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Nabil Ahmed

@nabilahmed.bsky.social
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Dad to 3. Own (mostly optimistic) views here. Inequality guy. Economic + racial justice director at Oxfam America. Working on the “madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air”.

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Rebecca Riddell @rebeccariddell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs are a wrecking ball harming working class families in the US and worldwide. @oxfamamerica.bsky.social's @abbymaxman.bsky.social condemns the stoking of a devastating trade war that will turbocharge inequality: www.oxfamamerica.org/press/presid...
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Nabil Ahmed @nabilahmed.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Oxfam reaction on President Trump’s “reckless use of tariffs”; represent “an attack on global working class”. Turns “economic tool into a wrecking ball that slams in all directions” - in U.S. and countries worldwide. Meanwhile, “peddles fiction” that they cover cost of tax breaks for billionaires.
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Oxfam America @oxfamamerica.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Breaking: Oxfam America is joining the lawsuit to block the Trump administration's assault on humanitarian aid. The attack on foreign assistance and USAID is an illegal and unconstitutional action that exacerbates existing humanitarian crises and will have life or death consequences for millions.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/02/2025
TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
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We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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Nabil Ahmed @nabilahmed.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What a choice; a defining photo for the new gilded age. An inauguration that makes clearer than ever the triumph of oligarchy - one that isn’t incidental but intrinsic to the politics and policies that we’re seeing set out.
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Rebecca Riddell @rebeccariddell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
NEW: Oxfam's global inequality report🧵 Billionaires gained $2 trillion in 2024, 3x the rate of '23. At this pace we expect 5 trillionaires in a decade. While billions live in poverty. We dive deep on colonialism, inheritance & the bold action we need: oxf.am/TakersNotMak...
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Nabil Ahmed @nabilahmed.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
New Oxfam global inequality report out. Buckle up everyone. 2024 billionaire wealth grew 3 times faster vs 2023. Now predicting not 1 but FIVE trillionaires within a decade. Poverty at 1990 numbers. Most billionaire wealth taken not earned. That’s before Trump-Musk. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/...
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Billionaire wealth surges to 'unimaginable' levels in 2024 as Oxfam predicts emergence of five trillionaires within a decade
Last year marked the second-largest annual increase in billionaire wealth since records started, according to Oxfam.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 20/12/2024
🔥 TWAS THE STRIKE BEFORE CHRISTMAS! 🔥✊ Starbucks baristas are going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting tomorrow in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle... and soon, from coast-to-coast. 🧵
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Human Rights Watch has found Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, likely leading to thousands of deaths. This amounts to the crime against humanity of extermination and acts of genocide. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza
Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water since October 2023, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths and thus committing the crime...
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Rebecca Riddell @rebeccariddell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Respect for human rights means no one should go hungry or unhoused. That's why this human rights day, we're looking at transformative economic policies that reduce inequality and fulfill rights. Evidence-based and also movement-backed. Check it out: www.oxfamamerica.org/press/press-...
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