Fabien Goa
@fabiengoa.bsky.social
Human rights researcher based in Marseille.
Work on migrants' rights, GCC migrants, sports & human rights. Also talk antiracism, borders, politics, MUFC
Diaspora Mauritian 🔴🔵🟡🟤
Cantona disciple 🔴⚪⚫ #Legacyfan SAF N2411 UTFR
Work on migrants' rights, GCC migrants, sports & human rights. Also talk antiracism, borders, politics, MUFC
Diaspora Mauritian 🔴🔵🟡🟤
Cantona disciple 🔴⚪⚫ #Legacyfan SAF N2411 UTFR
New research from Amnesty International documenting how France's dysfunctional and discriminatory residence permit system violates racialized migrant workers’ rights www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
France: Dysfunctional and discriminatory residence permit system violates racialized migrant workers’ rights
New research from Amnesty International exposes how France’s residence permit system for migrant workers is trapping racialized people in administrative limbo and leaving them vulnerable to labour exp...
www.amnesty.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New research from Amnesty International documenting how France's dysfunctional and discriminatory residence permit system violates racialized migrant workers’ rights www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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France Info TV invite donc Michel Onfray, habitué des plateaux de CNews, et normalise le vocabulaire complotiste des médias Bolloré en utilisant l'expression "grand remplacement". S'il cherche à copier l'extrême droite médiatique, l'audiovisuel public aura à la fois la défaite et le déshonneur.
October 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
France Info TV invite donc Michel Onfray, habitué des plateaux de CNews, et normalise le vocabulaire complotiste des médias Bolloré en utilisant l'expression "grand remplacement". S'il cherche à copier l'extrême droite médiatique, l'audiovisuel public aura à la fois la défaite et le déshonneur.
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I added some thoughts on the Peacehaven mosque attack here www.hauntologies.net/p/going-to-t...
Going to the Peacehaven Mosque
Some reflections following the 4 October terrorist attack
www.hauntologies.net
October 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I added some thoughts on the Peacehaven mosque attack here www.hauntologies.net/p/going-to-t...
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Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live.
Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live.
Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The only ideology they have is infinite consumption, and he has affected that, so now they are upset. What they wanted, by the same token, was not free speech but infinite speech - to say what they liked without backlash. And that deserved backlash is upsetting them too. That's basically it.
“I voted for none of this."
Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
October 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The only ideology they have is infinite consumption, and he has affected that, so now they are upset. What they wanted, by the same token, was not free speech but infinite speech - to say what they liked without backlash. And that deserved backlash is upsetting them too. That's basically it.
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Any credible future history of the rise of the early c21st UK far right will include a chapter on the crucial process of mainstreaming, in which Goodwin and the rest of the "legitimate concerns" gang will feature prominently. His later journey will be a footnote.
October 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Any credible future history of the rise of the early c21st UK far right will include a chapter on the crucial process of mainstreaming, in which Goodwin and the rest of the "legitimate concerns" gang will feature prominently. His later journey will be a footnote.
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If anything, Goodwin was far more useful to the far right back then than he is now. Wittingly or unwittingly, he acted as a plausibly authoritative outrider, mainstreaming their "concerns" and undermining the norms that had kept them marginalised until then.
October 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If anything, Goodwin was far more useful to the far right back then than he is now. Wittingly or unwittingly, he acted as a plausibly authoritative outrider, mainstreaming their "concerns" and undermining the norms that had kept them marginalised until then.
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To what extent is it radicalisation and to what extent is it his real self being revealed? I suspect it's both. Ten years ago he was whitewashing racism as the legitimate concerns of the downtrodden and deriding anti-racists as a cosmopolitan elite. These were not exactly small red flags.
Matthew Goodwin continues to harden and radicalise his own views, year on year.
October 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
To what extent is it radicalisation and to what extent is it his real self being revealed? I suspect it's both. Ten years ago he was whitewashing racism as the legitimate concerns of the downtrodden and deriding anti-racists as a cosmopolitan elite. These were not exactly small red flags.
One my favourite thinkers, who also happens to be one of my favourite human beings, and whose writing, podcasting and documentary-making never fails to inspire and energize.
Your department, your project, your crew would undoubtably benefit from having Elia onboard!
Your department, your project, your crew would undoubtably benefit from having Elia onboard!
Random, but I’m still looking for stable employment (research/analysis/writing/teaching) and I’m happy to send along my CV in English/French. Job has to be in the UK, Canada or online.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
One my favourite thinkers, who also happens to be one of my favourite human beings, and whose writing, podcasting and documentary-making never fails to inspire and energize.
Your department, your project, your crew would undoubtably benefit from having Elia onboard!
Your department, your project, your crew would undoubtably benefit from having Elia onboard!
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Palestine 🇵🇸
Eric Cantona voiced support for Palestinian refugees by backing Lajee Celtic Club from Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp. He appeared on Instagram wearing the club’s shirt, endorsing a Celtic fan campaign in Scotland raising funds for the team.
Eric Cantona voiced support for Palestinian refugees by backing Lajee Celtic Club from Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp. He appeared on Instagram wearing the club’s shirt, endorsing a Celtic fan campaign in Scotland raising funds for the team.
