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bell hooks talks about this in aint i a woman in the chapter on the 1980s feminist movement iirc also reni eddo lodge why im no longer talking to white people about race discusses this but i dont think either of those are originators of the idea

21.10.2025 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 1/6 of all UK commercial fish stocks are in an overfished state and STILL being overexploited ❌🐟

How can anyone justify overfishing these struggling stocks? It can only lead to empty seas, devoid of life πŸ“‰

Join us in calling on PM Keir Starmer to end overfishing: act.oceana.org/page/178303/...

14.10.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨BREAKING🚨

WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy

The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful

02.05.2025 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 747    πŸ” 268    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 48
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Return the common to the goose - Freedom News Farmers’ protests over a velvety soft reduction of inheritance tax privileges may seem overblown, but there’s a kernel of something interesting there ~ Rob Ray ~ With tractors besieging Downing Street...


The small farmers of 2024 are not natural allies of the left and certainly not of the anarchists. But we may have more potential strength than we think in getting through to them.
freedomnews.org.uk/2024/11/24/r...

24.11.2024 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

MoH are rad, follow them 🫑

21.11.2024 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YL is recruiting for a Housing/Community Care caseworker- amazing opportunity to provide young people and families w children access to their legal rights to housing and LA service provision more info at youthlegalresourcecentre.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/YouthL...

20.11.2024 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's day two of @heraldscotland.bsky.social investigation into access to justice.

Lawyers in Glasgow tell us there's an "impending disaster" in civil legal aid as 80% consider withdrawing from domestic abuse protective cases because of pay concerns.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472546...

20.11.2024 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Airbnb demands rethink of Edinburgh's 'draconian' curbs as slump in Fringe bookings is revealed Visitors said to have cut back length of their festival stays by almost a fifth

god they are just so disingenuous
"The evening spending that supports local businesses is at risk ... there is no upside to Edinburgh’s outlier approach to regulation, and we encourage the city to explore a more inclusive way forward."
Residents literally don't exist to them

20.11.2024 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You can find every article from day one of The Herald's in-depth investigation into Scotland's legal aid crisis HERE: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472727...

@andrewlearmonth.bsky.social @kathleennutt.bsky.social @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social @hannahmargbrown.bsky.social

19.11.2024 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CCFC women’s first team players huddle in front of the Scaffold stand at the Old Spotted Dog ground

CCFC women’s first team players huddle in front of the Scaffold stand at the Old Spotted Dog ground

Allow us to (re)introduce ourselves πŸ‘‹

We are East London’s 100% fan-owned and fan-run football club, formed in 2018.

We are proud owners of the Old Spotted Dog in Forest Gate, London’s oldest senior football ground.

Our women’s first team play in tier 6. Our men’s first team are in tier 10.

18.11.2024 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6
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Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an β€˜inheritocracy’ Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?

A very important read and it's desperately annoying that it's a taboo even in most parts of the left!
For all abstract definitions of "class" it's clearly the case that it's essentially inheritance and / or easy access to capital.
Once defined can be reformed!
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

18.11.2024 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10

really good! this is key "I realised not just how unfair this lottery of birth is, but how bad we all are at talking about it, within our friendship groups, families, society, even to ourselves"
I think at least in my/our? friendship groups we do talk about it - even if uneasily. its so important!

18.11.2024 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a great mod/extension for Bluesky, hides or labels AI generated imagery
bsky.app/profile/aimo...

18.11.2024 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Justice in the dock: Why Scotland's courts are broken and set to collapse In a special report our Writer at Large investigates the delivery of justice in Scotland, and uncovers a litany of failures, mistakes and disasters…

Interesting report on the collapse of the Scottish courts due to staff overwork, backlogs, outsources, etc etc all coming to a boiling point letting down those engaged in the criminal justice system - often having to wait 3+ years for a trial

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2472916...

18.11.2024 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

London friends, this is tonight! ✨

13.11.2024 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And the amount of something doesn't effect the vermin designation? Bc it seems more like a value judgement term than a legal (or taxonomical) one!

