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Here's the companion letter to the Senate. #DumpSchumer #FightForChange

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New Majority Leader Needed
I write to ask that you appoint as Senate Majority Leader a bold, decisive fighter who will work tirelessly to change the direction of this country. The…
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November 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM
payitforwardworks.bsky.social
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! One act of kindness for the promise of three. #payitforwardworks #payitforward #democratic #lgbtqia #CENO #fightforchange
October 27, 2026 at 1:08 PM
sakshamagrawal.bsky.social
Patriarchy doesn’t fear women’s progress — it fears their power.
The world changes when women speak, lead, and rise.

#BreakThePatriarchy #WomenRise #VoiceOfWomen #GenderEquality #RealTalkDaily #TruthReport #WomenEmpowerment #DailyInsight #WakeUpCall #FeministThoughts #FightForChange
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
myklmrdh.bsky.social
In the USA constant distractions from both the Democrats and Republicans have pacified people to accept change.Its time we all realize we are fighting a culture war and have more in common than. Reject Establishment on both sides. #rejectrepublicans #rejectdemocrats #thirdparty #fightforchange
April 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
lorac328.bsky.social
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Two More Days!!! https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/brilljacobs/love-is-loud . . . #riseup #empowerment #togetherwerise #strengthinnumbers #resilience #courage #standtogether #fightforchange #riot #ri...
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June 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
lisasanor.bsky.social
A nation that invests in its people’s health invests in its future. 🌍💡
💙 Let's fight for affordable care, better coverage, and a healthier tomorrow for ALL. 💙
#HealthcareIsAHumanRight #AffordableCare #EqualAccess #FightForChange #HealthcareJustice
April 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
sammysunshine23.bsky.social
Happy holidays & a happy new year to all. Here's hoping that we can find our way out of the darkness & return to compassion, respect & civility.
#HappyChanukah #MerryChristmas #HappyNewYear #holidays #betterdaysahead #fightforchange #dog #dogs #shelties #sheltiesofbluesky #dogsofbluesky
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
boreasmn.bsky.social
🎯👍It's crucial to recognize our collective responsibility. We must stay vigilant and engaged, ensuring that our voices are heard. Change begins with awareness and action. Let's unite for justice and democracy! #StandUp #Awareness #CivicEngagement #AOC #FightForChange
January 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
leftofamerica.bsky.social
I’m tired of seeing Kevin Kiley fail us. It’s time for fresh leadership that will push bold, progressive policies to address climate change, healthcare access, and economic inequality. We can do better—and I’m ready to lead.

#FightForChange #FutureFocused
March 17, 2025 at 6:06 AM
rmn-india.bsky.social
🤦 दिल्ली की खतरनाक सड़कें Delhi's roads are a perilous landscape of neglect! 🚧

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#DelhiRoads #CivicNeglect #PublicSafety #DelhiProblems #BrokenRoads #OpenManholes #StagnantWater #Corruption #GovernmentNegligence #RMNCRN #FightForChange #RakeshRaman #RMNNews 🇮🇳
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September 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
the-flipped-page.bsky.social
Heading to my state capital.
Wanted to say more but can only do so much!
Got a ride last minute since I’m limited driving with a broken shoulder.
#Resist
#FightForChange
#Constitution
#50501Rally
February 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
blackangst.bsky.social
The government plays a key role in perpetuating financial inequality through policies that favor the wealthy, tax loopholes, and limited support for underserved communities. Like redlining. #FinancialInequality #EconomicJustice #TaxTheRich #SystemicOppression #WealthGap #FightForChange
March 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
nwfresh.bsky.social
Can you hear us yet, Chump!?

