Barbara Wilson

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

@BellRibeiroAddy Thank you @BellRibeiroAddy

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

@BellRibeiroAddy Thanks so much for writing on behalf of this group of prisoners.

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

We must not look away.

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

I came back today. I thought I had known despair before, but what I saw today is beyond despair.
It is not grief, nor horror, nor pain. It is something colder, a stillness where even God seems to have withdrawn His hand.

The sky was impossibly blue. The kind of blue that mocks you, that makes you wonder whether beauty itself is a crime.
I walked through streets that no longer exist, streets that were my childhood.
They are now a wilderness of stone, wire, and dust.

A man stood on a heap, a neighbor, I think.
He pointed and said, “It’s here.”
I asked him how far.
He looked down.
And I understood: my house was beneath his feet.

I lifted my phone, as if the machine could recognize what I could not. The screen glowed; there was nothing to see. The earth had swallowed the distances. Even the smell of home was gone. It was as if the thread connecting me to life itself had been cut.

I dug with my hands. The dust burned. My palms bled.
My mother had told me: “Search for anything we can save.” And so I obeyed her like a son obeys the last voice that still believes there is meaning in obedience.

From a house that once cost my father one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, a lifetime of labor, of hope, of decency, I found two things:
a knife, and a pillow.

Two relics of civilization. One for necessity, one for illusion.
That is what remains of man.

I sat in the ruins, the blue of my shirt turned gray with ash, and I thought:
this is the end not of a city, but of meaning itself.

I thought of my parents, their hands, their faith in honest work.
How will they bear this? How will any man bear seeing his father’s roof turned into dust by a stranger’s hands, hands that will never know the names of those they destroyed?

But what tears me apart more than ruin is silence. No one speaks to us.
No one tells us where to go, who will rebuild, or who is responsible.
The politicians talk of victories, the generals of strategy, the world of peace and progress.
But none of them live here among the ashes. None of them stand where I stand, sifting through their own dead.

And those who claim to represent us, where are they? Where is the money they collected in our name, the promises they made before the cameras, the slogans they wrote while we buried our children?
Who among them will come to this ruin and say: Forgive us, we failed you?
Not one.

They sit in offices with clean shirts, counting our corpses as figures on paper. They say “reconstruction,” “aid,” “negotiations,” as though the vocabulary of power could fill the emptiness of a mother’s bed.

I tell you the truth: there is no crime greater than indifference.
The murderer at least acknowledges the victim.
But those who look away, they kill the soul itself.

I brushed the dust from my shirt, though I knew it was useless.
I wanted to see if there was still color left in the world.
There wasn’t.
The blue had become the color of mourning.

I looked at my hands. They were shaking, not from fear, but from the unbearable realization that we have become expendable to the world.
Our suffering is entertainment, our death a policy, our endurance a statistic.

I wept then, openly, shamelessly.
I, who once believed in the dignity of suffering, now see that dignity itself has been annihilated.
There is nothing noble in being forgotten.

If you are reading this, do not admire the style or the language.
Lower your head, and weep.
Because this dust, this silence, this cry, is what remains of us.

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

A brave and truthful comment.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

#16for16

[Paul Morrison @chessclubgringo]

@DoctorVive @ClimateHuman Here’s a great short interview of the author (@ClimateHuman) by @democracynow this morning—he discusses what the NYTimes forced him leave out of the article.

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

A very difficult response by Met police to an interfaith Carol service Thanks for your witness @BurnettHelen and @CClimateAction and Jewish and Muslim friends.

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

@SercoGroup surely you can do better than this? @ShabanaMahmood can you help Gaie please?

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

As Gaie's MP I tried everything I could to challenge this decision to send her back to prison - including writing to the prisons minister Lord Timpson and the probation service.

Why on earth is this government releasing violent criminals early due to prison overcrowding, but then replacing them with a 77-year-old peaceful climate protester who is clearly no threat to the public?

And why is she facing this extra punishment of being locked up, for longer than she was meant to be, and over Christmas? Not because she's broken her bail conditions, oh no no, it's because the private company responsible for fitting electronic tags couldn't find one the right size for her, and the authorities weren't willing to consider alternatives like daily check-ins at the police station.

Do we think that, perhaps, this government might be getting its priorities wrong?

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

A wonderful pilgrimage.

[Liberty @libertyhq]

📹 @BellRibeiroAddy in Parliament today calling on the Government to REPEAL anti-protest legislation.

The UK has a rich history of protest that has changed society for the better.

Yet recent laws have restricted everyone's right to stand up for what they believe in.

[Health for XR @DoctorsXr]

1🧵Dr Warner called for the @gmcuk to consider their moral duty today as she sat for her 3rd days vigil in their London offices

[Florence Eshalomi MP @FloEshalomi]

Gaza is a humanitarian disaster.

I pay tribute to the many aid agencies working tirelessly to help people on the ground, including @IslamicReliefUK who are based in my constituency.

The logistical, political and financial barriers to aid access must be tackled urgently 👇🏾

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

I wrote about the many ways that Israel has made trauma a weapon of war.

About how this exploitation betrays the victims of the past.

And creates many more victims in the present.

It was hard to write. It will be hard to read.

I hope it helps. https://t.co/ENQLh35YFw

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Today, campaigners hand-delivered a petition to Attorney General Richard Hermer KC, at the Ministry of Justice.

Signed by over 60K people, the petition calls for an end to the imprisonment of peaceful protesters, including the #WholeTruthFive

1/4

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

📉 Not So Good News for this week: a new study suggests my long-standing suspicion is correct – the economic impacts of climate change are more severe than previously estimated.

Dive in and share what you learn: https://t.co/37x4yJFezT

[Barbara Wilson @BasiaWilson47]

A great evening with @CitizensUK at their general election assembly.

[James Asfa @JamesAsfa]

Beautiful reflection on organising and solidarity from Grace Akinyemi at last night’s @CitizensUK general election assembly

“Some of these issues will directly affect our own lives, for the other issues, we care because our neighbour’s struggle is our struggle.”

[New York Communities for Change @nychange]

HAPPENING NOW: Bankers at @Citibank locked out as elders in rocking chairs shut down the entrance.

Citi is the world’s biggest funder of fossil fuel expansion.

There is no time to waste.

#SummerofHeat

[Plan B Earth @PlanB_earth]

BREAKING: Judge Silas Reid has today sent the indomitable Amy Pritchard to prison for 10 months.

He suspended the sentences of four others, who joined her in breaking windows at JP Morgan.

Here's what Amy said to Judge Reid that riled him so much

[ScientistsForXR @scientistsx.bsky.social @ScientistsX]

With 100+ groups already joining #RestoreNatureNow on 22 June it’s shaping up to be a great day of standing up for nature

We need everyone to help us send a clear message to politicians that we won’t put up declining nature anymore

Read more & sign up

https://t.co/KdTWrkn9VJ

[Gill Slater @gilltslater]

@Natasha_Walter For the avoidance of doubt - this is NOT the will of the people ✊