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@julie4north.bsky.social

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Grandma, Poet, Angry woman, Labour MEP 2014-20, Wild Swimmer. Serial board member: @anothereurope.bsky.social @chartist48.bsky.social @csfberlin.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social @europeanmovement.co.uk

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Julie Ward🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌍🕷️✊🌹 @julie4north.bsky.social · Apr 8

Super-excited to be representing our campaign to shut down Derwentside Detention Centre as part of this Radical Sharing Forum👇

Edge Fund 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️📢 @edgefund.bsky.social · Mar 14

Introducing more grantees from our Funding Round 16!
💥 No to Hassockfield (Derwentside IRC) 💥
Because detention has no place in a humane asylum system, N2H fights to end immigration detention in the UK and to dismantle the hostile environment.

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Julie Ward🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌍🕷️✊🌹 @julie4north.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent production about the Medomsley Detention Centre, a place of historic abuse - this is a carefully crafted testimony giving voice to victims of Thatcher’s‘short sharp shock’

Graeae Theatre Company @graeaetheatre.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s your first look at the stunning production photos from our gripping new play, BAD LADS.

Only a few days left @livetheatre.bsky.social before we head on tour so grab those tickets now!

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ The Spy in the Stalls

Full tour dates: graeae.org/event/bad-la...

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Three cast members stand shoulder to shoulder under flood lights. Caption screen behind reads in large font, Floodlights.

Cast member Danny Raynor stands and points shouting at cast member Robin Paley Yorke as he jumps around the stage.

All cast members lay down, two on the floor and one behind on a table. They look up to the ceiling. Caption screen above reads, Anything to block it out.

Three cast members stand side by side looking in distress. Caption screen behind shows a mixture of layered words.

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Verity Coyle @verityc.bsky.social · 8d

Significant protests have taken place in over 130 countries in the last 8 years.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Dr Alice Edwards has uncovered some shocking facts about the weapons being used.

@amnesty.org calls for a #Torture-Free Trade Treaty.

#ProtectTheProtest

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Torture weapons are being used on Europe's streets to put down protests

Rubber bullets, chemical substances, experimental acoustic weapons have been used recently by various police on Europe's streets against peaceful protests, writes the UN special rapporteur on torture.

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Julie Ward🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌍🕷️✊🌹 @julie4north.bsky.social · 10d

Proud to be a citizen journalist with this truth-telling journal👇

North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 10d

Celebrating our 5000th article today!

Thank you to all our readers for joining us in our journey 🙏

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10d

North East Bylines have just published their 5000th article!! 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations NEB! A very apt way to celebrate too:

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument
"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 12d

“I'm here to endorse the Labour for a New Democracy call for a National Commission in this parliament - and a manifesto commitment to a system of Proportional Representation to be introduced into Westminster elections in the next Parliament.”

🌹 @andyburnham.bsky.social

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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 12d

“There’s nothing more unstoppable than an idea whose time has come - and PR’s time has come.”

💬 @andyburnham.bsky.social

🌹 #Labour4PR #Lab25

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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 12d

500 drones and 40 missiles last night. At least four dead in Kyiv including a 12 year old.

Please get word out widely. AND something you can do: please contribute to our fundraiser for a unit that intercepts drones and missiles: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VWE0qk3...

Equip UA frontline to stop drone + missile attacks

Fund a vital rapid-response vehicle to help intercept Russian drones and missiles before they hit Ukrainian cities.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 16d

We re super lucky that @sioldridge.bsky.social - one of the best science communicators we know - will be debunking some myths about CCS for MP Watch & the Scrap Carbon Capture campaign at the Labour Party Conference next week.

Ask your MP to attend. Details ⬇️

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Julie Ward🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌍🕷️✊🌹 @julie4north.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks @hkresic.bsky.social for the invitation to join you live in the TV studio to speak about the threats to civil society & the importance of multilateralism. I'm proud to represent @csfberlin.bsky.social We hold space for crucial networking & sharing best practices n1info.hr/vijesti/labu...

Hrvoje Kresic (@hkresic.bsky.social)

Reporter with Nova TV, former Oxford-Reuters fellow. Water polo lunatic.

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Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek.com · Aug 27

Reform isn’t a political party. It’s a corporate lobbying firm.

The business model is simple. Wealthy elites pay Farage to push policies that could make them millions.

4 infuriating examples:

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17d

Elon Musk has spent the past year obsessing over Pakistani child-rape gangs in the UK.

Meanwhile, allegedly, in his own immediate family:

Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse

www.nytimes.com

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18d

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist."

RT if Mick is right.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17d

Nigel Farage is, and always was, far right, from his schooldays. The squeamishness about calling him out is one of the reasons we’re in such a terrible state today.

Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 18d

A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else.

Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16d

The PFI disaster

Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.

NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.

Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.

Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics

Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England

www.theguardian.com

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Labour4PR 🌹🗳️ @labour4pr.bsky.social · 16d

🌹 “One of the events @andyburnham.bsky.social will attend in Liverpool this year will be a @labour4pr.bsky.social rally on Sunday evening, in favour of proportional representation. "The idea of a government elected on a minority of the vote is untenable," he tells me.”

Exclusive: Andy Burnham’s plan for Britain

Inside his Manchester kingdom, Labour’s prince across the water outlines his radical blueprint

www.newstatesman.com

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 17d

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 18d

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

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Pride in Labour 🌈🥀 @prideinlabour.bsky.social · 24d

57% of our members voted to not endorse any candidate, with 43% voting to endorse Lucy Powell. Out of the members who voted in the ballot, 0% voted for Bridget Phillipson.

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Diaper Diplomacy Unofficial Mirror @diaperdiplomacy-m.bsky.social · 25d

"They're buying oil from Russia. That’s not the deal." | Trump Accuses Allies of Sneaky Putin oil deals. 👀

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Julie Ward🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌍🕷️✊🌹 @julie4north.bsky.social · 26d

A powerful eve that provoked important discussions. It was good to have members of local orgs present to offer practical suggestions how to counter right-wing anti-migrant rhetoric @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social @notohassockfield.bsky.social @care4calais.org This is NOT the time to be a bystander!

Live Theatre @livetheatre.bsky.social · 28d

Hear a live reading of #SmallBoat written by Vincent Delecroix here tomorrow Sat 13 Sep, 7.30pm.
Directed by Amy Golding - the adapted text will be read by Aimée Kelly & Joana Geronimo reminding us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes
🎟️ £15 at www.live.org.uk/whats-on/sma...

Small Boat

Small Boat By VINCENT DELECROIXTranslated by HELEN STEVENSON

www.live.org.uk

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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 26d

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.

Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.

This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

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Julie Ward🇪🇺🇺🇦🌈🌍🕷️✊🌹 @julie4north.bsky.social · 28d

Do what Martin says👇

Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Latest toon for @bylinetimes.bsky.social, bless 'em! Always a joy filing for the good guys, who also give my the welcome leisure of a loose deadline. Subscribe now - to them & to me www.martinrowson.com/memberswelcome

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Alex G @alexgav11.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think most people already knew this was the case but good to see there is now a report on it….

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Sep 4

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights.

The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system.

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Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds

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Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · Sep 4

Farage got called a 'Putin-loving free-speech imposter' in Congress
Why can't Labour do this instead of getting all weird about flags while pretending their houses are shrines to the Jubilee?
Instead they fan Farage's flames, turn up the dial on racism & embolden his base while repulsing their own.

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John Meehan @johndmeehan.bsky.social · 29d

The reality of Charlie Kirk's political activity.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 29d

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me.

His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

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