🚨 Our new report, out today, shows that we're heading towards a catastrophic system meltdown because of the Illegal Migration Act and the Rwanda Plan. Over 100,000 people seeking asylum will be stranded in “permanent limbo” by the end of 2024. 🧵

The depths this govt will sink to know no bounds - bundling ppl who've escaped war & torture into detention centres, trying to forcibly expel people to Rwanda - spreading fear & anguish in our communities.

We must resist together. Ways to take action 👇🏽theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

This is terrifying.

News that Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain migrants including asylum seekers across the UK on Monday in preparation for deportation to #Rwanda

We must stand together with migrants to oppose this cruel plan
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For the record, here's the text of a letter I sent to PEN outlining my reasons for withdrawing from World Voices. [alt text cuts out half way so I'll post it twice with the second half in the second alt text]

So many reasons I feel strongly about this. But setting moral and political specifics aside and just focussing on the question of what issues are and are not within the remit of Society of Authors I am grateful for this clarification of the facts from yara rodrigues fowler and Sarah Bernstein:

Good morning young people . The future is yours so you must take control of it . We live in the wreckage of a democracy where you should be allowed access to vote . Please make sure you can by taking 5 mins to register today . Details here gov.uk/apply-for-phot… Please RT

✊🏽We are standing together against the cruel Rwanda Act.

That is why we & 250 other organisations wrote to the PM about about our shared outrage on this despicable assault on the most marginalised in our society.

#NotRwandaNotAnywhere

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It's disgraceful that this Government has set the timer for human misery.

People threatened with banishment to Rwanda will be living in utter terror, waiting to be torn apart from family and pushed onto planes.

This isn't what our country stands for.

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Really looking forward to this conversation with the amazing Max Porter, author of the beautiful Grief is the Thing with Feathers & Lanny. If you’re nearby, do join us as we talk about how the Right has hijacked Englishness & how we get it back: bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/anoth…

Israel declares victory over a hospital.

How do we continue to live in a world where the unthinkable (often dismissed as conspiracy theory) is repeatedly proven true?

A collective of Palestinians from Gaza and migrant justice advocates in the UK are working for a family visa scheme that builds on the Ukraine Family Scheme model. They need to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to trigger a debate in the UK Parliament. Sign here:…

The World Food Programme says that 1.1 million people in Gaza are now facing catastrophic hunger, stressing that the famine is manufactured by the inability of aid organizations to enter the region under Israel's military blockade.

We have a very important meeting next Friday. It would be great if we could take a petition with 1,000 signatures to that meeting.
We need around 125 more. Can you help?
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'An act of humanity and grace.' Daily Telegraph
'A stunning feat . . . a perfect book.' Irish Times
'Virtuoso.' Guardian

Shy, the Sunday Times number one bestselling new book from Max Porter is out now in a stunning new paperback edition!

'This is the fastest decline in a population's nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.'

Melanie Ward speaks with Isa Soares about the catastrophic levels of hunger that Israel's blockade is causing in Gaza

I spoke to residents of Zamzam camp in North Darfur, where MSF International says a child is dying of hunger or disease every two hours. The main reason: aid groups don't have enough cash to help. It's a disaster completely overlooked by the international community.
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They were children. Children. Children. Children. Children. Children. Children. Children. Children. The word is children.

600,000 children & their families, famished & traumatized, displaced multiple times by 4 months of military assault in the Gaza open-air prison, are now ammassed in Rafah. The risk of a massacre of unparalleled scale looms on the horizon.
#CEASEFIRE_NOW

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Max Porter's SHY to be adapted for Netflix, with the great Cillian Murphy starring in it and producing! Bit of a point of view shift--welcome, Steve, get your due! Graywolf Press Faber Books Lisa Baker Max Porter