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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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The Public Execution of Professor Jason Arday — Stroud Against Racism
Dr. Jason Arday's story unfolded over several weeks as the country watched a black man hounded to his death by the British media, well-known for fanning the flames of racism and xenophobia. We are dis...
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Robin Layfield (he/they) 💚 🌈 ✊🏽 @robinlayfield.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Powerful words from Hamza. I witnessed at first hand the dialog between a motion writer and a random commentator that Hamza describes. “It looks written by an AI” — shorthand for delegitimising and undermining the author. hamzaegal1.substack.com/p/the-algori...
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The Algorithm is the Latest Border
Technology, power and the new apartheid
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Cllr Gareth Kitchen @eco-g.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
I had my personal pension with AJ Bell until they decided to advertise on GB News. When I contacted them they just doubled down. So I just transferred my pension to a provider who gave me an assurance they wouldn't fund hate.
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Cllr Gareth Kitchen @eco-g.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026
More love than hate. 💜 Been out on the high street dropping off @stroudsar.bsky.social leaflets to local shops, not because we've got a problem, but because the best time to tackle prejudice is before it starts. Drop me a message if you want some A5 leaflets. Pls Boost! 🙌 #MoreLoveThanHate #wotton
Copy of the A5 leaflet and helpline numbers:-
🚨 Emergency — 999 
👮 Gloucestershire Police (non-emergency) — 101 
📞 Tell MAMA (anti-Muslim hate) — 0800 456 1226 
📞 CST (antisemitic hate) — 0800 032 3263 
💜 Victim Support — 0800 077 8460 
🔒 Crimestoppers (anonymous) — 0800 555 111
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Premiere of a documentary spotlighting young Muslim changemakers across Gloucestershire who are creating inspiring movements focused on health, wellbeing and community empowerment. Saturday 4th July 2026  - 6-8 pm Rodborough Tabernacle, Stroud Tickets from - £5 theruhcollective.org/all-events/?...
Poster for the event.  Details as per post.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Premiere of a documentary spotlighting young Muslim changemakers across Gloucestershire who are creating inspiring movements focused on health, wellbeing and community empowerment. Saturday 4th July 2026  - 6-8 pm Rodborough Tabernacle, Stroud Tickets from - £5 theruhcollective.org/all-events/?...
Poster for the event.  Details as per post.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
An AI tool used by Spain's public health system misses 1 in 3 melanomas and was trained almost entirely on white patients. "Without rigorous validation on diverse populations, these tools risk causing real harm, particularly to marginalized groups." civio.es/sanidad/2025... #CodedBias #ai
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Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin
The Basque Country is implementing Quantus Skin in its health clinics after an investment of 1.6 million euros. Specialists criticise the artificial intelligence developed by the Asisa subsidiary due ...
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
So, reduce harmful and ineffective practices like high-volume stop search. Invest in genuine upstream prevention to fix structural drivers. Transp. about what data shows inc. the victim offender overlap as a basis for interventions that keep people safe. Community scrutiny to redistribute power???
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Really? Just need to sort out the systemic racism now then.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
X amplifies this because its algorithm profits from racial outrage, distorting public opinion. Bluesky's silence could reflect better moderation or just a more balanced user base.
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Cllr Gareth Kitchen @eco-g.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026
🏛️ NEW at Museum in the Park:"Home From Home:Our Migration Stories" 50+ objects,12 contributors,11 countries; exploring belonging in Stroud. Windrush keepsakes & The Boat of Hope artwork 🧳 🆓 FREE | Tue-Fri 10-4:30 | Wknds 11-4:30 🔗 museuminthepark.org.uk #Stroud #MigrationStories #MuseumInThePark
Photograph of Carmela Guerrini, pictured with her wedding photograph celebrating her marriage to fellow Italian migrant Martino Guerrini © Fulvio Naselli.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Poster for the 'Revolting' fundraiser event on 27.06.26 at The Prince Albert, Stroud, raising money for LGBTQ+ refugees in South Sudan. Features the transgender symbol combined with a raised fist, and lists performers 'Acts of Gross Indecency' and 'Nervous Rex'.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It’s 100 to 200 black and brown people walking through nature with binoculars. And people were just staring at us asking, ‘What are you doing?’ www.huckmag.com/article/6-ye... #BLM #GeorgeFloyd #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice #EquityInNature
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6 years on from George Floyd, how much more accessible is the…
Second Nature — A new report by The Mix Global highlights continued barriers that marginalised folks face when exploring nature, despite attempts at…
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Love this - Tyrone was absolutely made for the job, and, after his close call in the by-election a few years ago, I am so, so happy to see him voted into office at last in Hackney! 👏👏💚 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘I’ll talk to work on Monday’: what happens when a ‘paper candidate’ actually wins
Tyrone Scott, who didn’t think he had a hope in the election, wants to help the Greens rebuild ‘community cohesion’ in Hackney
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Stroud bands and DJs will play at the Locking Hill Studio on the Slad Road on the 7th March to support a unity rally in London organised by the Together Alliance.
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Cllr Gareth Kitchen @eco-g.eurosky.social · 27/02/2026
Just got in from a bash with Stroud Greens. Plus the sale of my business completed at 5pm. Plus it's Top of Pops 1979. What a day!?!!
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Well. That's a result. Sale cancelled. www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/glouces...
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
More than dismayed that a Gloucestershire auction house is holding a sale of Nazi memorabilia.
More than dismayed that a Gloucestershire auction house is holding a sale of Nazi memorabilia.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Come to our Annual General Meeting on Sunday, February 1 from 1-4 pm at the Exchange, Brick Row, Stroud. All members welcome. 

Help chart our way forward for the coming year.
