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Griff Ferris

11 months

The oppressive and authoritarian crackdown on protest by those in power shows how scared they are about how effective we can be: preventing deportations, immigration raids, evictions, stop and search, new fossil fuel extraction & arms production.

We took direct action against the UK’s racist policies, and a jury acquitted us. Resistance can...

Our trial exposed a brutal system of deportation. It was worth it knowing we kept people safe, say the activists known as the Brook Three

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

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:

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⛓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 🤝

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4 years

A police van is going around peckham rye blaring “no sunbathing... exercise only”

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2 years

If police try to stop and swab you: you can refuse. It’s your right. While police regularly abuse their power and act outside the law, they have no legal power to forcibly swab or drug test you on the street

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3 years

I wonder how the Met will police the vigil for Prince Phillip

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3 years

There’s literally no voter fraud in the UK. In 2017, 44.6m votes cast = just 28 allegations of voter fraud (0.000063%) + 1 conviction. 9.5m people don’t have a passport + 9m don’t have a a driving licence. That’s 24% of voters. Clear voter suppression.

The Guardian

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Queen’s speech: voters will need photo ID for general elections

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6 months

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.

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4 years

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.

Ancestors of Dorset MP Richard Drax on slavery database

A Dorset MP's ancestors received compensation when the slave trade was abolished, new research reveals.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Cameron MP (2001-2016) *former-prime minister* Cameron’s ancestor was General Sir James Duff, Banffshire MP in late 17th century. He owned 202 enslaved people in Jamaica. He was given £4,101 (£3m) as compensation in 1833.

How do we know David Cameron has slave owners in family background?

Research examining compensation payments made following the abolition of slavery linked the PM to an army officer who kept 202 slaves

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

It’s been confirmed that the oppressive and authoritarian #PoliceCrackdownBill has been delayed until ‘later in the year’ by @peterkyle MP. It’s an incredible victory for @SistersUncut and everyone who turned up to the protests, made noise about it and contacted MPs

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everyone when the van went past

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Douglas Hogg MP (1979 - 2010). Conservative Cabinet minister. His great-uncle was Charles McGarel, who owned *2,489* enslaved people in Guyana. 2,489 people. McGarel received £129,000 (£101m) as ‘compensation’ in 1837.

Britain's colonial shame: Slave-owners given huge payouts after

David Cameron's ancestors were among the wealthy families who received generous reparation payments that would be worth millions of pounds in today's money

www.independent.co.uk

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Richard Drax MP (cont.) His great-(x4)grandfather John Sawbridge Erle-Drax was given £4,293 (£3m today) as *compensation* by the UK government in 1833 for the 189 enslaved people he owned. 6 of the Drax family have served as Tory MPs over the years.

Ancestors of Dorset MP Richard Drax on slavery database

A Dorset MP's ancestors received compensation when the slave trade was abolished, new research reveals.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

He’s just been released! And he’s back in his house. Fucking hell. People really turned up. It was touch and go earlier, when there were only a few people. But people came in enough numbers. They will be back, here and elsewhere. Spread the word, show up and stop them again

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Bonus: Mary Wakefield (married to Dominic Cummings) is descended from the Baring family. Alexander Baring made his family’s fortune from 3,400 enslaved people in Guyana & St. Kitts. He received £9,900 (~£6m) in compensation. (h/t @AdrianGregory20 )

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11 months

immigration enforcement at @glastonbury . They said they’re here monitoring for “adverse reactions” to them, as justification to speak to people. the hostile environment extends everywhere

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2 years

This is a perfect example of how police abuse their power. There’s no legal basis for them to do this - unless you consent. But police go up to people + say they need to swab them (or search/question), and people comply out of belief in the police’s power to do so, and/or fear

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4 years

All this research is from the UCL ‘Legacies of British Slave-ownership’ database. This archives the Slave Compensation Commission, set up to manage the £20 million given in ‘compensation’ to UK slavers for the loss of their ‘property’. Look for yourself:

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2 years

My friend saw Liz Truss in Deptford and confronted her about her nasty, racist Rwanda refugee deportation plan. She ignored him & her escorts tried to push him away. She should be ashamed to walk around in Deptford - an area that has welcomed and supported refugees and migrants.

