Antoinette Oyínkánsọ́lá Fernandez
@greenantoinette.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk Councillor for Lea Bridge Ward, Hackney⚡️ Speaker of Hackney📯 General Election ‘24 candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington💚
Visited Bath Abbey this week to see the Tree Foundation’s archives of documents of enslavement & emancipation & hear from the founder. Keen to bring the archives to London to help raise awareness of the realities of this greatest, crime against humanity, & support the charities important work.
#Privatisation and #Outsourcing - in the NHS, as elsewhere, a few profit and the rest of us pay www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms
Radiologists say ‘ballooning’ costs reflect staffing failures, forcing a reliance on lower-quality private scan reports
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#VoteGreen - #GetGreensElected - see Greens take charge walthamforestecho.co.uk/2026/05/22/g...
Green Party leader and cabinet sworn in at first full council meeting
During his inaugural address in the town hall, new Waltham Forest Council leader Paul Perkins said that "all residents’ interests would matter" to the new adminstration
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Amazing meeting with the brilliant Sonia Winifred 🌟who was integral to @lambethgreenparty.bsky.social ‘s winning election campaign. Looking forward to working with her on #reparativejustice 💚✌🏾
So hard to keep a straight face & not give the result away!! Well done to my fellow Lea Bridge Councillors & team. Also a massive thank you to all of our volunteers & 🌟DOUG🌟 our inimitable ward coordinator for working so hard to get us elected over the last 18 months💚 Fernandez Maidment Zlotowitz
ANOTHER historic moment to add to the collection. First-ever London council in control. And from a start of 0 seats! Hugely well done @wfgreens.bsky.social!!
The Daily Fail published an offensively misleading story about me & my ancestors Truth is my maternal ancestors Oba Akintoye & Oba Dosunmu played a key role in fighting the slave trade Right wing agitators want to distract us from our campaigns for reparative justice for all, we must not let them💚
Feeling hopeful for this Thursday⚡️ Vote Green people 💚
Bio-precipitation cycle with fungi: "As wind kicks up, their ice-making proteins are launched into the clouds. They act as powerful "seeds". And industrial agriculture relies on extensive use of fungicide. We need to #Unlearn it www.sciencealert.com/tiny-microbe...
Tiny Microbes Hiding in Soil May Help Pull Rain From The Sky, Study Reveals
Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull down the rain, according to a recent study.
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💚VOTE GREEN MAY 7th 2026💚 ⚡️Fernandez🗳️ ⚡️Maidment🗳️ ⚡️Zlotowitz🗳️ Lea Bridge Ward, Hackney💥
Another brilliant APPRG - All Part Parliamentary Reparations Group - event at Parliament🌍 Great to hear from Anne Wetsi Mpoma in Belgium and Travis Lovett in Australia. (More details in ALT text.) Thanks to @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social and Esther Xosei for hosting💚
Housing in Hackney - I genuinely feel that a key way to address the housing injustice in Hackney is for all new developments in the borough to focus on building council homes till the housing imbalance is fixed. Quote pictured from the Hackney Citizen 🗞️⚡️ www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2026/04/14/m...
Great this Guardian article has sparked further debate about #reparations! Fernandez, the global majority Greens reparations officer, said: “Reparative justice is about correcting not just the wrongs of the past but the ongoing exploitation of African countries” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Repurposed drug may extend survival in aggressive ovarian cancer, trial shows
Repurposed drug may extend survival in aggressive ovarian cancer, trial shows
Relacorilant, typically used to treat Cushing’s syndrome, could improve outcomes in platinum-resistant cases A drug originally used to treat a rare disease could extend the lives of patients with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer, according to a clinical trial. Platinum-resistant ovarian cancer occurs when the disease progresses within six months of starting platinum-based chemotherapy. This form of chemotherapy is different from other types because it uses compounds that contain platinum to destroy cancer cells by preventing them from dividing. Continue reading...
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Cliftonville (Kent) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 38.8% (+26.7) ➡️ RFM: 33.1% (-7.0) 🌳 CON: 15.2% (-4.5) 🌹 LAB: 10.4% (-11.6) 🙋 Ind: 1.3% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.2% (-1.9) No Ind (-3.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.
Relief to see the Albert Bridge closure for walking and cycling was brief!
Will Norman@willnorman.co.uk · 5mo agoGood news - the Albert Bridge has reopened for people walking & cycling.
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"Gravest Crime": We welcome UN declaration - Global Majority Greens
We welcome the UN’s declaration that the trafficking of enslaved Africans is “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.”
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‘History longs to heal’: how Africa hopes to advance campaign for reparative justice. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
‘History longs to heal’: how Africa hopes to advance campaign for reparative justice
At festival in Kenya, artists and writers discuss role arts can play in continent’s growing push for redress over colonial crimes
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Because... 👏Countries with more female leaders have less inequality. (WEF) 👏Countries with more women in parliament have lower levels of corruption. (European Journal of Political Research) 👏Female participation in parliament has a positive effect on the economy. (Frontiers in Political Science)
Amazing opening show of some well known images by the late great Gordon Parks’ 🙌🏿✨ These images of the Civil Rights & Jim Crow era are sadly still very relevant. We need to VOTE GREEN to keep the racists, & the people who seek to divide & sow hatred amongst us at bay💚 join.greenparty.org.uk/
If you are of African, Caribbean, Asian, Latin American and other Global Majority ethnic descent in England and Wales please join the GMG (Global Majority Greens) liberation group⚡️ ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽💚 globalmajority.greenparty.org.uk/2026/01/01/r...
Reparations are Basic Human Decency - Global Majority Greens
The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) actively support the Church of England Reparations fund. Global Majority Greens spokesperson on Reparations, Antoinette Fernandez, said: “The Church of Engl...
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Alongside Hackney’s 5th Big Day Out I also attended - Microscope into Society: Corporate Hands in Further Education Colleges, a report on the corporate takeover & mismanagement of BSix College. Organised by Account Hackney & The Black Curriculum. Great to hear views from many brilliant speakers✊🏿
Antoinette & Bettina after a two hour ward forum w/ Lea Bridge residents & Labour councillors discussing HMO's (Houses of Multiple Occupancy) by Chatsworth road. Until we have safe, well built rental homes & rents are no longer extortionate, rogue landlords will continue to exploit HMOs for profit!
join.greenparty.org.uk 🖐🏾🎤 💚 *We finessed that Gorton and Denton by- election 💪🏾💚⚡️ Congrats to Hannah & all at Manchester Green Party👏🏾
