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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti

@roxana-pessoa.bsky.social
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Social scientist at the University of Bristol, migrant, feminist, mother, always on the side of the oppressed. Researching violence, policing, criminalisation, social movements, feminism, Brazil. orcid.org/0000-0003-3885-8603

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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shrinking plans and projects continue at the #University of #Brighton… clearly only leading to more shrinking and worry… as well as threatening basic workers’ rights: www.theargus.co.uk/news/2655207...
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University campus 'could close by 2030' as staff take to the streets in protest
The University of Brighton is considering plans that could see its Falmer campus close by 2030 as part of a major overhaul of its estate
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 03/08/2026
As the U.S. expands criminalization, the situation is particularly dire for folks who struggle with mental illness. One study shows that forced hospitalizations double the risk of being charged with a crime and risk of death by suicide/overdose in the 3 months after discharge:
Screenshot of a two-panel graph showing the average treatment effects over six months comparing hospitalized patients and control compliers:

Panel A shows that violent crime charges rise more for hospitalized patients

Panel B shows that deaths by suicide or overdose also increase more for hospitalized patients

Study: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff_reports/sr1158.pdf
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Critical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Advance article (open access): The tentacular violence of migration policies: The case of Latin American women living in the UK by Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
@josiahmortimer.bsky.social it has led to some street art (enjoyed by locals & tourists) as far as Brighton
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Introducing the concept of tentacular violence to explain how immigration policies shape the lives of migrant women & families. I thank the participants who shared their experiences, and hope the paper contributes to document and resist injustices doi.org/10.1177/0261... @csp-journal.bsky.social
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Survivors of the Windrush scandal have been given memorials and apologies, but they're still being denied fair compensation and actual justice. Call for justice now - add your name! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...
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Honour Promises Made to Windrush Generations
Hey! 👋 Survivors of the Windrush scandal have been given apologies and memorials, but the reality is that many are still being denied fair compensation. 😔 On Windrush Day (22nd June) we're taking the ...
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The alarm has been ringing for a long time! ‘As the Earth continues to warm, extreme heat events historically confined to high summer will become more frequent, more intense and last longer… happening earlier and later in the year’ Act now
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We must organise to reject racism, vigilantism and violence. Sign this statement by Migrant Rights Network docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and say no to this violence: theconversation.com/belfast-viol...
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Belfast violence: an uncomfortable reminder of the innocent people ‘burnt out’ during the Troubles
Families fled burning homes as violence flared in the city.
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Absolutely outrageous criminalisation of solidarity. Note also one officer covering his face, a practice I’ve been seeing in Brazil where police are responsible for mass atrocities and high levels of killings of racialised and marginalised people. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Terrifying
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 12/05/2026
🚨BREAKING -- The Court of Appeal has ruled that Mr Justice Johnson had no jurisdiction to refer Palestine Action barrister Rajiv Menon KC for contempt of court proceedings. These proceedings were brought against Menon after he reminded a jury earlier this year of its absolute right to acquit.
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Vicki Lesley @vickilesley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Sobering stuff about the secretive & unaccountable surveillance activities happening in Yorkshire… www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTsi...
