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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · 10h

GREENS ORGANISE x THE WORLD TRANSFORMED MANCHESTER 2025

Come chat to GO Co-chair Steve, Emily & other members at our stall (outside Niamos radical arts centre)!

JOIN US TODAY greensorganise.uk

Read Steve's paper on @greenparty.org.uk for TWT assemblies: theworldtransformed.org/twt25/assemb...

Steve Jackson of Greens Organise holding up a banner saying 'Greens Organise' at our stall in TWT Manchester, surrounded by lots of merch and posters saying 'Abolish the billionaire class'

Steve Jackson of Greens Organise holding up a banner saying 'Greens Organise' at our stall in TWT Manchester. He is in the background, the GO Banner is in the foreground

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · 10h

This means taken together as a Left, this is more our moment than ever. There's no time to waste.

Join the Greens 💚 Hope is renewable energy in our hands!

@greenparty.org.uk join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · 10h

Starmer's sinking ship are losing a member every 10 minutes! 🥀 Meanwhile, @greenparty.org.uk have already breezed past the Lib Dems - at 60k they're even smaller than prev recorded.

We are surging by 2-3k every day! Your Party membership's a bit below Lib Dems, too.

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · 10h

Greens now dangerously close to 100k members.

But we won't rest till we're the biggest party in England & Wales. JOIN US TODAY join.greenparty.org.uk/@greenparty....

Next are Tories, shooting down at 123k 📉 Reform climbed to 260k if they're not LYING as usual, while Labour struggling at 309k 🥀

join.greenparty.org.uk

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beckysanders.bsky.social @beckysanders.bsky.social · Jul 8

I hope that Lewisham council lends full support for this motion put forward by Green Cllrs @liamshrivastava.bsky.social and @tamhauyu.bsky.social that will see the council observing international law and divest in companies complicit in war crimes and genocide committed in Gaza and the West bank

Cllr Liam Shrivastava @liamshrivastava.bsky.social · Jul 8

Proud to submit a @lewishamgreenparty.bsky.social motion to @lewisham.gov.uk, committing to divestment from genocide.

Cllrs will also consider a divestment petition signed by over 3000 residents.

Let's make Lewisham an apartheid-free borough! 🇵🇸
councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/documents/s1...

Proposer: Cllr Liam Shrivastava
Seconder: Cllr Hau-Yu Tam
This Council notes:
On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued provisional measures
in the case brought by South Africa against Israel concerning the crisis in Gaza. The Court
ordered Israel to take all measures within its power to prevent genocide, ensure its military
does not commit genocide, prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and facilitate the
entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
A further ruling by the ICJ on 24 May 2024 set out obligations of third states such as the
UK to prevent genocide and ensure humanitarian access in Gaza. The ruling calls on all
states to halt the delivery of weapons to Israel that could be used in acts of genocide or
other violations of international law. On 19 July 2024, the ICJ ruled Israel to be unlawfully
occupying Palestinian land in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
According to LGPS Divest, £65,832,596 of Lewisham’s pension fund is in investments
with 30 companies complicit in Israel’s illegal occupation and the aforementioned
violations, representing 3.6% of its total fund.
On 19 September 2024, the Pensions Investment Committee resolved to explore its
proximity, exposure and investment with companies involved in the arms trade, human
rights abuse and those that operate within an area considered occupied territory under
international law, with a view to reviewing and updating its Responsible Investment policy,
to move away from such investments and, to agree on a definition of arms trade.

The Council believes
1. We all have a responsibility to stand with Palestinians in the face of genocide and
do everything in our power to bring such suffering to an end within a peaceful
settlement.
2. In light of numerous rulings by the ICJ, the council is, as an arm of UK government,
obligated to observe international law, which includes taking all necessary steps to
prevent genocide, as set out in the genocide convention.
3. Stemming from the obligations laid out by the ICJ, councils must avoid procuring
from or investing the funds they manage, including Local Government Pension
Scheme funds, in companies that facilitate Israel's breaches of international law.
This includes arms companies producing weapons and military technology used by
Israel in its attacks on Palestinians, as well as financial institutions which finance
these arms companies.
4. Councils are free to take human rights and other ethical considerations on board
when making financial decisions.

The Council resolves to request the Pension Investments Committee to:
5. Disclose and divest all of its pensions investments with companies complicit with Israel’s illegal acts.
6. Exclude companies in the Passive Equity Progressive Paris Aligned Fund (PEPPA)
pension fund which are recognised by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as being engaged in illegal activities in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Companies currently in PEPPA’s portfolio that
need to be excluded by this standard include Booking.com, Airbnb, and Israeli
banks including Bank Leumi Le-Israel and Bank Hapoalim as examples.
7. Write to LCIV requesting the addition of exclusionary criteria to existing funds to
meet the above commitment.
8. Invite members of the divestment campaign to address the committee at a future
meeting.
9. Formally consult trade unions, representing employees invested in the fund, in
investment decisions and explore formal representation of unions in the council’s
investment decision processes, including a co-opted seat on the Pensions
Investment Committee.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks Cllr Hau-Yu Tam!

@tamhauyu.bsky.social

#BackZack

The choice is stark: back Zack or stick with the status quo. Transforming reality Vs reforming it. Zack for leader!

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Mothin Ali @mothinali.bsky.social · Jul 5

📢 Mothin's interview with @OborneTweets
for @MiddleEastEye out now!

youtu.be/IJi0DtoLx7c?...

🎥Mothin discusses how he got into politics, the way to beat Reform, how to unite people and more!

