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Aaron Bastani

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Mad story. A bailiff, used to remove squatters from a building connected to a former Conservative councillor, was himself arrested for possession of a weapon (section 5 firearm). Private bailiffs in UK are out of control. Top story by

A Bailiff Was Arrested for a Firearms Offence After a ‘Brutal’ Attempt to Illegally Evict Squatters...

Bailiffs with illegal weapons tried to evict squatters from a former Tory councillor’s empty factory. Cops arrested a bailiff and let squatters back in again.

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Also worth saying, it's time consuming to investigate this stuff - & difficult reporting on people who essentially deal in intimidation. We genuinely couldn't do it without your help. 🙏

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A few weeks ago, in another Novara exclusive,

@AndrewKersley

reported that bailiff's are dressing like cops to scare people out of their homes.

Bailiffs Are Dressing Up Like Police Officers to Scare Tenants Out of Their Homes | Novara Media

Exclusive: S&K property enforcement is showing up to homes wearing outfits that look like police uniforms.

Squatters, solicitors & housing activists told me this is part of a trend - bailiffs, enforcement agents and security guards are out of control. We should all be seriously worried: Hired ‘thugs’ with weapons are now breaking the law to terrorise people on behalf of landlords.

“Thuggish” plain-clothed bailiffs, who would not identify themselves or say who they worked for, stormed the commercial property in east London - so flagrantly breaking the law that even the cops sided with squatters. Squatters were left heavily bruised.

NEW: A bailiff was in court today charged with a firearms offence. Police were called to an illegal eviction at an empty textile factory owned by former TORY COUNCILLOR

@NizzaFluss

's family business, and found him with pepper spray and a taser.

A Bailiff Was Arrested for a Firearms Offence After a ‘Brutal’ Attempt to Illegally Evict Squatters...

Bailiffs with illegal weapons tried to evict squatters from a former Tory councillor’s empty factory. Cops arrested a bailiff and let squatters back in again.

Safer Renting

@SaferRentingCH

Novara Media reporting on the growing trend of companies offering eviction services to property owners. These evictions are illegal and involve violence, but we are seeing a growth in their activities due to the complete lack of enforcement in England's wild west of a PRS.

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Bailiffs with illegal weapons tried to evict squatters from a former Tory councillor’s empty factory. Cops arrested a bailiff and let squatters back in again. @CharlottEngland reports. novaramedia.com/2023/05/19/a-b

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Bailiffs with illegal weapons tried to evict squatters from a former Tory councillor’s empty factory. Cops arrested a bailiff and let squatters back in again.

reports.

A Bailiff Was Arrested for a Firearms Offence After a ‘Brutal’ Attempt to Illegally Evict Squatters...

Bailiffs with illegal weapons tried to evict squatters from a former Tory councillor’s empty factory. Cops arrested a bailiff and let squatters back in again.

Shelly Asquith

@ShellyAsquith

May 6

Outrageous scenes of cops arresting anti-monarchy protestors and stealing their placards So we are not allowed to show public opposition to a bloke being crowned head of state for having been born into unimaginable wealth while ppl line up at food banks and schools fall apart

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today! Lots learnt, many storms weathered, so much further to go. Best job in the world – got dream projects in the pipeline. So lucky to be part of one several independent leftwing media orgs trying to reshape the landscape.

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Apr 20

Happy 1-year @novaramedia anniversary to @mlothianmclean, who's made such an immense contribution to the org since she started. We're so lucky to have her!

at learning that

has beaten Alastair Campbell to become the most popular news podcast on Spotify

Apr 12

On New Year’s Eve, XR hit pause on its tactic of public disruption. As it prepares for its most ambitious mobilisation yet - getting 100,000 people to surround the Houses of Parliament - I took a deep-dive into what’s been going on behind the scenes.

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On New Year’s Eve, Extinction Rebellion hit pause on its tactic of public disruption. But as it prepares for its most ambitious mobilisation yet, will the gamble pay off?

