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Absolutely loved doing this interview with three frontline union organisers from the UK, Korea and the Ukraine. Do have a listen- A Force for Good: Trade Unions Fighting for Dignity and Democracy. www.equals.ink/p/trade-unio...
I was honoured to be invited to today’s memorial service in Srebrenica, 30 years since 8,372 Muslim men and boys were slaughtered while the world looked away.
In their memory, we speak out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and governments — including our own — enabling it.
BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says
Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching, @premthakker.bsky.social reports.
Read the full story:
zeteo.com/p/breaking-i...
Tweet from Ramy Abdu: Breaking: Several Palestinian journalists were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting Al-Baqa Café in western Gaza City, where they had been working to upload news reports. Pictured: the dedicated journalist Bayan Abu Sultan.
While western authorities continue to hyperventilate about #DeathToTheIDF, the IDF just bombed a cafe where journalists are known to gather as part of their ongoing project to kill as many journalists as possible
As the #FFD4 Summit starts in Seville, we take stock of what's at stake.
📈 Inequality at record highs
🌍 A climate crisis accelerating
💰 $33.9 trillion gained by the richest 1% since 2015
The demand?
#TaxTheSuperRich for people and planet.
Let’s make this a turning point!
What does #ClimateChange have to do with #inflation?
A lot, actually.
Our researcher @jordischroeder.bsky.social breaks it down in the @equalshope.bsky.social podcast - from crop failures to rising electricity prices, and why it all hits the most vulnerable hardest.
podfollow.com/equals/episo...
Ever wonder what role Central Banks play in fuelling inequality? Too important to be left to unelected bureaucrats- Banking on inequality www.equals.ink/p/banking-on...
Great new action in Washington DC: A long-term encampment of illegally fired federal workers & other concerned people set up yesterday in the shadow of the Capitol building.
SOLIDARITY CITY aka "Muskville" invoking Depression era Hoovervilles. They've put out a call for supporters to join them.
“A recent YouGov poll found Ocasio-Cortez had a +61 approval rating among Democrats — the highest of any Democrat polled who hasn't run for president or vice president.”
"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."
Breaking News: The Trump administration said it would pause tariffs on cars coming into the United States from Canada and Mexico for one month.
Trump's "golden age of America" so far...
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
I wrote this over the weekend about the urgent need to defend life-saving aid, and some ideas about how we can do so. open.substack.com/pub/equals/p...
Join us on March 10th at 5.30pm for a our next DLD conversation on how inequality affects development and what can be done about it - with the brilliant
@faizashaheen.bsky.social, @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Ha-Joon Chang.
Register here: soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
I had a very interesting chat with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and Nafkote Dabi about the current chaos in the world economy!
www.equals.ink/p/vulture-ca...
"No to ethnic cleansing": over 350 rabbis sign NYT ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan
I'm no rabbi but I signed it too. Grateful to the organizers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"Do we govern global taxation or do we let the wealthiest few govern us?"
Powerful messages from
Pres Sanchez
Pres Lula
Former Pres Mbeki
@abigaildisney.bsky.social
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social
@jayatighosh.bsky.social
at @icrict.bsky.social's Vatican event today taxjustice.net/press/govern...
Sorted. 😉😎
![TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifoaihlyxzbiko32lmralzpicfxnzwfoxp3ki5w4wniiihonzxira@jpeg)
TOTE ASTRICT COLOR DOCTORS FOR AMERICA, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB) OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al., Defendants. ORDER Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8] Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that 1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1]; 2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall, by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Declining trends in national #inequality blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
If interested on #inequality, do not miss this post from the @worldbankgroup.bsky.social on the critical limitations one finds when measuring it! @maxlawsontin.bsky.social
“It’s simply not possible to have a functioning democratic system under these conditions.”
Finally had a chance to listen to @jasonhickel.bsky.social's fantastic interview with @maxlawsontin.bsky.social & Nafkote.
podfollow.com/1480735096/e... @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #TakersNotMakers
Billionaire Colonialism - how colonialism never ended. Brilliant - @maxlawsontin.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.equals.ink/p/billionair...
2024 Throwback: How water ‘flows up’ to the rich.
Nafkote and me discuss water inequality and how #ClimateChange impacts water access with Mandal Sushmita. Find out how wealth and power defy gravity by making water flow… upwards!
Listen here: pod.fo/e/23a593
Meta and Amazon giving $1 million each to Trump's inauguration fund is a flagrant example of the ultra-rich bending the knee in exchange for outsized influence, and just another case of government for the billionaires, by the billionaires.
British police arrest environmental protesters at nearly three times the global average rate, research has found, revealing the country as a world leader in the legal crackdown on climate activism.
Story by @damien.gayle.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The tensions surrounding whose humanity matters to the powers that be, of what does and does not constitute murder abound.
@premthakker.bsky.social writes about the contradiction between the fates of two young men who allegedly killed a homeless man and a CEO.
zeteo.com/p/26-year-ol...
Another day another series of Israeli war crimes: "At least 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat camp. Attack comes hours after 20 people from the same displaced family were killed in northern Gaza." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...
Here’s your daily dose of good news: 23 states are set to raise their minimum wages in the new year!
While we still need action from Congress, it’s reassuring that state officials aren’t afraid to take up the mantle in the fight for living wages for all.
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
#OtD 9 Dec 1947 the Rawagede massacre was carried out by Dutch colonial troops in Indonesia, who executed 431 people: nearly every male aged over 15 in the village of Rawagede (now Balongsari). None of the killers were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.c...
