Gerry Cordon

Signs of approaching climate apocalypse, art, dogs, jazz, political stupidities, and memories of our lost European home.

[Eto Buziashvili @EtoBuziashvili]

A gentle reminder. #UkraineNATO33

[Andrei Kurkov @AKurkov]

Victoria Amelina was one of kindest and most charitable Ukrainian writers who did much more for others than for herself. She founded 2 literary festivals - in New York (Donbas) and in Kramatorsk, where her life was stopped by russian missile. RIP.

[Timothy Garton Ash @fromTGA]

A victim of the war crimes she was working to document….#VictoriaAmelina #Ukraine

[Ostap Kin @ostap_kin]

You can read essays by Victoria Amelina (1986—2023), who died on July 1 after a Russian missile strike.

“Homo Oblivious” (about the Soviet past, memory and forgetting); and “Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened” (about Lviv and the Holocaust).
https://t.co/kSEp97gylP

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

The next time you go for some pizza, remember her. And what Russia did to her.
Victoria Amelina, 1986-2023
Writer and war crimes researcher. She rests in truth.

[Gerry Cordon @gerryco23]

@LiverpoolVista It's an absolute shame that it looks like this now...

[Gerry Cordon @gerryco23]

Really important article: https://t.co/t8ZLDJFW6i

[Gerry Cordon @gerryco23]

"We still struggle to share our troubled history. And so we do not know where to go next." Really thought-provoking column: https://t.co/DmV2nFU4TH

[Gerry Cordon @gerryco23]

So true, Marina. https://t.co/kXGLhLjmVH

[Stefan Simanowitz @StefSimanowitz]

A dark day for media freedom which sets chilling precedent for public interest journalism

The Court of Appeal has ordered Carole Cadwalladr to pay £1 MILLION+ in court costs to Arron Banks

This despite a judgment ruling that her tweet & @TEDTalks was in the public interest!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A dark day for freedom of the press, for everyone who cares about it and for every journalist & news organisation that believes in public interest reporting.

A statement:

[Gerry Cordon @gerryco23]

Excellent article.

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

The big idea: why we need a new definition of junk food https://t.co/z62ycQn0QJ

[Gerry Cordon @gerryco23]

Really important summary of where we are now on policing and protest rights: https://t.co/Cg7Xsd316m

[Gerry Cordon @gerryco23]

Horrific and deeply saddening.

[Gerry Cordon @gerryco23]

Labour's position on electoral reform is madness. There is a way to oust the Tories, and stop them ever rising again. Why won’t we do it? | Neal Lawson https://t.co/g95ykx8MX2

[Rich Felgate @richfelgate]

Yesterday I got arrested whilst filming a @JustStop_Oil supporter holding a banner on the pavement near the coronation route. I'm a filmmaker and had my @BECTU press accreditation visible around my neck.

Police deemed this to be "conspiracy to commit a public nuisance".

[SamSam @GSL2019]

@TheBodyShopUK Please all sign https://t.co/5fum2hcCeQ

[The Body Shop UK @TheBodyShopUK]

We are deeply concerned to hear that the ruling in the UK High Court, published today, means that the ban on animal testing in cosmetics was effectively lifted in 2019, under the radar.

The Body Shop was the first global beauty company to campaign to ban animal testing in cosmetics in 1989, with the UK becoming the world’s first to rule it out in 1998.

We join our long-standing partner @CrueltyFreeIntl in calling on the Government to reimpose this ban immediately. We can’t turn back the clock.

Allowing animal testing for cosmetics in the UK would be a devastating blow and so our fight continues. We will campaign vigorously, as our late founder Dame Anita Roddick did, for as long as it takes.

At The Body Shop, we are Forever Against Animal Testing.

#ForeverAgainstAnimalTesting #EndAnimalTesting #CrueltyFree

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

People will celebrate many things today. But not this. It’s perfectly reasonable to protest peacefully against the monarchy. The police shouldn’t be locking people up. The King is supposed to defend our liberties. That’s what today’s about https://t.co/D85RCOIek7

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

This is NOT okay.

Whatever you think of the monarchy, the right to peaceful protest is fundamental to democracy.