Ideas merchant & teacher. Post-growth economics & working class green politics. Democratise, decolonise and decarbonise. Views my own. RTs are not endorsements.
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John Barry retweeted
Jun 13
Thousands of people chant ‘refugees are welcome here’ at Belfast’s ‘largest ever’ anti-racism rally
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Belfast is Anti-Racist 🤝
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The fetishisation of militarism, death and violence runs deep in British culture, workers will pay for it, they always do.
" A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends"
Jun 12
The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.
It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.
Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.
We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.
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John Barry retweeted
This is Belfast today. The far right tried to terrorise our city. The city answered. ✊ #BelfastAgainstRacism #StopTheFarRight
#Nottoracism
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John Barry retweeted
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The good people in Belfast came out in force to protest against the far-right.
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Bands like The Specials showed young people that racism and violence were not the way to express grievance.
Messages are far more powerful when we realise there's more that unites us than divides us.
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Jun 11
RT @Hopkins_Alison: Why the hell is the @BBCNews describing hooded masked men as protestors?
They’re nothing of the sort, they’re vicious…
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John Barry retweeted
Jun 11
Helen, you have no idea what money is, where it comes from, how it is issued or what retains its value. None whatsoever.
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Jun 11
RT @HackneyAbbott: These are not 'anti-migrant protestors'. They went house to house looking for foreigners and Black people to burn them o…
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John Barry retweeted
Jun 11
This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.
I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.
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John Barry retweeted
Jun 10
Family of the N Ireland stabbed man say many migrants make valuable contributions to the UK, condemn disorder and don't want to divide people or fuel violence.
And again Hard and Far Right extremists like Musk, Yaxley-Lennon, Farage and Lowe fan flames.
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John Barry retweeted
Jun 10
"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.
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Jun 11
RT @Taj_Ali1: I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”
It’s working-class Black and brown…
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Jun 11
RT @BelTel: Hypocrite gangs cosplaying as street protectors are the ones targeting women and children
✍️: @AllisonMorris1
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John Barry retweeted
Jun 9
🇲🇽🇮🇷 | Un aficionado iraní estuvo en las calles de Tijuana coreando el nombre de México como muestra de agradecimiento por haber aceptado a su selección.
Que bonito. 🥹
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This is Belfast ❤️
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John Barry retweeted
Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"
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John Barry retweeted
Jun 9
The horrific knife attack isn't new nor "alien” to NI. The Shankill Butchers were Belfast born & bred. They cut throats from ear to ear. Let’s not engage in historical amnesia just because previous barbarity was never videoed nor went viral.
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John Barry retweeted
Jun 10
A 72 year old man was savaged stabbed to death in his home in Dungannon last year.
There was no rampaging gangs "protecting their communities".
Guess why?
Because the victim was polish and the murderer was a "local" man.
These aren't concerned citizens they're racists.
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