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Aasiya Bora
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Green Party member, campaigner, candidate. Global Majority Greens, Muslim Greens, Greens for Palestine, all crucial intersectional groups within GPEW,pls follow
. Co-founder of Muslims Declare a Climate Emergency. 🌳📚
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I'm going to put together a thread of what the Green Party is doing differently for rights for disabled people.
October 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The Institute of Economic Affairs free market think tank spokes person Matthew Ledger says pay people less. He's reaching because his arguments have failed.

The alternative is the Green Party deputy leader Mothin Ali who wants to pay people more.
Reach for that link join.greenparty.org.uk
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October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Old video, still sadly relevant.

Solidarity to my fellow candidates experiencing hate.

It takes courage to stick your head above the parapet especially as a Global South person.

Remember to bring love to a situation, it’s fine not to agree with a candidate, its not fine to smear them for it 💚
July 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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... denounced as criminals in their time. If they were active now, using the same tactics, would they too be labelled “terrorists”?

Who were the real terrorists here, and who were the true heroes?

@palaction.bsky.social act with deep love and humanity, and solidarity as clear as pure water...
July 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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... of the Proscription debate, before voting for or abstaining on banning Palestine Action.

The Suffragettes ran a 2-year long arson & bombing campaign. They stormed the House of Commons, underwent hunger strikes; one even martyred herself. Many of the suffragettes were arrested, surveilled...
July 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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... The irony too, that @london.gov.uk Overground has co-opted the Suffragettes' struggle by naming one of their lines - which runs through Lewisham - after the , is not lost on us. Nor are the female Labour MPs posing in sashes celebrating 97 years of women’s right to vote on the very day...
July 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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... In 2023, protesters turned out month after month to defend Honor Oak Pub’s Drag Storytime and trans communities from neo- Nazi groups linked to
extreme right Christian fundamentalists.

We again mobilised last summer when fascists were threatening and attacking migrant & refugee communities...
July 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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... to resist state violence, is exactly what he now seeks to suppress.

The right to protest is fundamental in any democracy. Lewisham has a proud and radical history of protest. In 1977, we stood together to oppose fascism during the Battle of Lewisham, confronting & stopping the National Front...
July 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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... who once defended anti-war protesters when they broke into RAF Fairford to sabotage US bombers, stating that they were justified in their illegal actions on the basis of preventing a greater crime – the Iraq war. The principle behind that defence, that ordinary people have a right, even duty...
July 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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... Labelling such action as “terrorism” is a deliberate attempt to silence dissent and distract from the moral and legal questions around Britain’s support for the ongoing occupation of Palestine.

We are particularly disturbed by the rank hypocrisy of Labour Party leader Keir Starmer...
July 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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... Altogether this is a sickening intensification of the UK Government's active complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Palestine Action engages in nonviolent direct action to expose and disrupt the UK’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and the arms trade that sustains it...
July 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Not only is this a dangerous escalation in the ongoing erosion of civil liberties and the criminalisation of political dissent in the UK, but there is evidence pointing to alleged interference from pro-Israel groups lobbying for the ban...
July 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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@lewishamgreenparty.bsky.social unequivocally condemns @teamlabouruk.bsky.social's decision to proscribe @palaction.bsky.social as a "terrorist organisation"

We've joined protests & publish this statement ahead of today's Urgent Hearing outcome, which will hopefully stop the ban coming into effect.
July 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Since being elected as Bristol Central's first Green MP a year ago, I've been asked lots of questions about what it's like!

So I've tried to answer a few here - from the best, worst and weirdest parts of working in Parliament to the most famous people I've met...

www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
'I know from my inbox that Bristolians are desperate to see more climate action'
Carla Denyer reflects on her first year as a Green MP
www.bristol247.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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When we met @councillorq.bsky.social last weekend, she told us exactly what she thought of Keir Starmer's immigration speech!
#GreenChai
May 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🐼😁🎍Groooaaaan🎍😁🐼 grinning and bearing it @mothinali.bsky.social !!!!
Get your Panda heads out and say it with me
"I won't ever Panda to the far-right"
May 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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🎉 A huge welcome to our new councillor for @greenparty.org.uk in Lewisham.

🙌🏼 A proud champion for migrants, a clear and effective voice against austerity and a voice of solidarity with Palestine.

💚 Welcome @tamhauyu.bsky.social!
March 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The UK Green Party has slammed Elon Musk and far-right convict Tommy Robinson after the billionaire re-shared Robinson’s grooming gang video which featured Green Party Councillor Mothin Ali despite him having no links to the vile crime.

5pillarsuk.com/2025/01/08/g...
Greens condemn Musk over ‘defamatory’ far-right video
FacebookLikeShareTweetEmail The UK Green Party has slammed Elon Musk and far-right convict Tommy Robinson after the billionaire re-shared Robinson’s grooming gang video which featured Green Party Coun...
5pillarsuk.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Heartbreaking to hear Ms Bokassa speak of her son's death. My thoughts are with Kelyan's family & friends

"She said she asked for help...but did not receive support from the authorities" - this must be looked into & more is needed to support families & protect children
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Kelyan Bokassa stabbing: Mother not surprised son killed in London
Kelyan Bokassa was groomed by gangs from the age of six years old, his mother Mary Bokassa said.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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🚨 Tell your MP - Protect healthworkers

Israel is escalating its genocide on Gaza and its attack on Palestinian healthworkers. Write to your MP to demand they push the govt to #StopArmingIsrael, and protect healthcare workers (1/5)

Write here: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/healthcarewo...
Write to your MP: Palestinian healthcare workers under attack
palestinecampaign.eaction.online
January 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Thank you for shining a light on the awful situation in Gaza but also being brave enough tk challenge our complicity. It's a messed up world where ppl can't see who the oppressors and oppressed are anymore
December 3, 2024 at 10:26 PM