Sarah Alldred

The Verb - Shaun Usher, Katrina Naomi, Amani Saeed, Fran Edwards and Jennifer Jones - BBC Sounds Ian McMillan hosts Shaun Usher, Katrina Naomi, Amani Saeed, Fran Edwards & Jennifer Jones.

So good x
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Diana Davies, US photographer who documented the US Gay Liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s, including activist Marsha P. Johnson #WomensArt

Doge breaks into US Institute of Peace building after White House guts board Remaining members of board – Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and Peter Garvin – fire president of independent non-profit

The threat of Peace 🕊️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Adolescence review – the closest thing to TV perfection in decades Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s drama about a teen accused of murder is astounding. Its dazzling performances, and the devastating questions it asks, will linger with you

Incredible TV. Recommend 👇

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

YouTube video by BETNetworks Kamala Harris Delivers Uplifting Message While Accepting Chairman’s Award | NAACP Image Awards '25

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Fascism: I sometimes fear... I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution." - Michael Rosen

Prescient words from Michael Rosen.

I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule When a congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda...

This is so good. A warning of the times we're teetering into.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

Make Art, not War ( Tomdispatch.com ) - The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, …

This is a hope filled read: 👇💜https://www.juancole.com/2025/02/make-art-not-war.html

The Thing Is BY ELLEN BASS to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

One of my absolute favourites.

At last! Let there be light ✨

Winter wonder: Jeanette Winterson and others reveal why the cold has them under its spell Too dark, too cold – winter’s charms aren’t as obvious as summer’s brassy joys. But for Robert Macfarlane, Alice Oswald, Poppy Okotcha and others, this is a rich season. Here, they offer ways to lean ...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The fantastic David Hockney exhibition at Aviva Studios, Manchester ✨

YouTube video by Washington Post Episcopal bishop preaches ‘mercy’ at Trump prayer service

Courage.
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‘A welfare state with a budget on the right side of zero’: Iceland’s youngest-ever prime minister has a plan for a new kind of governance Kristrún Frostadóttir, who entered politics just four years ago, speaks to the Observer about feminism, the far right and reopening talks on joining the EU

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Fund for International Co-operative Development launched by UK co-ops Image: Paul Gerrard, Rose Marley, Debbie Robinson, Sarah Alldred and Peter Westall at the lunch of the fund A development fund which aims to strengthen and rebuild communities across the globe through...

An exciting year ahead ✨ #coops #coops4dev

www.thenews.coop/fund-for-int...

Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

👇❤️✨
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

YouTube video by Anca Voinea Inside SEWA: empowering women through co-operatives in Ahmedabad

My fantastic colleague Anca Voinea pulled this together from our visit last week 👇❤️🔥
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The superb women from the SEWA federation hosting a solidarity dinner in New Delhi this week ✨ #coops

Hey, me too Elaine, Debbie would have loved it x We will report back! X

Understanding the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) - In Solidarity The recent global health crises, the impending climate crises, global economic instability and recession, highlights the loopholes in our existing understanding of the economy and the current developm...

Have the privilege of visiting SEWA next week in Gujarat. Here's a fantastic podcast,with this episode exploring the Social and Solidarity economy ✨ #coops

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YouTube video by Aroundtheworld. coop A COOPERATIVE STORY N6, BOOMALLI ARTISTS CO-OPERATIVE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

This gorgeous short film about the Boomalli Artists #coop in Sydney, created by @aroundtheworld.coop, is why I💜working with #coops and the solidarity economy. It's also why I'm hopeful x www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUDX...

The making of Barbara Kingsolver In Holding the Line, the author’s newly republished account of the 1983 Arizona miners’ strike, the novelist and the reporter combine.

The author I always go back to: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...