The Chinatown London forgot: New exhibition explores Limehouse’s past
https://t.co/TfITevMXvU
When you say Chinatown, many people think of the West End of London, but there was a much older Chinatown in the East, and a new exhibition …
https://t.co/TfITevMXvU
“We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love.
It’s not enough
just to change the system.
We need to change ourselves.”
- Assata Shakur
How are we changing ourselves in the process?
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Rest in divine peace, Assata Shakur
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How a misleading photo of signage at Whitechapel Station went viral on X https://t.co/YVCLuvD7PC
Tell MAMA highlighted this issue in our previous major report, that, “In a verified case reported on 25 January [2024], a far-right account holder called for the forced deportation of individuals in Whitechapel in East London in reply to a post from a popular right-wing page that sought to spread misinformation and culture war talking points about national identity over bilingual signage at the station.”
@SydBolton11@CounsellingSam Interestingly the KC who did the report on antisemitism at Goldsmiths said that it is 'not axiomatically antisemitic to say that a state of Israel is a racist endeavour'. No one in the press has 'noticed' this. Funny, eh?
Last night, at Goldsmiths University of London, we launched my book that introduces students (or anyone else) to the study of Children's Literature:
@GoldUnivMACL@GoldsmithsUoL
Waiting for the hourly news bulletins and 70 different stories about Dr Alaa Al-Najaar’s nine children who were burned to death by Israel.
Never has the hierarchy of death been so stark.
The Israeli authorities are intensifying the genocide in Gaza with more ground invasions and continuous bombardment.
Palestinians are trapped with nowhere safe to go.
This message is for @Keir_Starmer's government: You are failing to fulfil your obligation to prevent the ongoing genocide in Gaza - especially because you continue to supply military parts to Israel.
Words are not enough, we need to see action.
Read the full letter signed by 120 artists here: https://t.co/OFgzSdjpuI
We are all made of stardust
It sounds like a line from a poem, but there is some solid science behind this statement too
93% of the mass in our body is actually stardust, most of the elements in our bodies were formed in stars during billions of years
[Poem by Nikita Gill]
Anti-racist education has no finish line. This important book from 1990 on 'developing anti-racist education in predominantly white primary schools' remains totally relevant today. We laid my dear, valiant compatriot @EpsteinDeb to rest y'day under a wide sky shared by us all.1/
“No one has a cup of tea and cake in the trenches of a national crisis…We are currently seeing the highest ever number of First Nations children being removed by state and territory government services." https://t.co/GJYMEIt8O4
For 'Final Account: Third Reich Testimonies' filmmaker Luke Holland interviewed hundreds of German and Austrian men and women about their memories of and involvement in Hitler’s regime. The collection is rare in its ambition to record oral histories from the “perpetrator side"
If you don’t know this statue, it’s one of our favourites and we like to visit after a walk along the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge, maybe even longer having visited @WWTLondon first.
"This country must never again house those who come to our shores seeking safety in such an inappropriate and inhumane place": 60 charities call via @guardianletters for the Bibby Stockholm barge to be closed immediately https://t.co/30BIM7aqM7
I love this piece in @TheEmigre_
There are ways to try to get books to children who don’t have any, or to read with children at primary school. Think of doing something, please.
We can all be refugees
Nobody is safe,
All it takes is a mad leader
Or no rain to bring forth food,
We can all be refugees
We can all be told to go,
We can be hated by someone
For being someone.
- Benjamin Zephaniah, 'We Refugees'