🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 All to the streets for Gaza #FreePalestine

Labour: Reform migrant policy is "racist" and "immoral." Also Labour: No more "golden ticket" for these "asylum shoppers."

Meanwhile, on the other place…

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.* www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 All to the streets for Gaza #FreePalestine

We will regret not acting faster on climate change.

“Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn. Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space.” Cities need smart strategies to manage vehicle size. NOT bigger parking space requirements.

Can you help us to make November's Cardboard Carnival hosted by www.frictionarts.com a success? Please come along to our planning meeting on Wednesday 8 October at 7pm at The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Birmingham. B12 0QH maps.app.goo.gl/fCSoVDD6pbS3... 📣🌱🐝🌎🪧🦭🌳

You should have a word with your home secretary mate she’s introducing free forced labour for migrants

This half-term (27 Oct – 2 Nov), parents & carers in the West Mids can ride buses for free when travelling with kids! 🙌 A brilliant step to support families and promote clean, green public transport🌍💚 👉 Apply from 6 Oct: www.tfwm.org.uk/plan-your-jo... #FreeTravel #PublicTransport #WestMids

"It's the billionaires in suits, in the yachts and private jets."

Can you help us to make November's Cardboard Carnival hosted by www.frictionarts.com a success? Please come along to our planning meeting on Wednesday 8 October at 7pm at The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Birmingham. B12 0QH maps.app.goo.gl/fCSoVDD6pbS3... 📣🌱🐝🌎🪧🦭🌳

Bradford born poet Kirsty Taylor showcases her latest work ‘Raising Lads’. Recording of her performed held at The Strong Language Festival, St George’s Hall - Bradford, on Friday 19th September 2025. #RefugeesWelcome #SystemChange

@drjogrady.bsky.social Grady on LBC last night telling it like it is: “Migrants aren’t underpaying university staff. Migrants aren’t causing high rents. But if politicians keep scapegoating, people start to believe it.” We need real solutions not distraction.

Austerity has left the UK in a state of ruin. Public services cut to the bone, households struggling to pay the bills - all while the rich get richer. FBU general secretary Steve Wright calls for a wealth tax on BBC Politics Live today

PCS has joined calls for home secretary Shabana Mahmood to focus on bringing communities together and stop the “scapegoating of migrants” in an open letter to the home secretary signed by more than 100 organisations. www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

This article misses 2 important points: 1. Soya is the secondary driver of Amazon deforestation, the primary cause is cattle ranching, 2. More than three-quarters of soya produced worldwide is fed to livestock. Directly or indirectly, it is the meat industry that is eating Brazil's Amazon.

Fight For Home Festival - uniting activists fighting for housing justice, refugee rights, women's rights, racial justice, and climate justice.  📅Sat 11th October 2025  🕗2-5pm  📍The Moseley Hive, 93 Alcester Road. B13 8DD Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/fight-for-...

Just your regular reminder that “the richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people in poverty, the marginalised, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest.” policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens. My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same. It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.

Please sign for a better cooperative world petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

The government must tackle issues such as growing extreme inequality, underfunded councils, lack of investment in quality housing, a crumbling NHS, the climate emergency and polluted waters. Targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle these structural issues or improve people’s lives.

Ended up at a hospital A&E early this morning. In the next cubicle a team of medical professionals were trying to save a baby, brought in by ambulance and police. Of the maybe ten people I saw, only two were white British. It made me think: if Farage gets his way, what is going to happen to our NHS?

We stand with #BrumTogether. “We are proud to live in Birmingham — a city built by many cultures, stories and traditions. True pride is inclusive. The best way to show love for Birmingham is through celebrating everyone who calls this city home." Sign here: tinyurl.com/brumtogether...

Statement from Brummies United Against Racism: “We are deeply alarmed by the rise in racist attacks taking place across our city…” Click on the image to read the full statement (in alt text) #brumunited #fightracism #noplaceforhate #standuptoracism

Always an honor to be part of the Big Ride for Palestine. #FreePalestine

“Peace and environmental protection must go together. War is as devastating to ecosystems as it is to people, and environmental breakdown is a major cause of war. For the Israeli government, the erasure of ecosystems and people’s means of survival seems to be a key strategic aim.” #FreePalestine

2,051,179+ signatures, so far. Please sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

As @jonathan-watts.bsky.social says: “communal action is essential. If you want democracy, you have to defend it. If you want a healthy environment, you have to stand up for it. That has never been more true than now.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For decades UK politicians & the rw media have stoked racism by scapegoating migrants & minorities. For decades the far right have been thwarted in their attempts to turn this to their advantage. Now they are close to power & Starmer seems determined to help them over the line. #StandUpToRacism

💚 20 years of volunteers making Birmingham greener! Excited to kick off our Annual Conference today - celebrating members’ achievements, sharing skills & looking to the future of #Birmingham’s parks and open spaces 🌿 #BOSF20

This Wednesday, another chance to get offline and connect with women who aren’t falling for far right lies…

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?

Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Chances are high that the local authorities where you live are well aware of the redistribution of public space that is now transforming Paris. Their decision to preserve the same old hierarchies rather than follow this lead is a conscious one.

“Helped by Your Party’s turmoil, Green membership has grown to almost 80,000. And yet, 10 times that many signed up on the Your Party website this summer. Your Party remains in a contradictory state: tense, ready to explode into conflict again, yet also a half-formed party of rare potential.”

The combustion risks are growing for human society as a result of the climate crisis. So beware the incendiary rhetoric of Musk, Trump, Thiel and other super-rich fire starters. My latest take on the link between extreme weather and extreme politics. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brilliant and powerful column by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

That's how @rbreich.bsky.social sees it. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleepi...

The UN is leading a globalist migration agenda, European countries are being ruined by immigration, London is heading for Sharia Law, global warming is the greatest con ever, moves to recognise Palestinian statehood condemned… when will Starmer stop appeasing this fascist? #StopTrump

The UN is leading a globalist migration agenda, European countries are being ruined by immigration, London is heading for Sharia Law, global warming is the greatest con ever, moves to recognise Palestinian statehood condemned… when will Starmer stop appeasing this fascist? #StopTrump

Important intervention from leaders of UK churches

That magical few weeks when the bus journey into the office coincides with dawn. Kinda relieved TBH that I'm able to take joy in such a simple thing, what with [gestures broadly and vigorously] all this....

It really looks like it's happening friends, though we should believe it when we see it. All I can think about is Alaa finally being able to hug his son Khaled - an infant when this torment began, now a teen as big as his father. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"The British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah will be released from jail after serving six years for liking a Facebook post, Egyptian state media have reported." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...