Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just voted! #Brasil Meu coração é vermelho 010
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Shrinking 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...theargus.co.ukUniversity campus 'could close by 2030' as staff take to the streets in protestThe University of Brighton is considering plans that could see its Falmer campus close by 2030 as part of a major overhaul of its estate 000
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 03/08/2026As 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: 1153
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiCritical Social Policy @csp-journal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Advance 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.... 011
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 141
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Introducing 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.socialdoi.org 010
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Survivors 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...you.38degrees.org.ukHonour Promises Made to Windrush GenerationsHey! 👋 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 ... 000
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Only June and already the second heatwave this year in the UK. Children and elderly people dying in the heat in Europe. Actually scary… 000
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comTwo children found dead in car in France as heatwave hits EuropeNumber of countries issue alerts with sustained and rising temperatures expected to present danger to health 000
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The 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 110
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026We 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...theconversation.comBelfast violence: an uncomfortable reminder of the innocent people ‘burnt out’ during the TroublesFamilies fled burning homes as violence flared in the city. 010
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Absolutely 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...msn.comMSN 000
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiDeclassified 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. 7320169
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiVicki Lesley @vickilesley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Sobering stuff about the secretive & unaccountable surveillance activities happening in Yorkshire… www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTsi...youtube.comBradford City of Climate Culture - Accountability for Menwith Hill US Spy BaseYouTube video by Bradford 2025 City of Climate Culture 011
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiVicki Lesley @vickilesley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Honoured 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 011
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!criticalsocialpolicy.comBuilding Knowledges of Solidarity for Critical Social Policy - website launch invitationBuilding 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-... 000
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Extremist 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. 1352734792
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 28/04/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comIsrael’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warnRabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy say criticising Israeli government is not disloyalty but a Jewish obligation 1259
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026New 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...childrenscommissioner.gov.ukPolice powers and children – strip searching and use of force | Children's Commissioner for EnglandFew 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 010
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiGreater Manchester Patients Not Passports @gmpnp.bsky.social · 12/04/2026We 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...amnesty.org.ukEmail your MP to demand no Palantir in our NHSPalantir 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. 7138561227
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiPaul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Excellent 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...drilled.mediaBig AI Is Gambling with the Planet’s ChipsIn 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.’ 12110
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026AOC: 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. 486190596919
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I’m excited to deliver this talk next week! Book to join us and think together about #Feminist #Cities for all. 021
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiScottish 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... 033
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiJamie Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 30/06/2025#poetry #palestine 0104
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiThe Intercept @theintercept.com · 11/03/2026Despite 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.interc.ptPentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in IranA 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. 28954
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiNick 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...m.thewire.inI Am Ashamed of How Gutless, Spineless Our Government Has Been: Arundhati Roy on US-Israel War on Iran - The WireAny 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... 522752
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiRobert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 28/02/2026www.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 stafftheguardian.comShabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeatHome secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters 041
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiDan Godshaw @dangodshaw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Immigration 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...bbc.co.ukBorder staff who 'stole cash from small boat migrants' are bailedOfficials appear in court charged with stealing from small boat arrivals and money laundering. 011
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Book to join us for the Bristol screening of 'No Release' on 18th March with @monish.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-release...eventbrite.co.ukNO RELEASE: Immigration, Location Tracking and ControlThe Social Harm, Crime and Violence Research Centre (School for Policy Studies) invites you to the screening of the film No Release. 062
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026A 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”. 010
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026This analysis of the housing issue will be of interest migration.bristol.ac.uk/2026/02/09/w...migration.bristol.ac.ukWhy does the UK government spend so much money on ‘asylum hotels’? – Migration Mobilities Bristol 000
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Powerfully 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! 010
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiCriminological Encounters @crimencounters.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Announcement: 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.socialcriminologicalencounters.org Call for Papers: Towards an Anti-racist Anti-Criminology | Criminological Encounters 032
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiByline 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.bylinetimes.comJeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK GovernmentThe 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 311385782
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/01/2026A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵 121604886
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/01/2026An 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?...youtu.beICE Caught RED HANDED After DEATH Ruled HOMICIDE!!!YouTube video by Katie Phang 721704774
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiDeclassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 22/01/2026The 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. 23324
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/01/2026The 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...ucu.org.ukUnion condemns continued docking of staff pay following strike action at University of SheffieldThe University and College Union (UCU) has today condemned the lockout and withholding of staff pay at the University of Sheffield following lawful industrial action 17578
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiKatie 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.”mprnews.orgICE 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... 18624511205
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiOscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 19/01/20263,000 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 13015
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 19/01/2026When “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...theguardian.com‘They’re emboldened’: British far-right activists step up harassment of asylum seekers in northern FranceAid groups say rise of far-right rhetoric in politics has fed into intimidation, vandalism and hate graffiti around migrant camps 212558
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiSian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Brilliant 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. 05412
Reposted by Roxana Pessoa CavalcantiKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The 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...semafor.comExclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in QatarThe details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro. 16082348210755
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The punitive populist race to the bottom goes on www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comHome 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’ 000
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Maybe the answer is too obvious, but hopefully people are also asking why they shot her, since she was a US citizen, mother and poet, who was there as a legal observer of ICE? www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comRenee Nicole Good: Who was the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis? - BBC NewsA mother of three and award-winning poet, Good's sudden death sparks protests across the US. 010
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Precisely! This was homicide, committed by ICE, and supported by Trump, showing his routine disregard for human life. 010
Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Cruel & 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. 000