Sarah Foster
@safos.bsky.social
Londoner at home in Wales 🏴Believer in community education and lifelong learning. Late discoverer of human geography (PhD) Finding activism in many forms. Stand up Speak out 🇵🇸 . Walking is the way forward. 🥾🐾
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If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
Well said.
June 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
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On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
Well said.
June 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
Well said.
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Boiling with rage hearing on the radio that Labour is welcoming in Refugee Week with the announcement that instead of asylum hotels they’ll be expanding the
Disastrous
Dehumanising &
MORE EXPENSIVE
“Mass” accommodation sites at places like ex-army bases.
There are not enough facepalms.
Disastrous
Dehumanising &
MORE EXPENSIVE
“Mass” accommodation sites at places like ex-army bases.
There are not enough facepalms.
June 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Boiling with rage hearing on the radio that Labour is welcoming in Refugee Week with the announcement that instead of asylum hotels they’ll be expanding the
Disastrous
Dehumanising &
MORE EXPENSIVE
“Mass” accommodation sites at places like ex-army bases.
There are not enough facepalms.
Disastrous
Dehumanising &
MORE EXPENSIVE
“Mass” accommodation sites at places like ex-army bases.
There are not enough facepalms.
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Our CEO on why new Home Office immigration stats make it clear people seeking safety here are not the "strangers" the PM claims: "more than two-thirds (68%) of people who applied for asylum ... were from a country that was directly affected by British colonial rule"
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www.bigissue.com/opinion/immi...
The obvious problem with Starmer's 'island of strangers' immigration speech
Far from 'strangers', new statistics show that people seeking safety in the UK have deep roots here, writes Refugee Action's Tim Naor Hilton.
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June 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Our CEO on why new Home Office immigration stats make it clear people seeking safety here are not the "strangers" the PM claims: "more than two-thirds (68%) of people who applied for asylum ... were from a country that was directly affected by British colonial rule"
www.bigissue.com/opinion/immi...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/immi...
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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
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There is a really key point in this interview with Zoe where she's asked why more cruelty won't stop immigration. Her answer is absolutely accurate:
"Why because in these circumstances migration is life" (not doing so being death).
Cruelty is no deterant. It's just cruelty.
"Why because in these circumstances migration is life" (not doing so being death).
Cruelty is no deterant. It's just cruelty.
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
May 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
There is a really key point in this interview with Zoe where she's asked why more cruelty won't stop immigration. Her answer is absolutely accurate:
"Why because in these circumstances migration is life" (not doing so being death).
Cruelty is no deterant. It's just cruelty.
"Why because in these circumstances migration is life" (not doing so being death).
Cruelty is no deterant. It's just cruelty.
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It's amazing how many people, including MPs, don't realise just what Minimum Income Requirements mean, and the impact they have on families. More than half the UK population is basically ineligible to be with a foreign born partner, leaving families ripped apart.
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'I'm separated from my one-year-old son due to Home Office visa rule - it's agonising'
Leighton Allen was just a month away from being able to bring his baby and partner to the UK - until the rules suddenly changed
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February 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It's amazing how many people, including MPs, don't realise just what Minimum Income Requirements mean, and the impact they have on families. More than half the UK population is basically ineligible to be with a foreign born partner, leaving families ripped apart.
search.app/knp1jekwwRJP...
search.app/knp1jekwwRJP...
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There is a sickness in European culture.
A sickness we have never reconciled. A catch-22 we trap people escaping unimaginable danger in.
And we use them, after they've lost everything, as a lightning rod for our hate.
Will Europe abandon Syria again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohsa...
A sickness we have never reconciled. A catch-22 we trap people escaping unimaginable danger in.
And we use them, after they've lost everything, as a lightning rod for our hate.
Will Europe abandon Syria again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohsa...
Is Europe abandoning Syria AGAIN?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:34 PM
There is a sickness in European culture.
A sickness we have never reconciled. A catch-22 we trap people escaping unimaginable danger in.
And we use them, after they've lost everything, as a lightning rod for our hate.
Will Europe abandon Syria again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohsa...
A sickness we have never reconciled. A catch-22 we trap people escaping unimaginable danger in.
And we use them, after they've lost everything, as a lightning rod for our hate.
Will Europe abandon Syria again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohsa...
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The fall of Bashar al-Assad is undeniably a moment to celebrate, and that's what today should be about, but, big but, as someone who works in/studies displacements there are things which need to be addressed quickly. 1/
December 8, 2024 at 10:17 AM
The fall of Bashar al-Assad is undeniably a moment to celebrate, and that's what today should be about, but, big but, as someone who works in/studies displacements there are things which need to be addressed quickly. 1/
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This whole thread ❤️
It is so beautiful, so wonderful, so pure to see the Syrians who we have been so lucky to call our neighbours & friends during their exile speak of return & being reunited ❤️❤️
Syrians across Europe are finally dreaming they will see their home again, a hope so many had lost through the years🙌
Syrians across Europe are finally dreaming they will see their home again, a hope so many had lost through the years🙌
December 8, 2024 at 1:14 PM
This whole thread ❤️
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Wrote this about a deeply dangerous shift by Keir Starmer this week towards embracing the anti-migrant rhetoric of Nigel Farage, and what he should be doing instead www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/opening-th...
Opening the Borders to Nigel Farage
Keir Starmer's attempts to mimic the rhetoric of the Reform leader will end as badly for him as it did for his Conservative predecessors
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November 30, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Wrote this about a deeply dangerous shift by Keir Starmer this week towards embracing the anti-migrant rhetoric of Nigel Farage, and what he should be doing instead www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/opening-th...
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"After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance, Response" - 50% off till 5th Dec: www.plutobooks.com/978074533958... With contributions from Ben Okri, Tony Walsh, Lowkey, Phil Scraton, Daniel Renwick, Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan, Gracie Mae Bradley, Robbie Shilliam & The Radical Housing Network.
After Grenfell
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traum...
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November 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
"After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance, Response" - 50% off till 5th Dec: www.plutobooks.com/978074533958... With contributions from Ben Okri, Tony Walsh, Lowkey, Phil Scraton, Daniel Renwick, Nadine El-Enany, Sarah Keenan, Gracie Mae Bradley, Robbie Shilliam & The Radical Housing Network.
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UK legally obliged to arrest Netanyahu on British soil, experts say - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-legally-obliged-arrest-netanyahu-british-soil-experts-say
UK legally obliged to arrest Netanyahu on British soil, experts say
The UK's International Criminal Court Act, signed in 2001, enforces compliance with the court
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November 21, 2024 at 4:36 PM
UK legally obliged to arrest Netanyahu on British soil, experts say - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-legally-obliged-arrest-netanyahu-british-soil-experts-say
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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...