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There were rotted holes in window frames & after a year of us asking to fix them he sent his contractor round - and we overheard him saying “do the absolute bare minimum”. The same guy let slip he was building our landlord a fucking ***pool*** at his house

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2 years

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.

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2 years

So we decided to try and apply for a Rent Repayment Order (RRO), where in theory, if a landlord doesn’t have a licence, you can be awarded up to 12months rent back by a court. Here are two really helpful & detailed guides:

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4 years

Samantha Cameron (not an MP, but..) She is descended from 19th century businessman, William Jolliffe, who owned 164 enslaved people on a St Lucia estate, and received £4,000 (£3m) in compensation.

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2 years

Landlords can’t legally evict you from an unlicensed property, so if you suspect or know that, stand your ground. We asked the landlord for a formal notice of eviction. He delayed & blustered. That further confirmed our suspicions. So then we also stopped paying rent.

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Griff Ferris

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4 years

Those are just some of the more recent ones. William Gladstone - another ex-prime minister. His father, Sir John Gladstone, owned *2,508* enslaved people. He received £106,769 (£83m) as compensation. Two of his other sons were also Tory MPs.

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Quintin McGarel Hogg MP (1938 - 1987). Father of Douglas Hogg MP. He was a Conservative Lord Chancellor - serving under Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher, 1970-1974 and 1979-1987. His father, Douglas McGarel Hogg, was *also* Lord Chancellor.

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2 years

Join a tenants union, if you’re not already in one. I’m a @LDNRentersUnion member, and they were helpful and gave us confidence we were doing the right thing. Don’t take shit from landlords

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2 years

After our letter, he met with us. He was clearly nervous. He asked why we were ‘threatening him’ and called it ‘blackmail’. Lol. After all the actual danger and disrepair he’d put us through, he made us out to be the aggressors.

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6 months

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?

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Griff Ferris

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4 years

Many other MPs, so many I lost count, owned slaves or financially benefited from them. E.g Phillip John Miles, Tory MP who owned 2000 slaves. His son was also a Tory MP. Or Alexander Baring, who owned 3,400 slaves in Guyana + St. Kitts. At least five Barings have been Tory MPs.

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2 years

We lived in a shared 5-bedroom flat in south-east london. It was above our landlord’s business, a pharmacy. It was spacious & we made it nice, but it was very neglected. There were holes in the walls, damp, rotted window frames, leaks, chunks sometimes falling from ceilings…

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Once when a gas engineer came (at our request) he found an emergency danger safety note by the gas meter requiring an urgent check - from 8 years before. At one point our boiler itself wasn’t actually attached to the wall or sealed - it just had some rough bricks around it.

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5 years

At the Met Police deployment of live facial recognition in Romford today. Several people already stopped just for covering their faces, some searched - one fined £90 after protesting angrily at being stopped. At least one man misidentified, stopped and searched.

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I checked with the local council if there was a registered HMO for the property - there wasn’t. We looked up all the licences and safety requirements he should legally have: gas, electricity, fire safety etc. We asked him for the details of these - he couldn’t provide them.

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3 years

The @SistersUncut #killthebill protest has shut down Westminster bridge

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2 years

We got advice from @LDNRentersUnion , used @FlatJusticeCIC ’s guide above, and asked around for advice from friends & others who’d had similar issues. We gathered up all the evidence - photos of all the issues, text screenshots, previous letters etc.

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So when he let us know just before last Christmas that we had to leave ‘in the next few months’, that was our opportunity. I did law and know a bit of housing so together with my housemates we got together, discussed our options and worked out a strategy.

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It’s a pretty nice establishment of tenant power over landlords. But for me, my subsequent landlord refused to rent at the last minute, and I was between houses for the next two months, with all my stuff in storage, which burnt through most of the money I got in the settlement.

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There was no central heating, just electric heaters. In winter it was regularly -10c in unheated spaces. The landlord rarely fixed things, unless it was really bad & we begged him to. He delayed & delayed, so we often just had to sort things ourselves & take it out the rent.

