Ethnic Minority LibDems - Race Equality Advocacy & Lobbying group working to achieve BaME representation. FB: https://teapawt.net/t.co/jhHo5kQfF2
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The truth about immigrants & refugees in the UK & why populists exploit inequalities. We discuss this on #roundtable trtworld.com/video/tv-shows/…
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Alcohol makes people more racist and homophobic by acting as an 'igniter' to prejudice
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Please vote and retweet as to whether you want a second referendum on Brexit:-
67%Yes
28%No
5%Don't know/Don't care
180,480 votes • Final results EMLD retweeted
One can never get enough of listening to the amazing @HackneyHeroineP Pauline Pearce, one of the most inspiring women I've ever met. It's our pleasure that she's been re-elected @NewhamBDLibDems Honorary President & I congratulate @HackneyLD for choosing her as Mayoral Candidate
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A myth or a reality? @IAC @diversehistory @BrownGirlEnvy @EMLibDems teapawt.net/ScienceChannel/status/…
Are the ancient Hindu myths of a land bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka true? Scientific analysis suggests they are. #WhatonEarth
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Sister Merlene, I commend your offer will encourage Brother @brolezholloway to join. The Party needs the knowledge, understanding, skills and experience of not only new members, but equally those who have been involved in challenging racism for decades.
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You're very welcome to join the policy committee & to work with others incl @EMLibDems @Issanghazni @meralhece. We're stronger batting together for #raceequality as #diversitymatters teapawt.net/brolezholloway/status/…
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Alas it is now 2017 and sadly we do not seem to have progressed much further with regard to progresssing the interests of people of colour within the Party!
We need reform and positive action to remove the ethnocentric perspective of the current @LibDems! Listen to @EMLibDems teapawt.net/sarahludford/status/93… – at Scotland, United Kingdom
And Dadabhai Naoroji, the first non-white MP, elected 1892. A Liberal MP. In 2014, thd then Dep PM @nick_clegg inaugurated the Dadabhai Naoroji Awards for services to UK-India relations. teapawt.net/sadiqkhan/status/93760…
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While not perfect, Canada comes up with innovative immigration routes to handle unique needs of its provinces stretching across their continent. This recently for Atlantic seaboard areas which share much similarity with Scotland: canada.ca/en/immigration-ref… @Number10gov, take note!
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Another report confirms Scotland’s unique immigration needs. teapawt.net/ipprscotland/status/93…
"Time has come" to devolve immigration. See coverage of new @IPPR report on substate migration @ScotNational thenational.scot/news/157015…
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Official statistics confirm that Asian & Black defendants in England & Wales receive significantly longer prison sentences than White defendants:
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Explanations for the stats have included the suggestion Black, Asian & minority ethnic offenders may commit different offences compared to White offenders. Official statistics could usefully include more info about offence seriousness.
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When Meghan weds Harry, Britain’s relationship with race will change forever | Afua Hirsch theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Kavya Kaushik is courageously ‘calling out’ @LibDems over its own culture of sexual & misogynistic abuse! huffingtonpost.co.uk/kavya-k…
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As the butcher of Bosnia Ratko Mladic is found guilty of genocide professor Jon Silverman reflects on decades of European killing fields, from Eichmann to Ratko Mladic blogs.timesofisrael.com/euro…
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Tories in denial. There is indefinite immigration detention in this country ind.pn/2AZdl2v
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Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson of @WomensBudgetGrp live on #WomensHour discussing WBG & Runnymede research - BME women hit hardest. See: intersecting-inequalities.co… #Budget17 @maryanncv8
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And ironically the tax #benefits & #UniversalCredit changes have disadvantaged *working* women the most, undermining the govt's own rhetoric that work is the route out of poverty #Budget2017 teapawt.net/heliaebrahimi/status/9…
Women bear brunt of changes to #benefits + tax since 2010, according to @RunnymedeTrust who hv crunched numbers. Their data shows it gets worse for black and minority ethnic women in particular
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Prince Charles must repudiate 1986 letter demanding someone “take on the Jewish lobby” and claiming “influx” of Holocaust survivors to Israel caused terrorism and are a problem to be “eliminated”
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.@EMLibDems reported a situation impacting on a woman at #GleeClub in recent years. The process could’ve worked better. teapawt.net/sophianash_/status/927…
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