tom cheesman @tomchee
literary and digital research, translation and activism. @hafanbooks @SASS_community Wales, United Kingdom Joined February 2009-
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Valentine's Day is a day of love, compassion and care. Yet @mitie and @SercoGroup are making HUGE profits from running detention centres, which cause immense harm to women. Mitie and Serco must end their involvement in detention and #StopProfitingFromOurHeartbreak now.
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🥁The imprisoned Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak's poem 'What I know of the Sea' will be displayed on the London Underground for 4 weeks... with @CarolineStockf1 credited as translator. 📢📣
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🗣 Opinion: Web3 tech has failed to shift patterns of authority and profit, and need greater scrutiny, and stronger standards and safeguards, writes @margchee. bit.ly/3ujmgts
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"The business was run more like a feudal court than a modern company". Hope I am not distantly related to that dodgy FTX board member Jonathan Cheesman.
"The business was run more like a feudal court than a modern company". Hope I am not distantly related to that dodgy FTX board member Jonathan Cheesman.
Do not let this be what the world remembers you for @privilege757 - do not use your planes to profit from the pain of refugees. Stop the flights to Rwanda. #StopTheFlights
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SASS's new short animated film for Refugee Week 2022: "No Friends But the Mountains - Walking in the Shoes of Kurdish Refugees" - youtu.be/_CkrNfPyc-E
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“The evidence of senior Home Office officials…confirm a state body driven by political imperatives to sacrifice welfare…[for] enforcement & administrative convenience that relegates safeguarding of detainees to a virtual footnote… [and] puts cost cutting over safety & care”
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How can we support refugees to rebuild their life in Wales? Join us at our Workshop & Networking event on Refugee Employment at The Grand Multicultural Hub on Monday 4th April! REGISTER HERE: eventbrite.co.uk/e/refugee-empl… #employment #Swansea #RefugeesWelcome #NationofSanctuary
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Playing the piano for the last time in a destroyed home 💔
Playing the piano for the last time in a destroyed home 💔
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Court of Appeal has dismissed @ukhomeoffice appeal in our test case. Confirmed victims of #trafficking should be granted leave pending resolution of #asylum claims based on re-trafficking. Court criticised delays & urged home office to act. bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/…
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📣 The pilot for our Exhibition will be open to the public at The Grand Multicultural Hub from Monday 22nd - April 7th!!! Featuring a Workshop on Refugee Employment on April 4th (registration now open, see link below) Visit our website for updates: swansea.cityofsanctuary.org/events/pilot-e…
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We know communities want to play a direct part in welcoming Ukrainian refugees. The new scheme supporting UK householders to host refugees is a positive step, but we have significant concerns (see thread🧵below)...
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Do not miss this event and spread the news! @VolcanoUK @SwanseaUni_LTI @tomchee @share_tawe @VolcanoFridays @MakingLitTravel @Meggyf @BuchlerAlex @elinhgj @IccwHere
Do not miss this event and spread the news! @VolcanoUK @SwanseaUni_LTI @tomchee @share_tawe @VolcanoFridays @MakingLitTravel @Meggyf @BuchlerAlex @elinhgj @IccwHere
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No Man's Land's first tweet is "To Kyiv," Tom Cheesman's translation of Albert Ostermaier's poem "Nach Kiew," from the Süddeutsche 4 Mar 22: sueddeutsche.de/kultur/albert-… Thanks to translator and author! @tomchee #albertostermaier #ukraine #germanliterature
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On #InternationalWomenDay, we honour the solidarity work and social activism that Olga and her friends are doing to support fellow Ukrainians. Read her new blog here: cov19chronicles.com/doubly-displac…
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A poem for Kyiv, translated from German. It was published 4/3/22: sueddeutsche.de/kultur/albert-…
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