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We repeated our issues in person, and presented our collective demand for rent repayment/compensation. We had the evidence, he was renting illegally and unlicensed - for once, the law was on the tenants’ side. After a lot of back and forth, he agreed to compensation.

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We’d notified & written to the landlord about all these issues & he did nada. I’d suspected he was unlicensed as we had no written tenancy agreement, it was a 5-person house & no hint of a HMO, as well as the lack of even basic safety stuff.

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Seriously though: no one was sunbathing. The few people there were exercising or sitting far apart, in ones, twos or threes, or families with kids playing games. Not everyone has a garden - people need fresh air. The police were just harassing people

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There were dangerous plugs and sockets which sparked and caught fire, electrical appliances and wiring from the last century, and a network of extension cables in extension cables because there were so few plug sockets.

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Police at the Palestine demo grabbed and arrested a child, holding them in a police van. People rallied (esp the queer bloc) and surrounded the van, stopping it moving away by sitting down. People demanded his release and refused to move - and the police released him. 💥💥💥

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After more back and forth over amounts, and negotiation (he went low, we went high etc etc), he agreed to give us 13k as a settlement, on the basis we left by a certain date. So that’s how we did it.

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We reminded him that an RRO can reward tenants up to 12 months rent, and also reminded him of the huge potential fines (£30k) for not having the correct safety checks and licences.

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I am aware of the limits of human rights, legal frameworks and the positioning of charities/NGOs. But this is the bare minimum; the centre ground. If these orgs can’t call out events and actions that are so blatantly obvious, they don’t deserve to be taken seriously.

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I’d prepared the RRO application, but we decided to see if we could come to an agreement. So we wrote to him with all the issues set out above in detail, with evidence, and his refusal to address any of them. We said this justified rent repayment.

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There’s now been successful immigration resistances Glasgow, Edinburgh and now London, in just the last year. It can be done anywhere if people know what they’re doing, spread the word and turn up

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He’s just been released! And he’s back in his house. Fucking hell. People really turned up. It was touch and go earlier, when there were only a few people. But people came in enough numbers. They will be back, here and elsewhere. Spread the word, show up and stop them again

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Police have issued an official dispersal order to stop kids in wandsworth having a waterfight. is this real life

Tooting Newsie

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Police have issued a dispersal zone for today, Friday 1 April, 12pm-9pm, outside & around Southside Shopping Centre @SouthsideSW18 on Garratt Ln, in response to news of a large waterfight that's been circulated to #Wandsworth & #Merton schoolchildren, planned for this afternoon.

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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

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8 months

Today, Amar, a south-east London local, was convicted for protecting a pub & drag queen story hour in Honor Oak from the dregs of the far-right (BNP, EDL, ‘keep Romford white’) & actual nazi’s (combat 18) who travel down to try to intimidate and yell homophobic & transphobic hate

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3 years

Channel 4 news are fully dragging Britain for its violent colonialist past and it’s a beautiful thing to hear on mainstream media

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6 months

I’ve just been told by my CEO that this is “inappropriate” and they are “assessing if any further action needs to be taken”.

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5 years

Why are you filming kids @metpoliceuk ? #climatestrike

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1 year

the masters tools will never dismantle the masters house. the law is not a tool for liberation

BBC Breaking News

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1 year

Plans to send asylum seekers from UK to Rwanda are lawful, High Court rules

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2 years

Police Inspector just announced that “in the interests of public safety, the decision has been made to release the arrested person on conditional bail.” 💥💥💥

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2 years

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2 years

Here’s the police inspector repeating what they’re going to do: release him on conditional bail. People turned up and made this happen. Let them have no rest

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7 months

BREAKING: A secret police system is being used in Bristol to monitor and profile children & families, and 'predicts' if children will be involved in crime or criminality. This system treats children with suspicion & criminalises them. Shut it down.

Call to shut down Bristol schools’ use of app to ‘monitor’ pupils and families

Exclusive: Think Family Education app gives safeguarding leads easy access to pupils’ and relatives’ contacts with police and child protection

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

I wonder if this guy picked his badge number

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3 years

and there it is

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Metropolitan Police Federation calls on government and force leaders to tackle social media firms that enable footage of officers dealing with incidents to be shared.

