Catriona Robertson

Every word ❤️ “This idea took me to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a secular statement with a rarely quoted preamble, which urges “every individual and organ of society” to strive “by teaching and education” to promote awareness of and respect for the declaration’s rights and freedoms.”

Monica’s words in the interview are so resonant especially right now.

“I speculated that having the bravery to resist injustice might be connected to a strong sense of communal commitment to a clearly articulated ethical code.

Monica Ross Monica Ross on Anniversary—an act of memory

Monica developed Anniversary - an act of memory in 2005, in response to the Met police’s shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazillian electrician living in London.

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An Artforum interview, Monica Ross on Anniversary-an act of memory. June 2017. With image of small text covering a white background and a woman standing wearing black, grey hair tied back in a neat pony tail with her back to the camera.

This International Women’s Day I have been thinking of my dear friend, artist Monica Ross.

Her work Anniversary an Act of Memory - a recitation of the Declaration of Human Rights from memory, is more salient with every passing day. #IWD

Memories of WOW, for years @southbankcentre.bsky.social , appreciation of women in my life & past generations (hunger marchers tending blisters - #Resistance exhibition, Margate) @wahidashaffi.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social @fidgefidgin.bsky.social #IWD25

Stockwell shooting: Teenage boy killed near Tube station A 16-year-old boy is found dead after being shot in south London on Tuesday afternoon.

Stockwell shooting - 16 year-old - these young lives gone, the sorrow of it. Remembering Billy Cox, Damilola Taylor, so many others. We need to love our young ones & make sure we offer them all they need for growing up well their teens @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
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To everyone observing this special month in the Islamic year, Ramadan Mubarak #ramadanmubarak

‘Here a woman is blindfolded. She is on her knees, in straw in front of a block of wood. A man with an axe waits at her side. His weapon rests inverted while the woman's hands move, feeling the darkness.’ Katrina Palmer’s brilliant “The Touch Report” @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social

The Place Where We Are Right A new thread

'From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the spring ...'

New thread

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Gallery in Margate packed on its first day - uplifted by images of hope and of action for change #Resistance

#Resistance - I was in there somewhere - against the war on Iraq, 15 February 2003

Bottle dump at Cadbury Schweppes HQ 1971 by Friends of the Earth - against the withdrawal of deposit system on glass bottles & in favour of recycling #Resistance

Too much armour, too little brain - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Ban the Bomb, 1960 #Resistance

Against Clause 28, 1988 #Resistance

“They shall not pass” Battle of Cable St 1936 - anti-fascist blockades in London’s East End against Mosley, adopting Spanish Civil War slogans #Resistance

Greenham Common women’s peace camps - dancing on the missile silos

Women’s Liberation Movement 1970s

#SteveMcQueen #Resistance at @turnercontemporary.bsky.social Margate - from small protests to million-strong marches, people out on the streets to get things changed. Hunger marches & lie-ins 1930s

Autumn Lecture Series 2024: Genocide and other International Crimes - Protecting the Individual and the Group, Now and Tomorrow (14.10) - St Martin's Digital

Philippe Sands speaking last autumn “Proving genocide is very difficult”. The categories of crimes against humanity & war crimes are more likely to succeed stmartins.digital/als24-genoci...

Auschwitz, where my husband cried & I got angry, and where over a million people were murdered as part of the planned killing of all Jewish people & many others by Nazi Germany in occupied Europe 1941-45 #HMD2025

Seaweed on the south coast today

Hilfield Friary this morning

Israel and Hamas reach Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, sources tell BBC - live updates An agreement to end 15 months of fighting has been agreed after talks in Qatar, sources say.

Bittersweet news for so many, and a plan for “sustained calm” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

That Was The News That Was

BBC News, World Service, Bush House, Greg Dyke - bitterly comic true-life episodes from inside the newsroom, starting December 2001 - March 2002 open.substack.com/pub/moorecg/p/…

“Truth in its beauty & love in its tenderness” - allowing the mysteries of Epiphany to settle. The tune Was Lebet has some of the best harmonies. Different aesthetics for the wise men at the crib - Rudolf Steiner, Italianate, home-grown, nothing to scale open.spotify.com/track/06ZuJg...

Bhopal gas tragedy: Toxic waste removed from Union carbide factory after 40 years The deadly gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in central India killed thousands in 1984.

Shabby response from those responsible - immediately after the disaster and for decades afterwards

Toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak factory removed after 40 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Iona calendar up on the kitchen wall today, plus pencil on a string. Gorgeous pictures. Thank you Iona Village Hall Community Trust - happy days!

YouTube video by LouisArmstrongVEVO Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (At The BBC)

Here’s to good endings and good beginnings
#NewYear2025

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Thought for the Day - Pope Francis - BBC Sounds His Holiness Pope Francis shares a special Thought for the Day on hope and kindness.

‘How important humility is. Humility lends itself to dialogue, helps to overcome misunderstanding & generates gratitude.’ Pope Francis on @BBCRadio4 this morning
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Salisbury Cathedral in the fog today