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Bradford City of Climate Culture - Accountability for Menwith Hill US Spy Base
YouTube video by Bradford 2025 City of Climate Culture
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Vicki Lesley @vickilesley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Honoured to be taking part in this webinar, a rare opportunity for UK campaigners to hear direct from the Western Shoshone about the toxic ongoing legacy of British nuclear tests in Nevada, with new updates on contamination & the connection to AI #nukesky from-bombs-to-data-centres.eventbrite.co.uk
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
@csp-journal.bsky.social Absolutely excellent webinar today by the Critical Social #Policy collective, modelling deep democracy, solidarity and #decolonisation through action, writing, collaborative research practices and funding for amazing initiatives around the world. Thank you!
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Building Knowledges of Solidarity for Critical Social Policy - website launch invitation
Building Knowledges of Solidarity for Critical Social PolicyFriday 8th May 202611am-1pm GMTOnline via ZoomRegister via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-knowledges-of-solidarity-for-...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Extremist is the death and destruction that Benjamin Netanyahu government brings on a daily basis. Extremist is them introducing the death penalty for Palestinians. Extremist is this apartheid, genocidal Israeli Government that our Government shamefully supports.
UK green party leader is an "extremist" say Israel's deputy FM
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Good news!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Israel’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn
Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy say criticising Israeli government is not disloyalty but a Jewish obligation
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New report shows worsening of racial bias in police practices - deeply concerning that Black children in England and Wales almost eight times more likely to be strip-searched than white peers – and over five times more likely than Asian children. www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/pol...
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Police powers and children – strip searching and use of force | Children's Commissioner for England
Few issues have defined my tenure as Children’s Commissioner so sharply as the strip searching of children by police. As a former teacher and headteacher
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Greater Manchester Patients Not Passports @gmpnp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We were never consulted on Palantir gaining access to our health data. But we've since made our views known. And in just 4️⃣ DAYS, MPs will debate activating the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. Tell you MP to do the right thing 👇 www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
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Email your MP to demand no Palantir in our NHS
Palantir faces scrutiny for human rights abuses as MPs debate its £330m NHS data contract on 16 April. Urge your MP: no Palantir in our NHS. Act now.
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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Excellent Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social interview with 'Empire of AI' author Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social – Especially insightful for Ireland, where abject political & media capitulation to misleading big tech & AI promises continues to be the norm. drilled.media/news/drillin...
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Big AI Is Gambling with the Planet’s Chips
In their pursuit of scale and dominance, environmental destruction is a price today’s tech giants are willing to pay, Karen Hao warns in ‘Empire of AI.’
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I’m excited to deliver this talk next week! Book to join us and think together about #Feminist #Cities for all.
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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
👋Our next Justice Futures seminar is on Tues 24th at 12 noon (UK time). Online. The talk examines the lived experiences of feminist, Black, and LGBTQIA+ human rights defenders in Brazil as they navigate routine violence and shrinking democratic space. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sccjr-just...
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Jamie Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
#poetry #palestine
they say it plain
we rape
we kill
we want them gone

