With recent layoffs from tech giants targeting employers and consultants working on #diversity, #equity & #inclusion, we ask the question – was #DEI truly ever a valued priority? Read the new ECSA blog post from annaverones, Leo Mensel & Carolina Doran (She/her): eu-citizen.science/blog/2024/08/2…

Why do I have this look on my face? -Moyra Samuels, key #Grenfell activist, just told me TSG police TERRIFIED displaced residents after the fire by walking around with GUNS. When challenged they said ‘The Muslims are going to riot’! LISTEN NOW portobelloradio.com

The evolution of industrial capitalism has successively empowered and disempowered the handloom weaver, the coal miner and the wind turbine engineer. I’ve written for The Break Down on how class struggles have moulded past and present energy transitions. break-down.org/post/james-wat…

The Republican vice-presidential candidate telling people to accept the mass death of their children as a fact of life, from behind bulletproof glass...

‼️ José Iván Arévalo Gómez, defender of indigenous Nahuat peoples’ rights in El Salvador must be released now! 🧵

The post-9/11 US wars have displaced at least 38 million people — roughly the population of Canada. Source: Watson Institute, Brown University study.

Explanation of how the myth of the market being "the natural expression of human freedom" is well a myth. As Right-Wing Libertarians enjoy spreading this myth, we thought it's important to share the explanation on Twitter.

Want to dig into Leith's industrial past this weekend? 🚊 Don't miss AOC Archaeology Group's free Open Day on 14 September at Halmyre Street, which was home to an important 19th-century iron foundry and a depot that was part of Edinburgh’s (earlier) tram line: digitscotland.com/events/leith-e…

Shared prosperity for people & planet: New research shows pathways amid shrinking safe spaces downtoearth.org.in/climate-change… #NaturalResources #Environment

The "Worker's Rights In Science Fiction" issue of Journey Planet we edited is out in the world. Very proud to have been a part of this with so many amazing contributors. Journey Planet Issue 84: journeyplanet.org/journey-planet…

#OtD 13 Sep 1911 12 pupils at a school in Hull, England, called fellow pupils out on strike. They marched to nearby schools, pulling out hundreds of kids in protest at corporal punishment and excessive work then went for a swim in the river. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8532/h…

☀️🌄🌞‘#Energy #cooperatives democratise energy ownership by enabling people to be part of large-scale projects’ Sarah Merrick of Ripple calls on #Starmer government to ease financial barriers to community energy ownership #coops 👇 thenews.coop/ripple-energy-…

#OtD 14 Sep 1940 protesters occupied the air raid shelter at the luxury Savoy Hotel in London to protest against the stark differences in bomb shelters for rich and poor. The action resulted in improvements to shelters for working class Londoners. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8627/s…

“We are drowning” says Polish Mayor. Lower Austria declared a ‘catastrophe zone’. Much of Romania is ‘under water’ Why haven’t people listened? And why are they STILL not listening? Stop new #FossilFuel! #ClimateChange

A cloud so unique it has a name ☁️ Rugged terrain near Middlemarch on New Zealand’s South Island gives rise to a distinctive, elongated lenticular cloud formation. Locally, the cloud is called “Taieri Pet.” go.nasa.gov/3ZncxCS

Just to put this out there with clarity: Robbie Gibb, who is responsible for turning the disgraced JC into a right-wing Pro-Netanyahu propaganda rag, is one of five people - including the Director General - on the BBC News (UK) editorial guidelines and standards committee. It’s on

By "one of our officers was shot while protecting our subway system", Eric Adams means "an NYPD cop & some civilians got shot by other reckless, trigger-happy NYPD cops while they were enforcing a $2.90 fare that shouldn't even exist to begin with"

Jet stream anomalies that produce blocked weather patterns like this catastrophic flooding are expected to become more frequent as the arctic further warms #NomadCentury