🚨HAPPENING NOW🚨: We have occupied the British Museum with workers across the culture sector demanding that the Museum ends its 10-year partnership with British Petroleum, an energy company fuelling Israel’s colonial genocide. Join us NOW!

🧵 Up and down the country, people are starting to organise to resist threats of far-right violence, often on WhatsApp and will little thought of the potential for targeting by police surveillance. A thread on how to keep each other safe

Look after each other. The far right are burning libraries, food banks, refugee housing & Citizens Advice Bureaus. They are targeting our communities & community centres, from Mosques to neighbourhood hubs. These aren’t ‘protests’ this is domestic terror*sm.

you mumbled ‘it’s complicated’. you called those standing up against Islamophobic violence ‘naive’. you spat out ‘activist’ like it was a bad word. did you really think it would stay off your doorstep? did you think ‘only’ Gazan libraries would be burnt?

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Central Archives of Gaza: Complete destruction from direct shelling, causing a fire which fully destroyed the archives. The archives contained 150 years of records pertaining to Gaza’s history.

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine This library was destroyed TWICE. Once in 2014, then again in 2023.

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Diana Tamari Sabbagh Library: ‘Complete destruction by Israeli shelling, including the destruction of tens of thousands of books in the Tamari Sabbagh Library. The building had been sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians.’

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Edward Said Library: Destroyed

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Enaim Library: Destroyed

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Gaza Municipal Library: Building caught fire, causing significant damage

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine Al-Kalima Library and Publishing House (Sheikh Radwan): Complete destruction

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine The list goes on and on and on and on. We at Fossil Free Books don’t organise because we enjoy being monstered by the media and doxxed and bullied and condescended to and blacklisted. We do it because we care about books and those who write and read them

The anti-racist protests in London last night felt electric. But honestly my heroes are those who showed out in parts of the country where outnumbering the fascists was not guaranteed. Thank you - we owe you so much.

On the race riots, how I've been feeling as a person of colour in the UK, and the way our institutions and governments fail us – with excerpts of an essay on the poetry collection Ban en Banlieue, where Kapil writes about the 1979 Southall race riots. elsewheres.substack.com/p/becoming-ivy

"People boycott in the belief that our tiny sacrifices combine into a collective change. Our culture is always being built and re-built by us all, together." Omar Robert Hamilton in The National thenational.scot/politics/24505…

“The description of us [as anonymous activists] was deliberate; designed to delegitimise our stake in the industry – and our right to seek to change it.” 🔥Stunning🔥 piece on Fossil Free Books by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson redpepper.org.uk/uncategorised/…

"Authors, booksellers, publishing staff, illustrators and translators are workers" Jessica Gaitán Johannesson on Fossil Free Books campaigning and how workers can transform the publishing industry for the better in the midst of Edinburgh International Book Festival #divest redpepper.org.uk/uncategorised/…

On Fossil Free Books , authors as workers and the self-image of the publishing industry in this country - for Red Pepper

"As authors, we are encouraged to speak up about social justice, but only as long as we act in an individual capacity...only as long as we don’t scrutinise the material reality of the industry itself, contesting the idea of literary spaces as utopian." 🎯💯

Artists say Baillie Gifford’s investments in the fossil fuel industry and in companies with links to Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime, and acts of genocide make it an unethocal sponsor for National Galleries of Scotland concerningngs.noblogs.org