Kathryn

Glad to have been part of this action in solidarity. End the genocide. End the occupation. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS

Can we all just shout about how despicable it is to scapegoat migrants for everything? Can we just stop being too polite or shy about it? Can we condemn it at work, with friends, family, on SM, everywhere? Can we just not keep calm & carry on until it’s too late?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Equalities watchdog submits formal guidance after UK supreme court transgender ruling Bridget Phillipson faces choice over document from EHRC, whose chair says it remains ‘difficult’ to shape policies

Worth noting the EHRC guidance goes further than the Supreme Court ruling. If implemented in its fullest it will ensure trans and non-binary individuals are excluded from socialising, work, school, basically being allowed to be in public for any periods of time.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Clive is absolutely right here: the problem is completely normalised corruption so bad that criticism forces the corrupted people together, in defence of their unmerited, unearned privileges. How can we fend off these crazy people who say we shouldn’t have free designer gear and Taylor tickets?

Disgraceful and pathetic

Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,

Asylum seekers are being targeted – and so are those who help them. It’s a disturbing new reality | Enver Solomon Far-right influencers are menacing charities and individuals to further isolate the people we work with. Ensuring safety is now part of the job, says Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council

Much respect to @enversol.bsky.social and other colleagues. We always been worried about the safety of our community members but now increasingly worried for staff and others who step forward to help those in need. The fabric of public service is being eroded. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s not just British Greens standing with the people of Palestine.

Chlöe Swarbrick, Co-Leader of @nzgreenparty.bsky.social shows the world how it’s done.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments Campaigners say placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influence

This is actually diabolical. Plus wouldn't it be amazing if third sector charities, who work with real people every day, front line services, were given the opportunity to learn from inside govt. and civil servants were sent on secondment to us.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A photograph of the mural in Ōtautahi, by artist Kophie Su’a-Hulsbosch, honouring the legacy of the Dawn Raids and celebrating the resilience of Pacific communities in Aotearoa.

Photograph of a mural in Ōtautahi, by artist Kophie Su’a-Hulsbosch, honouring the legacy of the Dawn Raids and celebrating the resilience of Pacific communities in Aotearoa.

Art in #Aotearoa

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Mural on Manchester Street, #Ōtautahi #Christchurch created by artist Kophie Su’a-Hulsbosch yoitskophie.com

This! A wonderful show, full of joy, I'm so glad I saw it

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

For noen kan et lite regnbueflagg bety at vi føler oss tryggere. Man ser flagget og tenker; « her kan jeg passe inn»
En enkel måte å vite at jeg også blir satt pris på.

Veldig fin video
Oslo Pride🌈

Update on this:

The consultation will now “aim to launch 19 May and close on 30 June 2025”

So it’s now six weeks instead of two.

This Pride Month let’s make our campaigning centred around contributing to this consultation.

Telling contrast in approaches here

And it’s absolutely vile & hugely offensive

Sunday morning, 4 May at Wainui Beach Aotearoa / New Zealand Blustery weather across the motu these days. About 10 minutes after taking this photo I got drenched by one of the rain showers moving through the area.
Kia pai to rā / Gave a great day everyone

Supporters on the street

Zack and Malcolm

Zack speaking to a group

Preparing clipboards and canvassing sheets

This one is for every Green candidate, agent, campaign organiser, canvasser, leafleter, voter and supporter:

Thank you! 💚

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This is HUGE news 👏

I fully support the calls on Government to scrap legislation and review every arrest made under the draconian law.

Thank you to all involved at @libertyhq.bsky.social for continually fighting for our right to protest ✊

Lots of people at the protest in London with flags and placards supporting trans rights: 'No feminism without trans women' 'I love my trans self, I love my trans friends' ' Protect the dolls'

A huge turnout in London today to support trans rights ✊🏼🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Sending love, strength and solidarity to trans people today and every day. 🤍🏳️‍⚧️

#TransWomenAreWomen 🏳️‍⚧️
#TransMenAreMen 🏳️‍⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️

The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds.

Trans women are women.

Labour's anti-trans agenda has gone even further than Conservatives. What Streeting is pushing is against majority of evidence, evidence which shows that his policies cause genuine harm to trans young people. This government's policies against trans young people will cost lives, that's the reality.

Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's not disruption that's being prosecuted in this country. It's dissent.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People-smuggling gangs should be treated like terrorists, Starmer to tell global summit Prime minister to urge world leaders to work together to stop criminal gangs as small boat crossings continue to rise

The only way to stop people being forced into the hands of people smugglers is to introduce safe routes for people to seek safety in the UK. Starmer knows this - but instead of making this lifesaving change, he's choosing to dance to Nigel Farage's tune. Shameful.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Printed text on a page in a book, reading ‘For my mum, who has always thought a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess’.

🪓 Happy Mothers’ Day!

This is the dedication in my book Pandora’s Jar.