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Divest Borders

@divestborders

@peopleandplanet student campaign demanding that our universities divest from companies profiting from violence against migrating people across the world

peopleandplanet.org/divest-borders
Joined October 2019
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🚨 BREAKING: Students coordinate actions across the UK demanding divestment from the border industry! UK universities are investing millions in corporations profiting from detention, deportations and militarised borders - and students are calling it out. #DivestBorders ✊ 🧵
Photograph of replaced poster in a bus shelter. Poster appears to be university Open Day poster but reads “Open Borders” and reveals information about university investments in the border industry. Text overlaying photo reads: Breaking: Student actions call for divestment from the border industry.

ALT Photograph of replaced poster in a bus shelter. Poster appears to be university Open Day poster but reads “Open Borders” and reveals information about university investments in the border industry. Text overlaying photo reads: Breaking: Student actions call for divestment from the border industry.

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Solidarity with Momodou and all students facing border violence
Momodou ✊🏿 (@MomodouTaal) profile pictureMomodou ✊🏿
@MomodouTaal31 Mar 2025
Update: Eid Mubarak Long live the student intifada!
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Liberty (@libertyhq) profile picture
Liberty@libertyhq21 Mar 2025
Are you a disabled person protesting this weekend? Know your rights, share these bust cards with your networks Keep yourselves and each other safe
I HAVE THE RIGHT TO 1. Protest 2. Reasonable adjustments 3. To be treated equally, even if I've broken the law Discrimination is illegal, even from the police

ALT I HAVE THE RIGHT TO 1. Protest 2. Reasonable adjustments 3. To be treated equally, even if I've broken the law Discrimination is illegal, even from the police

THESE LAWS PROTECT ME THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT: Article 10 right to freedom of expression, Article 11 right to freedom of assembly, Article 14 right to not be discriminated against THE EQUALITY ACT: Reasonable adjustments must be made, I can't be discriminated against unlawfully.

ALT THESE LAWS PROTECT ME THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT: Article 10 right to freedom of expression, Article 11 right to freedom of assembly, Article 14 right to not be discriminated against THE EQUALITY ACT: Reasonable adjustments must be made, I can't be discriminated against unlawfully.

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SIMONE 🩷 (@parasocialyte) profile picture
SIMONE 🩷@parasocialyte26 Mar 2025
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Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) profile pictureClaude Taylor
@TrueFactsStated26 Mar 2025
Has ICE become our Gestapo?
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Solidarity to every US migrant student &/or permanent resident who is being viciously attacked for showing solidarity with 🇵🇸. But can we 🛑with the model student discourse. Here is why. 🧵
Jason Paladino (@jason_paladino) profile pictureJason Paladino
@jason_paladino24 Mar 2025
NEW: ICE is hunting for Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who attended pro-Palestine protests. Chung came to the US from Korea with her family at age 7, and was her high school's valedictorian. She's a lawful permanent resident. Here's what we know so far. 🧵
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ድብ ⚢ (@my_bearhands) profile picture
ድብ ⚢@my_bearhands26 Mar 2025
the border is everywhere. border violence is everywhere.
Shabez Jamal (@ShabezJ) profile pictureShabez Jamal@ShabezJ25 Mar 2025
This morning at approximately 10:13 AM just outside of Toledo OH, I was stopped by border patrol for a "routine check" to ensure that I was in the US “legally”. This administration is actively terrorizing black and brown folks.
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UK folks, listen up- universities that signed up to be "Universities of Sanctuary" actively practice the #HostileEnvironment policy on their migrant students & will report migrant students to the Home Office. There is no sanctuary when border controls are enforced on campus.
National Students for Justice in Palestine (@NationalSJP) profile pictureNational Students for Justice in Palestine@NationalSJP10 Mar 2025
Columbia proudly called itself an "ICE sanctuary campus" under Trump’s first term, but now it colludes with ICE to disappear Mahmoud Khalil. This isn’t just hypocrisy—our universities have always pledged allegiance to the ruling class, with Zionism as a core tenet.
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Watching Americans just get up and choose to live anywhere but then have a fucking meltdown about illegal immigrants taking up residency in the US will always blow my mind.
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divest from alphabet yesterday
Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) profile pictureNate Bear@NateB_Panic18 Mar 2025
Google's acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz will mark the single largest transfer of former Unit 8200 Israeli spies into any American company. All Wiz founders are former 8200 as are dozens of staff, from office managers to product analysts to software engineers
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The border is not a place. It is a technology of control.
Jason Paladino (@jason_paladino) profile pictureJason Paladino
@jason_paladino24 Mar 2025
NEW: ICE is hunting for Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who attended pro-Palestine protests. Chung came to the US from Korea with her family at age 7, and was her high school's valedictorian. She's a lawful permanent resident. Here's what we know so far. 🧵
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From Palestine to the border to everywhere. The pipeline stay pipelining
London & UK Street News (@CrimeLdn) profile pictureLondon & UK Street News
@CrimeLdn25 Mar 2025
The UK’s first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) cameras will be installed in south London in a bid to catch criminals. The cameras will be permanently installed on two roads in the centre of Croydon as part of a pilot project run by the Metropolitan Police
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Liberty (@libertyhq) profile picture
Liberty@libertyhq22 Feb 2025
🚨BREAKING @LInvestigates @skynews At least 28 universities investigated as many as 113 students & staff over pro-Palestine protest activity Unis shared students' data & images with police This is a SHOCKING crackdown on students' right to protest: youtube.com/watch?v=SUpQ0jKR…
Liberty Investigates (@LInvestigates) profile pictureLiberty Investigates@LInvestigates22 Feb 2025
NEW Today we publish our latest investigation with @SkyNews revealing the extent of disciplinary actions universities have taken over pro-Palestine protests - and the level of collaboration between unis, the police and even private intelligence firms🧵1/ news.sky.com/story/new-evide…
New evidence shows how UK student protests about Gaza were handled by police and universities

