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Akiko Hart

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Akiko Hart

@AkikoMHart

Director of @libertyhq | Professor in Practice @DurhamIMH | Trustee @ProBonoEcon | Views all mine | she/her

London, UK

Joined November 2016

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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Jun 24, 2023
In 1934, @libertyhq was founded to defend our right to protest. And here we are again, 89 years later. What the Home Secretary is planning to do undermines our right to protest, and the way she is doing it is unlawful.
Liberty
@libertyhq
Jun 24, 2023
💬"This all matters because accountability matters We must make sure that this power-grab doesn't go ahead, and Gov isn't able to weaken our rights by bypassing our long-established democratic procedures" ✍️@AkikoMHart on legal action to #DefendDemocracy theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
See you in court, Suella Braverman - your anti-protest law is an insult to democracy | Akiko Hart
From theguardian.com
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Sep 28, 2022
How many scandals and undercover documentaries do we need to move beyond the few bad apples narrative? The truth is, you don’t realise the extent of the abuse and harm unless it affects you or a loved one directly - and then you too become problematised & disbelieved
Amy Wells
@AmyCatWells
Sep 28, 2022
The same story again and again - people who have experienced the reality of the mental health system have spoken out about it for decades but are disbelieved and disregarded. There’ll be a half-hearted inquiry (at best) but the culture of institutionalised care will not change
Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Mar 14, 2024
The Government has just announced its new definition of ‘extremism’ It’s deeply cynical, completely unworkable, and no one supports it 🧵
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews
Mar 14, 2024
New extremism definition unveiled by government bbc.in/4ct4M2H
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Apr 3, 2023
Some personal news- I will be joining @libertyhq as Interim Director in June. Feeling a mixture of excitement about the future, & pride at what we have achieved at @NSUNnews over the past 3 years. I will miss the amazing @NSUNnews team so much. All the feelings, all at once.
Liberty
@libertyhq
Apr 3, 2023
🎉Liberty is proud to announce @AkikoMHart as our new Interim Director🎉
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Mar 1, 2024
There don’t seem to be any new announcements in the Prime Minister’s speech. It comes after a long week of the PM insulting people who take to the streets to exercise their democratic right to protest.
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Oct 3, 2023
Shameless & appalling. Let’s see this for what it is: inflammatory & racist rhetoric to advance careers. Positioning rights as part of the “culture wars” for political gain. The only people who gain from dismantling rights are people in power. It won’t work. @libertyhq
Liberty
@libertyhq
Oct 3, 2023
The Home Secretary's inflammatory and racist rhetoric is designed to divide us – it won't work Time for all of us to stand up for our human rights
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Jan 30, 2023
“Too much of the focus around mental health and mental ill-health in the last two decades has been on changing attitudes around mental health, and too little has been focused on changing the material conditions of those who experience mental ill-health.” @MarkOneinFour
Mark Brown
@MarkOneinFour
Jan 30, 2023
This is the text of a speech I gave today in Gateshead: Mental health and the cost of living crisis "Being poor and experiencing mental ill-health don’t have to be entwined, but they are because of the ways we have set up our society." link.medium.com/4XUa8wqc1wb
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @AkikoMHart
It’s Women’s History Month – but if this definition of ‘extremism’ was around 100 years ago, it would have swept up the Suffragettes And if it was around in the last 50 years, it would have swept up anti-apartheid campaigners and people protesting against section 28
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Sep 28, 2022
Replying to @AkikoMHart
Secure units like this are particularly vulnerable to this kind of abusive culture. There is so much that needs to change, but maybe the first thing is that people need to be believed. Here is @RRowanOlive on “The complaints I never made”: mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/blog/awareness…
Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @AkikoMHart
The Government’s new extremism guidance is dangerously cynical, unworkable and has no support It should be scrapped
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @AkikoMHart
And that’s not to mention the irony of it all At Liberty we challenge this very Government every day for attempting to “negate the fundamental rights and freedoms of others” We’re fighting them in court right now for “undermining the UK’s system of parliamentary democracy”
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Jul 18, 2022
I’m so proud & excited to be finally sharing @NSUNnews’s new strategic direction & theory of change. It feels like the right moment to say with clarity & conviction - this is who we are, this is what we do, & this is what we want to change.
National Survivor User Network
@NSUNnews
Jul 18, 2022
In the first half of 2022, we took some time out to reflect on what we do and how we work. We would now like to share with you our new strategic direction, focussed on redistributing power and resource in mental health (1/6) nsun.org.uk/news/redistrib…
Redistributing power and resource in mental health: NSUN’s strategic direction
From nsun.org.uk
Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @AkikoMHart
And not survivors of terror attacks or bereaved families
Attack victims hit out at extremism in open letter
From bbc.co.uk
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Akiko Hart
@AkikoMHart
Mar 14, 2024
Replying to @AkikoMHart
And to top it all off: no one supports it Not former Home Secretaries Not the former head of counter-terror policing Not counter-terror experts (including independent reviewers of counter-terror laws)
Three Tory ex-home secretaries warn against politicising anti-extremism
From theguardian.com
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