Moya Lothian-McLean

@mlothianmclean

Water firms: ‘We’ll raise bills to clean sewage in rivers’

So not only do England's water companies dump literal shit in our rivers, they now want to charge us for them deigning to clear it up?

opendemocracy.net

Exclusive: Water companies told the government they’d pass the costs of cleaning up England’s rivers onto customers

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Ben Smoke

@bencsmoke

see we’re at the putting honey behind an electric fence stage of the cost of living crisis

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The far right don’t really care about ‘protecting kids’ - they just want a cover for attacking queer people. These attacks are growing. I’ll be at this on Sat 29th April!

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Others said shoplifting was a form of resistance. Their concerns were around it being easier for some people to steal than others, & the obstacles to building solidarity between shoplifters - not the ethics of stealing. Great reporting by

People Are Shoplifting Their Way Out of the Cost of Living Crisis | Novara Media

As the price of food and other basics soars, more people are shoplifting. While some see stealing as necessary, for others it’s a form of resistance. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Shoplifters told

the cost of living crisis has pushed them to steal. “I’ve been on the verge of crying when I go to buy Sainsbury’s Basics squash & realise the price has doubled" "What has the situation come to, where I can’t afford butter?"

People Are Shoplifting Their Way Out of the Cost of Living Crisis | Novara Media

As the price of food and other basics soars, more people are shoplifting. While some see stealing as necessary, for others it’s a form of resistance. Sophie K Rosa reports.

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Apr 4

For me, it's also changed what it feels fair to ask for from a home. My piece on housing co-ops, 'is it ever right to evict anyone', entitlement - and whether I even want to live in London anymore. 2/2

I Live in a Housing Co-op. But No One Really Escapes London’s Accommodation Crisis Anymore | Novara...

When Charlotte England’s housing coop was built in the 1970s, it was intended as a choice; one option among many. But the rental crisis has made it increasingly difficult for people to leave, and...

Rivkah Brown

@RivkahBrown

Apr 5

“Palestinian citizens can’t come out to defend the court that constantly approves their second-class status. At the same time, we can’t say, ‘get rid of it’.” Brilliant reporting by

@daisy_schofield

on the bind Palestinians find themselves in.

How Israel’s Pro-Democracy Protests Sold Out Palestinians | Novara Media

Despite sharing in fears of an increasingly fascist Israeli state, Palestinians have been largely excluded from the pro-democracy protests that have engulfed the country in recent months. Now the...

I Live in a Housing Co-op. But No One Really Escapes London’s Accommodation Crisis Anymore | Novara...

Jon Moses

@jm0ses

Apr 3

While we learn that *every single river* in England is polluted, here is the River Limmat in Switzerland. It runs through the centre of the largest city, Zürich (population: 436,000). Water Quality: Excellent Public Swimming Baths: 11 We have been mugged. #WildIsles

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When my housing co-op was built in the 1970s, it was intended as a choice. But the rental crisis has made it increasingly difficult for people to move out, leaving us grappling with some pretty big questions. 1/2

Apr 2

I’m outside NHS England in Elephant & Castle, where Trans Action Block are protesting against ridiculously long waiting times for gender affirming surgery (phalloplasty and metoidioplasty specifically)

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A note on

's closure. I'm so sad to see it go. Life changing for so many of us.

text reads: gal-dem wasn't the first platform to give me a break but it was the one that gave me free reign and believed in me 100%. It changed the trajectory of my career. This is not an original experience - I am one of countless voices, underrepresented in British media, that gal-dem passed the mic to. It was an honour to be a small part of the magazine's story.

I am devastated it will no longer be around to keep providing that leg up, at a time when it is so sorely needed. There are lessons to be learned from gal-dem's demise, which is premature. Fifteen people have now lost their jobs. Thousands more have lost a vital platform. I am grieving gal-dem's potential; so much was realised during its lifespan but a huge amount was still possible with such a talented team.

