African, Caribbean and Asian Lawyers For Justice

When Black Athletes Speak, Britain Panics. Veteran activist Lee Jasper's latest @Substack article goes real deep. open.substack.com/pub/leejaspers…

@LancashireF @RobKenyonReform Yeah you don’t - but he will.

@BameFor @RobKenyonReform Nobody cares……….

Scorching weather, but great for campaigning. It has been a busy bank holiday weekend, but the reception has been fantastic. Thank you to everyone who came out to support us. Enjoy the long weekend.

@RightWingCope @BlackWomanVibes The Epstein Class is everywhere, in your Church, your school, your workplace…

BREAKING: MAGA 'pray-away-the-gay' pastor Alan Chambers gets busted by police after trying to have sex with an underage boy 💀

I’m beyond excited to share that my debut book is on the way! 'Long Distance Runners: Black Women Radicals and the Struggle for Liberation' will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in early 2027.

@RnaudBertrand @joyhuilin Pax Americana has become Pax Silica: colonialism rebuilt through cloud infrastructure. The gunboat has not disappeared. It has been joined by the data centre, the sanctions regime, the private equity fund, the special economic zone and the military base.

This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines. They did so under the so-called "Pax Silica" initiative, the brainchild of - surprise, surprise - an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic "diplomacy" from the State Department. It's causing a big outcry in the Philippines, which is quite a feat given this is by far the most US-friendly country in Southeast Asia. If you're the US and you're getting the Marcos administration - of all governments - to push back on sovereignty, you've really overplayed your hand. What is the "Pax Silica" initiative? In a nutshell it's about the US getting other countries to commit to restructuring their AI tech infrastructure around a US-led stack. It's basically vendor lock-in: you hand over your critical minerals, align your export controls with Washington's, regulate AI the way America wants, and in return you get to be a US "trusted partner," whatever that means these days. In essence, let's not kid ourselves, it's all about China: this is the US's initiative to "win the AI race" by getting other countries to contractually commit to keeping China out of their tech supply chains. When you can't preserve your lead through innovation, you seek to lock countries in contractually. For instance as a country, this would mean telling Huawei they can't sell you AI chips, and telling Chinese firms they can't invest in your data centers - even if they're better and cheaper. It's not about choosing the best technology, it's about choosing the right flag. But in this instance, the US went much further still: they literally tried to carve out 4,000 acres of Philippine territory (in New Clark City, 60 miles north of Manila) to be governed under US common law with diplomatic immunity - the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the modern world. This is according to the WSJ who ran the story last month (wsj.com/world/asia/u-s…) as if it was a done deal (it wasn't). Heard about the "French concession" or "British concession" in China during the century of humiliation? Same thing: the US basically asked for an "American concession" in the Philippines. Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of backlash in the country with for instance the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP) calling it a “massive sellout” of the country’s land, minerals, and sovereignty (punto.com.ph/us-led-pax-sil…). So much so that the Philippines' government - namely Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) - issued a statement saying that the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction (asianews.network/philippines-re…). Note, by the way, this delicious irony: the BCDA is the government agency that was created in 1992 specifically to convert former US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay after the Philippines spent decades negotiating their closure. New Clark City - where the Pax Silica's hub would go - is built on the old Clark Air Base. So the agency whose entire reason for existing is to turn former American colonial territory (i.e. US military bases) into sovereign Philippine land is the one now being asked to hand part of that very same land back under US jurisdiction (and, apparently, declined). Of course though, blocking this specific jurisdiction grab doesn't change the bigger picture. The Philippines is still a Pax Silica signatory, and Pax Silica itself is structurally neocolonial: you supply the cheap labor and raw materials, align your export controls and regulations with Washington's, cut yourself off from the world's rising technological powerhouse - and in exchange you get assembly jobs and the privilege of getting a pat on the head and being called a "trusted partner." They dropped the most cartoonishly colonial demand - governing Philippine soil under US law - but the underlying architecture is the same: you serve America's supply chain, on America's terms, and you relinquish your sovereign right to trade with whoever offers the best deal.

Since this morning, I’ve been staring at this little girl. Her beautiful, innocent face radiates pure innocence. What crime could she possibly have committed to lose three of her limbs, with the fourth one now threatened with amputation? Did she carry a weapon? Did she fight? Or was she simply playing or sleeping in her home? Imagine she was your daughter. One single moment destroyed her entire life. Every day is pure torment: unbearable pain that never stops, deep scars, difficulty eating, drinking, or even changing her clothes. She can’t play, she can’t run, she can’t hug her mother like before. Every movement reminds her of what she’s lost, and every night she cries from the pain and fear. How will she go to school? How will she grow up with an incomplete body? Questions that no child should ever have to face. My heart breaks as I look into her innocent eyes. A child who did nothing wrong, yet paid an unimaginable price.

