‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hey everyone. I’m helping another family from Lethbridge out this week. They’ve had a member of their family in the hospital due to pancreatitis and they’re still $560 short on their rent if anyone can help send to my PayPal/EMT [email protected] Anything helps. They’re still in the hospital.

🚨This morning, 41 people, who had spent three distressing days at sea on an overcrowded and unseaworthy rubber boat, were brought to safety on board the Oyvon. Three of the survivors are women and 14 are children, nine of whom are unaccompanied. 🧵

The centuries-old "deserving versus undeserving poor" discussed in this re-release may be especially cruel today. Labour pushing those too disabled and sick to work as "the undeserving poor" @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Wiped out with flu or some other form of plague this week - so putting out an old episode this week (one with plenty of contemporary relevance sadly).

Almost from the beginning, the Labour regime that created the welfare state with their violence in Kenya etc. And the "most progressive government of all time" under Harold Wilson was the one that encoded Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech into law with their Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 💀

Labour are evil in terms of their foreign and international policy and they always have been. The distance of time has allowed us to be more critical of their policy - but they’ve had horrid home office and foreign office ministers and policies every time they’ve been in govt.

As we anxiously wait for Monday’s announcement, we have just one thing to say: Hostile polices cost lives. For those seeking safety here, these policies represent more cruelty, more anxiety, and more uncertainty. Nobody leaves their home unless they have to. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The centuries-old "deserving versus undeserving poor" discussed in this re-release may be especially cruel today. Labour pushing those too disabled and sick to work as "the undeserving poor" @poltheoryother.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

We tell you now, we will not work with coerced volunteers ... Government plans to force asylum seekers and refugees to volunteer condemned as ‘immoral’ www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68924

Adoption doesn’t “save” children, it rewards the state for separating them. Most removals happen because of poverty, not abuse. Families aren’t unsafe. They’re unsupported. When we resource families, we dismantle the family policing system, piece by piece. #adopteesky

Today's quick update [Nov 14]: - SAF airstrikes reported in Abu Zabad, West Kordofan, targeting RSF positions in the town. - Yale Humanitarian Research Lab: 4 new locations where RSF is disposing bodies in and around Elfashir, 2 weeks on from takeover of city. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Contrary to popular belief, Black American culture is owned by Black Americans and other people don't get to dictate what our shit means. It's not for everyone, it's for us, so if you wanna participate be fucking respectful or go away.

Just realising how much AAVE is being appropriated, and I don't think we notice because it's become so widely used online by non Black people like me. Even the word 'woke' is AAVE. Taylor Swift and 'haters gonna hate'. I'm going to try to be more conscious of this and do better.

So... A lot of people are responding to this saying that words change and like.... Yes they do, but usually it's the people who SPEAK THE LANGUAGE who change the meaning of the words. "Woke" as a term comes from AAVE and means something VERY DIFFERENT than what non-Black people use it as.

This month’s #TCAG will focus on the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. We’ll explore how to secure justice for survivors of #HumanTrafficking through the CICS, examining barriers to justice, sharing expertise, and discussing solutions. 📩Sign up at [email protected]

This bill is getting less interest from disability activists because it will only monitor bank accounts of the most vulnerable of us on UC (e.g. the LCWRA group) and not PIP alone. See this summer, the UC and PIP bill that became the UC-only Act www.disabilitynewsservice.com/protection-f...

Cross-party MPs have warned that ministers’ refusal to introduce a key protection into their new fraud and error bill could see a repeat of the countless deaths caused by the austerity measures of past governments. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/protection-f...

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Today's quick update [Nov 13]: - RSF drone strike reported on Higleig Oil Field (red) in West Kordofan; 1 engineer reported killed. - Clashes between SAF and RSF continue for control of Babanusa, West Kordofan (blue). #KeepEyesOnSudan

"One witness to the fall of El Fasher told Reuters from Tawila that RSF trucks had sprayed civilians with machine-gun fire and crushed them with their vehicles. 'Young people, elderly, children, they ran them over'" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

In our latest, we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/143208...

