#Activists

Gift

JGiftmacher

I have to admit, it does bug me that Labour activists are being compared to trump supporters. Last GE was conducted under the ever present threat of violence and intimidation

Amnesty Iraq

AmnestyIraq

We have been closely monitoring and documenting the recent uptick in killings of protesters, journalists, medics and activists by gunmen in the context of the #Iraqiprotest. A pattern we had

James Martin, SJ

JamesMartinSJ

Thread: In Poland, where homophobia is rampant, LGBT people are on trial for "desecrating" a copy of the Black Madonna. But Mary is for everyone, including LGBT people, and there

Kodama Mama

CaseyExplosion

Using "TRA" to describe trans people isn't neutral, it's deliberately invoked to mimic MRA, or Men's Rights Activist, and when used to describe trans women is a form of dogwhistle

Alkhatab Alrawhani

alkhatabyemen

#Yemen is a very active topic on Twitter these days, with a number of online campaigns underway, some of which are trending globally. What’s new and interesting is the massive

Jasveer Singh

JazzTheJourno

There's a twisted stereotype of Sikh activists being nothing but illogical angry Khalistanis that allows people to believe @SikhFedUK would spend years campaigning for a separate tick box which would

BBC News (World)

BBCWorld

In Belarus, hundreds of opposition activists and journalists are being rounded up and jailed ahead of next month’s electionsBBC journalists watched as police grabbed peaceful protesters off the streets of

ALQST for Human Rights

ALQST_En

The #Saudi Ambassador to the UK floated the idea they may be willing to release women activists. Then denied the report. This is not the first time they've used this

Omair Ahmad

OmairTAhmad

The anti-CAA/NRC protests were for Constitutional rights.They were not the creation of any political party, and were often at loggerheads with many of them.They focussed on the rediscovery of the

Slothrop

gnocchiwizard

normalize being fine with someone who's not an "organizer." normalize not giving a shit about the latest political theater or whatever the news is peddling any given week. many well-motivated

Melinda Wenner Moyer

lindy2350

I agree. There's no question the Covid-19 vaccines will save many, many lives and are key to getting us out of the pandemic. But I think it's dangerous to speak

Philip Gorski

GorskiPhilip

1/ A brief addendum on the social base of right-wing populism. "Diner interviews" in the American "heartland" have created a deeply misleading picture of the activist base of populist movements

Eminently 🏳️‍🌈

eminently_me5

2008What happened? Three simultaneous things: 1. The tea party, the fruition of decades of low-key local work by the cultural right wing, burst onto the national scene. 2. White people

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Seeing images of Biko's lifeless body on the TL so let me just do a cleanse. I'll start with this image supplied by historian and librarian Mwelela Cele from his

Karen Piper

PiperK

So... @DevinNunes was working with a group of people who planned to wiretap Hillary Clinton's assistant Seth Rich in an attempt to prove that Russia wasn't involved in the 2016

Boyd van Dijk

boyd_vandijk

reading about anti-Apartheid lawyering on behalf of ANC death row guerrillas in 70s/80s, and attempts to frame them as POWs to prevent the death penalty, it's even more striking to

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