Josh Oware

advisor @RESCUEorg - International Rescue Committee (IRC) | psychosocial studies PhD | transitional justice & human rights

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🔴 Ayúdanos a encontrarlo, sus familiares la esperan. 📷 Dale RT para difundir la información.

[Josh Oware @Josh_Oware]

Excellent journalism, @jamesoware24! Congratulations!

[CNN International @cnni]

Manchester United great Andy Cole had a distinguished soccer career, scoring crucial goals to win Premier League titles and the Champions League. But to him, his father's legacy as part of the Windrush generation "comes first." https://t.co/OggqPXqqky

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@MonicaMorenoFig @Cambridge_Uni @CamSociology @DecolSocCam @colectivocopera Amazing, Monica!!

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„It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.“

Rainer Maria Rilke

[Liberty @libertyhq]

🚀LAUNCHING TODAY🚀

HOLDING OUR OWN: a guide to non-policing solutions to serious youth violence

The start of a ground-breaking campaign collab to move away from police + punishment and give power + resources back to communities so our young people can thrive

#HoldingOurOwn

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Czesław Miłosz:

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"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all."

― Richard Wright

[I.S. Jones 🦌🌑 @isjonespoetry]

rilke was right: one day you do live your way into the answer

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

“Nothing in the past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about. In this new enactment, presence can replace absence, which is the best that can be managed in human time.”

— Louise Glück

[Randi @TheRandiSavage]

“English is a wonderful mercantile language. You can get a lot of trade done with English. But you would find it very difficult to validate the psychic and spiritual existence of your life.”

Toni Cade Bambara

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

― Anne Sexton

[Uncle Ari @MazeDaMouth]

“I am the sun”

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bell hooks: "We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

There's a lot of talk about how abolition is impractical, abolitionists don't have ideas for what to do about crime right here and now, and about how "police are necessary." So here's a thread with examples of cities implementing non-police responses as we speak. 🧵

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Monday thoughts...

James Baldwin: