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Wolvo Pingu
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Council housing for all and a free Palestine 🇵🇸 and fuck proscription
This is similar to the attempts to make lifetime social housing tenancies temporary. Social landlords thought it was a great idea until they had 1,000s of tenancies to constantly renew ... At which point they pretty much all returned to lifetime tenancies again
The other reason is that the Home Office simply doesn’t have the resources to process each person‘s asylum claim several times over. It struggles to process the cases it‘s got. Delays are colossal. These proposals will hugely increase bureaucracy and cost, as well as the effects on people’s lives 4/
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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The other reason is that the Home Office simply doesn’t have the resources to process each person‘s asylum claim several times over. It struggles to process the cases it‘s got. Delays are colossal. These proposals will hugely increase bureaucracy and cost, as well as the effects on people’s lives 4/
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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One reason is that people who’ve fled for their lives need security and permanency to rebuild their lives. The last thing they need is unending anxiety about being sent back to what they escaped. This will cause huge stress, damage to mental health, harm to children, difficulties in integrating 3/
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.

Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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On the most rainy day of the year, over 150 HASL families descended on Lambeth council's housing office to demand an end to the latest bullying tactics the council are targeting at homeless people.

You can read our letter here housingactionsouthwarkandlambeth.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/o...
October 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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HASL shut down Lambeth’s housing office over bullying tactics!💥

Over 150 HASL members descended on Lambeth council's civic centre on the wettest day of the year!💪

Read our report here mailchi.mp/2160f92c871e...
November 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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💥📽️🍿Watch HASL in action shutting down Lambeth council's housing office over their escalation of bullying tactics!

Last week in the pouring rain over 150 of us descended on the council to deliver a massive letter with our simple demand -stop bullying homeless people!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc4F...
HASL shut down Lambeth's housing office over bullying tactics!
YouTube video by Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Our amazing HASL values meeting this morning discussing and reflecting on our principles and organising to help make our group even stronger 💪✊🧡
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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So if Angela Rayner had to step down then surely Rachel Reeves does too eh eh eh
October 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Can't think of many better illustrations of how badly we have botched housing policy than the fact that our bill for housing homeless families (£2.8bn pa) is now higher than the money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn)

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/english...
English councils’ temporary accommodation bill rises to £2.8bn
Councils in England spent a record £2.8bn on temporary accommodation last year, with the annual bill rising by 25% as the homelessness crisis deepens.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
July 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Any help on this would be appreciated. We've been inundated with enquiries we cannot answer from academics, public sector workers and journalists about what they can and cannot say. One writer has been advised to temporarily stop promoting their book as it includes a chapter on Palestine Action
Does anyone have guidance on how the proscription of Palestine Action might affect academic freedom? The worrying part for scholars of Palestine/Israel would seem to be 'whether what you say about them could encourage others to support them'. Would appreciate info or links to existing discussions!
netpol.org Netpol @netpol.org · Jul 16
Palestine Action have been banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK.

Read our FAQ on the proscription and find out what this means in practice for campaigners.

netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...
July 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Ben Jamal of @pscupdates.bsky.social and Chris Nineham of @stwc.bsky.social will have to wait until on 23 February 2026 to face an absurd political trial for alleged public order offences, related to the Palestine solidarity march on 18 January this year www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/p...
Trial date set for Palestine protest organisers accused of public order offences
Benjamin Jamal, 61, and Christopher Nineham, 63, are both charged over the protest held in central London on January 18.
www.standard.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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"We hate war and injustice."

British punk duo Bob Vylan explained their pro-Palestine stance at a gig in Greece. It was their first performance since Glastonbury, where their controversial 'death to the IDF' chant sparked backlash.
July 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The High Court judgement regarding Palestine Action's proscription and the enforcement of the order today from is the most extreme application of terrorism legislation we've yet seen in this country. It's so extreme, in fact, that it's causing the law itself to become openly incoherent. Thread🧵🔽
July 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
July 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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A witness backstage has confirmed for me that she was physically removed.
July 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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At Pride in London security came on stage to stop someone from waving a Palestine flag during Chaka Khan's performance on the main stage.
July 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".

And so it begins.
July 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
July 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A new direct action group calling itself 'Yvette Cooper' claims to have targeted Time Logistics for providing transport in Britain for Israel's Elbit Systems. Its message to the government on social media says, "if you want to ban Palestine Action, you'll have to proscribe Yvette Cooper too"
July 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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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.
www.lbc.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM