Andia
afarro9.bsky.social
Andia
@afarro9.bsky.social
Community volunteer and campaigner with legal and arts training, love & wonder forever, committed to peace ن
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Hello everyone, lovely to join BlueSky, looking forward to posting essential info and connecting with fellow members 🌿🕊️🙏🏼 #peace #community #campaigning #activism #democracy #civility #diversity #equality #justice
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In Britain, Palestine Action Prisoners Starve for Freedom

Jailed Palestine Action activists in Britain have been on hunger strike for eight weeks already. They are being treated as terrorists, even though they have committed no violent crime.

jacobin.com/2026/01/uk-p...
In Britain, Palestine Action Prisoners Starve for Freedom
Jailed Palestine Action activists in Britain have been on hunger strike for eight weeks already. They are being treated as terrorists, even though they have committed no violent crime.
jacobin.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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AN ARREST VIDEO EVERY DAY
(until the Palestine Action ban is lifted)

DAY 5 - A man dressed as Santa Claus was arrested on Nov 29th in Norwich for peacefully holding a sign with the words “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” written on it.

www.defendourjuries.net
January 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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"In this moment of clear, acute, and mounting violence against the people of Venezuela, silence is complicity."

🇻🇪 Statement from the Cabinet of the Progressive International on the US invasion of Venezuela.

🔗 Read more online: buff.ly/Xp5I1V6
January 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Empowering former child soldiers and victims of war in Africa, mainly Uganda - pls see www.iamsomebodyschildsoldier.org to volunteer, donate or raise awareness #childsoldiers #humanrights #PTSD #rehabilitation #childrights #warcrimes
I Am Somebodys Child Soldier
I Am Somebody's Child Soldier work is to empower and support child soldiers and victims of war suffering from undiagnosed mental ill health across Africa.
www.iamsomebodyschildsoldier.org
January 3, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Happy New Year one and all, wishing everyone peace and commitment to peace in 2026 Cheers 🕊🎉🥂 #HappyNewYear #NewYear2026
December 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Because at Christmas, you tell the truth 🥺🎄

#LoveActually #TaxTheSuperRich #MakePollutersPay
December 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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THIS is what hope in action feels like. Here's to more wins like this in 2026, for people and planet 💚 🌍
Hope comes alive when we take action - 8 Good News stories 2025 - Greenpeace International
So much can seem wrong in this world right now yet one thing remains certain: in troubling times, hope is an act of resistance. At Greenpeace, we know that collective action fuels hope.
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December 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Meet the world’s loan sharks 🦈👇🏾

💸 Fifty-four countries are in debt crisis - while private lenders make vast profits.

🚑 In Africa, 34 countries are spending more on debt than health or education.

It's time to #CancelDebtChooseHope for #DebtJustice

SIGN here >> debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt
December 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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The same system of colonial extraction that created the climate crisis and the vastly unequal world we live in today can’t be allowed to drive the response, and push countries deeper into debt.

Watch Eva's full speech for #COP30 rally in London here: www.instagram.com/debtjustice/...
December 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Why debt justice?

Debt has been used for centuries as a tool of exploitation - leading to increased poverty and inequality in the global south.

Debt is used in the UK to punish the poor in a system that is rigged for the rich and wealthy.

This injustice CAN be stopped

tinyurl.com/bddv78xe
December 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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“…while the prisoners are, of course, suffering greatly physically, and they understand the risk of death, there’s an incredible level of commitment, of resilience, of steadfastness, of certainty in the righteousness of their cause.”

newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
The Alternative is Intolerable
An Interview with Prisoners for Palestine.
newsocialist.org.uk
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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BREAKING: Major Insurers drop Elbit Systems

Following a sustained direct action campaign, initiated by Palestine Action before the group was proscribed, Allianz and Aviva no longer insure Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.