#resist #resistance #democracy #protest #defenddemocracy #wethepeopleprotest #wethepeople #jointhemovement #handsoff #dicktater #classwar #liberate #progressive #uniteandfight #strongertogether #fucktrump #fdjt #fuckfascism #bethechange #fightforchange
April 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
sbsisters.bsky.social
As we close our #16DaysOfActivism campaign, we thank you for the support and urge you to continue to amplify our calls for change. The #FightForChange on VAWG, especially for Black, minoritised and migrant victim-survivors, relies on this solidarity and protracted effort. 2/2
December 10, 2024 at 3:50 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
This #16DaysOfActivism, join us in our #FightForChange by calling on commissioners and Local Domestic Abuse Partnership Boards to use the Investing in Safety model to create an invest to save business case for funding ‘by and for’ services for victim-survivors with NRPF. 1/2
In April 2024, Southall Black Sisters (SBS), with Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS), Safety4Sisters, Ubuntu Women Shelter, and formerly, The Angelou Centre, all ‘by and for’ services located up and down the UK, launched Investing in Safety. Investing in Safety is a robust financial model that calculates the net savings generated by ‘by and for’ services to local public services per victim-survivor of violence against women and girls (VAWG) with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) over three years. Based on its cohort of 30 women, the research found that net savings totalling £18,024 are generated to local public services per woman over three years. When scaled up to a cohort of 40 women, £720,960 net savings are generated over three years. Applied nationally for all victim-survivors with NRPF, net savings are an estimated £127,015,128, accruing for each cohort over three years. The Cost Benefit Calculator can be downloaded and amended according to the level of local need to calculate the funding required for ‘by and for’ services for victim-survivors with NRPF and to create an invest to save business case. The Investing in Safety report details the methodology, findings and recommendations of the cost benefit analysis. Join us in calling on commissioners with VAWG responsibilities and Local Domestic Abuse Partnership Boards to: Use the Cost Benefit Calculator and the findings of the Investing in Safety report to create an invest to save business case for funding ‘by and for’ services for victim-survivors with NRPF, scaled to the level of local need.
December 10, 2024 at 3:50 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
This #16DaysOfActivism, join us in our #FightForChange by calling on communities and public bodies to renounce the Sikh Court and other religious tribunals and demand one law for all in recognition of the discrimination against women and children perpetuated by religious bodies.
Earlier this year, Southall Black Sisters (SBS), with the support of 90+ third sector organisations, activists, academics, and other professionals, challenged the establishment of a Sikh Court in the UK. Our concerns arose out of the knowledge of the ways in which religious bodies actively undermine and obstruct access to justice and violate the rights of women, children, and religious minorities. This is particularly the case for victim-survivors of domestic abuse, who are consistently pressured to mediate with abusive partners and extended families, as well as to concede to child access demands even when these jeopardise their safety and the well-being of their children. To date, there is no evidence that religious institutions act in the best interests of the most vulnerable within our communities. There is, however, considerable evidence that they strengthen the power and control of husbands, male family members, and mothers-in-law, and violate human rights. Indeed, the examples provided by the spokespeople for the Sikh Court amount to support for coercive control, significantly undermining women’s autonomy, and the right to freedom from religion. Join us in calling on communities and public bodies to: Renounce the Sikh Court and other religious tribunals and demand one law for all in recognition of the discrimination against women and children perpetuated by religious bodies.
December 6, 2024 at 3:58 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
This #16DaysOfActivism, join us in our #FightForChange by calling on the government to acknowledge the root causes of far-right violence and implement urgent structural reform in recognition of Black, minoritised and migrant communities’ right to equality, dignity, and freedom.
Earlier this year, we witnessed the horrific murderous violence against girls in Southport. Southall Black Sisters (SBS), in solidarity with 60+ organisations in the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector, condemned the attack as well as its instrumentalisation to fuel violent xenophobic, racist, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attacks reminiscent of the National Front’s attacks on African, Caribbean, and Asian communities in the 1970s and 1980s. In recognition of the structural inequalities at the root of these attacks, SBS called on the Prime Minister to implement reform in response to 12 demands. Signed by 65 third sector organisations in the VAWG, anti-racist, and migrants’ rights sectors, the list called for urgent protective measures and support mechanisms for communities and organisations in danger, as well as long-term structural reform including an end to the hostile environment, reversal of austerity measures, eradication of institutional racism in policing, and rejection of the alarmist anti-immigrant rhetoric. Having received the Prime Minister and the Home Office’s response, we are disappointed by the focus on immediate criminal justice action rather than commitment to structural reform. Join us in calling on the government to: Acknowledge the root causes of far-right violence and implement urgent structural reform in recognition of Black, minoritised and migrant communities’ right to equality, dignity, and freedom.
December 5, 2024 at 3:46 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
This #16DaysOfActivism, join us in our #FightForChange by calling for the eradication of institutional racism in the criminal justice system through wholesale reform.
In 2023, the Casey Report found the Met police to be institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic, thereby affirming the findings of the Macpherson Report that followed the murder of Stephen Lawrence over 30 years ago. Trust in the Met police, and in general in the criminal justice system (CJS), is at an all-time low, with little substantive progress made towards fair and equal criminal justice outcomes for Black, minoritised and migrant communities in the interim. Black, minoritised and migrant communities continue to be over-policed and under-protected, reflected in their disproportionate representation as both suspects and victims in statistical data. This is emblematic of wider structural concerns. Countless examples - weaponisation of a victim-survivor’s immigration status by former Met police officer David Carrick; police failures to identify honour-based abuse (HBA) and safeguard victims including Banaz Mahmod, Raneem Oudeh, and Khaola Saleem; dehumanising treatment of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman by Met police officers and the denial of their dignity even in death; data-sharing with Immigration Enforcement by all police forces in England and Wales; heightened disbelief and presumptive criminalisation of Black, minoritised and migrant victim-survivors across the CJS, evident in cases including the Kings Cross 3’s; judicial prejudice against victim-survivors at the intersection of identities - demonstrate the scale of the challenge. Urgent CJS reform is undeniably the need of the hour. Top-down acceptance of the findings of the Casey Report regarding the prevalence of institutional acism, misogyny, and homophobia within the Met police is a first step towards this. This must be accompanied by measurable outcomes and independent police oversight, including government assurances about the instruction of Baroness Casey to conduct independent progress reviews into the Met police. There is also a need for data transparency by protected characteristics at each stage of the criminal justice system to identify and challenge disproportionalities. Cumulatively, these measures can contribute greatly towards building Black, minoritised and migrant communities’ confidence in the CJS, especially when shaped in consultation with these communities and the ‘by and for’ organisations that support them. Implementation of structural reform in recognition of these victim-survivors’ additional barriers to support and specialised needs, such as through the institution of a firewall to prevent data sharing between the police and Immigration Enforcement will go further in reinstating victim-survivors’ confidence. Join us in calling for: The eradication of institutional racism in the criminal justice system through wholesale reform.