Eric Cantona shares jersey of refugee camp team to benefit Palestine
French football legend wears jersey of Lajee Celtic Club in Israeli-occupied West Bank - Anadolu Ajansı
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September 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Palestine 🇵🇸
Eric Cantona voiced support for Palestinian refugees by backing Lajee Celtic Club from Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp. He appeared on Instagram wearing the club’s shirt, endorsing a Celtic fan campaign in Scotland raising funds for the team.
Eric Cantona voiced support for Palestinian refugees by backing Lajee Celtic Club from Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp. He appeared on Instagram wearing the club’s shirt, endorsing a Celtic fan campaign in Scotland raising funds for the team.
"For the right, this crackdown wasn’t a sign of the excesses of the Cold War but rather the proper role of government: to police public life to make sure it conformed to conservative values"
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left @pastpunditry.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left @pastpunditry.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"For the right, this crackdown wasn’t a sign of the excesses of the Cold War but rather the proper role of government: to police public life to make sure it conformed to conservative values"
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left @pastpunditry.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left @pastpunditry.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
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THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
September 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org:
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye.
#OSINT
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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
"Conor called for a return to compassion as the core normative impulse of human rights movements – not compassion as charity or benevolence, but as a commitment to a radical empathy and to justice. For Conor, human rights were rooted in a radical universalism, premised upon an equal humanity."
September 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Conor called for a return to compassion as the core normative impulse of human rights movements – not compassion as charity or benevolence, but as a commitment to a radical empathy and to justice. For Conor, human rights were rooted in a radical universalism, premised upon an equal humanity."
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Chez France Travail, l’agence européenne chargée du contrôle aux frontières Frontex, promet « de la chasse » de migrants pour recruter des « jeunes hommes » ⬇️
www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...
www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...
Chez France Travail, Frontex promet « de la chasse » de migrants pour recruter
Retrouvez sur StreetPress nos enquêtes & infos, sur Paris et en banlieue. Et découvrez chaque jour les lieux et les gens qui font l’actu urbaine en Île-de-France.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Chez France Travail, l’agence européenne chargée du contrôle aux frontières Frontex, promet « de la chasse » de migrants pour recruter des « jeunes hommes » ⬇️
www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...
www.streetpress.com/sujet/175853...
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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
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It was trivially easy to predict that the Starmer government's belated condemnation of far right criminality last weekend would be quickly followed by even more intensive pandering to the far right's politics. Its who they are. They won't change
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK anti-slavery commissioner condemns Shabana Mahmood’s asylum comments
Home secretary’s remarks about ‘vexatious’ claims will have real-life impact on trafficking victims, says Eleanor Lyons
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It was trivially easy to predict that the Starmer government's belated condemnation of far right criminality last weekend would be quickly followed by even more intensive pandering to the far right's politics. Its who they are. They won't change
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Imagine what he'll do when he finds out that a senior politician stoked racism and struck fear into the heart of black and brown Britons by giving a speech about immigration where he said that Britain risked becoming "an island of strangers."
NEW - A punchy Keir Starmer at cabinet condemns the violence at Saturday's march "led by a convicted criminal" saying they had "sent a chill through the spines of people around the country, and particularly many ethnic minority Britons."
September 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Imagine what he'll do when he finds out that a senior politician stoked racism and struck fear into the heart of black and brown Britons by giving a speech about immigration where he said that Britain risked becoming "an island of strangers."
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2/ The far right deals in fear because they cannot compete with the solidarity we embody every day. Do not mistake their noise for strength.
They shout for cameras; we organise for a better future for everyone.
Let’s look after each other, and remember, our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders
They shout for cameras; we organise for a better future for everyone.
Let’s look after each other, and remember, our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
2/ The far right deals in fear because they cannot compete with the solidarity we embody every day. Do not mistake their noise for strength.
They shout for cameras; we organise for a better future for everyone.
Let’s look after each other, and remember, our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders
They shout for cameras; we organise for a better future for everyone.
Let’s look after each other, and remember, our #SolidarityKnowsNoBorders
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Solidarity is not a slogan; it is a practice.
Every bit of progress we’ve made, from trade union rights to migrant justice, was won not because those in power handed it down, but because ordinary people demanded it. And took action to make it happen. ⬇️
Every bit of progress we’ve made, from trade union rights to migrant justice, was won not because those in power handed it down, but because ordinary people demanded it. And took action to make it happen. ⬇️
September 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Solidarity is not a slogan; it is a practice.
Every bit of progress we’ve made, from trade union rights to migrant justice, was won not because those in power handed it down, but because ordinary people demanded it. And took action to make it happen. ⬇️
Every bit of progress we’ve made, from trade union rights to migrant justice, was won not because those in power handed it down, but because ordinary people demanded it. And took action to make it happen. ⬇️
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"We're going to go after the NGO Networks"
JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.
JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"We're going to go after the NGO Networks"
JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.
JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.
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On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born.
(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
September 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born.
(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
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"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
September 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.