If we learn from many Black Sudanese, they don't relegate Egypt's role in their colonisation to just "sub-contractors" to the British. Or totally erase the Arab role in the African continent that pre-dated and survived European colonisation, including enslavement novaramedia.com/2025/11/07/s...

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"The evidence we received is clear. Poverty, disability, race and gender all deepen inequalities and restrict, erode and violate people’s rights. Examples of good practice exist but have not ensured that people’s rights are respected, nor have they delivered on stated ambitions"

Welsh Government has a strong commitment to human rights in policy ‘but these are not realised in practice’ www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68909

"Mutual aid is embedded in the life work of almost every marginalized community [...] We know that the power of government has never and will never be used to support those folks without power" @deathpanel.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

"The government has a rare opportunity to address one of the most harmful elements of the Universal Credit regime." Read Baroness Lister in @politicshome.bsky.social on PLP's and the Central England Law Centre's new research on Universal Credit #sanctions ⤵️⤵️ www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

🔔 Reminder: People who die or suffer crossing the Mediterranean are not "victims of the sea", but of Europe’s inhumane migration and asylum policies.

Yes it’s a really good point. Thank you for formulating it, Jonathan. It seems that an uncritical celebration of Mamdani’s success will deflect our attention from several important issues such as anti-Black racism and the persistence of casteism in South Asian communities.

One critical conversation I’ll be tracking during Zohran Mamdani’s term, in addition to his politics on Palestine, will be his implication in refusing enduring caste hierarchies and anti-Black racism in South Asian communities in NY (& across the world). He has yet to address these two points.

“Zohran Mamdani says he’s keeping New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. It is his first major concession not just to the political establishment but more significantly to the national security system” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdanis-f...

Akin Euba (1935–2020) was a distinguished Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist known as the pioneer of “African Pianism” and “creative ethnomusicology”. His work uniquely blended traditional African musical elements, especially Yoruba rhythms, with Western classical music techniques.

“Forty-two migrants, including 29 from Sudan, eight from Somalia, three from Cameroon and two from Nigeria, have been missing at sea and presumed dead since their boat overturned off the coast of Libya, according to the UN”

17,000 employment and support allowance (ESA) claimants have, so far, had their legacy benefits claim ended after failing to migrate to universal credit (UC), according to official statistics released by the DWP. That figure is set to rise to over 26,00 by the time the process is complete.

Yes! Sudan Solidarity Collective! @nisrinelamin.bsky.social www.paypal.com/donate/?host... You can follow their work at @sudansolidaritycollective on IG #KeepEyesOnSudan

🚨🎧 NEW EPISODE 🛟✊ Peter from The Channel Monitoring Project tells us how the new project plans to monitor people making the dangerous crossing over from France to England. He tells us how @channelmonitoring.bsky.social hopes to counter the toxicity around this, and how anyone can get involved!

Over 1,000 women, men and children have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. They dreamed of safety, carried hopes and fears but were left with no choice but to risk their lives on a deadly journey for protection and a better life. #SafeRoutesNow

In 2024, we launched the Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Pilot in fishing in the UK, to meaningfully improve the protection of rights and working conditions of migrant workers in fishing. Read our statement marking the conclusion of this pilot: labourexploitation.org/news/advocat...

Get outside into a dark place if you can tonight - no guarantees, but a possible brilliant display of the northern lights.

In our latest briefing, FLEX applies its blueprint for migration systems to migrant agriculture workers in the UK. Our conclusion: overhaul the Seasonal Worker Scheme, and introduce essential changes to ensure workers' safety and dignity.

We’ve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in the UK's potential.

The seasonal worker visa’s structure impedes union organising, with workers in the country for no longer than six months. But with the scheme ongoing since the 2019 pilot and looking like it’s here to stay, it makes sense to ask whether major unions could be doing more to overcome these challenges