It is now 2:40 a.m., and we are still awake… not because we don’t want to sleep, but because sleep here is no longer natural. When night falls, it brings another kind of suffering. Mosquitoes and insects fill the place, and we cannot sleep more than two or three broken hours. We try to cover ourselves, but it makes no difference. Because of accumulated waste, rubble, and the lack of electricity, the nights have become unbearably harsh. Our bodies are covered in bites, blisters are spreading, and marks of scratching and blood are visible on our hands and feet. We wake up exhausted, as if we never slept. Sleep has become a distant dream. We wish for just a few hours of rest and cannot find them. Our bodies are exhausted, yet we cannot even close our eyes. What kind of reality forces a person to spend the night fighting insects instead of resting?How long will basic things sleep, electricity, a clean environment remain luxuries? It has become exhausting. We are not asking for much… only a life where a human can live with dignity and sleep without the night becoming another test.

Nigel Farage is the 21st century version of the fascist National Front of the 70’s and no amount of money, flim flammery or blokey chats in pubs can change that. NF by name. NF by nature.

@reformexposed @X @Makerfield_RFK @RobKenyonReform NF by name. NF by nature.

Hi @x, this user is accessing via the Ireland App Store in an attempt to circumvent your policy on account suspension evasion. He had the account @Makerfield_RFK that was suspended in November 2025. He’s now set up @RobKenyonReform. He also had @robkenyon1 which he deleted. @support / @xuk

@RobKenyonReform We've seen your past posts on social media, you're totally unsuitable for any public office.

@RobKenyonReform Most would apologues for their past You have proven that you do not have that worth nor ability. Dead right for Reform but never right to represent a single constituent - own it

Rob’s racist history and fascist connects first seem to be holding back. Why do large sections of the British electorate love racists? Farage and Reform have poisoned the well of British democracy. It’s up to Andy to clean it up.

It’s official - Britain has the best democracy - money can buy. Reform and Labour Together share the same values. They’re both part of the Epstein class.

Massive congratulations to #bcdsproject for being nominated for a National Diversity Award. It was my honour to photograph these earth angels. Black children with Down Syndrome must never be invisible.

@TheTennisLetter @misanharriman We love this. It’s a beautiful example of positive Black self love in a racially violent world. As for those who don’t get it - racism must have shrivelled the empathetic section of your brain - to the size of a small dry prune.

Naomi Osaka on why she chose to host a party for the black tennis players: “You know I'm seeing a little bit of- ‘Why can't you love everyone for all skin tones?’ and ‘what if someone had an all white party?! First of all I do love everyone for who they are no matter their race + ethnicity, (I'm literally half Japanese lol). I can only speak from my experiences in my own life though, growing up as a tennis player I didn't see many people that looked like ME and I feel like it's important to celebrate them. Secondly I feel like it's important to note that there have been all white dinners/parties. I don't know how else to tell you this, I literally seen them all the time and never had an issue with it at all. To the people who ask this question I want to ask you this question too, ‘What is it about POC getting together that unsettles you so much?’ I want to end this by saying I grew up watching my dad get discriminated against, having the cops called on him multiple times at the tennis court. There are multiple things I will apologize for in my life but celebrating being black and appreciating who we are will never be something I would consider saying sorry for. Thanks. Actually I lied, I am sorry. I'm sorry for the people who cannot comprehend in their brains that this is not about exclusion, this is a celebration about how far we have come 🖤” (via Naomi on Threads)

White Mon recorded racially abusing her dual ethnicity son. This is a reality for many children whose trauma and resultant psychological consequences are a long recognised trait. Takes years to recover.

Los terroristas sionistas israelíes de las FDI matan a un niño palestino de 14 años. Necesitamos que este video se vuelva viral. Compártelo. #CIJ_ICJ 🇵🇸🌎⚖️

⁨Britain Didn’t Abolish Slavery, It Monetised The Exit Britain didn’t grow a conscience, it milked slavery dry, panicked after Haiti proved the enslaved could win, paid the enslavers in blood money, and rebranded exploitation as civilisation while the victims got nothing but silence and chains with better PR.⁩

At a live event for @zeteo_news with @mehdirhasan the actor Riz Ahmed says British Secret services tried to recruit him three times as an intelligence officer. The final time, the offer came from a senior BBC Executive (who he doesn’t name) …

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve_news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!