More than 200 community members in Southport responded to the invasion of fascist thugs in their streets last night by coming together to clear St Luke's Road and rebuild the wall outside the mosque ๐ Local tradesmen offered their time for free. Residents brought water, crates of free coffee and tools. "Weโre fixing the damage that these scumbags did.โ Photos of the vigil and this morning's clean up via On The Spot News.
@selzero After his children were killed a few weeks ago, and his grandchildren before that. He's the very leader they're supposed to be "negotiating a two-state solution" with. Israel doesn't want a two state solution. Israel doesn't want anything except to finish what it's started - a genocide.
After marching together for 141 miles from Harrisonburg VA, Interfaith Actiion arrived in National Harbor, Maryland yesterday to peacefully disrupt the conference of Christians United for Israel, an extreme-right group which lobbies lawmakers to support a violent form of Christian nationalism.
72yo bookseller Mohammad Aziz, lives in Raba, Morocco, where he spends an average of 6-8hrs a day reading - having read more than 5,000 books in French, Arabic and English. He has sat in this position for over 43 years. When asked about putting books outside, where they may be stolen, he replied: โThose who cannot read do not steal books and those who read books are not thieves.โ
Paris might turn out to be the least popular Olympics in modern history. I guess that's what happens when you let war criminals and child murderers attend ๐คทโ๏ธ
"If nothing else, silence reminds you to pay attention to the nature of things. Calibrating your senses, learning to recognise a glimmer of something real, turning in the deep. You have no idea what's going to happen, if anything happens at all. But that's alright, you've got nowhere to be; so you might as well sit back and soak in the suspense, and thank the gods it's still possible to get lost in the middle of nowhere." from 'Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows', by John Koenig #Bookstodon
@aral Oooh, I'd avoided that because of the usual inversely proportionate quality of adaptation inception. Grabbing it now! Just what I need to take my mind off the epic amount of money I've spent on wildly impractical clothing today ๐คฃ
Five Just Stop Oil activists are being sentenced in Southwark this morning, facing as much as 10 years in prison for walking down the road. The judge has already indicated that he intended to hand down "long, long sentences", saying that "facing the end of the world is neither here nor there". The trial was witnessed by UN Special Rapporteur Michael Forst, who had this to say: https://juststopoil.org/2024/07/11/5-just-stop-oil-supporters-found-guilty-as-un-slams-trial/ This is how the five were met at the court this morning โ ๐งก
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