Maria Rusca

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È ormai uno stato etno-religioso-fascista

Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable If you listened to the news this morning, you would think that Keir Starmer has recognised Palestine. He has not. He has come nowhere near recognising Palestine. He is playing games with Palestine....

Starmer’s actions on Palestine were unforgivable www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07... I am stunned, shocked and appalled by the continuing support Starmer is offering Israel, because that is what he really did yesterday.

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west's help | Owen Jones The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all along, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west's help | Owen Jones

Palestinian activist and participant in the Oscar-winning film, No Other Land, Odeh Hadalin was shot in the chest and killed by an Israeli settler in the Occupied West Bank.

The shooter, Yinon Levi, has been under sanctions by both the EU and the US.

The hubris is extraordinary, turning recognition of Palestine into a bargaining chip w/ a genocidal state.

Starmer thinks this is good enough to hide his complicity. We want recognition, trade sanctions, arms embargo, end of military assistance/training + expulsion of the ambassador!

Israeli forces illegally boarded ‘Handala’ in international waters, abducting 21 unarmed civilians.
Demand your government end its complicity in Israeli war crimes, ensure the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, and call for the immediate release of all crew members.

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told Intelligence assessment before proscription found that vast majority of group’s activities were lawful, court hears An intelligence assessment before Palestine Action was banned under anti-terrorism laws found that the vast majority of its activities were lawful, a court has heard. Raza Husain KC, appearing for Huda Ammori, a co-founder of the group, said Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group on 5 July was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. Continue reading...

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told

'Keir Starmer Must Start Listening to His Labour Critics Rather Than Expelling Them' The hope we offered voters at the last general election is rapidly slipping away and it's time to change course, argues Labour councillor James Barber-Chadwick

🔴‘Keir Starmer Must Start Listening to His Labour Critics Rather Than Expelling Them’

The hope we offered voters at the last general election is rapidly slipping away and it’s time to change course, argues Labour councillor James Barber-Chadwick

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Camp Mystic buildings were removed from flood map, US media reports The camp where 27 girls died successfully challenged initial risk designations by US regulators, according to reports.

Oh my, this is not a good look for the camp or FEMA www.bbc.com/news/article...

Manchester International Festival is sponsored by tens of millions of £ by Aviva, who are involved with finance with Elbit Systems

They profit from genocide and use art washing to try and hide this.

People of Manchester say no to art washing in a genocide

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Also the Arctic Circle screams Free Palestine!

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🌍 New paper published in Progress in Environmental Geography 🌍

'Experimental and #speculative #political #ecologies for an age of crisis, hope, and action' by Maria Rusca, Dylan M Harris, and Dan Santos

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