We're so pleased to see this report from @aliceferguson.bsky.social & Tim Gill published. Huge thanks to Alice, Ingrid and all at @playingout.bsky.social for their incredible work over the years. We need to rebalance our streets and put children's needs front & centre. #Health #ActiveTravel

“Streets for play, streets for freedom” by @aliceferguson.bsky.social & @timrgill.bsky.social makes the case for a "child lens" on transport policy. Time to prioritise those most impacted yet least considered in planning our streets: Children. Read more here: playingout.net/take-action/...

What a brilliant @playingout.bsky.social conference today! Children's right to play is more important than ever. Let's make sure that more (all!) children can play, more of the time.

Women of the world, take over. Because if you don’t, the world will come to an end, and we haven’t got long. #IvorCutler #InternationalWomensDay m.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUl...

@playingout.bsky.social has leaflets in Urdu too! Printing leaflets in different languages is democratic, inclusive, empowering - values clearly threatening to those who want to control the narrative. @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social

My friend Dee is a parent at this Bristol school and wrote an open letter to Keir Starmer (in comments). www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Thank you @theguardian.com for this truthful and responsible reporting. And shame on those media outlets and journalists - including BBC - who are not calling out Trump’s lies. We’ve all seen the videos.

“Board of peace”. Right.

Brilliant speech **but** we “middle powers” need to acknowledge what has been very wrong with the “old world order” - colonialism, exploitation, racism, oppression, economic inequality, environmental disaster - and plan to rebuild better alongside the global majority.

To quote a great philosopher: "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me!"

I fully support their decision to live. They have already succeeded in exposing beyond doubt the UK Government’s pathological loyalty to a genocidal state. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

FYI non-crazy Americans - this is pretty much what we are all feeling right now and I know you are in anguish so I say that with love. But also desperation. www.facebook.com/100079206830...

“The UK is now perilously close to…authoritarian rule. Ministers won’t even meet with hunger strikers who are now at death’s door. They seem perfectly ready to let this country’s most committed and courageous opponents of an ongoing genocide waste away and die.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Former hunger strikers have written this powerful plea to the UK Government, who would rather let these dedicated young activists - who have not been found guilty of any crime - starve to death in prison than meet them to discuss their demands for fair treatment. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

This is also what Yvette Cooper, when she was UK Home Secretary, said about #PalestineAction. If you knew the secret stuff I know, you'd agree with me that they're terrorists. It's the cheapest and basest way for a politician to malign someone, and a clear sign of a flailing, undemocratic state.

This happened today, not on a “main road” but on our local busy high street, where people of all ages walk and cycle every day. No words.💔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you to all those inside the US who are brave enough to stand up against the horror we are all witnessing from the outside.

“I might just stick to my bicycle”. Good plan kids!! #activetravel #safestreetsnow

I've crossed this pedestrian overpass many times, but didn't know about this history. Incredible how much pedestrian and cycling infrastructure has come into being only through political struggle.

Ordinary Americans who want to do something to stop the madness: Non-cooperation with the oil-based, individualist/consumerist project feels a good place to start. Stop buying shit, swap your car for a bike, have your neighbours round for tea (and get out on the streets too). 🙏

From the BBC just now. One senator? Sorry but why isn’t *everyone* saying the same thing???

How is everyone here not already following this account??

The word “Lego” comes from the Danish to “play well” and the toy was created in the 1930s to help children do exactly that. Today, it’s profit, not play, driving this global corporation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m beginning to wonder if the most powerful human quality is not love, compassion or intellect - but ego. If so, what is the antidote and how do we save the world from it? Answers on a postcard…

We need every politician to speak like this about the political commitment that is necessary to end deaths and injuries on our roads.

It’s the United States that needs regime change.

This 1970s essay on Donald Duck and the US colonial project in the Americas feels pretty d-d-d-darned relevant right now. www.theguardian.com/books/2018/o...

Come to Bristol on 12th March! A day-conference bringing together people from across this wide and diverse movement for children's freedom and right to play out near home. Great speakers, lots of discussion. Low-cost and free ticket options! Don't miss it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

Not too late to join our FREE webinar this Wednesday lunchtime! Hear from Cllrs @edwardlamb.bsky.social and @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social on actions councils are taking to restore children's freedom, as well as 'big picture' stuff from us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

Let’s seize this moment for children’s outdoor play! FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

Good that the Covid Inquiry is hearing about play, that it’s not just a nice to have, that it’s essential to childhood, for fun, that it’s how children exercise, that public play is unevenly policed, and that children’s right to play should have been upheld in lockdown. @playingout.bsky.social

Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps. @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social

Hoping everyone had a wonderful weekend at the Bristol International SUV Fiesta (formerly known as the Balloon Fiesta). Let's make the next one even more car-dominated by cancelling all public transport into the city!! @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/alice-...

Yup really cool Lena Dunham / @netflix.com - way to glorify the kind of driving that kills pedestrians. #TooMuch @thewaroncars.bsky.social

I’ve exercised my right to peacefully protest in the UK a lot over my lifetime: CND/Greenham in the 70s (as a child), anti-apartheid in the 80s, stop the war in 2000s, on and on. Today is the first time I’ve felt scared of being arrested, just for showing up. #FreePalestine @stwc.bsky.social

Imagine reaching the age of 114(!) and achieving such amazing things and this is how your life ends. Horrendous. End Road Violence Now. @thewaroncars.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/man-ar....

Just make ensure they have time, space and permission to play throughout their everyday lives. Oh, and enable them to walk and cycle for everyday journeys too.

Why rising temperatures are yet another reason children need space to play out on their doorstep… @playingout.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/alice-...

Dammit kids, get off your screens and go outside!!! Just kidding, stay inside and stop bothering the neighbourhood and drivers by playing on your street

Last weekend in Bristol, children on bikes took over their city centre! They were seen and heard. They had a blast. But the aim of #KidicalMass is also serious. This is not the everyday norm. Children across the UK need #SafeStreetsNow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLtA...

We did this in Bristol last weekend and it was great. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @kinderaufsrad.bsky.social @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social

So much joy in today’s #kidicalmass Bristol ride, we desperately need more space for kids to cycle safely, but we can have fun while working towards change . @aliceferguson.bsky.social @bristolcycling.bsky.social

This makes me sad every time I walk past. Local school playground - an increasingly precious safe, car-free space for children - is opened up at half-term and weekends for cars, but not for children to play. What message does this send? @playingout.bsky.social

Unbelievable. Even when a car has been deliberately used as a weapon in a horrific violent crime with tens of victims (including children) *and* the perpetrator is named, the BBC can’t break the habit of using the passive tense.

“I hope the mayor remembers that kids ride bikes, too — and that we want to be safe on the streets we all share”. Honestly, a lot of 12yr olds are this clued up and articulate and we would learn a lot if we just gave them space to speak.

Birmingham, welcome to the flock! Good luck, especially to students getting from halls and bus stop to Matthew Boulton College across the dual carriageway A47. 🤞🤞🤞

Ladies Mile is a totally unnecessary road cutting across Bristol’s biggest public greenspace - The Downs - making it unsafe for kids. It was closed to cars for the day yesterday and what a change! Let’s make this permanent. @edplowden.bsky.social @robbryher.bsky.social @bristol247.bsky.social

Isn’t this what we want all our politicians to be like? I will never understand why normal (non-billionaire) people keep voting for people who only care about billionaires.

On my way into work this morning I saw this, on a rare “home zone” in Bristol, where cars do not have priority. Imagine the time and energy this must have taken! Imagine the sense of belonging, of “my space, my street, my community”. Imagine if all children had this. @playingout.bsky.social