@CarlSpender

I organise with @GBCLegal & @haltACAB & write about protest, the law and policing for @Freedom_Paper // My views are, sadly, my own.

 London
freedomnews.org.uk/tag/carl-spender/
Joined May 2020
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As trailed: I'm logging off all socials bar IG (I don't need more viciousness in my life atm) -- if you know me personally, you know how to get hold of me (yes, CS is a pseudonym). If you have activist legal support questions @haltACAB or [email protected]
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I'll leave this account activated but wont check it for a while. maybe i'll reactivate at some point - who knows. in the meantime, im going to be limiting my output to lewds and cursed memes on instagram.
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Again, for the illegalist anarchists throwing from the back, just because masking up is mandatory doesn't make refusing to an effective political action.
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Here's a conundrum for you: how is it possible for me to have such low self-esteem when I share a world with Chris Grayling?
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*OUTSTANDING* As the miscreant suggests, a superlative tattoo idea
headless horse child (taken out for gallops) 🫏🐀@BinAnimals14 Jul 2020
Unbelievable scenes, as this jabroni thinks this is a criticism.
The first sentencing of a London BLM protestor took place today. A guilty plea (at first opportunity) to two counts of assault emergency worker, got him sent down for 6 months (hopefully out on three for good behaviour etc) birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk…

Trophymaker jailed after barging into cops at Black Lives Matter protest

James Meikle was heard laughing after the assault last month, shown in footage played to Southwark Crown Court

birminghammail.co.uk
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I've only been back on this site for ~2 months & I'm already contemplating leaving again. I returned with the intention of only keep up with legal twitter and not going anywhere near The Discourse TM. But the latter has proved nearly impossible ...
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And legal Twitter pffft that's about as Violently Reasonable as you'd expect of a space presided over by people called Jolyon
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Congratulations to Judge Jonathan Carroll of Teesside Crown Court for not only giving us a textbook example of moralistic windbaggery but for also being a living, breathing meme: gazettelive.co.uk/news/teess…
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I'm in the liner notes
scumbly blythe@piombo10 Jul 2020
Suspect @carlspender has their whole back catalogue.
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IWW Cymru@IWWCymru10 Jul 2020
Just to clarify if you own a pizza restaurant you can't join the union, no matter what part of England your accent is from
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Sita Balani@sitainshort9 Jul 2020
how the policing of gangs constitutes the criminalisation of friendship historyworkshop.org.uk/gangs… beautiful, thoughtful work from @LukeEdeNoronha

Gangs Policing, Deportation, and the Criminalisation of Friendship

What is friendship worth, how might it be valued, and could it count in the context of immigration control? How might valuing friendship contribute to a wider critique of ‘the family’? And how might...

historyworkshop.org.uk
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A thread that is worth your time.
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once upon time an old white man philosopher said "...leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order" and i think its a statement that a lot of us could do with reflecting on.
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As the quote with which i began this thread suggests: this is cop-thought, state-thought, border-thought - another demand that people produce their papers for inspection. And it is our duty as anti-fascists, as abolitionists, as joyful militants of freedom, to ferret this out.
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We cannot afford to nurture the fascist that lurks in each and every one of our heads - we must kill them.
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