Must watch video that gives a very good and clear reflection of the commitments of students I know who are active in protest.

On Saturday, we ride for Rafah. Join us.

Mark your calendars and get registered for this important conversation about abolition, commemoration, and Birmingham.

1 June at The Exchange.

Starmer’s Labour has room for Natalie Elphicke but not Diane Abbott🤮

A tragic case, one which underscores the vast amount of public space reserved for car owners, and the scraps left for everyone else to fight over.
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Towing badly parked cars should be routine (like in many other cities), it shouldn't be done by police but by companies contracted by urban authorities, and it should generate public revenue.

This raises a good question: why would VC's be answerable to the PM on anything?

Independent public institutions or subservient private companies? We're in a moment when visions of what universities are and might be is up for grabs in a profound way.

They should just refuse.

Yet more evidence of the failure of West Mids transport policy over the last decade. We need mass-Amsterdamification and we need it now. Just copy and paste the work of any decent European city.

MUST READ: A doorbell video showing a purported Labour member door-knocking in the local elections in #Dudley went viral this week. It was shared by Akhmed Yakoob on his socials, and blew up. It alleged the person in the video said racist terms. THREAD /1

Authorities shrug as main city park requisitioned and ruined by car owners.

Someone should organize an international car culture olympics. Birmingham would have a good shot at the gold.
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You should be proud of your record on this, the issue of our times. Your humane, ethical position throughout these awful months has proven what was always possible, and thus has stood in stark contrast to the behavior of so many in postions of power.

All it takes. This could be the street in front of schools around Birmingham.

what the fuck is Thornberry on about? It’s ok to cut off food/water/power for a little while if it’s beneficial to do a ground invasion? Utterly corrupted individual

You sacked people for voting for a ceasefire, u refused to back a ceasefire motion because it mentioned collective punishment, you've suspended an MP from the PLP for calling whats happening genocide, u refuse to condemn Israeli war crimes & you won't call for a ban on arms sales

Exactly correct, and probably both: I'd say about 90% the former and 10% the latter.

Unspeakable. (Not to be confused with 'complex')

Today, 30 organisations and public figures have written to Richard Parker Mayor of the West Midlands, urging him to commit to keeping the Cycling and Walking Commissioner role.

HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.

Next Friday, 3-5, Penn History Africana Studies at Penn's Barbara D Savage (@bdsavage1) will join us History Department College of Arts+Law to discuss her major new book on Merze Tate. Not in Brum? You can join us online. In Brum? Everyone is welcome. birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor…