Benny Hunter
@BennnyH
youth worker writing about borders + young people | co-founded @daaroyouth | investigating UK complicity in torture @freefromtorture | views my own
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27-05-2009 12:52:44
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This is a gross erasure of how the UK built its wealth. The C of E, Guardian and Lloyds are prominent examples that openly show how our church, media and financial systems are rooted in colonialism and slavery
This is not a matter of conjecture, but fact
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
It took litigation by Freedom from Torture🧡 PCS Union Channel Rescue Care4Calais to stop the deadly pushbacks policy. Plus opposition by MoD.
Now a whistleblower says civil servants “didn’t care if these people would die”. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…
Devastating piece in The New York Review of Books by Omar al-Najjar, a young doctor in Gaza. Omar and I have been in touch over the months, and I remain incapable of understanding the weight he bears. nybooks.com/online/2024/04…