they mean us

they mean
the mothers braiding hair
the daughters learning songs
the children hiding
under moons split open
by bombs

they say it
like a prayer
like policy
like pride

and still-
the world looks away
calls it complicated
asks us to be
civil

while they burn
what's left
of our names

-daliah lina
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 11/03/2026
Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.
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Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran
A U.S. military “targeting error” triggered the killing of at least 175 at a school in Iran, the highest civilian death toll in Trump’s war.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
‘I stand with Iran. Unequivocally. Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power’ Arundhati Roy ✊ m.thewire.in/article/book...
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I Am Ashamed of How Gutless, Spineless Our Government Has Been: Arundhati Roy on US-Israel War on Iran - The Wire
Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource grabbing, bomb dropping imperial power and i...
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Obstinate clinging to counterproductive cruel policies. It’s not immigration that cripples public services, it’s ultra wealthy elites sucking up all resources for unbelievably gross luxury living. Immigration decline starving caring services of staff
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Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat
Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters
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Dan Godshaw @dangodshaw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Immigration officers "conspired together to steal cash from migrants on small boats" and "worked together to take money and share it out". This is symptomatic of an immigration regime that encourages the degradation and exploitation of people seeking safety www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Border staff who 'stole cash from small boat migrants' are bailed
Officials appear in court charged with stealing from small boat arrivals and money laundering.
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Book to join us for the Bristol screening of 'No Release' on 18th March with @monish.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-release...
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NO RELEASE: Immigration, Location Tracking and Control
The Social Harm, Crime and Violence Research Centre (School for Policy Studies) invites you to the screening of the film No Release.
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A new era of blatant white supremacist/fascist propaganda. Definitely has a terrifying/atrocity/demonic ring to it… How embarrassing for the American people to see more junk published by the “department of state”.
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Powerfully written! The sector is not just stretched, it’s rigged & dismantled- set up to fail families with extortionate rents & some profiting from the slow erosion of stability, dignity and childhood. Yes to social & affordable housing!
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Criminological Encounters @crimencounters.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Announcement: Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti will join Lambros Fatsis as a Guest Editor for our upcoming issue: Towards an Anti-racist Anti-Criminology. Publishing: March 2027. All info here: www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr... @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social
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Call for Papers: Towards an Anti-racist Anti-Criminology | Criminological Encounters
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
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Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
An ICE detainee is the victim of “homicide” according to an autopsy report, and he is just one of 3 deaths in 44 days at this Texas ICE detention facility. I've got the latest details, including DHS' efforts to silence and deport the eyewitnesses to this homicide. youtu.be/lcLnJ9GF7dw?...
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ICE Caught RED HANDED After DEATH Ruled HOMICIDE!!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 22/01/2026
The last time the government released figures on numbers of US military personnel in Britain (January 2024) they disclosed 13,437. But this only covered seven US bases. The government has just said "approximately 11,000" are here, but refuses to provide numbers at each base.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/01/2026
The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
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Union condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of Sheffield
The University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"[M]asked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday...[the agent] led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”
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ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...
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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
3,000 people have read our @environmentalpol.bsky.social article in its 1st month online The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest - a repertoire of repression With @crossdale.bsky.social, C Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & T Franco Brotto
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
When “Operation Raise the Colours” started attaching flags to lampposts, you couldn’t analyse it in the media without the reply, “it’s just people innocently expressing national pride”. Now the same people are travelling to France to intimidate refugees. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘They’re emboldened’: British far-right activists step up harassment of asylum seekers in northern France
Aid groups say rise of far-right rhetoric in politics has fed into intimidation, vandalism and hate graffiti around migrant camps
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Brilliant Brighton welcomes visitors, but who wants to come and see us looking like an oppressive police state? Sussex Police, with no legal basis, has put live facial recognition vans on our streets. As MP, I will stand up to its unlawful use, and vote against this intrusive tech in Parliament.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The punitive populist race to the bottom goes on www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Home Office TikTok account posting deportation footage accused of turning ‘brutality into clickbait’
Video of raids and migrant arrests shared by profile with slogan ‘restoring order and control to our borders’
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Precisely! This was homicide, committed by ICE, and supported by Trump, showing his routine disregard for human life.
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Cruel & inhumane- it shows how atrocities go ahead in plain sight at the hands of ordinary people, including those in bureaucratic jobs - presumably someone pressed send on the letter. Thinking of his family.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Any news outlet that values truth should state unequivocally that US government officials are lying when they say that Renee Nicole Good tried to harm the ICE thug who killed her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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How the ICE shooting in Minneapolis unfolded
BBC Verify breaks down how the shooting which killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis unfolded.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Young people turning 20 this year will have been aware of literally nothing but cuts and communities forced into hardship for their whole lives. My new year wish is for austerity to finally be shown the door. www.theargus.co.uk/news/2573870...
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My new year hope: an end to austerity
After a tough and often disappointing 2025 for the UK, we need a serious injection of hope into politics in 2026, and I aim to help bring it.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Epstein seems to have been relegated down the news agenda.
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Infrastructure in UK cities after several years of cuts is an absolute embarrassment. Today I saw a child and an elderly person fall in icy pavements, and a working age neighbour off with a foot injury. At best, this shows a systemic short sighted way to govern. Another reading is deadly neglect.
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
New article! The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression by @crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & Tie Franco Brotto. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
This paper sets out a repertoire of repression operating to criminalise and repress recent climate and environmental protest globally. Deploying a novel mixed methods approach, involving a comparative quantitative and qualitative analysis of a sample of 14 countries, we identify that repression and criminalisation are global phenomena – spanning the Global South and North. The repertoire of repression includes: i) enactments of new anti-protest laws; ii) creative and strategic use of existing legislation and legal processes; iii) police action, such as arrests, surveillance, harassment and other forms of police violence; iv) disappearances and killings; and v) vilification. We argue that this repression is a complex eco-system involving state and non-state actors, laws and legal processes, social and media discourses which operate to deplete, deter and delegitimise protest, and distract attention from violent or harmful political structures.
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