December 4, 2024 at 4:03 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
Support the #KingsCross3 in their quest for justice by contributing to our crowdfunder ➡️ www.gofundme.com/f/charges-ag.... #16DaysOfActivism #FightForChange 3/3
December 3, 2024 at 2:21 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
The #KingsCross3’s treatment is testament to the pervasive institutional racism and misogyny in the criminal justice system, meriting urgent structural reform. #16DaysOfActivism #FightForChange 2/3
December 3, 2024 at 2:21 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
This #16DaysOfActivism, join us in our #FightForChange by supporting the #KingsCross3 in calling for a public apology and answers from the Met police, BTP, and the CPS in relation to the racist charges imposed on them for resisting and calling out racist abuse. 1/3
In September 2023, Selma Taha, Executive Director of Southall Black Sisters (SBS), and her two friends Divina Riggon and Danae Thomas, were subjected to a horrific verbal and physical racist assault while travelling on the London Underground. The assailant, a white woman, made monkey sounds, and hurled vile racist slurs, including “Black bitches” and “slaves”, at them. The verbal abuse escalated into physical abuse, with the assailant pulling out clumps of Selma and Danae’s hair, and biting Selma so viciously it necessitated tetanus and hepatitis shots and a bout of antibiotics. An off-duty Met police officer was present in the tube carriage the entire time, but failed to intervene to de-escalate the incident. Even after the train arrived at King’s Cross station, Selma, Divina, and Danae – the #KingsCross3 – had to challenge the inactivity and apathy of the off-duty officer to treat the matter seriously and arrest the assailant. A few months on, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) made the shocking decision to charge the #KingsCross3. All three were charged with common assault by beating. Divina and Danae were additionally charged with public order offences, including one for racial aggravation, in relation to alleged conduct towards a white British Transport Police (BTP) officer on the platform at King’s Cross after disembarking from the tube. In contrast, the white assailant merely received and has accepted a caution for one instance of racially aggravated conduct. No action is to be taken against her for the assault or the other instances of racist abuse. The trial, and the threat of irreparable damage to their livelihoods and reputations, hung over the #KingsCross3’s heads for almost a year. In the interim, the CPS also made unusual applications for special measures for screens and reporting restrictions for the anonymity of the police officers involved. The CPS finally dropped the public order offence charges a week before the trial, and the charge of common assault by beating on the first day. It cited the lack of evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction as the sole reason. Though the charges against the #KingsCross3 being dropped is surely a victory, it is far from justice. The criminalisation of three Black women for merely resisting and calling out racist abuse indicates the deeply pervasive institutional racism and misogyny in the criminal justice system, and reinforces our persistent call for structural reform. The #KingsCross3 are now demanding a public apology from the Met police, BTP, and the CPS, and answers as to why the racist charges were brought against them in the first place. They are also contemplating civil legal action. Join us in calling on the Met Police, BTP, and the CPS to: Issue a public apology to the #KingsCross3 and provide them with answers as to why the racist charges were brought against them in the first place.
December 3, 2024 at 2:21 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
HBA is wielded as a cultural defence by perpetrators and is routinely missed or dismissed by statutory agencies. Banaz’s Law can improve system-wide accountability, and increase Black, minoritised and migrant women’s confidence in the criminal justice system. #16DaysOfActivism #FightForChange 2/2
December 2, 2024 at 4:14 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
This #16DaysOfActivism, join us in our #FightForChange by calling on the government to introduce Banaz’s Law to influence reform that recognises honour-based abuse as an aggravating factor in sentencing. 1/2
Honour-based abuse (HBA) is a culturally specific form of coercive control that pertains to the primary motivation for rather than the form of the abuse. A high-risk crime involving multiple perpetrators and potentially multiple victims due to shared codes of so-called ‘honour’, it disproportionately affects women and girls. This is due to the family or community’s so-called ‘honour’ being seen as tied to women and girls’ behaviour, especially their sexual conduct. HBA is perpetrated to constrain women from leaving abusive relationships, as well as to ‘protect’ or ‘restore’ the family or community’s so-called ‘honour’ upon alleged breach or the risk of it. HBA is routinely missed or dismissed by statutory agencies. In failing to identify HBA as the motive for the abuse that can take on various forms, agencies often fail to accurately assess and effectively respond to the risks posed. In the process, Black, minoritised and migrant victim-survivors are often stereotyped. Even when HBA is identified, agencies rarely treat it with the seriousness it merits, often failing to apply the ‘one chance rule’ to prevent escalation in these high risk cases. Devastating outcomes follow. The death of Banaz Mahmod, murdered by her father, uncle, and male cousins in a so-called ‘honour killing’ in 2006, serves as a painful reminder. Before her death, Banaz had reported rape and violence by her husband, as well as threats and attempts on her life by her extended family and the community, to the police five times. She was woefully failed each time. Southall Black Sisters (SBS) supported Banaz’s sister, Bekhal, to provide evidence for the prosecution, including against her father and uncle, that ultimately led to convictions in the case. Bekhal is now in witness protection for the rest of her life. In recognition of statutory agencies’ repeated failures, occasioned by lack of understanding and fears of ‘cultural insensitivity’ as well as institutional racism and misogyny, SBS is calling for sentencing reform that explicitly recognises HBA as a statutory aggravating factor for perpetrators who kill. This will contribute to improved practice on HBA among statutory agencies and increase Black, minoritised and migrant victim-survivors’ confidence in the criminal justice system. It will also reduce the usage and acceptance of ‘honour’ as a cultural defence. Simultaneously, HBA must be treated as a statutory mitigating factor for victim-survivors who kill, in recognition of a history of subjection to coercive control. Supported by Bekhal, we call for this change in Banaz’s name, to prevent similarly devastating outcomes for other victim-survivors of HBA. Join us in calling on the government to: Introduce Banaz’s Law, i.e., sentencing reform that explicitly recognises honour-based abuse as a statutory aggravating factor to prevent its use as a cultural defence, improve statutory responses to it, and increase Black, minoritised and migrant victim-survivors’ confidence in the criminal justice system.
December 2, 2024 at 4:14 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
The restrictive NRPF condition applies to over 2.58 million people in the UK. Its curtailment of migrants’ access to state benefits is weaponised by perpetrators to trap women in abusive relationships.

