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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

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 9d

💜 Do you?

🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 Join us: actionnetwork.org/petitions/wo...
👉🏽 Follow us: www.instagram.com/p/DPJv1bKDeO...

Women against the Far Right Scotland

We reject the far right’s racist lies about “protecting” women and girls. They are not defenders of women—they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division. Standing up for women’s rights ...

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 9d

My heart is full today 💜 as I join 200+ brave, thoughtful & determined women in #Scotland to challenge far right claims that their divisive and racist solutions are necessary to protect women & girls

✍🏽 “We believe in a society where all women are safe, supported and free from abuse”

Photo of a number of prominent Scottish women and the text "Women Against the Far Right - Scotland' 200+ prominent women and women's organisations across Scotland have signed the open letter rejecting the far right's claims to protect women & girls & condemning the exploitation of violence against women to fuel hate and division."

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 12d

Congratulations - foremost to Allan's family, for bringing about this historic day and shining a light that will change, and doubtless save, many future lives 🕯️and to the @justrightscotland.org.uk team, my heroes ❤️ Barbara Bolton, Eilidh Turnbull, Ronan Duff, Iain Walker, and Annamaria De Felice 🙌

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 12d

#Justice ✊🏽 finally for Allan Marshall's family, and a reminder that #humanrights still matter - make a difference - in holding states to account for unlawful and harmful abuses of power ⚖️

JustRight Scotland @justrightscotland.org.uk · 12d

⚖️ In a landmark admission, the Scottish Prison Service has admitted breaching human rights law by causing Allan Marshall’s death through unlawful restraint at HMP Edinburgh in 2015.

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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 16d

🗓️ NEXT WEEK: Mark your calendars and join a conversation with legendary civil liberties advocate Aryeh Neier, on Friday 10/3 at 6pm ET. With @jameeljaffer.bsky.social & Anthony Romero.

Co-sponsored with @aclu.org & @nyclu.org. In-person in NY & livestreamed. RSVP:
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Defending My Enemy: A Conversation With Aryeh Neier

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 16d

💥 This week’s must read article from Talat Yaqoob FRSE - what we must do, right now, to build a vibrant, powerful movement for + change👇🏾

@talatyaqoob.bsky.social

Being a movement, not a sector:

The Threat We Face Last weekend we saw 100,000 far-right activists and extremists take over London, shouting racist, sexist, and Islamophobic chants, sharing white supremacist conspiracy theories a…

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Lawmanity @lawmanity.com · 21d

Straight-A student Ola was denied uni funding - just 58 days short of Scotland's 7-year residency rule. Her case sparked the Our Grades Not Visas movement that changed everything. Hear human rights lawyer Andy Sirel tell the full story on Lawmanity: podfollow.com/lawmanity/view

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26d

Let me check I’ve got this right. Someone calling for entirely innocent foreign-born people to be burned alive at a time of serious social unrest is a free speech champion who must be feted. And some calling them & their hideous promoters in politics & media racist is a menace who must be silenced.

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · 26d

This week, the Long View admires Banksy's latest work at the Royal Courts of Justice ⚖️ and explains why human rights lawyers are always asking awkward questions

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Solidarity in pursuit of justice: art and dissent

The Long View loves street art, and Banksy - and most of all, this week's contribution to the walls of the Royal Court of Justice, in London. Banksy's newest work shows a judge, in a traditional wig a...

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · Sep 4

The Long View is back! How to cultivate your defiance: embracing silence 🪷, encouraging resistance, and taking one simple step towards action 🪧

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How to cultivate defiance: silence, resistance, and action

"If you have nothing useful to say, then say nothing at all..

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · Sep 2

This week, we hear from Harriet about:

⚖️ how the Sally Challen case made feminist legal history
💼 what the Centre for Women’s Justice strives to achieve today
🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 advice for aspiring feminist lawyers: stay true to activist movements

And get inspired ✨ to read her new book: "Sister in Law" 📚

Jen Ang @jena.ng · Sep 2

🎤 New episode! This week, we hear from activist lawyer Harriet Wistrich on her decades-long commitment to seeking justice for women who kill their abusive partners ✊🏼

🎧 Tune in to the @lawmanity.com Podcast here:
podfollow.com/1824535187

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JustRight Scotland @justrightscotland.org.uk · Sep 1

We’re representing a family fighting for their home and way of life.

⚖️ This is the first civil court case to test how Scotland’s new UNCRC law works in practice.

📜 It also relies on Article 8 of the ECHR - the right to respect for private and family life.

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Showpeople family go into battle over Glasgow council eviction

Showman Jimmy Stringfellow is facing the fight of his life - to save his Clydeside home.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · Aug 23

Just found this baggie of joy in my desk drawer, and unreal how happy this made me 😁 🙌🏽

#JellyBelly #Jellybeans #SaturdayWorkingNotWorking

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Aug 20

Legendary director Ken Loach has joined an Edinburgh demonstration against the proscription of Palestine Action

The double-Palme d’Or winner said the UK Government’s terror label for the group was a ‘legal monstrosity’

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Aug 19

I see UK Lawyers for Israel popping up again today, so let me remind you of perhaps the noblest & most rational use of their boundless legal skills, namely their bid to prevent Scottish pro-Palestine activists from registering a Palestinian tartan with the official Register of Tartans, for charity

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · Aug 14

Looking for an opportunity to make a ✨real difference ✨ for people in #Scotland?👇🏾

goodmovesjobs.bsky.social @goodmovesjobs.bsky.social · Aug 4

@justrightscotland.org.uk are looking to appoint up to four new people to join their Board of Trustees.

Find out more at tinyurl.com/49cxadcc

#Trustees #Chair #Law

Trustees with JustRight Scotland – Goodmoves

At JustRight Scotland we use the law to defend and extend people’s rights.As some of our current trustees come to the end of their term, we’re looking to formally appoint up to four new ...

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PeacefulWarrior @iforgetnormal.bsky.social · Aug 13

Like the grass, I too, am exhausted by this clown.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 13

“The grass is exhausted. I know a lot about grass.” 🤦🏼

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · Aug 8

#lawmanity #podcast #law #socialchange #activism #activistlawyer #Scotland #makeadifference

Jen Ang @jena.ng · Aug 8

🎤 Like all new skills, learning to podcast has been scary, humbling ... and also a lot of fun!

We now have 17 interviews in the bag for the @lawmanity.com 2025/26 season

🎧 Check us out: pnc.st/s/lawmanity

  Huge thanks to @halinarifai.com for guidance and to Natalia Uribe for producing the show!

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Talat Yaqoob @talatyaqoob.bsky.social · Jul 30

I’ve written for @heraldscotland.bsky.social on Gaza, and the cowardice of so-called world leaders who use statehood as a negotiation tool with the oppressor… www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

World leaders have had the answers from the start

World-leaders continue to hide behind the semantics, more concerned with “difference of opinion” than the now estimated over 61,000 Gazans…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 17

Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside.

Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.

It’s institutional racism.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is excellent - a point by point rebuttal to the justifications of the Moygashel bonfire with effigies of refugees at the top. Thank you
@bearlypolitics.co.uk for writing this.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/hate-but-m...

Hate, But Make It Heritage

The Moygashel bonfire wasn’t about frustration - it was about dehumanisation. And the justifications are getting bolder.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · Jul 11

Wise words from human rights lawyer (and legend!) Alison Pickup, Exec Director of @asylumaid.bsky.social 🌻 on this week's @lawmanity.com podcast 🎤

Lawmanity @lawmanity.com · Jul 11

"Don't hurry..." 😊 Alison's advice for getting started in a career as a human rights lawyer or activist