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Hillsborough campaigner Phil Scraton refuses OBE Hillsborough campaigner Prof Phil Scraton turns down an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list.

Hillsborough campaigner Phil Scraton refuses OBE

"I could not accept an honour tied in name to the 'British Empire'. In my scholarship and teaching I remain a strong critic of the historical, cultural and political contexts of imperialism and their international legacy." ❤️

Build our communities.

'Europe is not my centre. Europe is an outskirt of Africa.'

The towering Ousmane Sembène, film maker/writer, leading the way for us.

His novel Les bouts de bois de Dieu/God's Bits of Wood (1960 tr. 1962) focuses on colonial repression most remarkably.

جنود الاحتلال جلدوا الدكتور حسام ابو صفية بسلك كهرباء الشوارع (أسوأ من الكُرباج) يسمونه عندها السلك النرويجي ‏بعد أن أجبروه على خلع ملابسه هو وآخرين من طاقم مستشفى كمال عدوان ‏حصل ذلك في مقر التحقيق الميداني في منطقة الفاخورة قبل ان يقوموا باقتياده إلى جهة مجهولة ‏هذه شهادة أحد المفرج عنهم اليوم وشهد ذلك بنفسه ‏مناسبة الكلام الفيديو الدعائي الذي نشره جيش الاحتلال لمحاولة التضليل والادعاء بالتعامل الحسن مع الدكتور وبقية المرضى Islam Bader https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02t9JhogP9u95PxaKGJbYTU8Px3mzgEQkHCs8XZbMJawK5Lj54BqbDhyEPmSGsatXFl&id=61565556770984

Reports that Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan hospital who was arrested last week, faced torture after his arrest (was beaten up with an electricity cable).
The IDF refuses to provide information on his whereabouts.

DRC filed criminal complaints against tech giant Apple’s subsidiaries in France and Belgium over the use of “conflict minerals” in their supply chains aje.io/vovhmm

The Times of Israel, December 20,2024: Netanyahu won’t attend Auschwitz’s liberation anniversary event, fearing arrest by Poland.

Just an incredible, damning headline.

US official resigned after being 'tired of writing about dead kids' in Gaza Mike Casey told The Guardian he resigned in July, saying the US lets Israel do what it wants to Palestinians

US official resigned after being 'tired of writing about dead kids' in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-official-resigned-after-being-tired-writing-about-dead-kids-gaza

Lots of clarity today

US transfers three detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison The release of the prisoners, two of them to Malaysia and one to Kenya, reduces the overall prisoner population to 27

US transfers three detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-transfers-three-detainees-out-guantanamo-bay-prison

Aaron Swartz died because rapacious capitalists insisted that sharing knowledge and ideas — not for profit but to enrich society — was theft. Now we have a whole Silicon Valley industry devoted to undoing artistic copyright, and for what? Fake emails and shitty advertising copy.

As we prep for #AHA25, please have a look at the Historians for Peace resolution to oppose scholasticide in Gaza, as well as the statements of historians who support the resolution:

Resolution: www.historiansforpeace.org/scholasticid...

Supporters: www.historiansforpeace.org/scholasticid...

The absolute CRINGE of Snoop pausing to let the audience say 'six in the morn' and nobody responded because there are only 12 Black video game devs

"Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution." - ghassan kanafani

A reminder that…

goty

sleep cycle has been absolutely fried since staying up too late on tuesday. v bored of the slow-burn toss n turn. brain keeps trying to construct sentences about early modern european expansionism. every coupla minutes simon n garfunkel give Mrs Robinson a s/o.

Kojima backflipping up to the box and snapping Statler and Waldorf’s necks

Bruh I am so glad I gave her that hat so cunty slay

Bengal cat longs for south asian snack

in my downtime from studying colonialism i videogame colonialism, hope they all get dysentery

The oregon trail remake will be my new should/be-sleeping-activity, confirmed.

morpheus: do you want the blue or red pill

me: i doubt either of these are covered by my insurance

Sims 4 expansion packs probably x

I’ve been wearing glasses since before I could walk, why have they not invented smudge-proof lenses???

my kingdom for a very specific desk chair

a cartoon of lisa simpson standing next to a boy ALT: a cartoon of lisa simpson standing next to a boy

ono i used the surge of hyperactive energy to do a task that cannot yet be satisfyingly concluded, there I go

a cartoon character from the emperor 's new groove is giving the ok sign . ALT: a cartoon character from the emperor 's new groove is giving the ok sign .

When the fragile menstrual autism is supercharged into the follicular phase feral adhd

I would drink sun rays out a jar if they let me

Screencap of iphone homescreen with live night sky/full moon background and photo widget of kitten mid yawn looking demonic, paws reaching for moon.

Screencap from Despicable Me, Gru (bald man, black clothes) in front of Moon, subtitle text reads: We are going to steal the moon.

Pope Francis

Pope Francis calls for an international investigation into the Gaza genocide.

My girl makes me proud every day ❤️