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Eiri Ohtani

@eiriohtani.bsky.social

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I say about 5% of what I would like to say. Migrant. Moody. Allergic to idiocy and noisy people. Director at Right to Remain.

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · Sep 6

UK Gov’s criminalisation of support for Palestine Action is untenable, morally and politically.

It feels close to criminalising CND in the 1980s.

Time for Gov to admit it is a mistake and back down.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · Aug 29

Concerned parents at Epping.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Sep 6

Social justice occupational world is full of charlatans.

People at grassroots - don’t automatically hold ‘professionals’ like us in high regard.

Check if we are listening, empowering and focused on our objective - create a better world.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Sep 6

Really no excuse what-so-ever to be like this when you claim to be:

- working at grassroots
- wanting systemic change
- against oppression / discrimination / inequality

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Sep 6

People who say and act in a way ‘I’m too important to do THIS.’

You have no place in my world. Ever.

Feeling happy that now this is very clear to me.

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Netpol @netpol.org · Sep 6

Numbers at Parliament Square have been swelled by demonstrators from the National March of Gaza. Police are now just being followed around by people cursing and booing them

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · Sep 5

Legal Update: Refugee family reunion: what’s changed, and what it means.

The UK Gov has paused refugee family reunion from 4 Sept 2025. Existing cases continue, but new applications must now use strict visa rules creating new barriers for safety and reunion.

righttoremain.org.uk/refugee-fami...

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hi everyone!

Lots of things are thrown at us right now.

The truth is, migration is life.

We will stay connected, look after each other and spread solidarity and love, to build a society that protects us all.

#RefugeesWelcome
#NoOneIsIllegal
#TheseWallsMustFall

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 26

PS I’d be grateful if someone can point me toward a clear Labour government statement rejecting Reform Party’s mass deportation plan. I was so busy today that I must have missed it.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 26

I think it’s natural for anyone to sink into foul mood after sitting at the computer 13 hours. That was me today.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 24

PS One very minor point - this Times article uses Right to Remain's material... I felt incredibly ambivalent about that, given what the article is talking about.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 24

A big thank you to all the anti-racist groups and people who are defending people in the asylum hotels. I hope other social justice movements (continue to) join us in protecting asylum seekers’ rights and dignity – we are in this together.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 24

‘Crisis’ also provides a potential opportunity for crazy ideas to be normalised. See Reform’s policy proposals – too vile to mention what they are here, but have now been fed into public space. We really cannot let these proposals turn into reality.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 24

If this goes ahead and the precedence is set, other judicial oversight over other matters could be removed more easily. Cue - a collapse of a legal system that is intended to protect people from the wrong or unfair decisions by states. Surely no one wants that?

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 24

Any issue framed as a 'crisis' gives states an opportunity to curtail people's rights & liberty. This manufactured asylum hotel 'crisis' has emboldened the government to propose removing judicial oversight over asylum appeals as a solution. A TERRIBLE idea.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Keir Starmer to curb judges’ power in asylum cases

As migrant hotel protests grow, the PM is preparing a fast-track system to cut the backlog

www.thetimes.com

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Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 22

Elbit, the Israeli company that was Palestine Action's primary target, is close to winning a £2bn MoD contract to train British soldiers. The idea that as genocide continues it's "business as usual" is why thousands plan to shut down the DSEi arms fair on 9 Sept www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...

UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers

Elbit, which was the primary target of Palestine Action's activism, is close to winning a contract that would allow it to train 60,000 troops per year, according to Private Eye

www.middleeasteye.net

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 21

What do we do when our most virulent opponents have zero interest in having discussions or debates in good faith?

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 19

"It’s there, in people’s mutual care, in all our fractious getting on and survival and recombination that you see the ferment of new ideas."

davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/where-are-...

Where are the signs of the coming socialist society?

Usually, when I write, I have a destination in mind when I begin – a critique of another socialist perhaps, or a proposal for how we should organise the left differently.

davidrenton590934.substack.com

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 19

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event - Charlie Warzel

"What if we spend so much time waiting and arguing that we fail to marshal our energy toward addressing the problems that exist here and now?"

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 7

I’d like someone to count how many joint letters are issued by the sector I work in every year. I seem to see at least one such letter circulating almost every day.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Immigrant Workers in Italy Strike for a 40-Hour Week

Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigran...

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Aug 1

So, what comes after solidarity?

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Jul 31

As someone who used to assess grant applications, things like this pain me disproportionately.

Eiri Ohtani @eiriohtani.bsky.social · Jul 31

Really tiring when grant application guidelines are written by people whose understanding of the differences between outputs, outcomes and impact is pretty dubious.

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Netpol @netpol.org · Jul 30

If you've been following today's hearing, a judicial review will take place in November after a judge found there are strong grounds for the ban on Palestine Action breaching human rights and failing to consult in advance. The government case is weakened–but the group remains banned. Read our advice

Netpol @netpol.org · Jul 29

Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...