Direct Action gets results. 🧵1/4
December 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Israel systematically targets families of Palestinian journalists: Report
<article data-history-node-id="433146" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-systematically-targets-families-palestinian-journalists-report" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-systematically-targets-families-palestinian-journalists-report" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel systematically targets families of Palestinian journalists: Report</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="405" data-start="136">The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said on Saturday that Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists have expanded beyond killings, injuries, arrests and restrictions on coverage to include the systematic targeting of their families.</p> <p data-end="675" data-start="407">In a report released, the union said Israeli forces have increasingly targeted the relatives of journalists in what it described as a deliberate effort to turn journalism into an existential threat, forcing families to pay the price for a loved one’s work.</p> <p data-end="1097" data-start="677">The findings, based on documentation by the syndicate’s Freedoms Committee, show that attacks on journalists’ families have become a repeated and organised pattern across 2023, 2024 and 2025. The committee recorded the deaths of about 706 relatives of journalists in the Gaza Strip during that period, stressing that the scale and consistency of the attacks indicate they are not the result of random wartime conditions.</p> <p data-end="1344" data-start="1099">According to the committee, Israeli attacks killed about 436 relatives of journalists in 2023, followed by roughly 203 in 2024 and at least 67 more in 2025, even as many families were forcibly displaced and living in tents or makeshift shelters.</p> <p data-end="1611" data-start="1346">The report said the most recent case came just days ago, when recovery teams found the bodies of journalist Hiba Al-Abadla, her mother and around 15 members of the Al-Astal family. Israeli aircraft had bombed their home west of Khan Younis nearly two years earlier.</p> <p data-end="1848" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1613">The syndicate said the figures show that hundreds of children, women and elderly people were killed solely because of a family member’s work in journalism, calling it a grave violation of international humanitarian and legal standards.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
'And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.' (John 1:14) #Christmas #HappyChristmas #Gospels #salvation #mercy #peace #lovereign
December 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
From the 25th Nov to 10th Dec, the UN ran a campaign 16 days of Activism against digital gender based violence - the resources ate still available and urgent to read and learn about. Pls see www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-d... #genderbasedviolence #humanrights #gender #digital #socialmedia
16 Days of Activism 2025: End digital violence against all women and girls
1 in 3 women is affected by violence. Join the 16 Days of Activism this year to call on governments to end digital abuse and place online safety at the heart of equality.
www.unwomen.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The Right to Remain website offers key guides on immigration. Our latest one is on Immigration Enforcement: Reporting and Raids. Take a moment to check it out, or RT to spread the word. ow.ly/ksi750XKVsj #TheseWallsMustFall #NoOneisIllegal #ImmigrationisLife
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: Time for Change is here!
Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants?
Want to see an alternative plan?
Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all.
Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...
Time For Change: The evidence-based policies that can actually fix the immigration system
A new report from prominent migration expert Zoe Gardner has been enthusiastically welcomed by senior Labour backbenchers.
www.anothereurope.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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As the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike enters its 48th day — surpassing the 1981 Irish Republican hunger strike — the eight political prisoners in British jails are now at risk of death.
Bodies as Barricades
As the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike enters its 48th day — surpassing the 1981 Irish Republican hunger strike — the eight political prisoners in British jails are now at risk of death.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Adnan Hussain, independent MP for Blackburn, said:

“Remand is not punishment. It is not meant to break bodies or silence dissent.

“Yet we are witnessing conditions so severe that these young people feel driven to risk death simply to be heard.”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Minister says government not mistreating Palestine Action activists on hunger strike
Commons leader denies allegation and says government ‘not trying to break bodies’ after doctor said prisoners were dying
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns

A doctor in contact with the activists says six are at a critical stage, two of whom have refused food for almost seven weeks.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns
Hundreds of doctors, dozens of MPs and thousands of everyday Britons call on the justice secretary to intervene.
www.aljazeera.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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These are not people serving sentences. They are people awaiting trial. And yet the conditions they describe – prolonged pre-trial detention, restrictions on communication, isolation – are indistinguishable from punishment.

www.thenational.scot/news/2570995...
In Common: Palestine Action saga reveals the fiction of the law
Good evening! This week's edition of the In Common newsletter comes from Megan Davidson, policy communications officer at Common Weal.
www.thenational.scot
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Opposing genocide is not terrorism.

Make your choice.

www.wedonotcomply.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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#Israel, European Union's "good ally" - as described by @ec.europa.eu's @kajakallas.bsky.social" rapes its captives:

"...Palestinian journalist Sami al-Saai, who was detained in an Israeli prison, recounts harrowing details of violent sexual assault and torture."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Qh...
Palestinian journalist speaks out about being raped and tortured in Israeli jail
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM