Russ

Born in Manchester, lived, Newcastle, London. Now living on Tyneside.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Arrested activist Sarah Wilkinson was reportedly asked to give up the location of contacts in Gaza by police and refused

After being arrested and barred from using electronic devices, over her activism in favour of Palestinian human rights, it has emerged that Sarah Wilkinson was requested to give up the locations of Palestinian contacts she had in Gaza.

The British police asking for locations of individuals inside of Gaza is particularly worrying as the U.K. military shares intelligence extensively with Israel, meaning that perhaps such information could reach the Israeli military and aid them in committing war crimes.

[Russ @Russell03544634]

@MichaelRosenYes @YouTube They appear to have made their video private....
Maybe embarrassed by the response garnered to their multiple genocidal & dehumanising statements about Palestinians. All of which are illegal under Israeli domestic law - the public encouragement of Genocide.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The Lindy Hop scene in Hellzapoppin' (1941) in full color.

-History Of The Lindy Hop Dance-

On May 21st 1927 the Lindy Hop dance was publicly introduced to the world. The Lindy hop is an African American dance which was born in Harlem, New York City.

On that date, the Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis airplane completed the first transatlantic flight by air, the Newspaper reported “Lindy Hops the Atlantic” and the dance style adopted the headline. The dance has evolved since then with the jazz music of that time and was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway, and Charleston.

It is frequently described as a jazz dance and is a member of the swing dance family. In its development, the Lindy hop combined elements of both partnered and solo dancing by using the movements and improvisation of African dances along with the formal eight-count structure of European partner dances most clearly illustrated in the Lindy's basic step, the swing-out. In this step's open position, dancers generally connected hand-to-hand; in its closed position, leads and follows are connected as though in an embrace on one side and holding hands on the other.

Lindy hop is sometimes referred to as a street dance, referring to its improvisational and social nature. On March 27, 1932, twelve-year-old Norma Miller did the Lindy hop outside the Savoy Ballroom with her friends for tips. In 1935, 15,000 people danced on Bradhurst Avenue for the second of a dance series held by the Parks Department. Between 147th and 148th street, Harlem "threw itself into the Lindy hop with abandon" as Sugar Hill residents watched from the bluffs along Edgecombe Avenue. There was renewed interest in the dance in the 1980s from American, Swedish, and British dancers and the Lindy hop is now represented by dancers and loosely affiliated grass-roots organizations globally.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Guardian:
"the most dangerous ministers in the Israeli government who are helping to prevent any possibility of a hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza"
says Azriel Bermant, of Instof Intnl Relations Prague+ a visiting researcher at the Inst for Nat. Security Studies, Tel Aviv Uni.

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

'We need to know who is accountable, who made the decisions that led to this horror'

Ahead of the publication of the final report on the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people in 2017, former MP Emma Dent Coad told #BBCBreakfast campaigners 'want people in jail'

https://t.co/0mt9N7ZSTj

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Lord Eric Pickles at the Grenfell Inquiry "I have changed my schedule to fit this in, but I"m missing important lunches to do it."

He was head of fire safety when Grenfell burned, and he thinks he is too important to be bothered by an inquiry.

He should be before a judge.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

MPs emptied the House of Commons today as the PM apologised for ‘states’ role in the Grenfell inferno.

In contrast, this is Jeremy Corbyn with the Grenfell community 7 years ago, after the inferno took 72 lives.

And the media demonise Jeremy.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Grenfell was social murder

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

MPs on both sides of the House of Commons leave before the PM statement on the Grenfell Inquiry findings:

They didn’t care before the fire.
They don’t care after the fire.

Each MP who left should be made to face the Grenfell survivors in person.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The Grenfell Report gives us official confirmation: 72 people needlessly died because of corporate deceit, deregulation, privatisation, ignorance, and contempt for working-class communities.

We will never, ever forget.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The victims of Grenfell Tower Fire died for no reason other than the incompetence of public officials and the greed of private companies.

We demand justice.

[Russ @Russell03544634]

@Politicalfoot1 @garyyounge @faizashaheen The reason she was denied the ability to be a candidate- My understanding is prior to being a Labour Party Member she supported a Green candidate who she knew. She also retweeted a sketch by John Stewart a Jewish US comedian the sketch was critical of both Israel & Hamas.

[Russ @Russell03544634]

@Kahlissee Absolutely 100% masterpiece!

Also why they decided to block / delete his account. Going to have a long wait for all the right wing free speech warriors to come to his defence.......

[Russ @Russell03544634]

@109ReasonsWhy @fatifaat007 @AdameMedia You alright with that? Are Palestinians sub human to you? Not sure why I'm asking? Can guess the answer... You know where that eventually leads. As someone attacked by Nazis while campaigning against them in London I do.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

This needs to be seen to be believed.

IDF forcibly stop paramedics from saving a life and then attack the patient.

Palestinian life is worthless to them.

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

“The idea of taking that kind of bullying, abuse and public humiliation, lying down, I just wasn't brought up that way. You stand up for yourself, you stand up to bullies.” Our interview with the formidable ⁦@faizashaheen⁩ ⁦on Labour’s appalling conduct & her candidacy

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Precisely. Tax is far more efficient than philanthropy. We should tax billionaires, like you, until they are no longer billionaires.