The Hunger Gap A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
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A trans person drawing on a statue with chalk got comment from the Home Secretary and coverage on TV and in all the main papers.

A female Green MP being harassed and abused in the street by transphobes gets nothing...

#JustProtectingWomen

Robyn Barnes and Ulster Pink Ladies were at the same protest.

Lynsey Brown and Nicola ‘F*** Islam’ Cree were eating sausage rolls and protesting asylum seekers at Chimney Corner.

And, Mark ‘Freedomdad’ Sinclair was with “Bristol Patriots” as they chanted Heil Hitler and did Nazi salutes.

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While we stood shoulder to shoulder and listened to women’s voices, Belfast’s self appointed defenders of women were elsewhere:

Steven Baker was speaking at an anti-HMO protest, which is the new cover for protesting asylum seekers and ethnic minorities in east Belfast.

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Some will say the cops have a duty to facilitate and protect protest. People doing literal Nazi salutes and chanting HH don’t deserve protection. End of.

Another weekend, another English far right demo facilitated and protected by the police. In Bristol, mounted and foot units force anti fascists out of the way of racists calling for ethnic cleansing and doing HH salutes. Bravo to Bristol antifascists who stopped fascists marching through their city.

You can't breathe your way through it.
You can't meditate your way through it.
You can't spa weekend your way through it.
You can't retail therapy your way through it.
You can't lean in and "see the other side" your way through it.
Your nervous system is screaming because you're not.
#IWDBelfast

CAUSEWAY COAST IS SAT 4TH APRIL COLERAINE TOWN HALL AT 2PM HOME FOR ALL CAUSEWAY TRADE UNION COUNCIL RALLY FOR PEACE & INCLUSION PEACEFUL COUNTER DEMONSTRATION - TRADE UNION FLAGS ONLY PLEASE

The far-right are descending onto Coleraine over Easter. Please join this counter demonstration to oppose their hate & show the area is a home for all! ✊🏻

People are surprised by the chocolate prices in the UK but in the last 10 years all the chocolate companies have been bought up by American companies like Blackrock.

Now they are hiking the prices through the roof.

BREAKING: The Met police have raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House.

AGAIN.

Once again the basis of the raid is conspiracy to protest.

It's a violation of freedom of expression & association rights. Not to mention freedom of religion for the Quakers too.

For ten years, on March 7th comedian Richard Herring (of Lee & Herring fame) used to spend 24 hours replying to every "When is International Men's Day?" comment/tweet he could find and informing them. It was really a thing to behold.

I think you'll find International Men's Day is every day. Please, try the fish. Take my wife.

I was assured that the Iranian nuclear program was obliterated?

Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case Migrant workers alleged they were subjected to abusive treatment in a Malaysian factory for Dyson.

Dyson backed Brexit saying it would bring jobs to the UK, then offshored their production, and have now been found guilty of modern day slavery.

Sign painting by Tony Moore, design by the studio I work for! A beautiful building, delighted to see it restored. Didn’t know this snippet of history!

This is de facto war ops without Parliamentary approval.

A scene from the Eric Andre show, interviewing Mel B. He asked if Margaret Thatcher had Girl Power, she replies "yes, of course," and he asks "Do you think she effectively utilized girl power by funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland?".

Can't believe this is still happening lol

If you're not sufficiently depressed by Trump's attack on Iran, Russia has just dropped phosphorus bombs, which cause deep and often fatal wounds, burning through muscle and bone until the oxygen supply is cut off or the phosphorus is fully consumed, on to Kostyantynivka.
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The line about the Greens being sectarian is politician and media code for "treated Muslim people with respect and agency of their own"

I like it. "Modern".

Statue of Queen Victoria being cleaned up after getting paint thrown on by Lasair Dhearg

Starmer hits out at ‘extremes’ of left and right after historic Green by-election victory UK prime minister further weakened after Labour pushed into third place in traditional stronghold

Sure, campaigning on a platform of improving people's quality of life, shrinking the wealth gap and opposition to genocide probably does seem extreme when your role is to preserve neoliberal status quo by inflicting maximum pain on minorities and syphoning more public wealth off into private hands.

Neither am I. Or the people who voted Green.

a man in a striped shirt is smiling and waving at the camera with the word nice . Alt: a man in a striped shirt is smiling and waving at the camera with the word nice .

Catching up on the coverage of yesterday's bye-election, it's not only great to see the smile wiped from the bigoted Reform candidate's smug face by an committed anti-racist, but also the transphobic former Greater Manchester Police officer who stood for the Tories losing their deposit.

You prefer not to be dictated to by your party leaders? I must be misremembering Labour's three party whips and suspension of MPs for opposing welfare cuts and breaking the party line by voting for a ceasefire in Palestine.

Labour spent the campaign telling their voters that a vote for Greens was a vote for Reform. Your claim is that despite that messaging, "Labour voters" took a huge risk and shifted their entire vote to Greens in huge numbers. Sounds like they're not "Labour voters" anymore.

Just to be clear, you're claiming "Labour voters" and the Labour campaign voted against their own party "tactically" because that's how Labour wanted to keep Reform out? They didn't "lend their vote", they withdrew their support from a party that has abandoned them and forgotten where it comes from.

"The coming together of people is terrifying for the ruling elites"

meme via Michael McCarthy