Fiona Godlee
The BMJβs former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, βI oppose genocide. I support Palestine Actionβ
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
08.09.2025 07:18 β
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What does it mean to invoke the right to health without accounting for conditions of sustained persistent, overwhelming and abiding terror and violence? - Dr Danya Qato
Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.
02.09.2025 12:37 β
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If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)!
#histmed #histstm #sts
13.08.2025 08:36 β
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Capitalism disables people constantlyβthrough war, prisons, workplace injury, pollution, denial of careβthen blames disabled people for being βunproductive.β It creates the conditions for debility, then moralizes about dependency. Itβs how the system protects its own value logic.
21.08.2025 21:23 β
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"From the moment you are born, the great machine begins to notch its teeth into you, measuring the span of your usefulness against the curve of your eventual collapse."
@reallandsend.bsky.social what an opening to a π₯ essay on disability as a political relation produced by capitalism.
22.08.2025 12:13 β
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23.06.2025 14:33 β
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23.06.2025 14:33 β
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The BMA said NO to Palantir today!
23.06.2025 14:33 β
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π¨URGENT: write to your MP - help release the Madleen crew now!
Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a
@GazaFFlotilla
boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board.
Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/
09.06.2025 16:17 β
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This may be of interest, please feel free to share @medicinered.bsky.social @medact.bsky.social @nsunnews.bsky.social @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social @stopoxevision.bsky.social
09.06.2025 12:53 β
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Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Includes asking delegates to bring a small object, image or text reflecting your experience of mental health and/or care.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Details of who will be visiting and the discussions around the radical mental health ecology of Trieste. Event open to all service users, survivors, professionals, practitioners and anyone involved in mental health. With free vegan, gluten free lunch.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Image of the Trieste yellow building.
The Mental Health & Social Justice Network are organising a meeting with service users and workers involved in Triesteβs Mental Health ecology in London this Saturday 14/6/25. All welcome to come and discuss the radical, liberatory possibilities. Free registration: lu.ma/uoecy4jz?loc...
09.06.2025 12:48 β
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People talk about βbenefits cultureβ like itβs some scam.
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove youβre disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP
01.06.2025 07:46 β
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Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising
Join us for a day of action and workshops to resist Prevent. Co-hosted by Amnesty, Liberty, Maslaha, MedAct, No More Exclusions and RSI.
Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising π₯π£
ποΈ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
π The Advocacy Academy, London
Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty β¬οΈ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...
04.06.2025 08:30 β
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βThe first step is to strip away the concept of heroism, perfectionism and rescue. Solidarity is a relationship of error, of small steps, of building for the future.β
Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman
endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...
23.05.2025 14:11 β
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Over 100 Disabled People's Mass Lobby of MPs to Resist Benefit Cuts
π¨BREAKING NEWSπ¨
Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade.
Read moreπ
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...
22.05.2025 14:35 β
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Disability Is Not a Separate Category of Personhood
The disabled experience is increasingly visible in the artworld yet an ableist political landscape is constantly on the attack. This affects us all
"Most people will be disabled at some point in their life. Welfare is one way of recognising everyone has needs, that all of us live interdependently rather than independently."
Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people.
artreview.com/disability-i...
22.05.2025 13:58 β
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Elbit Systems: war criminals and genocidaires face financial woes
βAn unfortunate tendency to crashβ
Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israelβs genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
22.05.2025 10:34 β
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Open letter (text also available at the link)
Open letter part 2
Disabled people and their organisations MUST be fully involved in reviews of: WCA, PIP assessment process, Safeguarding, employer & employee support & Access to Work.
Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6
#ItsTimeForInclusion
21.05.2025 13:03 β
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Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.
21.05.2025 03:49 β
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Versus Versus: anthology of 100 disabled poets that demands to be heard - Disability Arts Online
Richard Downes reviews Versus Versus an anthology of 100 poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent poets, edited by writer, editor and disability advocate Rachael Boast.
'I think this is one of the main remits here β a dialogue between the speaker and the listener, the reader and the writer, the disabled and the non-disabled.β β Richard Downes, @disabilityarts.bsky.social, on @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus.
disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...
19.05.2025 14:08 β
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This was (as always) a fantastic and timely episode. Made me think deeply about the injustices of labour in healthcare and the artificial and unhelpful capital-driven divide between those who give and receive care. Highly recommended for anyone interested in health justice.
19.05.2025 13:01 β
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It was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performance
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
It was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performance
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
19.05.2025 09:26 β
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Starmerβs Big Tech lobbying problem
Palantir is not just selling softwareβitβs selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control, writes Foxglove's Rosa Curling.
π΄Palantir is not just selling softwareβitβs selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
17.05.2025 09:19 β
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To say the least, I am extremely concerned by the treatment of Dr. Hart. These concerns include:
1. The 12 months immediate prison sentence he received, for participating in peaceful environmental protest
04.04.2025 16:34 β
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π¨ #SpringStatement 2025: Austerity 2.0 unleashed - our NHS & health will suffer π¨
Todayβs budget confirms the government is making a dangerous political & economic miscalculation. Rather than taxing the super-rich, theyβre targeting societyβs most vulnerable.
A thread π§΅β¦
26.03.2025 13:27 β
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