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2 years

This is so cruel and inhuman

The Times and The Sunday Times

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EXCLUSIVE: Every single male migrant who crosses the Channel in small boats will be detained under plans being drawn up by Boris Johnson and Priti Patel, The Times has learnt

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2 years

just another peasant punished for getting in the kings way

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Police protecting the landlords of drone factory Elbit Systems

Sisters Uncut

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⚪ Join us at LONDONMETRIC (W1J 5HB) as we take action in response to the call for a global economic blockade to disrupt the flow of capital arming genocide in Gaza. This is London’s resistance as part of @a15action 🇵🇸 #jointhefeministblockade

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. @StpDeportations have blocked the road and exit to Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre. no racist deportations

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4 years

The Met police is using Clearview AI - the facial recognition database containing 3 billion images, many scraped from social media. They lied in response to FOI requests, saying they didn't use it. (pour one out for whoever leaked the customer list)

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3 years

She has to tell him because he’s forgotten

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We did it, @JoeBiden .

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2 years

This is the inevitable result of giving police more and unrestricted powers to stop protest. Police said the arrests were for breach of the peace & public order offences. But police also gave different reasons for arrest, including the new Policing Act.

Republican protesters arrested at King Charles proclamations

Woman held in Edinburgh as man says he was taken away by police in Oxford as proclamation read out

www.theguardian.com

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The Met police set up a fake record store and recording studio run by undercover cops to try and entrap young black men into selling drugs. The lengths this racist institution will go to to target and criminalise racialised people.

Inside the Hip-Hop Record Store Run by Undercover Cops

Locals knew Boombox as the shop with a recording studio in the back. It was also part of a Met Police sting codenamed Operation Peyzac.

www.vice.com

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Police only have the (legal) power to drug test you if you are/have been driving, or you are under arrest and at a police station (& 18+) More from @Release_drugs here:

Drug Testing on Arrest

Drug testing following arrest The police are allowed to test you for any Class A drugs in the following circumstances: You have been arrested or charged with a ‘trigger offence;’ or, When a police

www.release.org.uk

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At Clapham bandstand for the vigil. Police violently trying to shut down and stop people in bandstand speaking, shoving attendees and @blkprotestlegal legal observers and threatening fines. Several violent arrests by police

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A Home Office official in Manston attacked a detainee and the BBC buried its reporting in this article. The Home Office official choked him, broke his nose with his knee and knocked him out. Five other detainees corroborated what happened.

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Around 20 police turned up, encircled the van and violently tried to force the crowd back, grabbing, shoving and punching people. The crowd held them back. Now they’re standing looking confused. “What do we do now” one of them said.

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It’s only a delay - the Bill hasn’t been scrapped + next it’ll be scrutinised by MPs at Committee stage sometime after Easter, instead of next week. But it means the backlash has forced the government to change up. So we have to keep up the pressure + keep showing up against it

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Police in Parliament Square overheard being ordered “Protect Churchill at all costs”. The people gathering to protest police violence against women have been entirely peaceful all day. I swear the police are just trolling at this point

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Police deployed face recognition surveillance cameras in central london today by Oxford Circus (on the van). @BigBrotherWatch witnessed several misidenfications & police stops, including a young black teenager. This authoritarian & racist technology has no place on our streets.

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The government is trying to bring in a new criminal offence of 'locking on' to cause 'serious disruption' via the PCSC Bill. max sentence 1 year. A clear attempt to stifle the widespread direct action against its own climate inaction, hostile environment, prison expansion + more

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No police in schools. Ever. Get them out.

Met Safer Schools officer pleads guilty to child sex offences

PC Hussain Chehab, 22, was serving as a Safer Schools officer in London when concerns were raised.

www.bbc.com

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for people surprised to see immigration enforcement in the country at a (majority) white festival, they regularly raid & terrorise city neighbourhoods, often majority black & brown neighbourhoods. this is the hostile environment - if you haven’t noticed it before now, lucky you

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a young woman with her hand up gets smacked to the ground by riot police

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I’m shocked - shocked - that the company that just signed a £6million contract with the government to sell facial recognition surveillance watches to monitor migrants 24/7 recently donated £50,000 to the Conservative Party.