Join us in our #FightForChange this #16DaysOfActivism by calling on the govt to abolish NRPF.
No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) is a restrictive condition that applies to most migrants in the UK, curtailing their access to state benefits. Over 2.58 million people in the UK are subject to this condition, the continued existence of which is emblematic of the UK’s hostile environment towards migrants. Migrant victim-survivors with NRPF are known to be three-times more likely to be subjected to gender-based abuse than the general population of women. Insecure immigration status is routinely weaponised by perpetrators to trap women in abusive relationships. This weaponisation is part of a ‘dual perpetration’ in which the state participates through the imposition of NRPF. As a result, migrant victim-survivors with NRPF face a stark choice upon exiting abuse - that of returning to their abuser or of facing destitution and/or deportation. The combined model of the Migrant Victims of Domestic Abuse Concession (MVDAC) and Appendix Victim of Domestic Abuse (VDA) assists migrant victim-survivors on spousal/partner visas in breaking this cycle by entitling them to status and support. However, by excluding all other cohorts of migrant victim-survivors, the state perpetuates a tiered system in which women are often unable to even enter a refuge due to their inability to pay rent and living costs and in which they have limited routes to safety. There is thus an urgent need for the NRPF condition to be abolished, a policy recommendation recently affirmed by the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls in her preliminary report following a visit to the UK. With the abolition of NRPF, the government must end the hostile environment with a view to set forth a positive, evidence-based view of immigration and invest in immigrant communities. Join us in calling on the government to: Abolish NRPF and end the hostile environment with a view to set forth a positive, evidence-based view of immigration and to invest in immigrant communities.
November 29, 2024 at 4:07 PM
sbsisters.bsky.social
By lifting the reservation on Art 59, the UK government will entitle cohorts of migrant victim-survivors to the right to residency. In doing so, it will affirm that it recognises VAWG as a serious violation of human rights for ALL victim-survivors. 2/2

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November 28, 2024 at 2:32 PM