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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 17/12/2024

This is how colonisation works, in three photos.

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 13/12/2024

Is Assad’s fall a loss for Palestine? x.com/ajplus/statu...

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 12/12/2024

Western journalists should not be liberating Syrian prisoners. Syrians deserve dignity. Going in to a prison cell and mumbling English words at a prisoner whose response is to think you’re coming to harm him is… NOT journalism. There are Syrians with you. Let them do it. Step back. Give space.

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 10/12/2024

This was a few days before Bashar fell. That country is consistently on the wrong side of history: Sudan, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Palestine…

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 10/12/2024

This is heartbreaking. This is just the tip of the iceberg of pain x.com/ajplus/statu...

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 09/12/2024

A short history of Israel’s occupation of Syria:

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024

Anyone else not want to clear notifications because keeping hold of this feels… right

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024

The Syrian people are free. The Palestinians will be next.

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024

Never forget Hama. This is the Assad family’s legacy:

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 08/12/2024

4 February 2011. The Syrian uprising was about to begin. I knew this would be the last time I would see this monstrosity of a statue in Damascus. I just never imagined I would see a free Syria in my lifetime.

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Today, around one-in-three @transportforlondon.bsky.social staff is Black or a person of colour. The legacy lives on, but now their stories are being told A public challenge to centuries of silence. The new name, the Windrush Line, is a conversation starter. It’s a conversation that is long overdue

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Signs along the line pay tribute to the enduring contribution of people of Caribbean origin in London

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

And of the UK’s stubborn refusal to pay reparations, despite compensating the people who did the enslaving.

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

As well as centuries of Black rebellion against British colonialism and enslavement

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

In the UK, we’re taught about Britain’s role in ending slavery. But I didn’t learn about the true horrors of what Britain had done until I left school A new exhibition at Dalston Junction, one of the Windrush Line’s stations, tells the story how Africans ended up in the Caribbean in the first place

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

So this week, the train line that links all of those areas has got a new name: the Windrush Line. But there’s something quite astonishing…

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

When Caribbeans - many from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago - arrived in London, they faced yet more racism. They were banned from renting some properties, faced brutality from the police, and violence from fascist groups.

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

One of the biggest labour shortages was at London Transport. They even ran a recruitment campaign in the Caribbean from 1956 to 1970. And many of these new workers were housed in south London: Peckham, New Cross, Brixton

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Just as Britain had forcibly trafficked Africans to its colonies in the Caribbean and elsewhere, it was now shuffling people around based on its needs, once again.

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

@transportforlondon.bsky.social has renamed its six lines. One of them is the *Windrush Line* After the Second World War, there was a huge labour shortage. The UK looked to its colonies to fill the gap *Empire Windrush* was one of the first ships that brought people from the Caribbean to the UK

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Story time: what was London Transport’s connection to the UK’s role in slavery - then and now? And how is @transportforlondon.bsky.social helping the UK to finally address its dark history, while commemorating the survivors of colonialism? A 🧵

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Sakhr Al-Makhadhi @sakhr.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Hello hello, my name is Sakhr, I tell stories for @ajplus.net, often on the Arab world + social justice. I try to look at the world from a Global South perspective, because we are the Global Majority, and our voices have been overwritten for so long. That stuff + transport, cycling and coffee

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