13.11.2024 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there an argument that the number of animals/insects etc is part of what qualifies something as an infestation? I find it hard to believe that if there was e.g. a secret attic full of hundreds of rabid dogs they would be classed as pets

13.11.2024 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

rearranging the furniture in your study can bring such a sense of optimism and being in control of your own life.
brutal when it turns it it doesnt lead directly to any work actually getting done

12.11.2024 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey new BlueSkyers! Here goes the inevitable "this is who you followed" 🧡.
A Lithuanian-Tatar who fled for UK after '08 economic crash, but now lives in Copenhagen.
My latest big project "Everything To Play For" is out worldwide with Verso @versobooks.bsky.social.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

12.11.2024 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9

12.11.2024 10:26 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 8
Article: Invisible – the housing crisis and squatting in Britain – AnarchistStudies.Blog

managed to put the wrong link AGAIN, here's my review! anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/article-invi...

12.11.2024 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Review: Skint Estate - Freedom News Women like me: Carraway’s memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival is β€œthe most important book on the impacts of austerity I have ever read”, writes Rowan Tallis Milligan. by Cash CarrawayEbury Pres...

managed to include the wrong link to this one! πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈit is: freedomnews.org.uk/2019/12/08/r...

12.11.2024 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And of course, because great minds think alike and we are doing our intro posts at PRECISELY the same time (!) my amazing project I did with @marijamdid.bsky.social !

bsky.app/profile/mari...

12.11.2024 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Invisible: A Diary of Rough Sleeping in Britain - Freedom Press by Andrew Fraser edited by Rob Ray ISBN 978-1-904491-31-6 Paperback: 208pp Freedom Press, 2019 Many writers and books talk about the homeless. Andrew has direct experience. His writing on life as a ro...

My review of Invisible: a diary of rough sleeping in Britain! A must read, get it at freedom press, in @anarchiststudies.bsky.social
freedompress.org.uk/product/invi...

12.11.2024 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Immigration raid foiled as hundreds block their way - Freedom News Scorsby was on the ground at yesterday’s spectacular, and successful, effort to deter an immigration raid in Edinburgh. At around a quarter to six the first call-outs began. An immigration raid van ha...

My write-up of a successful immigration raid resistance in Edinburgh for @freedompress.bsky.social
freedomnews.org.uk/2022/05/06/i...

12.11.2024 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Book review of 'Doorways: Β» Radical Housing Journal Rowan Tallis-Milligan reviews 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance' (2019) by Bekki Perriman.

My review of Cash Carraway's amazing book:
"Women like me" a memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival. One of the best books on the impacts of austerity I have ever read, in @freedompress.bsky.social
radicalhousingjournal.org/2020/book-re...

12.11.2024 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book review of 'Doorways: Β» Radical Housing Journal Rowan Tallis-Milligan reviews 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance' (2019) by Bekki Perriman.

My review of the incredible heartbreaking and empowering edited collection by
Doorways Project exploring women, homelessness, trauma, and resistance, in the Radical Housing Journal
radicalhousingjournal.org/2020/book-re...

12.11.2024 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Article: COVID-19 and Social Reproduction – AnarchistStudies.Blog

My article on social reproduction and the politics of care during COVID-19 in @anarchiststudies.bsky.social (now a piece in a new book on mutual aid during covid 'Fight for the new normal?' published by @freedompress.bsky.social)
anarchiststudies.noblogs.org/article-covi...

12.11.2024 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A letter of love to the ASS - Freedom News I don’t think we are just legal. I think we are a repository of collective knowledge.β€” Kim, he/him The Advisory Service for Squatters (ASS) was set up in 1975 as a successor to the Family Squatters Ad...

An article I wrote in @freedompress.bsky.social on the fantastic Advisory Service for Squatters freedomnews.org.uk/2023/03/12/a...

12.11.2024 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Politics of the Crowbar: Squatting in London, 1968-1977 - Lawrence Wishart This paper examines the London squatting movement and argues that it was a key radical social movement which redefined the owner

My article on the politics of squatting in the 1970s, Anarchist Studies. @anarchiststudies.bsky.social
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststu...

12.11.2024 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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