Leona Vaughn
Research Fellow: coloniality, race, risk and prevention in social policy. Interests: International Human Rights, Equity, Justice, Harm and Repair.
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- "When you heard that phrase, 'an island of strangers', how did you feel?" Zarah Sultana: "I was shocked. A Labour prime minister literally taking a quote from the Rivers of Blood speech which Enoch Powell delivered in my hometown of Birmingham. I couldn't actually believe it"
- The pride flag on our church sign has been vandalised and ripped off five times in the last seven days and I'm just... So tired.
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- We are humbled by the dozens of activists, scholars, leaders, dissenters, and truth-tellers who joined us at the JVP National Member Meeting in Baltimore this past weekend.
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- "For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
- "We see that there must be a radical redistribution of economic & political power . . .we have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society." -- Dr. Martin L. King #tdih 1968 Poor People's Campaign began ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...
- BREAKING: Israel assassinated renowned Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslieh in an airstrike on Nasser Hospital, where he was receiving treatment. We spoke with him in April — he feared this exact outcome. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/isra...
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- The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
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- "The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- The comparisons to Enoch Powell are accurate. There *were* rivers of blood, last year, by fascists attacking people of color and immigrants. Then Starmer decided to reward the fascists. That’s a choice. Nothing about this is inevitable. He is choosing this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- a remarkable moment at yesterday’s event at London Museum Docklands yesterday an audience member brought the cardboard #BlackLivesMatter sign that was put on the statue of the enslaver shortly before its removal from outside the museum entrance in 2020, and offered it to the museum collections
- It was a privilege to share a platform with Angela Haynes, Onyekachi Wambu and @drleona.bsky.social, and to have such a long discussion with the audience about statues, Fallism, and abolition in all its forms ✨🙏 further pics: 1/ the boxed-up plinth outside the museum
- From the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. #StopIsrael #EndTheGenocide #EndTheApartheid #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
- How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you
- So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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- Hello! We are Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation (ARFA for short). You can learn more about us at our website here: archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com Watch this space for blog posts, events, and commentary on the co-option and misuse of heritage in the near future.
- To save runaways from slavery who were trying to make lives in the North “illegally,” local Vigilance Committees formed. They kept watch for slave catchers, secreted away those in danger, and posted placards that outed slave catchers, sometimes hounding them till they left town.
- A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. Learn more: boltsmag.org/how-vol...
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- “Crimes without Criminals”—talks about public memory, oppression and resistance at the site where the statue of Robert Milligan was removed in 2020 next Sat (10 May) me, @drleona.bsky.social and Angela Haynes at London Museum Docklands sign up here (free) >> www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/cri...
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- BREAKING: At 00:23 Maltese time, a #FreedomFlotilla ship was subjected to a drone attack. The front of the vessel was targeted twice, resulting in a fire and a breach in the hull. The ship is currently located in international waters near #Malta. An #SOS distress signal was sent.
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- Thought provoking and engaging discussion with Dr Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social
- Overnight the UK bombed Yemen In 2020 Starmer said blindly following the Americans was the wrong thing to do & he promised to pass legislation that said military action could be taken if you got the consent of the Commons. Did you get that consent Keir?
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- Now we know who the inspiration for Voldemort was.
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- Reparations is not in most textbooks, yet it is vital to teach about the long history of the demands, roots of inequality today, and to explore reparative policies that recognize the magnitude of theft & harm. Lesson ⬇️for grade 7+ to #TeachOutsideTextbook www.zinnedproject.org/materials/st...
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- Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of NMAAHC reminds us: “One can tell a great deal about a country by what it chooses to remember [...] One can tell even more by what a nation chooses to forget: what memories are erased and what aspects of its past are feared.”
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- Meanwhile on Abbey Street, Dublin, the great Phil Lynnot guards the city! Black Irish & Proud. No to RACISM
