inertia

Tweets on the ability to resist. Shares stuff on urban struggles esp. libraries & gentrification, visual practices, memory and tech. UK & Austria + more.

[inertia @InertiaPi]

💥LAUNCH!💥
In lockdown, @maqui_tuits and I joined the #FightTheTower solidarity network. This inspired us to make a timeline on gentrification struggles in Brixton: 60 events from the '93 City Challenge to @save_nour & #HondoTower. Check👩🏽‍💻 #BrixGentriTL:
https://t.co/NEf9RhWzQe

[inertia @InertiaPi]

"recasting public assets as sellable commodities" - report on the sudden closure of Edinburgh's museum of people's history. @maydayrooms, @56a #infrastructures_of_memory
https://t.co/8FlCVasSv6

[inertia @InertiaPi]

One of @shapirostephen's small comments, evoking a love for intellectual realities by pointing to a book published in 1979. Looking back, looking forward...

[Real Media @RealMediaGB]

Private bailiffs hound peaceful protest off university campus 👀

The management at the School for Oriental and African Studies has set bailiffs on their own students, to end a peaceful encampment calling out the university’s close
relationship with colonialism and the genocide in #Gaza.

Read more from Sul Nowroz here 👉 https://t.co/LGaQDZx5dL

#SOAS #PalestineGenocide #IsraeliWarCrimes

[The_Final_Straw (@[email protected]) @StrawFinal]

A presentation by Quoyle at the ACABookfair 2023 about Migrant Solidarity in the Mediterranean working with @seawatch_intl and other NGOs in 2023 doing search and rescue supporting migrants moving toward Europe

https://t.co/IdthpuJYto

[Jay Motty @JayMotty]

This is better than any speech from a politician we’ve heard recently 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[inertia @InertiaPi]

Check out Gennady Rakitin in this German language interview, also on Wikipedia:
https://t.co/MruO0KclVr

[inertia @InertiaPi]

@mixedupnames @Taj_Ali1 @onlinehyphen Hey, @mixedupnames, i really enjoyed your text. It's honest and real. Maybe you're just too good for mainstream journalism? But i sure hope you continue writing. Good luck with everything!

[inertia @InertiaPi]

There's quite an affinity between public libraries and zine making. West Norwood offers a bring-your-baby zine club, #ILIT made zines with librarians and library managers. @faerber_alexa https://t.co/SY1p8qtskG

[inertia @InertiaPi]

Norwood library has a knitting & crochet group, just like the "Bücherei am Schöpfwerk in Vienna. #libraryresearch https://t.co/IK7NjaJX2k

[inertia @InertiaPi]

The public library as a social infrastructure: This can mean many things. Nice to see that Streatham Library has a monthly mtg for over 50s! #libraryresearch
https://t.co/voGTutvGfY

[Just Space @justspace7]

Sadiq’s dagger to the heart of West London’s poorest communities - double-crossing and fast-tracking gentrification of one of London’s oldest street markets. Sadiq gave off-shore multi-billion developers 3 years to work up plans - but just a 6 hour window for objections. Shameful

[inertia @InertiaPi]

I like this #OtD. For some reason i tend to forget victories more than defeats. The fall of #HondoTower was a victory, made possible by skilllfully & publicly using the kind of building regulations that are now dissed as nimby-protecting "red tape".

[maqui 🍉 @maqui_tuits]

#OtD: 21st July 2023, #Brixton celebrates The Fall of #HondoTower. This was a huge achievement of @save_nour #FightTheTower campaign & local communities' struggle against further #gentrification of the neighbourhood.
💥See how that frantic week unfolded: https://t.co/sKtoJNSJ8r

[maqui 🍉 @maqui_tuits]

#OtD: 21st July 2023, #Brixton celebrates The Fall of #HondoTower. This was a huge achievement of @save_nour #FightTheTower campaign & local communities' struggle against further #gentrification of the neighbourhood.
💥See how that frantic week unfolded: https://t.co/sKtoJNSJ8r

[Tribune @tribunemagazine]

Labour's plans to deregulate planning processes will further open up Britain to the property developers who have already caused so much damage to the country — and do little to help those at the sharp end of the housing crisis. https://t.co/BDGRqps77b

[Yasmin Gunaratnam @YasminGun]

my heart is with my former colleagues @SociologyGold & other departs today where redundancy notices have been sent. It makes no sense to take a wrecking ball to the most vibrant & innovative intellectual community I have come across in order to cover mismanagement

[inertia @InertiaPi]

Just photos of some painted stones, made at a meeting @HousingActionSL. Fun things merge with the heavy work of this amazing neighbourly and sturdy campaign, see 👇🏽@tomemurtha
https://t.co/RHRpuPwXBr

[HASL @HousingActionSL]

🤩HASL kids were busy at our meeting on Saturday making these wonderful creatures! We had another huge meeting with over 150 people attending to help each other with housing rights + moral support. We had lots of victories to celebrate as well which will be in our newsletter soon

[Frank Latta @FrankLatta2]

@pete556 @hfltenants @publiclawcentre "Divide & conquer" is a favorite game of our council officers, although it becomes less successful each time it's exposed. It's only worked very patchily on @SaveCressingham, & only a little more successfully on Lambeth's other "regeneration" estates.