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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · 3d

More common sense from Zack Polanski, don't think there are any credible arguments left against moving to a public health approach www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs

Zack Polanski speaks to BBC South East on the party's new approach ahead of the party's conference.

www.bbc.co.uk

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Jul 21

Audrey has been a fixture at the Liverpool Sunday demos. A hero and shameful she's been treated in this way. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally

Exclusive: Video shows veteran campaigner being dragged and handcuffed and she says bail conditions effectively confine her to her house

www.theguardian.com

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Jul 5

Bus stop in Liverpool today #PalestineAction

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Barbara Cooney @barbaracooney.bsky.social · Jul 2

For anyone still doubting the gravity of the Labour Government's move to proscribe Palestine Action, here's the statement of concern from the UN. This is what Starmer's Government has become.

#PalestineAction
#Starmer
#UN

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN experts urge United Kingdom not to misuse terrorism laws against protest group Palestine Action

GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000.“We are concerned at the unjustified ...

www.ohchr.org

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy to share this, the more people do the more it highlights the madness of this ban.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 30

Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone.
You're going to need a bigger prison.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...

Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison

YouTube video by Double Down News

www.youtube.com

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Jun 15

Exactly this. A nuclear armed state, with no inspections ever because they don’t declare them, bombs a country without them and constant inspections.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Iraq playbook is back & the media won’t question it.

Iran has no nuclear weapons. Israel — on trial for genocide — does. Iran signed the NPT & allows IAEA inspections. Israel hasn’t — & its leaders face ICC arrest warrants.

Beware of politicians beating the drums of war.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 13

Remember, everything Netanyahu does is to keep himself out of prison. For the sake of one crook's liberty, tens of thousands of people have been murdered, and now a possible full-scale war has been provoked. Israel must rise up and unseat him.

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Jun 12

Speaking today at #ISSDP2025 on the LJMU model of reviewing drug related deaths and the socioeconomic learnings from our panels

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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · May 21

Trump wants the rich to be richer, unions to be weaker, and everyone else to be easier to exploit.

He's not ushering in a New Golden Age. He's taking us back to the Gilded Age.

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · May 21

Exactly this.

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · May 21

On 19/4/1943, the world had one duty: to defend the Jews who were being pulverised by the Nazi war machine crushing the Warsaw ghetto. Today the world has one duty: to defend the Palestinians who are being pulverised by the Israeli army in the Gaza ghetto
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Israeli attacks target generators ‘to put Gaza’s hospitals out of service’

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israel deliberately targeted power generators to put Gaza’s hospitals out of operation.

www.aljazeera.com

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · May 19

Can't help thinking the Gary Lineker thing was always going to end this way. If you're a public figure and speak up on Palestine they will probe and dig until they find something. Your only defence is if the organisation you work for isn't supine, which sadly his is 🙁

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · May 12

It's a great term "hostage politics" because it describes Labour at the moment exactly, although being literally held hostage by Starmer would be comical more than anything

Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · May 12

This week’s column is on what increasingly defines western democracy, being held hostage by centrist governments with threats of a worse alternative

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Welcome to the era of ‘hostage politics’, where Labour is apparently your only hope | Nesrine Malik

First it was the Conservatives and now Reform. The only thing the government has to offer is that it’s the least worst option, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · May 4

Can't find another place to ask this sorry but is the annual offer which ends on Tuesday available to UK readers? (It doesn't give me it if I'm signed in)

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Apr 29

A fantastic piece well worth reading. Bizarre state of affairs when you have to turn to Wetherspoons to find an ally.

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IMS @phi-ims.bsky.social · Apr 28

We’re at #HR25 Bogotá, come and see us in the Exhibition Zone 🙌
And view our work in the Posters Space or here: ims.ljmu.ac.uk/posters

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Apr 21

Which other leader with a global audience said this so clearly?

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Apr 21

Just months after he became the head of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis condemned the “new tyranny” of unfettered capitalism and the “idolatry of money.”

The Pope Who Decried the Savage Inequalities of Billionaire-Class Capitalism

Pope Francis, who has died at 88, fought for economic justice with a consistency that distinguished him from the elites of his time.

www.thenation.com

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Apr 21

Exactly this. I always admired Francis for being one of the lone voices with an international platform who spoke out against war and capitalism more broadly. Compassion is such an underrated trait in leaders these days as we are seeing to our cost. What a loss.

Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Apr 21

Pope Francis dedicated his life to the marginalised, displaced and dispossessed.

A rare voice for humanity, he spent his final days on this earth calling for peace.

Let his enduring legacy — of empathy, courage and kindness — inspire us to build a more humane world for all.

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Apr 20

The war on drugs - a war on women and any group which already experiences oppression as a useful tool to beat them with. It all connects.

International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social · Apr 20

“The War on Drugs is a war on women: Louisiana's Abortion Law” by Maryanne Alderson Diaz & Dina Perrone (2025) via @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social…how can they schedule these abortion pills? It should be criminal!

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Apr 5

Another magnificent volume, made me laugh a lot but well up in parts too Thanks Chris! @chrismullinexmp.bsky.social

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Apr 3

Mine too. I remember when I worked in Liverpool’s DDU in early 2000s and was trying to get tickets to see him speak at the Phil. He didn’t know me but still phoned me in work to let me know there were none left. The person on reception was like “I have Tony Benn on the phone for you!” A lovely man.

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Apr 1

Some very sad details to this story and some lessons for the UK in how not to do things (despite some brilliant examples of community-led harm reduction work) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oregon abandoned its radical drug law. Then came the mass arrests

Last year, the state ended a trailblazing law decriminalizing possession. Drug users in some counties are now in and out of jail, without lawyers, struggling to get treatment

www.theguardian.com

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Apr 1

Imagine the outrage if this was literally any other country in the world.

Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Apr 1

Every day that this barbarism is committed, and let to pass, further destroys our collective humanity.

markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Mar 31

Not hugely helpful reporting from the Liverpool Echo today. “As easy to access as crisps” apparently.

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Mar 31

We heard more about the fantastic work The Thistle do at our drug related deaths conference on Friday, people are alive now who probably wouldn’t be had it not existed.

Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social · Mar 31

Saving lives & getting people the help they need.

Read David's story 👇

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alarms, overdoses and saving lives: 48 hours in UK's first drug injection room

The BBC was given exclusive access to the controversial facility in the east end of Glasgow.

www.bbc.co.uk

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markamericana @markamericana.bsky.social · Mar 26

Predictable but awful stuff today from Rachel Reeves 🙁

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Mar 26

Did anyone vote for this?

@meadwaj.bsky.social tears apart Rachel Reeves' #Budget2025

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