RT @KairosClub: In Conversation tomorrow, 6.30pm Anthea Lawson & Graeme Hayes ask: Why isn’t everyone in the streets? Can history + a deeper understanding of activism explain? Plus Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping @anthlawson1 @GraemeHayes @revbillytalen http://www.kairos.london/events
RT @Sathnam: *quiet voice* This political chaos is a consequence of trying to square the circle of Brexit. Brexit is, at least partially, a consequence of never having come to terms with the loss of British Empire. We don’t know who we are. #EmpireLand
RT @ZoeJardiniere: I’ve studied social movements & protest up to a fair level of geekery & would love to chat about it in depth, but the key thing I’ve learnt is that basically most advocacy & protest is part of an ecosystem that achieves change together over time, not one group getting it “right”.
RT @peopleandplanet: 🎉HUGE VICTORY🎉UK UNIVERSITIES START TURNING THEIR BACKS ON THE BORDER INDUSTRY! Cardiff Met has become the FIRST university 🌍 to divest from companies profiting from violence against people who move ✊ Now, let’s make the #DivestBorders movement unstoppable. Here’s how 👇🧵 https://t.co/sP544yKX6w
RT @MsSMoreau: Saviour complexes are never harmless. That performance of ‘doing-good for the needy’ and faux-nice identity will switch *with the speed of light* to ‘how dare you’/abuse/bullying when held accountable for bad practice. It’s compulsive. @ProfSunnySingh @anthlawson1 @SaraNAhmed
RT @tashahester: Can grassroots groups enter into genuine partnerships with NGOs? In my latest blog share learnings from speaking to grassroots groups & bigger orgs about their collaborations – what went wrong & what worked https://thinkingdoingchanging.com/2022/10/12/can-grassroots-groups-genuinely-partner-with-ngos/
RT @GeorgeMonbiot: I see this as the most important of all issues: the collapse of the Earth systems on we and all the living wonders with which we share this planet depend. It is happening in front of our eyes, and it should dominate the news everywhere, every day. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals-aoe
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RT @Jonathan_Rowson: If you’d like more reflection on what it means to be an activist today, I can warmly recommend The Entangled Activist by @anthlawson1 published by @Perspecteeva https://systems-souls-society.com/insight/perspectiva-press/the-entangled-activist/ https://twitter.com/NaomiOreskes/status/1577814937665150976
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‘I don’t want to turn into the internet jailer just so that Mark Zuckerberg can enjoy unfettered profit. The answer isn’t for a billion parents to surveil their children’s Instagram feeds’ @zoesqwilliams on the tech giants’ asymmetric warfare against us https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/07/big-tech-despair-protect-ourselves-molly-russell-anger?CMP=share_btn_tw
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‘there was a gap between the spectator-I and the I-in-the-street that took a few short moments to recognize… the street was no longer a site of fear but an ordinary space’ Heart-stopping writing (and translation!) on the embodied feminist experience of street protest in Iran https://twitter.com/docstobar/status/1577683840197337089
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