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Socialist. Health and safety at work @the_TUC . Anti-war campaigner @StWuk
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All of last week, hundreds of union health & safety reps used their legal right to inspect the workplace.
For
@TUC_Education
’s Building Safety Week of Action, reps were checking for risks like RAAC, asbestos, fire hazards and more ⚠️
#IWMD24
Just a few of them doing their thing:
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Good morning to the pupils of Pimlico Academy school who are refusing to go to class in protest of their head teachers’ racist policy banning Afro hair and ‘colourful’ hijabs. Heroes.
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A care worker was asked by
@BBCNewsbeat
earlier whether she will be buying one of the new CARE badges, she said “No, they are being sold for £8.99 and my wage is only £8.75 an hour”
Says it all..
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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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I marched with my granddad today..
..and 500,000 others on the streets of London demanding a
#CeasefireNow
.
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This time five years ago I had a full-time job, a second job at a bar in the evenings, and a third job at a shop on Sundays, so I could make the rent.
For most people that’s what ‘second job’ means. For MPs, it’s pure greed. It should not be legal.
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The police in Peckham were violent today. They were determined to clear the road to get the van out with their hostage inside. We didn’t let them.
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Tonight in London, after our vigil and in the pouring rain, thousands are praying together in mourning for those who have been murdered in Gaza.
A powerful moment.
@FriendsofAlAqsa
@PSCupdates
@PalForumUk
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This is f****** out of order. Unions are hearing from thousands of frightened workers every week who are being forced to office jobs they know can be done from home, but face the sack if they refuse. Blame the bosses.
absolute baller move of the uk government to shame ppl for uhhh having to work
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This is a lie. There is no “row between teachers and unions”: 92% of
@NEUnion
members say they don’t feel safe.
The unions *are* the teachers. By refusing to put themselves at risk they are acting in all our interests - and for that, they are heroes.
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Hundreds of school and college kids in Bethnal Green striking and marching for a
#CeasefireNow
🥹
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Human beings, dying of starvation, are being shot dead and flattened for running towards food by a murderous occupying army with weapons provided by our government…
And the PM’s first ever Downing Street speech will be about trying to silence those of us who condemn it.
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This photo shows a university department with - and without - migrant students and academics.
#1DayWithoutUs
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Conservative Party members will choose our next Prime Minister in an online vote..
Yet trade unions are banned from online balloting. Funny that.
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The company which runs this student halls in Bolton was suspended from the national codes in 2016, after our tribunal found they had failed on fire safety:
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The Arcuri story is actually maddddd. People seeing it as if it's just some click-bait, titillating story about shagging. The woman was given more than £100k in public funds...
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Jeremy trying not to smile as Danny Dyer calls David Cameron a “twat” has made my night.
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This school is a 10 minute walk from Parliament, where today the government will announce there is no institutional racism in Britain.
They won’t fool us all.
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The
#CeasefireNOW
rally at Trafalgar Square, London today. Just wow.
I’ve never seen the square, and all the streets surrounding it, so full.
+ many more incredible actions across the country.
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Stormzy just sang “Theresa May, where’s the money for Grenfell? You think we forgot about Grenfell?” live on stage at the
#BRITs
.
He is this country’s biggest asset, musically and politically.
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Meghan Markle just used one of her last Instagram posts as a Royal to write about the women of the Dagenham Ford strike 😯!
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There’s talk of trying to ban Sat 11 Nov
#CeasefireNow
march, or of it disturbing events at Cenotaph:
1. The march will go nowhere near Whitehall
2. Marching will start nearly 2 hrs after minute silence
3. Remembrance Sunday is the following day
4. ‘Armistice’ means ceasefire
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Another immigration raid successfully RESISTED. The man was released back to his home after we blocked the van from moving 👏
As cops left we shouted “don’t come back to Peckham”, but we know they’ll be back and when they are we need to turn out like this again. Well done all.
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"Living with Covid" actually means "Working while sick" for millions of people who cannot afford to survive on £96 a week statutory sick pay.
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What a beautiful show of solidarity in Glasgow today. Physical resistance of an immigration raid. anti-racism in action. When we mobilise, when we shut shit down, we win.
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Another 114 people died of coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
Another 583 died in the last week.
Since the government ended its daily briefings, these figures aren’t cutting through.
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Four months ago my landlord tried to take £500 from my deposit in a fantasy claim over repairs. Obviously I disputed it and today I won
The parasitic landlord didn’t know who she was dealing with muahaha 😂
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Starting tomorrow, more than 7,000 British Gas workers will down tools for five days as they fight a fire and rehire plan that will cut their pay. Send them solidarity!
@GMB_union
#StopTheBritishGasFire
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Britain must urgently offer a substantial refugee programme for Afghans fleeing the violent and volatile situation this country’s governments have played a major role in creating. Amnesty must be offered to all Afghans already here, too.
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The footage of Corbyn at Glastonbury doesn't even do the crowd justice. My colleague, who's a big supporter, sent me this of his view:
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The talk about school meal vouchers being traded for drugs reminds me of the debate about EMA (Educational Maintenance Allowance). That’s what they claimed teenagers spent it on. That’s what they think of working class people.
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This is the march on Park Lane in London right now… and we are barely getting started!
Coaches still parking up. People will be pouring into the streets for a while yet.
It’s not too late to join us.
#ceasefirenow
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If you want Labour to form the next govt, your ‘tactical’ vote MUST be for Labour.
If it’s close, as it looks like it might be, which Party gets the largest % of votes *nationally* will be crucial.
Your vote DOES count. So don’t give it to anyone but Labour.
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Wow -
#loveisland
have released the figures for every vote that took place, and Dani & Jack won by an absolute *landslide* last night!
🔥 79.66 % 🔥
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The media coverage of the RMT strikes is the most blatant example yet of how industrial reporting has been almost entirely refocused away from what disputes mean for workers to what they mean for consumers.
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Stay safe anyone taking part in protests today. And solidarity!
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Next Saturday 13th Jan, we will march in London again for a ceasefire in Gaza.
This time we are co-ordinating with campaigners around the world. On the same day, there will also be demonstrations in: 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇩🇰 🇳🇬 🇿🇦 🇬🇭 🇸🇱 🇲🇾 🇯🇵 🇮🇩 🇧🇷 🇰🇷 🇦🇺 🇪🇸 🇯🇴 🇨🇾 🇮🇪 🇹🇷
#GazaGlobalAction
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If only all picket lines had the energy of the London bus strikers. 7 years ago this month was this one..
“Big up all the workers in London!” (Mikey Bashment, Camberwell Bus Garage)
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Millennials whose parents paid for Sky /Cable TV when they were kids have a whole separate set of cultural references
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Devastating. 5 London bus drivers have died of coronavirus.
Every transport worker is still putting their life at risk to keep communities going - along with all the other key workers.
My heart goes out to their families, friends & colleagues.
#IWMD20
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Wow - not only did Germany refuse Dr Ghassan entry to the country but he was threatened with jail time if he even joined the conference via zoom *in Britain*??? Or sent in a pre-recorded video???
Watch for his analysis of why this happened:
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“We don’t need a trade union here, we’ve got a staff forum”
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The headquarters of
@TfL
has been taken over by bus workers and supporters opposing plans to make huge cuts to London’s bus routes.
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Forget Trump’s visit - Absolutely amazing to have Bernie Sanders address the huge
#DurhamMinersGala
via video.
“It’s time to bring a little austerity to the richest 1% and corporations”
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Today is 7 years since the massacre at Utøya, where 69 mostly young Norwegian socialists were killed by a fascist for their political views. They were our brothers, sisters, comrades.
We must never cease standing alongside the oppressed in the fight against fascism.
#NoPasaran
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The number of Coronavirus infections will not go down ↓ until the rate of Statutory Sick Pay goes up ↑
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The Prime Minister demonstrating that he has no idea how his own guidance for ‘shielding’ (clinically extremely vulnerable) people works. “I hope you’re not being asked to go to work” - hundreds of thousands were told on 2nd December that’s exactly what they should do!
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Horrible smirk on his face while Owen points out nurses have been murdered, as he tries to make it all about him.
