In 2020, a judge ruled that Johnny Depp had assaulted Amber Heard twelve times. Twelve times.
Tonight's verdict sends a message that abuse is acceptable, and that victims should pay for speaking out.
https://t.co/77fnxomwEH
NEW from me: I spoke to DV survivors & victims’ advocates about the Depp/Heard verdict. According to one advocate, “hundreds” of survivors have already retracted victim statements & pulled out from court cases as a result of watching the trial. https://t.co/rG1KA4BEPP
The Depp/Heard defamation trial has obliterated so much progress made in free speech + victims rights. If Heard is found guilty of defamation for writing about abuse she endured—without even NAMING Depp—future opportunities for victims to come forward will be irreparably damaged.
Energy bills to rise 54% from 1 April. That's an increase of nearly £700. A third of low-income households (3.8 million) are already behind on their bills, and 4.4 million households took out new or increased borrowing during the pandemic.
Until you can empathise with a woman on the basis of her humanity, and not her proximity (imagine if that was your mum, sister, daughter etc), you still have work to do.
At least 106 UK women have been killed by men (or where a man is the principal suspect) so far in 2021.
106 women in 265 days is one UK woman dead at the hands of a man every 2.5 days so far this year @CountingDeadWomen
#saytheirnames#SabinaNessa
if i’m ever in one of those evil clone situations and my friends don’t know which Me is telling the truth all they’d have to do is tell us both to meet them at a nearby secondary location in 1 hour and then shoot the one that arrives on time
Would love to see you use your new influence, leverage and power to push for your garment workers to be paid above a living wage! As CD workers are now your priority too.
[In 2020, it was revealed @OfficialPLT paid their Leicester workers £3.50 p/hour which is slave labour.]
Microsoft in Japan trialled a 4 day working week and saw an increase in productivity of 39.9% and decreasing electricity and paper usage. 92% of the 2,300 employees who took part in the trial enjoyed the 4 day week.
It's about time workers are rewarded.
the world would be a much better place if people knew how to transmute envy into encouragement for others and for themselves. envy happens: break down why you feel it and convert it from something that empties and calcifies your heart to something that builds up positively