David Heinemann 🌳

Healthier Human Culture / Facilitator, Coach, Dad, Work-In-Progress

“You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children” Casals

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

Fear is the cheapest room in the house
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.

- Hafiz

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

Just another regular news day then...

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[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

The release of 457 prisoners by #Bahrain, including some jailed since the Pearl Uprising, is welcome news.

But Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, Abduljalil Al-Singace & Sheikh Ali Salman are still unjustly imprisoned. When will they be released? #DefendingFreedoms https://t.co/eHyQA9INM6

[Cormac Russell @CormacRussell]

Health is not just an individual medical issue; it is a social and political issue. This implies that the health of the population improves as a result of collective, not individual, action. Consequently, improving health is about building communities, rather than just providing directions, referrals, or linking individuals to activities or projects. Feeling connected to one's neighborhood, having a strong community and community control are essential drivers for overall well-being. Therefore, there is a need for much more emphasis on the importance of and investment in community life👇

[Tarek Iskander @TarekIskander1]

This was a hit at Avignon. Only in the UK for a very short time. Don't miss it

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

Yes anti-racism is essential

Yes Britain is broken, and the impact is not equal

But none of us should allow ourselves to be played, divided, or exploited by a dangerous few

BEWARE 'astro-turfing' is afoot and polarisation is the aim of this game

https://t.co/KZxmXt6q9E

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

Word

As James says 'fight racism, always'

Always fight polarisation too ✊

[The James McMahon Music Podcast @jamesjammcmahon]

Hello. I’m a working class person from a broken northern town. What you are seeing in the streets of these towns right now is the anger that these people in these broken towns feel about decades of neglect, only directed towards peoples who aren’t responsible for that neglect. Because that’s the playbook. It’s always been the playbook. Far right agitators - some of them in suits who now sit in the House of Commons - will always say “blame the brown person” because it’s simply easier than dealing with the consequences of shutting industry, breaking community and sitting down and listening to disenfranchised voices. There are racists in these mobs, but there are many lost and scared people too. And anyone who dismisses the rioting as simply the far right rising is making the same mistake as the many who cast every Brexit voter as a racist did. People are unhappy. Towns like mine are broken. Fix the towns, fix society, make the voices of the far right agitators unappealing and impotent, and you’ll find harmony. Fight racism, always, but talk to the people on the fringes. They’re not lost causes, I refuse to think any human being is

[Alan Finlayson @ProfAFinlayson]

Knowing how to win elections is a key political skill. So’s being expert in policy technicalities. But so too is knowing how to fight in the ideological, cultural & rhetorical theatre. It’s obvious to us who haunt reactionary online spaces that Lab is failing at the latter (10/?)

[Ned Glasier @nedglasier]

If theatres were genuinely radical or transformative they wouldn't give rich people priority when booking for new shows. Just saying.

[MorganHPhillips @MorganHPhillips]

Environmentalists, listen up.

A review of the National Curriculum for England is underway.

It has HUGE implications.

Short 🧵 1/7

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

"Unless it doubles down on the distribution as much as the quantum of growth, the country is unlikely to feel the “change” it so badly needs."

https://t.co/EFgLyqVAon

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

20. Robin Williams on the banking system

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

@RichDecibels Curious what you said to the robot - from whence did this loveliness emerge?

[Tarek Iskander @TarekIskander1]

Exactly what I most wanted to hear. Bravo

https://t.co/3wmoc6Y3c8

[Jon Alexander @jonjalex]

💫 AUDREY TANG IS IN LONDON NEXT WEEK💫

If you follow me, you won't need an intro to @audreyt because I talk about her all the time, but just in case, this 🧵 leads with an intro for those who haven't been listening... 😉

Skip to the end for event reg links if you have🖖

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

Great little story on why youth work is so important - and on the importance of held space.

If we want communities to thrive we need this kind of thing to be popping off everywhere, in all kinds of guises

[Ned Glasier @nedglasier]

I remember a play that @company_three made a few years ago. On the penultimate night, one of the cast members came up to the director and the stage manager.

He asked, "What's our call tomorrow?"
They said 4pm.
He said "Can you call us for 12?"
And they were like - why?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

HMRC fines 95,000 people for late self-assessment filing despite them not owing any tax.

8% of individuals with income under £12,570 fined £100 for late filing.

£9.5m raised in fines.

HMRC hasn't fined any ‘enabler’ of offshore tax fraud in 5 years
https://t.co/QtsE8oUIMF

[Jon Alexander @jonjalex]

“Actually, what places need is to determine their own destiny and to be backed to get there,” he says. “That comes from your history, your story, telling a new story.”

🎯🎯🎯

@jstockwood in this 👇

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

“People need not only to obtain things, they need above all the freedom to make things among which they can live, to give shape to them according to their own tastes, and to put them to use in caring for and about others.” - Ivan Illich

[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

allow the process to stretch us into what we previously thought impossible.

We need frameworks that help us to contain the tension and reactivity that arises in us and in pockets of society when we are required to hold polarities.”

- Steffi Bednarek

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[David Heinemann 🌳 @DBetzH]

“When polarities come together, they have the potential for creative tension, fertilisation and ultimately the birth of something new. But as any birthing process teaches us, this does not come without risk. It also requires the capacity to bear pain and to...

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