The Tallest Tree YouTube video by Roy Harper - Topic

“Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.” - Chico Mendes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Lk...

Ron Cobb (1974)

Happy Earth Day. The Earth is Dying. Happy Earth Day.

Happy Earth Day open.substack.com/pub/fiftysix...

‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.

More than two-thirds of the public believe at least one false or unproven health claim — such as the idea that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism

go.nature.com/4cqjqtl

Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

Prospect, which represents several hundred workers across Cadw and Museum Wales, said its members working in heritage, "are experts in their field and they should be the people who determine how cultural institutions present their collections". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Randolph Bourne, 'War Is the Health of the State' www.bopsecrets.org/CF/bourne.htm

Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.

This is what's coming down the tracks if we open the door to Reform. They will take a sledgehammer to arts & culture, taking us back generations in how we care for & interpret the past. Hold the line.
Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🏺

Miners are back on strike: 'I lost everything last time' The National Coal Mining Museum, which has a display about the Miners’ Strike of 1984, is in dispute with ex-miners who work as guides.

Powerful piece by photojournalist Marc Davenant

Veterans of the 1984 miners’ strike find themselves back on the picket line. @bigissue.com changemaker Marc Davenant visited them for his new exhibition on protest, ‘Rebellion!’
www.bigissue.com/news/activis... @unisonyh.bsky.social

#OtD 21 Apr 1834 30,000 marched for the freedom of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, agricultural workers from the Dorset town of Tolpuddle who were transported to Australia as punishment for their trade unionism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9336...

There's ONE thoroughly-discredited "study" of "National IQ" that is riddled with this kind of baseless assertion, and it just goes around & around the extreme right, because it affirms their priors. But it's a fairy-story.

www.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/09...

you should think of modern agriculture like the oil industry: hugely necessary for modern civilization, massively damaging extractive industry, run by and empowering some of the worst people imaginable

I still need 2 more people to sign up for my Edinburgh AEP archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you’ve ever wondered what it is archaeologists do and why, now’s your chance to find out! Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

17/4/26, Durham

Not 40 years. Not yet 30 years - 'Alleycat' was still open in the late 90s.

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

I need at least 2 more people to sign up for my Edinburgh AEP archaeology course at Craigentinny, starting on 30 April. Classes include: Iberia, Medicine, and Watch the Skies. Thank you!

adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Whether it's good old-fashioned photoshop or so-called AI*, that is very well done.

*yes, I've counted the fingers

[Artist: unknown]

The snake's-head fritillary is an unmistakeable plant: look for its chequered, purple, pink or even white, bell-like flowers, nodding on thin stems.
📷 Paul Rodgers

I need a few more folk to sign up for my outdoor AEP class (16 May), ‘History & Archaeology of Cammo Estate’. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

Tom Toro for @climateconnections.bsky.social

New term, new course in the castle. If you’d like to learn some archaeology, please sign up for my Edinburgh AEP classes at Craigentinny: adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

So much bad news for archaeology with the dissolution of the National Forest Service and the Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. Plus diverting millions from the National Endowment of the Humanities to build a stupid arch in DC

America is cooked

U.S. federal support for human origins research may be over The field is generating more new discoveries than ever, but significant setbacks for students and many researchers.

The National Science Foundation has proposed eliminating the directorate that includes most of the federal funding for fieldwork and research in human origins. It's a sudden acceleration of a decades-long trend. I comment on what this means.

www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...

"“Ironically, while the FBI was monitoring my phone and investigating Courtney on vague and weak charges, the perpetrators of half a dozen murders involving Fort Bragg soldiers involved in the drug trade have gone entirely unsolved," Harp wrote in a statement posted on X."

Don’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t | Kenneth Mohammed The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations

The most revealing thing about Ghana’s UN resolution was not that it passed. It was who could not bring themselves to stand with it. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The head and neck of a roe deer obscured by a bush. But most of the frame is filled with an out-of-focus classic red telephone box. I did get clearer shots of the deer but was very happy to get this background.

This roe deer was very unexpected this morning. It was at the bottom of the slope of Calton Hill and seeming to be considering jumping down to Regent Road.

#UrbanWildlife #CaltonHill #Edinburgh