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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
When confronted with the fact that their tech is flawed, UK law enforcement agencies demanded everything be reverted back to the fully-broken “normal” they’d been allowed to abuse since the tech’s inception. www.techdirt.com/2025/12/24/u...
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UK Law Enforcement Pushed Hard To Maintain Access To Deeply Flawed Facial Recognition Tech
While each iteration presents a chance to improve, there are some very real reasons why facial recognition tech will do a bit of stagnating. And that reason is the biggest market for this tech: law…
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Keep the Repair & Ride workshop @ GARAS rolling Dedicated volunteers working hard to refurbish donated bikes and offer free repairs to asylum seekers. Your support can help keep this workshop active providing practical assistance to those who need it most. www.gofundme.com/f/jeqpw-keep...
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Donate to Keep the Repair & Ride workshop @ GARAS rolling, organized by Michelle Forster
Working from a courtyard at Gloucestershire Action for Refugees and A… Michelle Forster needs your support for Keep the Repair & Ride workshop @ GARAS rolling
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We're out in the shires! Black ethnicity 1.3%. 2024 was around half a dozen stops a month. 2025 to date around a dozen per month.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Thanks. We need to look at that. What's troubling us right now is that HO data ending Mar 25. Shows Black SS at 4.9x. Yet Apr25-Sep25 data is showing 11x. And we don't know why. listed.to/@eco_g/67603... www.police.uk/pu/your-area...
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Stop and search
Number of stop and searches by outcome per month.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Such a shame it's on Substack. There is an ongoing exodus from that platform, people just don't want to support it.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Yes, for sure. But Policing is meant to be more than that, isn't it? This is about equity and legitimacy. The disproportionality in the false positives will inevitably have downstream implications. It is morally problematic. I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree on this.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
and that's the point. These false positives are people! These figures cannot be brushed aside unless, of course, leadership is content to bake even more disproportionality into a system that's already groaning under its weight.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Maybe accurate but 8 out of 10 false positives were people going about their lawful business. Pulled aside in public, surrounded by officers, talked to, intimidated then sent on their way, humiliated, just because they're Black. That cannot be brushed aside. Approx 4m people use the Tube daily.
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨 BREAKING: The government has tabled their plan to restrict repeat protests. Demonstrations could now banned based on the 'cumulative disruption' that previous protests have caused in the area - regardless of if they have been organised by the same people or not. This is worse than we feared.
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Government's repeat protest restrictions worse than feared - Liberty
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
If fare evasion is a breach of the rail co. bylaws, doesn't that make it civil offence? If that's true, would a police officer even have the power of arrest in this situation? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
By outcome you mean arrest? Sort of brushes aside the 8 out of 10 false alerts were people from Black ethnic backgrounds doesn't it? Pulled aside in public, surrounded by officers, talked to, intimidated then sent on their way. Just for going about their lawful business but being Black.
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Stroud District Green Party @stroudgreens.org.uk · 02/11/2025
Local Greens were among the 250 people who joined this counter protest against the anti-asylum seeker demonstration at Ibis Hotel #Gloucester yesterday. The counter protesters hugely outnumbered the demonstrators, and one hotel guest even came out to thank the counterprotest for the support💚
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Indeed! We lack specific law governing police use of LFR. Relying instead on court rulings, HO & ICO guidance. This regulatory gap limits oversight and raises serious concerns. In a functional democracy, any surveillance that impacts fundamental rights needs parliamentary scrutiny. We need that now!
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It should be pointed out that the EU has effectively blocked police use of live facial‑recognition in public areas to protect citizens’ privacy & fundamental rights and preventing discriminatory outcomes whilst strong oversight legislation is developed. www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Home Office Not Monitoring How Police Use Live Facial Recognition
The Home Office is not monitoring how police forces are using live facial recognition technology despite evidence that the equipment can lead to ra...
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
xodus.online
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Xodus
...Building a movement away from toxic social media platforms, towards alternative open social media...
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
An edition which quite simply shouts to the reform that's so long overdue in UK policing. Thank you for all your work.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
“Eternal Song - ancestral wisdom for collective healing” is a film about indigenous spirituality, screening at the Trinity Rooms on Field Road, Stroud. This Sunday 26th October from 3-7pm This is an opportunity to find out more about indigenous spirituality. A led discussion afterwards.
Poster. As per post.
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Check our our exhibition at Lansdown Gallery, Stroud. BLACK IN THE FRAME 12-5pm - Wednesday 22th through Saturday 25th October 12-3pm - Sunday 26th October Love to see you there.
A poster with the words: 
Black in the frame:
We make the art we want to see.
Logo of Black Ark Media and Stroud Against Racism
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The teaching of Black and Minority Ethnic history and racism is compulsory in Wales, yet it is not a mandatory part of the curriculum in the rest of the UK. Why's that? stroud.social/notice/Az5JC...
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The teaching of Black and Minority Ethnic history and racism is compulsory in Wales, yet it is not a mandatory part of the curriculum in the rest of the UK. Why's that?
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Stroud Against Racism ✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽🌈 @stroudsar.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Voices Amplified: Black History Month Poetry & Spoken Word stroudbrewery.com/products/voi...
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Voices Amplified: Black History Month Poetry & Spoken Word - 2 Oct 2025
Voices Amplified: Black History Month Poetry & Spoken Word Thursday, 2nd October | Doors 7:30pm | Show 8pm | Balcony BarTickets £6 Join us at Stroud Brewery for a special Poetry & Spoken Word ...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Showing how extreme the government has got: @thetimes.com leading article opposes proscription of Palestine Action along lines of regret motion from @greenjennyjones.bsky.social in #HouseofLords www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...
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Palestine Action is malign, but terror status goes too far
The antics of such groups are frequently criminal, but branding them acts of terrorism was a misuse of the law
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