🗣️Please share 🙏

Thank you!
Team Mothin 💚

'I'm surprised more Labour MPs haven't left': Mothin Ali in conversation with Peter Oborne

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 7

It would be a better use of your time reckoning with why your right-wing Party is increasingly unpopular, hated and makes millions of people's lives worse. I did my shift, trying to reverse that, trying to make the best change I thought I could. It was more time and more of me than they deserved.

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 7

It is hypocrisy, and I think you really don't understand what it means to be a human with a heart in a time of genocide. Labour left me; the LP and Reform are now synonymous.

The Greens got 20% of our Lewisham vote, so you don't have an argument!

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 7

Are these sorts of people your friends, colleagues and masters? www.thenational.scot/news/2491980...

Have you ever uttered a single word for Gaza? What have you done to delegitimise, resist and end the genocide? What sort of person, when it comes to being judged, are you?

Labour ministers 'justifying' Gaza genocide must be investigated, UN expert says

LABOUR ministers should be investigated for denying or even justifying Israeli war crimes in Palestine, a UN special rapporteur has said ...

www.thenational.scot

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... @lewishamgreenparty.bsky.social stand in solidarity with @palaction.bsky.social and all those who refuse to be silent in the face of apartheid, injustice and oppression.

Lewisham Green Party
4 July 2025

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... They are our friends and neighbours, they are some of the bravest people we know.

We call on all those who care about human rights, human life, freedom of expression, international solidarity and justice to reject this authoritarian turn. Refuse to be cowed...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... denounced as criminals in their time. If they were active now, using the same tactics, would they too be labelled “terrorists”?

Who were the real terrorists here, and who were the true heroes?

@palaction.bsky.social act with deep love and humanity, and solidarity as clear as pure water...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... of the Proscription debate, before voting for or abstaining on banning Palestine Action.

The Suffragettes ran a 2-year long arson & bombing campaign. They stormed the House of Commons, underwent hunger strikes; one even martyred herself. Many of the suffragettes were arrested, surveilled...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... The irony too, that @london.gov.uk Overground has co-opted the Suffragettes' struggle by naming one of their lines - which runs through Lewisham - after the , is not lost on us. Nor are the female Labour MPs posing in sashes celebrating 97 years of women’s right to vote on the very day...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... In 2023, protesters turned out month after month to defend Honor Oak Pub’s Drag Storytime and trans communities from neo- Nazi groups linked to
extreme right Christian fundamentalists.

We again mobilised last summer when fascists were threatening and attacking migrant & refugee communities...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... to resist state violence, is exactly what he now seeks to suppress.

The right to protest is fundamental in any democracy. Lewisham has a proud and radical history of protest. In 1977, we stood together to oppose fascism during the Battle of Lewisham, confronting & stopping the National Front...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... who once defended anti-war protesters when they broke into RAF Fairford to sabotage US bombers, stating that they were justified in their illegal actions on the basis of preventing a greater crime – the Iraq war. The principle behind that defence, that ordinary people have a right, even duty...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... Labelling such action as “terrorism” is a deliberate attempt to silence dissent and distract from the moral and legal questions around Britain’s support for the ongoing occupation of Palestine.

We are particularly disturbed by the rank hypocrisy of Labour Party leader Keir Starmer...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

... Altogether this is a sickening intensification of the UK Government's active complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Palestine Action engages in nonviolent direct action to expose and disrupt the UK’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and the arms trade that sustains it...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

Not only is this a dangerous escalation in the ongoing erosion of civil liberties and the criminalisation of political dissent in the UK, but there is evidence pointing to alleged interference from pro-Israel groups lobbying for the ban...

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

@lewishamgreenparty.bsky.social unequivocally condemns @teamlabouruk.bsky.social's decision to proscribe @palaction.bsky.social as a "terrorist organisation"

We've joined protests & publish this statement ahead of today's Urgent Hearing outcome, which will hopefully stop the ban coming into effect.

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Cllr Hau-Yu Tam 譚巧瑜 🏳️‍⚧️💚🇵🇸🧡🇸🇩 @tamhauyu.bsky.social · Jul 4

"Ombudsman concluded DWP failings in dealing with Tracie’s PIP claim a “significant contributing factor” in her decision to take her own life in 2020"

@elliereeves.bsky.social, her Lewisham Labour MP, would've voted through these cuts if she could

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/silence-from...

Silence from MP sister of Rachel Reeves over suicide linked to PIP flaws, just as government was seeking cuts

Labour’s chair has refused to answer questions about a disabled constituent whose suicide was closely linked to flaws in the personal independence payment (PIP) system, just as her government was t…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jun 24

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.

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Cllr Liam Shrivastava @liamshrivastava.bsky.social · Jun 28

It's not just me @lewishamlabour.bsky.social targeted. My @lewishamgreenparty.bsky.social colleague @tamhauyu.bsky.social was falsely accused of organising a Palestine protest and suspended by the party.

This is how Labour shamefully treats those speaking out against genocide.

The Labour party previously subjected
another Lewisham councillor, Hau-Yu
Tam, to a disciplinary proceeding accusing her of organising a protest at a council meeting in November 2023, which she denies. The council had refused to discuss a motion submitted by Tam to support a ceasefire in Gaza.

Tam was given a formal warning despite finding that she did not organise a protest. She told Novara Media that it had a "chilling effect" on dissent among local Labour councillors which had been building at the time.

"I think because I got suspended, first of all it had an impact on my voice but collectively it had a chilling effect on how people were willing to speak up. Some who were on the fence stopped speaking completely and some who were more strategic became more canny."

Tam left Labour in July 2024 and sat as an independent socialist councillor before joining the Green party.

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