Esther Gibbons

Thinker, poet... human rights, theatre, arts, music, literature, events, grassroots, community...

[Esther Gibbons @EstherMGibbons]

@RealPeterSage @YouTube @YouTubeCreators please take a look at what has happened to @RealPeterSage YouTube account and urgently reinstate it! I have been following the content for many years and his work and contribution is outstanding and important, more and more so. Please do something!

[Peter Sage @RealPeterSage]

I built a YouTube channel for 13 years. 93,000 subscribers. Zero strikes. Zero warnings. An educational channel on personal development and psychology. On May 20, it was gone.
When my team logged into YouTube Studio, a message on screen said the channel had been removed for violating the Harmful and Dangerous Content policy. Around the same time, YouTube sent us an email saying my channel "may have been hijacked." Both. From YouTube. Telling us two different things.
@TeamYouTube @YouTube @YouTubeCreators

[Esther Gibbons @EstherMGibbons]

@JohnWight1 Katherine Hamnett has done a Free Marwan T-shirt.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Owais Dhieb, a young Palestinian man from the village of Khirbet Bani Harith near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, was on his way to pray at the mosque, when he was assaulted by Israeli settlers, then kidnapped and taken to another location where Israeli soldiers continued beating him, causing severe injuries across his body.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

The BBC’s Question Time “immigration special” didn’t go as many would have hoped.

Here’s everyone who stood up for refugee and migrant rights - and a compassionate society.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Four ways Israel is unique:

1) Israel is the only country in the world without declared borders.

2) Israel is the only country in the world that systematically tries children in military courts.

3) Israel was the last country in the world to outlaw torture. It still tortures but until 1999, it was the only country in the world that ‘legally’ tortured people.

4) Israel is the only country in the world—in history even—where the population rioted for the right to rape defenseless people in their captivity.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK.

He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.

His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.

[MAYADA Banat @MayadaB65762]

https://t.co/Qz3SosgJfK children light a fire to cook a simple meal… a meal that keeps them alive amidst this deprivation. How difficult it is for children to grow up trying to provide for their most basic needs on their own.

[Esther Gibbons @EstherMGibbons]

Please donate to Mayada’s campaign. I personally make sure every penny reaches her. 🙏🏽

[MAYADA Banat @MayadaB65762]

Please don't ignore me :-( Life is getting harder every day. We still need £140 for food. We are hungry and freezing in our waterlogged tents. We are barely receiving any support. Please help us survive.
https://t.co/0qDezCn8uN

[MAYADA Banat @MayadaB65762]

I HAVEN’T RECEIVED ANY DONATIONS FOR 4Most famous , and the cold is getting harder on us. My children are struggling, and our needs are more than I can manage. Any support — even small — would mean a lot. Thank you
https://t.co/0qDezCn8uN

[Eyup Lovely @eyuplovely]

In June 2019, former head of the CIA, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had his private comments “leaked” to the press wherein he pledged to “do [his] level best” to prevent a Corbyn premiership.

Keir Starmer assembled his leadership campaign team days later.

[Kieran Andrieu @kieran_andrieu]

🚨 URGENT MESSAGE FROM THE FLOTILLA: we need your help & attention to keep the flotilla safe.

Israeli propaganda is predictive of Israeli conduct: when they want to ridicule a flotilla, they call it a ‘selfie yacht’.

When they want to lay the foundations for violence, they call it ‘terror linked’.

The fact Israel is leaning into the latter strategy at the moment is very concerning. But we remain undeterred 🇵🇸🇵🇸

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

So what do Messrs Starmer and Lammy have to say now? https://t.co/e13zg2WoTa

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel just committed a massacre in Baalbek, bombing the Civil Defense Center filled with medical personnel.

Over 15 paramedics have been killed, with many still trapped under the rubble.

Israel is hunting down paramedics across Lebanon.

This is an act of genocide.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

There is a very simple reason why the UK government refuses to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.

If they did, they would be admitting their own complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.

End all arms sales to Israel, now.

[Esther Gibbons @EstherMGibbons]

Urgent help needed for family in Gaza https://t.co/dyO7mo2TBH Please help and share… everything adds up to life and hope

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Everything That's Wrong with Liberal Centrism in Under 3 mins

As told by the late great David Graeber

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Notice a pattern of behaviour by the establishment media that told us Kamala Harris was poised for a narrow win.

For more than two years, that same establishment media told us Ukraine would win if only we sent a few more bombs/ tanks/ planes.

Over the past year, that same establishment media told us that Israel wasn't committing a genocide, even as we watched it kill and maim 10,000s of children in Gaza. That same media told us that our leaders were working tirelessly for peace, even as they sent Israel more and more weapons to kill and maim.

The establishment media isn't there to report the world as it is. It is there to shape our consciousness of it – to the benefit of the establishment.

It is there to sell us pipe-dreams.

It is there to buy time.

It is there to make us believe next time will be different.

It is there to buy our docility.

It is there to conceal the fact that our leaders are sociopaths, more committed to lining their pockets than saving the only world we have.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

When Iranian police beat women in the streets for standing up for their rights, the world - and Germany - rightfully condemned it.

But those condemnations ring very hollow now as German police beat and kick elderly women for objecting to Israel's slaughter of Palestinians.