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British and American Drinking Culture is OUT OF CONTROL YouTube video by The Kavernacle

New video! While sobriety is becoming more popular, people in the US/UK who drink are drinking more than ever. I discuss this public health issue and my own solution on curbing alcoholism learning from the lessons of the USSR's own failed campaign against it

"The language used has become increasingly brazen in its demonisation and these narratives drench our thinking."

✍️ our @shabna.bsky.social

Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »

Good Night World

DAMN Borders. End Barriers! Disability and Migration Justice Conference. 28th June 2025. Collaborative activist conference between the Disability and Migration Network (DAMN) and the DPAC Crip tank. Understanding, resisting and building alternatives to territorial and internal borders that divide us and reduce our lives. Picture of a mural created by Andrew Bolton together with Disabled people seeking asylum. On the left there is a person falling from a building with a police car below. A wheelchair user is chained. A man is holding his head. A small figure is tending a grave. A fence divides these people from people sitting outside a large house. Guards with their fingers in their ears are guarding the fence. The sun is shining on that side. At the top a small row of figures is pulling the fence away.

DAMN Borders. End Barriers!
Disability and Migration Justice Conference. 28th June 2025 London.

Disability and Migration Network (DAMN) and DPAC Crip tank. @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social

#DAMNborders #DisabilityAndMigration

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disability...

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes a duty"

Sticker spotted in Bilkent university in Turkey

No he doesn't

Cornell University PhD Student Leaves U.S. After Visa Is Revoked Over Palestine Protests Momodou Taal, a Cornell University PhD student who faced deportation over Palestine protests, leaves U.S. after Trump admin revoked his student visa.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PHD STUDENT LEAVES U.S. AFTER VISA IS REVOKED OVER PALESTINE PROTESTS
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Deny, Defend, Depose / Free Luigi"
Spotted in downtown Chicago

Poster for an online event titled 'Online Briefing for Refugees: "Good Character" Guidance Update', hosted by Migrants’ Rights Network alongside Garden Court Chambers and ITN Solicitors. The event takes place on 1 April at 12.30pm online. It will cover what the guidance is, who is affected, when you might be affected, and what to do if you are. Includes a Q&A with immigration lawyers. Free tickets via QR code or link: tinyurl.com/2sh2epjb.

📢 TOMORROW: Join our online briefing on changes to the “Good Character” requirement for refugees.

@migrantsrights.bsky.social, with Garden Court Chambers & ITN Solicitors, is hosting a free online event to explain the recent changes & answer questions.

🗓️ Mon 1 Apr, 12.30pm
🎟️ tinyurl.com/2sh2epjb

Transgender rights are human rights.

This International Day of Transgender Visibility, Amnesty Feminists remind us that transgender existence is not up for debate.

We must support the transgender community and demand an end to transgender hate crimes.

#TransVisibility

The shocking scale of UK arms exports has just been revealed The shocking scale of UK arms exports has just been revealed from Canary on 31 March 2025

The shocking scale of UK arms exports has just been revealed

Campaign Against Arms Trade has just released its latest analysis of UK arms exports - and guess who the biggest recipient of this deadly trade is...?
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

MPs to vote on disability benefit cuts without knowing ‘full impact’ Britain’s economic watchdog may not publish forecast of employment prospects until the end of October

🚨 MPs are being asked to vote on disability social security cuts without knowing the full impact.

This is a political choice. It’s cost-cutting at the expense of people with disabilities.

Reckless and cruel.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

We must be willing to sacrifice our careers for liberation. Unfortunately this isn’t a popular opinion or political practice.

let go of knowingness to get some analytical clarity! some things are new!

Stand with Momodou Taal against Unjust Detention Cornell graduate student Momodou Taal is a co-plaintiff with fellow graduate student Sriram Parasurama and Cornell Professor Mukoma Wa Ngugi in a lawsuit against Donald Trump, which charges that the l...

Share widely!!! “Cornell graduate student Momodou Taal is a co-plaintiff… in a lawsuit against Donald Trump, which charges that the latter’s Executive Orders have unconstitutionally targeted the First Amendment-protected speech of international students”
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⚡️Why we took action:

After 30 years of neglect, the legal aid system is in crisis. We need more than sticking plaster solutions!

The Government must go further and listen to people who have been left without access to justice.

We demand a sustainable, well-funded legal aid system for all! ✊🏽

Rachel Zegler tweet: “and always remember, free Palestine.

The only thing worth knowing about Snow White.

Toxic bro culture is ruining the internet and failing women.

73% of Gen Z have witnessed online misogyny, forcing many young women offline.

TikTok tops the list of worst offenders, while big tech keeps profiting.

It’s time to #ChangeTheRecord

Learn more: www.amnesty.org.uk/change-the-r...

Labour created the welfare state. Now, it's intent on cutting it back Labour talked about welfare reform in their manifesto, but never signalled cuts of a scale that even the Tories couldn't stomach. Keir Starmer has denied a return to austerity, but it may not feel lik...

A welfare system should be a safety net, not a trapdoor. Yet policies that strip away support are doing precisely that - pushing marginalised people into deeper hardship.

We need a system that tackles inequality and doesn't punish those already struggling.
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Another story to tell Six months on from the racist riots, the Runnymede Trust’s CEO, Shabna Begum, travelled to Liverpool to learn about the ongoing impact of the violence on communities of colour. The message from the gr...

My blog about a recent trip to Liverpool.
Community cohesion narratives and £600k grants, in face of mainstreamed racism & £500m austerity cuts - most ppl on the ground can see through insincere and plaster fixes to systemic probs and political choices.
www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/another...

Islamophobia: Intensification of Racism against Muslims in the UK Join us to build on discussions from Runnymede's recent report on Islamophobia and explore strategies to move forward

Join us for our event around our latest report on Islamophobia
We're looking to bring together those passionate about challenging Islamophobia, and those working to eradicate it

📆 April 10th, 12 - 4pm

📍 SOAS University, London

Find out more and register 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamophob...

If apartheid was wrong in South Africa, it is wrong in Israel. If ethnic cleansing was wrong in Bosnia, it is wrong in Palestine. If genocide was wrong in Rwanda, it is wrong in Gaza. There is no principled way to support human rights in one context while excusing their violation in another.

state sanctioned abandonment of the most marginalised in society following on from a mass disabling event (the pandemic), the rising cost of living, cost of heating and eating, is a very special form of avarice and cruelty. desensitisation and dehumanisation is being woven into politics smh

Palestinians are not statistics. There will never be a way to account for the lives, aspirations, and dreams lost by those whose only wish was liberation and to live in peace and with dignity.

📝Ife Thompson of the Nexus Chambers Crime Team, is featured below in @thecanaryuk.bsky.social for her work as the Barrister in the “N-Word” Trial.

How racism affects health Our report with the Runnymede Trust highlights large and unacceptable variations in how the building blocks of health are experienced by ethnicity.

🧵 Access to the essential building blocks of health is deeply unequal, with people in the most deprived areas of England living significantly shorter lives.

Our new report with @runnymedetrust.bsky.social highlights how racism affects health ⬇️

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Exploring experiences and barriers in seeking mental health support among male asylum seekers in hotel accommodations - IVAR Asylum seekers are often traumatised people who have already faced trauma in their country and are under additional stress in an often complex, traumatic asylum system. These experiences also make…

Our wonderful ambassador Ernest has co-authored this hugely important piece of research on the barriers that men seeking asylum face when accessing mental health support.

Read the report: buff.ly/yOGPPSZ

#Asylum #MentalHealth #Trauma #Migration