Asma Alam recalls her family experience - bricks thrown threw windows etc, back in days when racism was more overt.
She thought this would never happen again... but it is.
Asma is co-chair of Muslim Greens of @greenparty.org.uk
#GreenChai #Immigration

Part 2 here

"My parents come from the Caribbean. I sit with an embodied, deeply embodied, knowing of my truth, of our truth. And that energy, and how I choose to use my energy, is a very important concern when considering our responses." @drdianneregisford.bsky.social responds to Starmer's speech
#GreenChai

When we met @councillorq.bsky.social last weekend, she told us exactly what she thought of Keir Starmer's immigration speech!
#GreenChai

@mothinali.bsky.social reminds us that immigrants are people, “like my father and grandfather who came here to build this country literally back up from the ashes …”
He condemns Starmer’s rhetoric, “people are struggling,” demanding that real issues are addressed.
#GreenChai

"We call upon the Labour government to withdraw its proposed immigration rules which are inhumane, unfair and unachievable for many.

The government needs to be lead by what's right, just and needed to support a sustainable UK economy to the betterment of all who live here."

"People of the global majority in the UK are feeling more unsafe since last summer’s racial riots and the rise of Reform in the recent local elections. What we need right now is a leader who truly understands the need for multiracial unity in our diverse society. Not someone who echoes Enoch Powell"

"We become strangers when the government cuts back on community services, council house building, sports, arts, preventing access to a full life, by making public transport expensive, cutting back PIPs, and social care.

"Becoming strangers has nothing to do with immigration.

"The Global Majority Greens find the Prime Minister’s racist immigration speech made on Monday to be an example of a government that is deflecting from its own incompetence in managing the country’s economy."

Read our full statement in the screenshots that follow

Britain and the Allies victory in Europe 80 years ago was supported globally as nations colonised by Britain contributed soldiers, medical workers, resources and capital.
India. Sri Lanka. Nigeria. Trinidad and Tobago. South Africa. Malaya and others across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean.

#GlobalMajorityGreens’ Amanda Onwuemene and Indar Picton Howell with Bell Ribeiro-Addy on “Toxic Air and Social Justice:The Unequal Burden of Air Pollution” at Westminster tonight.

It’s the first Saturday of the Lunar New Year and lions are out in full force!
#LionDance
Here’s Beeston, Nottingham
@nottsgreenparty.bsky.social

Frantz Fanon: "In decolonization, there is therefore a need of a complete calling in question of the colonial situation. If we wish to describe it precisely, we might find it in the well known words “The last shall be first, and the first last.” /..

#BooksWeRead

Global Majority Greens wish our East and South East Asian friends a Happy Lunar New Year. May the year of the Wood Snake bring us all, blessings, good health and abundance.

For those less familiar with Chinese, East Asian and South East Asian traditions, read on. A 🧵

On Holocaust Memorial Day our thoughts are with the millions of Jewish, Roma, Black, Asian, LGBT and disabled people who were killed in Nazi Germany

Through those horrors we said Never Again, leading to the Genocide Convention.

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