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🚨Scoop: From autumn, migrants will be required to scan their faces on smartwatches up to five times a day. In May the @ukhomeoffice awarded tech co @wearebuddi a £6m contract to produce facial recognition watches, which will track location 24/7.

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the original jubilee was when prisoners were freed, debts erased and there was a total and equal redistribution of land and wealth. that’s a jubilee I can get behind

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Laurence f*x just turned up to do a lap of honour at the far-right drag queen story hour protest in Honor Oak. He’s treated like a celeb by the far-right groups: turning point, assorted online streamers, combat 18 nazis etc. and he’s drowned out by people calling him a loser

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Amar was convicted for a public order offence for just standing in the road outside the pub - along with many others. Prosecutions like this are the consequence of the new authoritarian policing laws, which give huge power to police to suppress protest

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The Met police are now openly using 'retrospective' face recognition technology. This powerful surveillance tool is a complete game changer. Police can scan any images: CCTV, social media & police bodycams. Masks, hats & blur any faces you post.

Met to have ‘sharper focus’ on social media and face recognition at protests

Large-scale protests taking place in London have called for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

www.independent.co.uk

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Just another week for the police: a neo-nazi terrorist, a group assault on a member of the public and attempted cover-up, and historic spying on an anti-apartheid campaign and lying about it

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today about 20 drunk, aggy fascists turned up at Honor Oak pub, doing nazi salutes and spitting homophobic, transphobic & misogynistic bile at people shielding the pub. As usual, police protected the fascists. Later on, police arrested two of them & they all kicked off:

South London Love

@SELondonLove

9 months

Our current count is six fascists, none of whom have even made it to stand across the road opposite the pub. One has already left the area.

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

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Amar was the only person targeted and arrested out of hundreds of people there. It shows how much discretion police have under the new powers, and unsurprisingly, who will be targeted.

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

2 years

Join your local anti-raids group: @SLantiraids @Deptford_AR @Lewisham_AR @HackneyAntiRaid @Newham_AR @WestLdnAntiRaid @McrAntiRaids @antiraidsBTN @antiraidsleeds @AntiRaidsGlas @Antiraids_Ed @AntiRaids If there isn’t one for your area - start one.

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

3 years

just a mounted girlboss using her empowerment stick to hit someone form behind walking away with their hands up

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

8 months

This is the depressingly predictable outcome of these authoritarian laws in the hands of racist & right-wing police - police who laugh and joke with the far-right at every one of the Honor Oak demos.

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

2 years

“Let him go”

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

2 years

I’ve been strip searched before, for no reason other than the duty sergeant didn’t like me. It’s a degrading show of power. And the met police have done it to 9000+ children over the last few years, including 2000+ u16 year olds, and even 35 under 12. It’s completely disgusting

TomK

@tomgk90

2 years

I just received some information on strip searches conducted by the Metropolitan Police in the past 5 years. Here's the data and some key points.

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

2 years

Police talking about walking the detained person out. Road currently blocked. More people needed to cover all the exits so they let him go. They’re desperately calling for reinforcements on the radio

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

2 years

Senior police officer briefing other police here: “The individual in the [immigration enforcement van] has been arrested. It’s clear this van is going nowhere. So either we walk him out, or we de-arrest him.”

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

3 years

There was no one near the statue until the police decided to surround it. Now they’ve brought in more police to stand by it. They just want the photo op of police ‘protecting’ the statue to twist the narrative

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

2 years

Beyond being another enraging example of racist state violence, the police killing of Chris Kaba is also the site of a nexus of discriminatory & authoritarian state surveillance, data-based oppression and shadowy algorithms, used to exert power and control over racialised people.

Novara Media

@novaramedia

2 years

An automated tool flagged the car Chris Kaba was driving as linked to a previous incident to police, who pursued, shot, and killed the unarmed man. It's the latest deadly consequence of increasingly data-driven policing, writes @g__ferris .

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Griff Ferris

@g__ferris

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good advice

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