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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti

@roxana-pessoa.bsky.social

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Social scientist at the University of Bristol, migrant, feminist, mother, always on the side of the oppressed. Researching violence, policing, criminalisation, social movements, Brazil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3885-8603

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Apr 8

Check out our report on the Criminalisation & Repression of Climate & Environmental Protests

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 7d

A helpful poster, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 27d

Guilty www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup

Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 29d

Thousands protest presence of Israeli companies at London arms fair - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/protest-israel-elbit-dsei-fair-london-arms

Thousands protest presence of Israeli companies at London arms fair

Several activists, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza, received medical treatment amid police clashes at the DSEI event

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Sep 5

2/2 Posh, wealthy men who control right wing politics & most print & broadcast media can persuade working class men & women to turn a blind eye to their accumulation of yet more millions with all sorts of tax avoidance measures. They avoid any accountability,

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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings

Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · Sep 6

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".

-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.

This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.

Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal

Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951

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Netpol @netpol.org · Sep 5

RESHUFFLE: having built a reputation for complicity in genocide by banning or criminalising protest groups, Yvette Cooper is now off to the Foreign Office to do nothing whatsoever to stop Israel on the international stage

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · Sep 3

Almost 50% of lab workers identify as neurodiverse.

So what difference could it make for research organisations to fully embrace neurodiversity in their workplace culture?

We supported the John Innes Centre to implement a project aiming to do just that 👇

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Aug 29

BLOG - Seven ingredients for a Neuroinclusive research organisation

In our latest #JICNeurodiversity blog, we reflect on the remarkable impact and success of our BBSRC @ukri.org funded “Understanding, Valuing and Celebrating Neurodiversity” project 🌈🧠

Watch full video: youtu.be/bwUEJju9XQ4?...

Understanding, Valuing and Celebrating Neurodiversity – Impact of our BBSRC Connecting Culture grant

YouTube video by John Innes Centre

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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is assimilation era pedagogy.
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Education Minister cut Māori words from future junior books, documents reveal

The near-total ban was driven by concern it would be confusing for children learning to read English, documents show.

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Aug 11

How low will the government go? Arresting elderly peaceful protesters for speaking out against genocide... such an embarassing moment in British politics and policing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London

Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 9

I regret to inform you that Starmer’s been tweeting dehumanising videos of migrants again.

These videos have been shown to increase support for Reform, by increasing salience of migration.

He has to go.

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Aug 8

Pro-Palestine protester threatened with arrest takes legal action against Kent police

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jul 23

Brazilian Foreign Ministry says international community ‘cannot remain inactive’ in the face of ‘ongoing atrocities’.

Brazil to join South Africa’s ICJ ‘genocide’ case against Israel

Brazilian Foreign Ministry says international community ‘cannot remain inactive’ in the face of ‘ongoing atrocities’.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · Jul 18

Organizations that support environmental defenders have criticized the slow response and lack of action from the Intersectoral Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in response to the attack on members of the Kakataibo Indigenous community in Peru’s Mariscal Cáceres province.

Attack on Indigenous land defenders in Peru reveals snags in protection system

On April 13, 2025, members of the community forest monitoring committee from the Kakataibo Indigenous community faced an attack while carrying out a routine patrol of their ancestral territory in…

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Jul 18

Another bill trying to “legalise” more environmental destruction www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law

President has 15 days to approve or veto legislation that critics say will lead to vast deforestation and destruction of Indigenous communities

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Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre @igdc.bsky.social · Jul 10

Join us on 16 July for a webinar where our expert panel will be examining the criminalisation of environmental protest in both the Global North and South.

Find out more and book your place here www.york.ac.uk/igdc/events/...

Criminalisation of environmental protest

Join us for a timely and urgent discussion on the global trend towards repressing environmental activism, with insights from the UK, Europe, and Latin America.

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yes! If you’re in or near Brighton, don’t miss this amazing Brazilian dance experience www.theargus.co.uk/news/2529436...

Brazilian dance group to host first festival of its kind in the city

Forró By The Sea, a Brighton-based dance group, is bringing the joy of Brazilian partner dance to the south coast.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Video: ICE agents drive SUV through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed with protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hard hitting. This is genocide www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast

Ramita Navai investigates Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals in a controversial film. Plus: celebrating football hero Mary Earps. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Jun 30

I’m in agreement with Gina Romero: “profiting from the […] curtailing of human rights is despicable” British law firm coached universities on how to obtain sweeping protest bans

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Netpol @netpol.org · Jun 24

LBC, in a rare moment of honesty, reported: "The protest, which started relatively peacefully, quickly turned chaotic when police stormed into the crowd... after one of them allegedly pushed a police officer... It is unclear if a police officer was actually pushed" www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Palestine Action clashes with police after government 'bans' them under anti-terror laws

Protesters in support of Palestine Action have clashed with police as the government moves to ban the civil disobedience group.

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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Jun 26

The UK government defends the Israeli state as it kills Gazans every day in their rush for food, but has defined a peaceful "direct action movement committed to ending global participation in Israel’s genocidal and apartheid regime" as terrorists...
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PETITION: Defend the right to protest: no proscription of Palestine Action

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Jun 24

Absurd attacks on democracy! “The real crime here is not red paint being sprayed on warplanes, but war crimes enabled with those planes because of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide”
Yvette Cooper vows to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws

Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · Jun 20

Solidarity with colleagues striking in Edinburgh today! Universities must stop the redundancy threat and instead focus on the job that needs doing - education !!!

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Jun 12

Israeli forces killed at least 60 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday while they were seeking food from a distribution point.

And now the Government has admitted that it is currently training Israeli military personnel in the UK.

Our Government is complicit in genocide.

INDEFENSIBLE
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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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