Great article from @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social on the vital importance of international law -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Great article from @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social on the vital importance of international law -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Welcome changes lives. Hear from our community member Adrita* about how kindness and support helped her find hope in a new place.
https://asylumseekerscentre.org.au/adritas-story-not-everyone-is-as-welcoming-as-you/
On 5 March, we’re turning up the volume on something powerful: welcome 💙
This Giving Day, every donation to the Asylum Seekers Centre will be MATCHED - doubling your impact and doubling your welcome ✨
Choose welcome in action: https://loom.ly/QOEa5O4
Call me old school but I don't think individual politicians should be able pick & choose which citizens can re-enter their own country. If someone has committed crime prosecute them on reentry but citizenship shouldn't be contingent on the wishes of individual MPs
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.
We'll let their words speak for themselves.
Do they teach this at the NSW Police Academy?
Brutality 101, am I right?
#HerzogProtest #auspol
This is an extremely dark moment for Australian democracy. Protest blanket banned in Australia’s most iconic city & police assaulting protesters with impunity. Aussies pride themselves on ballot box participation but voting is only one part of a democracy and in Australia the other parts are failing
Was great to be out this morning at the Asylum Seeker Centre in Newtown cleaning up their beautiful welcoming mural. Lovely community action, sharing care and time together. Sweaty solidarity!
Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.
I didn't say it. The Germans did.
As with all things Starmer-Government related, their response to Trump’s aggressive threats has been nothing short of pathetic.
Europe is waking up and other world leaders like Macron and Carney show how supine the current UK Government really is.
This is our colonial legacy. The links we have built around the world. English-speaking people all over the world that know us.
Like it or not, that is a rational & reasonable reason for why some people believe their best option to rebuild a life from scratch is the UK. #r4today
Asylum seeker interviewed on #r4today explains in excellent English that he has grown up his entire life believing that the UK is a safe place that respects & protects people.
He's even an Arsenal fan. He knows our culture. Not French culture, Greek, or Bulgarian culture. Ours.
The purpose of parliamentary scrutiny is not to set up a talking shop but to stress-test and future-proof laws for years to come. To examine and amend. For these Bills to pass through the House of Representatives in a single day reflects badly on Australian democracy. This is no way to make law.
The Aus Gvt's new "Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bills" are staggering in their scope. They will change the nature of Australian society for better (gun control) and worse (executive powers to cancel visas) but what is remarkable is how rushed and entirely under-scrutinised they are.
“Leave Greenland alone!”
Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)
The American-led world order established harmony among the great powers within it, and left those outside it relatively isolated and insecure, Robert Kagan argues—and all of that is now ending. theatln.tc/BSP4k9xD
“Saving lives is not a crime.”
After a seven-year legal ordeal, a court on the Greek island of Lesbos has acquitted all 24 defendants who had been baselessly charged with felonies for saving lives at sea.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4pMoOdR
Torture. Ill-treatment. A breach on international obligations.
It’s time to end Australia's cruel detention policies and deliver justice, protection, and dignity for people seeking asylum.
Read more on the findings of the the UN committee against torture via The Guardian: https://loom.ly/9GgdLjA
This U-turn proves beyond all doubt that Labour announced their digital ID card scheme without a clue on how they would go about implementing it. Now is surely the moment for ministers to drop the proposals entirely and use the funds for something more useful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🎉 HUGE WIN: the Government has dropped plans for mandatory digital ID.
We've maintained from the start that any digital ID system should be voluntary and focus on helping people access vital services, rather than digitally excluding them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Keir Starmer has reportedly scrapped plans for a compulsory digital identity scheme for workers following opposition to the idea from across the political divide
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Minneapolis, Minnesota is under Trump regime occupation; at least 3,000 regime forces are terrorizing the city, raiding homes door to door without warrants, and grabbing people and children off the street based on their skin colour. No sign of the Minnesota National Guard.
Wonderful writing as always by the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen - www.bbc.com/news/article...
Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics.
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
Poverty is not accidental - it's enforced by policy.
Many people seeking asylum are denied work, support, and certainty.
This is a systemic failure and it must change.
Read our report on this failure of fairness and why we must fix the safety net: https://loom.ly/57QzZIw
Photo of ni-Vanuatu men in the back of a Toyota ute PALMED OFF, Episode 1 | Modern slavery in Australia? Listen to Follow the Money now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.
Is the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme facilitating modern slavery?
@mhharrington.bsky.social speaks to experts, community leaders & ni-Vanuatu former PALM workers in the first episode of this four-part mini-series on the guestworker scheme. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4sr1vbV
Bizarre that X’s politics/sport discourse monopoly largely remains unscathed given the chaotic context it now lies in.
ICYMI: This week we marked Human Rights Day.
Australians helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but today our country's treatment of people seeking asylum tells a very different story.
It’s time to course-correct.
Read our Advocacy Lead's latest blog 👉 https://loom.ly/Iw1u8pw
The “Edward Crabtree” hoax wasn’t just a lie. It was a test case of how quickly AI swallows its own tail during a crisis, writes Cam Wilson.
On this #HumanRightsDay, some thoughts on Australia's historic human rights legacy and where more can be done to protect the rights of people seeking asylum for the @ascsyd.bsky.social blog.
asylumseekerscentre.org.au/human-rights...