Ed Balls did not like our politicians & media being called out by
@OwenJones84
on
#GMB
this morning.
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It strikes me how so many Britons know so little of Israel’s crimes. They are not aware of the atrocities of recent months or years. Of Sheikh Jarrah or Jenin, of the Bakr boys or Shireen.
Let alone of 1948 or Balfour.
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Important news ❗️
Alex from
#LoveIsland
is not just a Doctor - he is a *comrade*.
Alex to win is officially the line!
#SaveOurNHS
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Tories think they're very clever pointing out more working class young people are attending university. Here's what they forget to mention:
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Couldn’t join our
#CeasefireNOW
march in London this weekend as I’m out of the country. So I joined the one here where I am instead.
“In every city, in every nation
The people cry: end the occupation!”
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Crowd of hundreds outside Downing Street tonight protesting the recent attacks on Palestinians and the British government’s complicity in occupation and arms sales to Israel. 🇵🇸
@JessicaLBarnard
speaking:
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Can't wait 'til we unseat Boris Johnson in Uxbridge & South Ruislip. It's a Labour target seat, and we're taking it!
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Thousands of people have walked out of worklppaces and classrooms to descend on the streets and sent a message to the world: Donald Trump and the racist, capitalist politics he represents, are not welcome here.
#TrumpProtest
#TrumpProtests
#TogetherAgainstTrump
#TrumpUKVisit
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Last week’s rally was huge, and it followed demos and disruption all across the country, from villages in Scotland to a sit-in in central London
But this week, we march, together
Over 250 coaches booked
They tried to stop us but we defied them. Let’s make it BIG!
#CeasefireNow
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Rebecca Long-Bailey’s support of the education unions’ position on schools re-opening - while other senior Labour figures undermined it - ultimately helped force the govt back and undoubtedly saved working class peoples lives from a deadly virus.
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Shout out
@richardburgon
for successfully suing The S*n this year and therefore contributing to these losses 😂
The Sun records £68m loss amid falling sales and hacking damages
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Leftwing student movement bros circa 2009-2015 be like “I know a place”...
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These Irish 14 year olds are heroes. They fought the deportation of one of their classmates, and won.
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“The greatest protection you can have in the workplace is to be in a trade union” -
@LauraPidcockMP
#bbcqt
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I am loving the scenes of hundreds of Amazon workers walking out across 3 different sites in protest of pathetic 35p - 50p pay offers. We love to see it!
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Solidarity to all the barristers on strike today! Fighting for a justice system fit for purpose ⚖️✊
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Hi Geoffrey did you keep a copy of the paper? I’d like to send one to my mum but wouldn’t want to give the Daily Mail any of my trade union wages
These 3 👇👇👇organised a
#Mob
to prevent an illegal being arrested for deportation A TU staffer ,a Teacher and a council official ❓But how were they given advance notice ❓Surely common sense would dictate an early morning raid before everyone up and about ❓
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For the second night in a row we stood outside Downing Street.
Couldn’t let our Prime Minister met US Vice President Kamala Harris and not have an audience.
It’s widely reported that yesterday’s Jabaliya massacre was thanks to US weapons… a murderous coalition.
HAPPENING NOW: Kamala Harris arrives for meeting with Rishi Sunak to cries of “ceasefire now” and “shame on you”.
We only found out an hour ago but hundreds mobilised. We will follow politicians wherever they go demanding an end to complicity in Israel’s genocide.
#FreePalestine
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This is clearly assault. She was not a threat to him, she was walking straight past. The entitlement of rich men in power, especially when in a pack and dressed like toffs, to exert violence over women is scary. Mark Field MP has to go.
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Tonight’s Evening Standard front page: the two causes were never in contradiction
Tomorrow we will march for peace
#CeasefireNow
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Rishi Sunak might talk a good talk about his parents’ NHS background, but he used to be Director of Catamaran Ventures, an investment firm that makes millions from private pharmaceuticals and healthcare services.
#bbcdebate
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Anyone know how many were on the strike march in London today? It certainly seemed like the biggest trade union mobilisation I’ve seen in a long time
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Theresa May: "If we lose just 6 seats, we lose our majority"
We can do this, people!!!
