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Oct 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I work at an international ‘human rights’ charity, @fairtrials.
Yesterday, the interim CEO & a senior legal advisor refused to sign a statement condemning Israel’s war crimes, ethnic cleansing & genocide against Palestinians, and related criminalisation of speech and protest.
Many other charities and organisations have conservative, regressive leadership who are doing the same.
If ‘human rights’ organisations aren’t willing to recognise or challenge such clear cut violations of human rights and international law - what is the point of them existing?
Jun 11, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Immigration raid at Evan Cook Close, Queens Road Peckham. More people here resisting than police and immigration enforcement atm but there’s more police arriving. Come if you can. @Lewisham_AR@Deptford_AR@SLantiraids
More people coming to join every few minutes. Around 40 here at the moment, plus ~8 immigration enforcement and ~7 police officers. Keep coming
Jun 8, 2022 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
⛓We sued our landlord, did a rent strike & got back 6months rent⛓
Renting can be shit at the best of times & it seems to have got much worse recently.
So here’s a positive story: how our shared house investigated our sus landlord & got a settlement - and how you could too 🤝
In December last year, just before Christmas (!), our landlord tried to evict us from our shared house.
This was the catalyst: we dug into what we already suspected was an illegal let, stopped paying rent, started legal proceedings & got £13k - and we didn’t have to go to court.
Jun 8, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
If we’re gonna talk about the UK’s history with slavery, how about we talk about the MPs whose money + power comes from slavery?
Thread:
Richard Drax MP (2010-now)
Lives in 7,000-acre estate, Charborough House, Dorset.
Where’s that money from?
Great-(x6)grandfather Henry Drax, who made his family’s fortune from slave plantations in Barbados.
