheDA_UK, and @JustTreatment. mailplus.co.uk/edition/money/…
🚨MPs of both parties are sounding the alarm.

"The bid looks rigged" - @labourlewis

Gov't "should not be attempting to do this without explicit approval from Parliament" - @DavidDavisMP

But we need to get the word out to more. Write your MP here: foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/dont…
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Mar 15
🚨🚨🚨NEW: we've suing the gov't over the half-a-billion pound NHS Federated Data Platform with our amazing partners at @JustTreatment, @TheDA_UK & @NPCUK.

It looks like the #GPDataGrab on steroids + gov’t is refusing to reveal the details. Read more: thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…
If you’re worried about the Federated Data Platform too, use our tool to quickly write to your MP and ask them to kick the tyres of this deal – urgently: foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/dont…
We've asked gov't for answers for months but we *still* don’t know:

What data will be collected,
How it will be used,
Who will have access,
And most important: how will it be protected?

@PalantirTech are favourites for the £480m deal – so this is urgent.
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Mar 15
“We shouldn’t have to struggle. We shouldn’t have to work 60 hours a week just to pay our bills.

“We just want to be able to live and to provide for our families.”

Watch this video to see why Amazon workers in Coventry are striking this week:
Coventry workers are today halfway through their weeklong #AmazonStrike as they #Fightfor15.

After the first-ever UK Amazon strike in January, this weeklong action is an amazing step up. Hats off to all workers on the picket line and @GMBMidlands! ✊
We’ll be heading up this evening with our free hot snacks and drinks van for workers – so keep your eyes peeled for pics from the picket.

For now, read @stokel’s essential deep dive with Amazon workers across the UK on background to the strikes: theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/a…
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Jul 21, 2021
The government’s bill on judicial review is published today. The spin says it’s only for lefty lawyers. That’s not true👇
We used it last summer with @mashedkeyboard to defend fair grades for every A level student. They chanted ‘f*ck the algorithm’ then the JR case made the government scrap it: foxglove.org.uk/2020/08/17/we-…
We used JR with @openDemocracy to blow the lid off secret contracts between the NHS and dodgy US spy tech firm Palantir: opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/weve…
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Jul 20, 2021
🚨VICTORY in our #NHSDataGrab case! Last night the government announced a serious roll back - they’re going to do (some of) what our coalition has been asking for all along. Sometimes it takes a legal threat to get gov to do the right thing. More here 👇
digital.nhs.uk/news-and-event…
Govt has announced they’ve FINALLY agreed to a proper information campaign. They’ve said they’ll make sure we ALL know what is happening to our GP data. We really, really hope it happens but we’re certainly not taking their word for it. We will be watching 👀 - so stay tuned!
This is a big win for everyone involved in the campaign to stop the NHS Data Grab, especially our partners @allthecitizens @NPCUK @openDemocracy @DAUK_GP @JustTreatment and @DavidDavisMP
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Jun 8, 2021
🚨BREAKING🚨: @Jochurchill4 has just announced the government is CAVING on the deadline for the #NHSDataGrab.

“We will take some extra time." Implementation now 1 Sept.

People, we've managed to win more time!

WATCH: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/0a…
"We will use this time to talk to patients, doctors, health charities, doctors, and others to strengthen the plan, build a trusted research environment, and ensure that data is accessed securely." - Jo Churchill
This is an important step.

We still have questions: how will patients be notified, including people who aren't online? How will the trusted research environment work? On what terms will corporations be allowed to access people's health data?

But the first battle is WON.
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