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My grandpa once told me "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be." He wasn’t talking about trains.

🎯This was how precise Israel was when it killed two 4 day old twins and their mother and grandmother👇 they know exactly who they are killing & what they are destroying at all times.

Rajoub was today arrested by the IDF. had his passport seized, and brought to a military interrogation center upon his return to the West Bank from Paris. His crime seems to be his insistence that Israel be barred from the Olympics. This response by Israel kinda proves his point.

A Palestinian father lost his newborn twins and their mother, who were killed in an Israeli air strike while he was out collecting their birth certificates.

What words are there left, in any language, to say that it is not normal to scroll social media and see a beheaded baby and pieces of flesh in plastic bags and for the world to not have stopped turning in utter outrage and grief

Campaign action! Consultation meetings in every Brum library this September. Go along & let Bham City Council know we want our community libraries open, public and professionally staffed. Make your voice heard! Please share. ❤️‍🔥Birmingham Loves Libraries

If incremental change isn't getting the needed rate of change then you are looking for strategies that produce novel systems behavior. One force for that is emergence - when new connections in systems change the systems behavior.

From Dr Myriam François Art is censored long before it even gets made - it is censored by the barriers to access and the cuts to funding which shrink the spaces for imagining another world and the voices capable of articulating it. Funding the arts is not frivolous - it is

🎭A triumph. It's 4.5 stars for Peanut Butter and Blueberries, the debut play by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan on at Kiln Theatre until the end of the month. "serves as a timely reminder of what is possible when writers have the freedom to tell their own stories." theasianwriter.co.uk/2024/08/15/rev…

What world have we become where even burying someone whole is a privilege.

Full resignation letter from FCDO British diplomat Mark Smith:

The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

“Whatever your opinions about the causes or conduct of the war, one has to ask why, if the right to freedom of expression is universal, one national culture should be worthy of such a passionate defense while another is not…” - Hari Kunzru harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

I can’t even criticize how the media is covering Israel’s latest massacre of civilians because they’re not covering it. There is basically no media attention, despite the horrific images that have been circulating online, because the boy with a hollowed out head is Palestinian.

Birmingham's library strategy gives no figures, but the DCMS participation survey this month released data that says library use is - 4% for Internet - 6% for free wifi - 67% for reading and borrowing books and last January, that 'e-Reading' in libraries is c.8% of the total

As we start to turn more intentionally towards our retrofit street demonstrator and Neighbourhood Public Square next phases CIVIC SQUARE, we are opening up another collective journey looking to learn alongside the construction industry in the West Midlands who are looking to

my heart hurts

We’re only 20% funded! Please pledge your support to this beautiful project support British Asian women and non-binary artists! I see so many of you calling for action to support racialised women in the arts, this is a prime example of how you can do so kickstarter.com/projects/cours…