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Quote from Refaat Alareer’s newly published book IF I MUST DIE, transcribed from voice notes one year ago by his dear friend, student, and editor @YousefAljamal ❤️

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All proceeds from the book will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and March to Gaza–Greece.

Subscribe to OR Shorts here to receive Urgent Care as part of your subscription: https://t.co/cfxVaJ9xeo

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Christos Georgalas, worked at Nasser Hospital, Gaza's largest functioning hospital, during the spring of 2025

Urgent Care brings together notes and photographs he took while living at the hospital, and features an intro by acclaimed British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad.

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@ta_mills @TMChivers Pre-order at 15% off: https://t.co/t731Fu0vqY

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DEMOCRATISE OR DIE

A bold plan to save the BBC by democratising it.

In this intervention, three leading media policy experts (inc. @ta_mills and
@TMChivers) warn the BBC will not survive its fast-approaching Charter Review unless its popular legitimacy is reinvigorated.

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Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium presents the first-ever translation of the collection, featuring flowers she found on prison grounds, personal letters detailing her fascination with nature, and an analysis of her ecological critique of colonial capitalism https://t.co/f0CoXdbHeZ

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We’ll be celebrating the launch of the book with Claudia Horn and @readlux at 6th Street & Avenue B Community Garden next Wednesday, September 2nd, from 6.30 PM

@rosaluxglobal RSVP here: https://t.co/5w62BY9HUz

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Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg is known for her writings on imperialism and revolution and her annual commemoration on Jan 15, when thousands of left-wing groups march through Berlin to the Socialists' Cemetery.

Luxemburg left behind another, lesser-known legacy: her herbarium.

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This illustrated study brings together pages from Luxemburg’s herbarium, personal letters, and offers an analysis of her ecological critique of colonial capitalism.

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This beautifully illustrated anthology features organizers, educators, and community builders exploring the many ways birding has transformed their lives.

Available as part of OR Shorts Series 1: https://t.co/lmfAnf7Zhn

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Looking for birds can imbue life with joy.

Personal essays and poetry from leading Black birders reveal birding’s power to build community and advance racial and environmental justice.

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Sponsored by @rosaluxglobal

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Join OR Books and Lux Magazine @readlux for the launch of ROSA LUXEMBURG'S HERBARIUM with the author Claudia Horn and Lux editor Cora Currier at the 6 & B Garden in the East Village on 9/2 at 6:30pm

RSVP required here https://t.co/ZlXfF3x5Gi

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Janus City is part of OR Shorts Series I, annual subscription is available until November 1, 2026, after which each SHORT will be available to purchase individually, at full retail price, as it releases.

The first SHORT will release October 2026 https://t.co/WM1suyZkd7

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Beirut has been destroyed and rebuilt again and again. What does it mean to call such a place home? 

Lebanese writer Lina Mounzer traces the city’s tangled history of war, economic collapse, and catastrophe alongside her own memories of life there. Illustrated by Jana Traboulsi.

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With contributions by @AthertonKD @JeremyKonyndyk @maxbergmann, @tcambanis, @drfarls, @Arosaflores, @JuliaGledhill, @noah_gordon_, @zahahassan, @mkimmage, @cjcmichel, @NancyGEO, @MPaarlberg, @RachelRizzo, @jwdwerner, @YagerSarahH among many others!

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A group of leading experts offers a progressive blueprint for a foreign policy that answers to voters instead of defense contractors and Super PACs

Co-publishing with @thenation, edited by @mattduss, and with a foreword by Senator @BernieSanders

Cover by @mollycrabapple

A World For All is available for pre-order now: https://t.co/yQpWtQi7A6

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PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, INC. BY JULIE TILSEN IS NOW SHIPPING

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Increasingly, therapy functions as an arm of neoliberal ideology—reinforcing its imperatives of personal responsibility, individualism, and relentless self-improvement.

Personal Responsibility: How Psychotherapy Turns Society’s Problems into Yours is now shipping!