Connie Lahiff
@connielahiff.bsky.social
PhD researcher. Immigration/ asylum, bureaucracies, opaque institutions
"Those numbers don’t count the kids slowly dying of hunger and thirst. The kids getting sick from drinking sewage and sea water. They don’t count the kids with cancer who will not be able to get any care... The numbers just don’t count, period. They’re Palestinians"
Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so | Arwa Mahdawi
As the last few weeks have made abundantly clear, Palestinian lives don’t count
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2023 at 11:26 AM
"Those numbers don’t count the kids slowly dying of hunger and thirst. The kids getting sick from drinking sewage and sea water. They don’t count the kids with cancer who will not be able to get any care... The numbers just don’t count, period. They’re Palestinians"
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The legal process to increase the immigration health surcharge (a levy on most visas) from £624 a year to £1,035 a year has started. The increase will kick in on 16 January 2024 at the earliest. commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/823...
October 20, 2023 at 12:05 PM
The legal process to increase the immigration health surcharge (a levy on most visas) from £624 a year to £1,035 a year has started. The increase will kick in on 16 January 2024 at the earliest. commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/823...
Reposted by Connie Lahiff
Global Legal Action Network & Al Haq have asked Kemi Badenoch to suspend weapons export licences to Israel based on govt’s Strategic Licensing Criteria, whereby weapons may not be exported where there’s clear risk they might be used in violations of international law www.glanlaw.org/israel-weapo...
Israel Weapons Sales | glanlaw
GLAN and Al Haq have written to UK government asking them to halt weapons sales to Israel on basis of breaches of international humanitarian law.
www.glanlaw.org
October 19, 2023 at 11:04 AM
Global Legal Action Network & Al Haq have asked Kemi Badenoch to suspend weapons export licences to Israel based on govt’s Strategic Licensing Criteria, whereby weapons may not be exported where there’s clear risk they might be used in violations of international law www.glanlaw.org/israel-weapo...
Reposted by Connie Lahiff
Reposted by Connie Lahiff
Clearsprings received the most complaints of any company providing asylum seeker housing, yet since 2019, it has made profits of £42.7m. Last year £28m dividends were paid, mostly to Graham Ian King, a Tory donor. Reward for failure, contracts for cronies. bylinetimes.com/2023/10/13/m...
Meet the Man Making £26m a Year from the UK’s Dysfunctional Asylum System – Byline Times
Clearsprings received the most complaints of any company providing asylum seeker accommodation. It is privately owned by a Conservative Party Donor
bylinetimes.com
October 17, 2023 at 8:31 AM
Clearsprings received the most complaints of any company providing asylum seeker housing, yet since 2019, it has made profits of £42.7m. Last year £28m dividends were paid, mostly to Graham Ian King, a Tory donor. Reward for failure, contracts for cronies. bylinetimes.com/2023/10/13/m...
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On October 31st I'm coordinating a national day of action against the extortionate cost visa fees for Migrant Voice. We will be capping the day off with a rally in central London between 6-8pm. Please share the link below with your networks. We need people there.
www.migrantvoice.org/campaign-upd...
www.migrantvoice.org/campaign-upd...
National Day of Action: #ActionOnVisas
We are going to lead on organising a national day of action to raise awareness of visa costs and settlement routes among the public and policy makers.
www.migrantvoice.org
October 16, 2023 at 8:51 PM
On October 31st I'm coordinating a national day of action against the extortionate cost visa fees for Migrant Voice. We will be capping the day off with a rally in central London between 6-8pm. Please share the link below with your networks. We need people there.
www.migrantvoice.org/campaign-upd...
www.migrantvoice.org/campaign-upd...
The Compass of Mourning from Judith Butler.
'I want to speak about the violence, the present violence, the history of violence and its many forms....'
'I want to speak about the violence, the present violence, the history of violence and its many forms....'
Judith Butler · The Compass of Mourning · LRB 13 October 2023
We are to condemn or approve, and that makes sense, but is that all that is ethically required of us? In fact, I do...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 14, 2023 at 10:44 AM
The Compass of Mourning from Judith Butler.
'I want to speak about the violence, the present violence, the history of violence and its many forms....'
'I want to speak about the violence, the present violence, the history of violence and its many forms....'