Rivers Coaching

Social justice coaching
Public sector advocates and activists
Uplifting communities
Transforming minds and systems
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Coaching. Research. Activism.

[Gaza Poets Society @PoetsGaza]

A Letter from Under the Rubble

[Big Issue @BigIssue]

Revealed: 1.3 million people with cancer, arthritis and more could lose PIP under Labour's benefit cuts https://t.co/jK1mvxEyzV

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"In the absence of resistance, our lives will be shortened."

Joy James

#beyondcopcity

@TribunalPeoples @DrJoyJames

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"Gentrification is a stalker"
Dr Joy James

#beyondcopcity

@TribunalPeoples @DrJoyJames

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"CCTV cameras seem to always not work when a police killing has happened."

Sheku Bayoh's brother-in-law

@TribunalPeoples

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"How is the mental health of the police considered in the inquest of these murders?"

@DrJoyJames @TribunalPeoples

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"The State is on trial here today."
Luke Daniels.

@TribunalPeoples

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These families are experiencing

Continuing Traumatic Stress Disorder

Not

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

@TribunalPeoples

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Many officers are promoted after committing these crimes.

The person who used the belt restraint that killed Joy Gardner was promoted to Head of Training in Scotland Police Force.

#reparationsforJoy

@TribunalPeoples

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"This is about humanity, and this is about the right to live."
- Shirley Sylvester
@TribunalPeoples @UFFCampaign

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"We are fed up with the same old recipes being dished out each time there is a death."
-Shirley Sylvester at @TribunalPeoples

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very bad and terrible things happen, killing strangers, foreigners, friends, family, adults, children, old people, young people, plants, animals, histories, ideas, plans... We shrug because that's life and everybody has to die.

Everyone does have to die, but this isn't life.

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While opening a can of tuna, we were discussing the impact of the announced major cuts to disability benefits by the UK government. The can was smaller than when we were younger and half empty.
Alanna's reflection:
"Nobody is willing to die, but everyone is happy to be killed."

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food is a cobbled together selection of substances that are marketed as food and we die of malnutrition and disease. As governments keep feeding the private sector with it's neverending appetite and prophesying that only by satiating it can we all eat. As these and so many other