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Rachael Maria

@tomethatscinema.bsky.social
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refugee advocacy. border abolitionist. against the detention estate ~ campaigner with No to Hassockfield: www.notohassockfield.org.uk

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Rachael Maria @tomethatscinema.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Refugees shouldn't have to wait 20 years to know if they are safe. New rules are leaving families separated and lives in limbo. Join the campaign calling on Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to scrap the 20-year wait. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
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Don’t leave refugees in limbo: Scrap the 20-year wait
Imagine living in limbo for 20 years, not knowing if you’ll be allowed to stay in the only home your children have ever known. That is the reality facing refugees under new government proposals. A gr...
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Rachael Maria @tomethatscinema.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Annual Gathering Leeds, 12 Feb 2026. Buy tickets here: actionnetwork.org/ticketed_eve... See you all there!
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Annual Gathering Leeds, 12 Feb 2026
Register for Right to Remain's Annual Gathering in Leeds on 12 Feb. This is an all day event, 10am - 4pm, in the centre of Birmingham (venue to be released closer to the time). Tickets Please se...
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Migration Policy Group @migpolgroup.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
📣 24 humanitarian workers face up to 20 years in prison for saving lives, in one of Europe’s largest cases of the criminalisation of solidarity. 🤝 We stand with Seán Binder and all those in court today in Lesbos, Greece. Saving lives is not a crime. Read our statement: bit.ly/sean-binder-...
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Rachael Maria @tomethatscinema.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Majority of Derwentside immigration centre's women released
Campaigner Dr Helen Groom says the figures prove many women are being held unnecessarily.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/11/2025
#OtD 1 Nov 1936 the Jarrow marchers arrived in London. They had marched all the way from Jarrow in North-East England to protest hunger and unemployment as a result of the closure of the town's shipyard, which was the main employer in the area stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8136...
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
URGENT ACTION 🚨 If you do one thing for trans rights today – contact your MP about the proposed EHRC Code of Practice, which would devastate trans people's lives. Even if you've sent a letter before, make sure you use our new tool to send another. Now is the moment to keep the pressure up 👇
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Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
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Rachael Maria @tomethatscinema.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This weekend! 🧡 Please join No to Hassockfield, @right-to-remain.bsky.social and @thesewallsmustfall.bsky.social as we gather at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre for the annual demonstration demanding an end to indefinite detention! Saturday 18th of October 2025, 1-3pm See you there!✊
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Rachael Maria @tomethatscinema.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Stop the Deportation of Arjeta — A Survivor of Trafficking Who Sought Safety - Sign the Petition! c.org/hjqFY2DtKF via @UKChange
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Stop the Deportation of Arjeta — A Survivor of Trafficking Who Sought Safety
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Rachael Maria @tomethatscinema.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Please join No to Hassockfield, Right to Remain, and These FallsMust Fall as we gather at Derwentside (Hassockfield) detention centre for the annual demonstration demanding an end to indefinite detention. The National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention -18 October 2025, 1-3pm.
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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants @jcwi-uk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The government has rushed out another cruel anti-migrant policy to appeal to Reform voters. Humanity is not a transaction, nor something anyone should be forced to earn. We should be proud to give people the chance to build their lives here. Our piece for the Metro: metro.co.uk/2025/09/30/w...
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It's wrong to demand migrants prove their worth to the UK
There is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ migrant, only human beings.
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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My first book, titled Wes Anderson: A Retrospective, will be out on 27 November with @geminibooks.bsky.social. You can preorder here: www.amazon.co.uk/Wes-Anderson...
the cover of “wes anderson: a retrospective” the contents page the prologue chapter three: les enfants terribles - on the royal tenenbaums
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If you’re concerned about plastic waste and want to create a safer, less polluted planet then there’s never been a more important time to make your voice heard. TAKE ACTION! act.gp/3H255Xk
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Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks
Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The huge presence of these plastic-loving lobbyists threatens the Global Plastics Treaty. They don’t want real solutions, all they want is more profits. Tell the UN to kick them out of the plastics talks now👇 act.gp/4licpMq
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Kick Big Oil Out of Plastics Talks
Fossil fuel companies want to keep flooding our home with plastic for profit. They’re trying to block action to tackle plastic pollution - we must stop them.
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🚨BREAKING: Fossil fuel/chemical industry lobbyists OUTNUMBER scientists 4 to 1 at the Global Plastics Treaty talks. Does anyone else think this is SCANDALOUS?
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
📣 #FreeFatou campaign UPDATE 📣 Fatou's situation is now critical. She has been told that she will be removed TOMORROW Tuesday 6th May and flown to The Gambia. We need you to write to your MP urgently. Model letter is availalbe at linktr.ee/FreeFatou (More details below) Please share!
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Fatou’s family said ‘No action was too small, and we are very grateful to each one of you.’ So many people and groups came together today to stand in solidarity with Fatou. Thank you. Image credit: @migrantsorganise.bsky.social Please keep on signing the petition! www.change.org/p/stop-the-d...
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Stop the Deportation of Our Sister Fatou – Her Life Is in Danger if she is Deported
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Today, people power stopped Fatou's deportation again! Thanks to everyone’s solidarity, Fatou’s deportation was cancelled at the 11th hour today. We understand that she has been taken back to Yarls Wood detention centre, after her ordeal at Heathrow Airport. righttoremain.org.uk/people-power...
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Rachael Maria @tomethatscinema.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Great displays of solidarity from campaigners at No2Hassockfield today! 🧡🧡 We will continue to protest until Derwentside IRC is shut down! #EndImmigrationDetention #SetHerFree
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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
was asked for my big hot take of oscars night and it’s that they probably shouldn’t have spent more time mourning james bond than they did david lynch
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The Oscars spent more time mourning 007 than David Lynch – what a travesty
In a ceremony that championed independent film and individual creativity, the visionary director behind ‘Blue Velvet’ received only a cursory mention. Meanwhile, James Bond was treated to a mind-boggl...
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Today I have called for a Chilcot-style inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Our concerns have routinely been met with evasion and silence. We need a full, public, independent inquiry with the legal power to establish the truth. news.sky.com/story/starme...
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Starmer faces calls for UK's role in Gaza war to be scrutinised in Chilcot-style inquiry
In a letter to the prime minister seen by Sky News, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says UK officials may have been implicated in "the gravest breaches of international law".
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
✨Delighted to announce✨ my latest publication, in the lovely feminists@law journal (open access): Postcolonial Dynamics in Pro- and Anti-Trans Activism in the United Kingdom and Ireland journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
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Postcolonial Dynamics in Pro- and Anti-Trans Activism in the United Kingdom and Ireland | ...
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Clarisse Loughrey @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
i reviewed BOTTOMS which is finally, finally out in the UK!!! it's funny as hell & has a lot to say about modern conversations around feminism
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Teen lesbian fight club comedy Bottoms is as weird as it is hysterical – review
There are ‘Heathers’ parallels to filmmaker Emma Seligman’s casually subversive high school movie, starring buzzy up-and-comers Rachel Sennott (of ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’) and Ayo Edebiri (of...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
We were warning about this when I worked at the anti-child trafficking charity Love146 last year. Since then the situation facing child refugees in the UK has got increasingly worse. It is not longer "if", but "when" more children get treated as adults. www.opendemocracy.net/en/rwanda-de...
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‘I wouldn’t be surprised if kids end up on Rwanda flight’
Children being classed as adults under flawed age assessments could end up on Rwanda flight
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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
30 mins to argue your case against the state trafficking you to Rwanda. On top of the already catastrophic collapse in Safe Routes & immigration advice. Braverman’s brutal border regime.
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