Forever thankful for gal-dem; absolutely gutted to see it go. Love to everyone impacted. From the ashes I hope we birth something new – god knows, we need it. x

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Mar 31

There is still so much work to be done in improving how the media engages with and honour our stories. Please continue supporting organisations and publishers who are fighting to make this happen! We’ve listed some here, please feel free to share more. gal-dem.com/uk-independent

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"The cultural messaging that glorifies home as a place of relaxation, tenderness and unity might evoke a certain longing – perhaps because, for most of us, it is a fiction." An edited extract of Radical Intimacy's chapter on 'home' in

How to Make a Home in a Housing Crisis | Novara Media

It can be hard for alternative ways of living to endure when they defy the brutal, capitalist logic of private property, writes Sophie K Rosa in her new book Radical Intimacy. But everywhere - and...

Buy her book!

Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be f...

From going undercover as a luxury property investor to a thorough survey of experiments in living, past and present, I really, really enjoyed

's investigation into what is 'home', and how we make it in a housing crisis.

How to Make a Home in a Housing Crisis | Novara Media

It can be hard for alternative ways of living to endure when they defy the brutal, capitalist logic of private property, writes Sophie K Rosa in her new book Radical Intimacy. But everywhere - and...

Mar 30

Please support Anu's family's crowdfunder (gofundme.com/f/justice-for-), and their demand alongside

@KidsOfColourHQ

and

@npolicemonitor

for an independent investigation by

@policeconduct

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A trainee police officer died by suicide after describing bullying and racism at work. His family is clear: the police contributed to their son's death.

West London Resistance Collective

@WestLdnAntiRaid

Mar 30

Support is still needed this afternoon in Shepherds Bush. Please DM if you can make it down there!

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Mar 28

A group of over 50 asylum seekers were stranded outside the hotel in the cold from 8am. They were told by the Hotel staff members that there were not enough rooms for them all.

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Mar 29

"...O’Grady also voiced support for student protesters who stormed Conservative Party HQ at Milbank. 'I can’t condone throwing fire extinguishers off the roof. Use them as a battering ram for doors!'"

‘Bastards!’: Comedian and Outspoken Critic of Austerity Paul O’Grady Dies Aged 67 | Novara Media

O’Grady, famous for his drag persona Lily Savage, described cuts to disability benefits as ‘criminal’ and said he would like to see David Cameron and George Osborne’s heads on spikes.

West London Resistance Collective

@WestLdnAntiRaid

Mar 28

A group of over 50 asylum seekers were stranded outside the hotel in the cold from 8am. They were told by the Hotel staff members that there were not enough rooms for them all. 🧵 (1/6)

Kojo Koram

@KojoKoram

The tories are breaking their own economic logic when it comes to drug policy because they understand how irredeemably unequal the society that they are governing is becoming and they cannot abandon this instrument of arbitrary social control at such a time

Asylum seekers in Whitechapel & Greenwich were so relieved to be offered accommodation in London. But the incompetence of the HO/ outsourcing companies means dozens were sent to a hotel that doesn’t have space for them & are now spending the night outside in the freezing cold.

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West London Welcome

@wlondonwelcome

Another day, more chaos and inhumane treatment of asylum-seeking people thanks to Home Office, Clearsprings, hotels they subcontract to. Earlier people were made homeless. They’ve been waiting for housing outside a hotel in the freezing cold alongside mattresses for 8 hours now.

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Questions remain about standard & capacity of hotels. I'm hearing that some men were taken to a hotel in Shepherd's Bush only to be left in the street for hours because there wasn't space inside. Others are being put 3 to a room. Still good news, but situation worth monitoring.

BREAKING: Asylum seekers in Tower Hamlets have now all been offered accommodation in London!

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Mar 25

It's now a stand off in both Greenwich & Tower Hamlets. 2 groups of 30+ asylum seekers are refusing to move to isolated, unsafe accommodation outside London. The HO isn't offering any alternative. Buses have come and then left empty several times now. novaramedia.com/2023/03/21/mor

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Still looking for people to share thoughts for this piece - ty!

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Mar 16

Looking to chat to ppl re. cost of living + shoplifting - esp ppl newly shoplifting or doing it more, or needing to but less able because of their risk profile. Also: retail workers w/ opinions on shoplifting + working conditions. sophiekrosa[at]gmail.com /DM - ty!

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