#VoteLabour
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I don’t know how many of us are marching in London right now but it’s a LOT
🇵🇸
#ceasefireNOW
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It’s my birthday which means it would have been Dawn Foster’s birthday. We would send each other greetings. The 2015 birthday was a highlight for us both. A few yrs ago we accidentally had a joint party.
I’ll be thinking of Dawn and her loved ones today and every year. To Dawn!
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The *average* age of a Londoner in a house/flat-share in 2017 was 24 years old. Today it's over 30.
It is very quickly becoming harder and harder to afford to live in this city. Forget starting a family. So this won't surprise anyone my age here:
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Only last year was Serco fined £22m (on top of £70m in 2013) after being charged by the Serious Fraud Office
The firm had been "tagging the dead", accounting for electronic probation tags on people who'd died, to maximise profit
They should have no role in running Test & Trace.
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Don't have sympathy with her. She just has a cough. Far more people are much worse off - some are dead - thanks to her welfare cuts.
#CPC17
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Great line from
@AyoCaesar
on knife crime - Londoners read stories of young people dying in the pages of the Evening Standard. The cause of it? Years of austerity engineered by the papers’ editor, George Osborne.
#bbcqt
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I'm currently in Denmark. The minimum wage here is aprox £13ph. Corporation tax higher than UK. And looks like businesses haven't left! Lol.
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It’s 10 years this year since the violent eviction of Dale Farm in Basildon, Essex, which was then Europe’s largest traveller site.
It comes down to which side of the police cordon you’re on. Solidarity with criminalised traveller communities.
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Worth saying there were 6 of our local Labour councillors in Peckham today helping block the immigration van from passing
Now likes of Daily Mail & former Scum editor trying to trash them for it
But fighting with & for local people is exactly what our representatives should do.
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“Make no mistake about it: the climate crisis is a capitalist crisis, and the climate struggle is a class struggle without borders” -
@zarahsultana
delivering her maiden speech in Parliament
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In awe of every single union member preparing to strike tomorrow.
There is nothing more dignified than recognising your worth and fighting for it with your colleagues and your class.
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telling my kids that £ pounds sterling is named after him
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Actually it is far more common for an offender to forget an individual sexual assault than a survivor (who often carries memories of trauma for life), particularly if the crime was a common one, and they held enough power to live free of fear of repercussions.
Prince Andrew's lawyers say accuser may have false memories
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London chanting: “In our thousands in our millions, we are all Palestinians”
#Nakba70
#StopArmingIsrael
#GreatMarchOfReturn
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Seeing the ticker on the news showing 6.5 million people "vaccinated" is irritating me, when only around half a million have had both doses. Not because it's spin, but normalising the idea of one dose = "vaccinated" may cause people to drop their guard with social distancing.
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The new
@TfL
Commissioner started his job this week. On top of a £355,000 salary he gets unlimited free transport throughout London.
Isn't it only right the cleaners he employs, on a salary of just 5% of what he gets, have free travel too?
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If you’re in the area this year, check out the Museum of Neoliberalism in Lewisham. London. It’s a tiny little space used creatively to tell the tale of how market fundamentalism is ultimately killing us.
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Everyone who came to today’s
#FreePalestine
protest in London will feature in Lowkey’s next video 📹
#GreatRetunMarch
@Lowkey0nline
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I hate hot desking. As well as the issues below it is a neoliberal tool to strip workers of any personalisation or identity in their workspace. Also hate how employers even try and sell it as “trendy” and “sociable” (the opposite is true). This is worth a read.
Hot-desking: "studies have shown that hot-desking can be bad for workers. In particular it can waste time, increase incidents of stress and musculoskeletal disorders and can lower morale and create unfair outcomes" Read more:
#housingworkers
#ukhousing
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When we talk about bosses on extortionate salaries, can we stop using the word “earns”?
They haven’t earned it, it’s just what they get paid.
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The next 24 hrs could determine Palestinian existence: Israel will decide whether millions of Gazans will live or die.
The British government is not only cheering it on, they are providing the weapons. They are doing so in your name.
Stand up and be counted.
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