New evidence shows how UK student protests about Gaza were handled by police and universities

Sky News and Liberty Investigates look at how universities worked with police, and even private surveillance firms, to deal with pro-Palestinian protests on campuses across the UK - amid ongoing...

news.sky.com
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proper channels and that
Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) profile pictureZoe Gardner@ZoeJardiniere17 Feb 2025
“Of course we’re fine with GENUINE refugees” #r4today bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9l…
Special Forces rejected 2,000 credible asylum claims from Afghan commandos, MoD confirms

Special Forces rejected 2,000 credible asylum claims from Afghan commandos, MoD confirms

Officers appear to have rejected every application from former Afghan commandos who fought alongside them.

bbc.co.uk
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the gall. 90% of their comms is 'we are proud to announce our newest scheme to make life even more hellish for anyone foreign' and the other 10% is 'pls come give us ur money we're proper nice i promise' what do they take us for?
UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge (@UnisNotBorders) profile pictureUnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge@UnisNotBorders16 Feb 2025
.@bphillipsonMP selling, erm...begging migrant students back to the UK while @UKLabour expands the #HostileEnvironment, meanwhile, UK universities are criminalising 🇵🇸 protests & divestment campaigns, are some of the many reasons why migrant students are giving the UK a pass.
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London CAAT@londoncaat12 Feb 2025
Shocking and shameful
Campaign Against Arms Trade (@CAATuk) profile pictureCampaign Against Arms Trade@CAATuk12 Feb 2025
[Red and blue split background, with an off-white F-35 fighter jet diagonally cutting through the middle dropping 6 bombs.] Britain sends weapons to Israel to kill Palestinians & destroy Gaza then refuses them medical treatment & sanctuary from these bombs. [Campaign Against the Arms Trade]

ALT [Red and blue split background, with an off-white F-35 fighter jet diagonally cutting through the middle dropping 6 bombs.] Britain sends weapons to Israel to kill Palestinians & destroy Gaza then refuses them medical treatment & sanctuary from these bombs. [Campaign Against the Arms Trade]

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London CAAT (@londoncaat) profile picture
London CAAT@londoncaat12 Feb 2025
Universities should not be partnering with countries with a history of torture and human rights abuses
Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) profile pictureChannel 4 News
@Channel4News11 Feb 2025
A new report shared exclusively with Channel 4 News by the charity Freedom from Torture has found that a number of universities are enrolling students onto postgrad policing and security courses even when they come from countries with a history of torture and human rights abuses.
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London CAAT@londoncaat11 Feb 2025
Deportation footage ‘enables mainstreaming of racism’, Clive Lewis says. This video is shameful and cruel theguardian.com/politics/202…
Deportation footage ‘enables mainstreaming of racism’, Clive Lewis says

Deportation footage ‘enables mainstreaming of racism’, Clive Lewis says

Labour MP and others on left of party speak out after ‘cruel’ video shown

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Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) profile pictureAl Jazeera English
@AJEnglish5 Feb 2025
Google has dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in its updated ethics policy on the powerful technology aje.io/jm1lme
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Liberty (@libertyhq) profile picture
Liberty@libertyhq1 Jan 2025
Our New Year’s resolutions: ✊ PROTECT the right to protest 🚫 STAND UP against dangerous facial recognition technology 🤝 SUPPORT marginalised communities seeking justice ⚖️ DEFEND human rights in the UK Let’s make this a reality together. #DefendDemocracy
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Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) profile picture
Zoe Gardner@ZoeJardiniere2 Jan 2025
The Home Office accepts that its policies to “smash the gangs” results in people taking flimsier & more overcrowded dinghies across the Channel. This is why at least 77 people have drowned. A third are children. #r4today mirror.co.uk/news/politics/n…
Names and faces of people who died in Channel during deadliest year on record

Names and faces of people who died in Channel during deadliest year on record

Heartbreaking photos show men, women and children who died this year trying to reach the UK in small boats as MPs are urged to reflect on the tragedies and stop it happening again

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is your uni investing in cages, cruelty and climate collapse? probably. are you powerless? absolutely not. get in touch today to join a divest borders group on your campus peopleandplanet.org/divest-b…
People & Planet (@peopleandplanet) profile picturePeople & Planet@peopleandplanet20 Dec 2024
💥 The 2024/25 People & Planet University League is out now! 💥 149 universities were ranked by sustainability and ethics criteria. 📈 How sustainable is your university? 🌏✊🤔 Find out NOW! 👇 peopleandplanet.org/universi…
How Ethical and Sustainable is your university? New ranking out today! 1. University of Bedfordshire 2. De Montfort University 3.University of West London 4. University of Reading 5. Manchester Metropolitan University 6. University of Worcester 7. University of the Arts London 8. University of Salford 9. University of Exeter 10. Northumbria University University League 2024/25

ALT How Ethical and Sustainable is your university? New ranking out today! 1. University of Bedfordshire 2. De Montfort University 3.University of West London 4. University of Reading 5. Manchester Metropolitan University 6. University of Worcester 7. University of the Arts London 8. University of Salford 9. University of Exeter 10. Northumbria University University League 2024/25

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