“Liberty has sons who are not all legitimate or to be admired. Those who applaud it only when it justifies their privileges and shout nothing but censorship when it threatens them are not on our side.” - Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death, 1961

“We knew that there could be no lasting peace so long as there were large populations in the world living under primitive conditions and suffering from starvation, disease, and denial of the advantages of modern science and industry.” - Harry Truman, 1945

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home." Judge Immergut, quoting James Madison, halts sending Natl Guard troops to OR tinyurl.com/29fx8vv5

“She moved in a silent ferocity of dignity which barely escaped being ludicrous.” - James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

A civil society win! After the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition exposed the huge presence of fossil fuel lobbyists at COPs 28 and 29, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) now requires non-govt attendees to publicly confirm their full alignment w/ the Paris Agmt and Kyoto Protocol.

I first read this book 30 years ago, and yeah, it's still relevant.

Moved by the music and resilience of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, who played their national anthem - while standing - as their last song. Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson’s only words in English were, “The fight for the liberty of Ukraine is the fight for a democratic world.”

When guiding questions are future oriented, as in 'What’s possible?' and 'How do we create it?' people are mobilized to focus on more transformational change. Focusing on problems is limiting; focusing on possibilities is liberating. - David Ehrlichman, Impact Networks

"It is simply a privilege of my age to care enough and, at the same time, little enough, to tell the truth." - Claire Messud, This Strange, Eventful History

New call for papers from @wochenschauverlag.bsky.social: www.humanrights.fau.eu/2025/08/08/c...

Slow down ICE by helping local businesses put up signs to clearly mark “Staff Only” areas that can’t be entered without a warrant. Protect your community while showing solidarity with immigrant workers and customers: act.indivisible.org/...

I asked my mom what she wanted to do for her 80th birthday and this was her answer.

Spotted this on my morning run today. Welcome to Florida.

Amsterdam pride, wow, so much joy and sparkles and survival. Here for it.

Glacier hike with @burrito.space

Was a long hike and wet weather but worth it to catch the end of Stage 19 of the TDF. 🫶 Jonas Vingegaard

So much shared excitement watching the Tour de France. Super fun crowd.

Matterhorn. Mountains give me joy.

Morning run today, epic views both ways

“We never get over it,” she said to me during one of our first sessions together. “What’s that?” I said, and she said, “Having started out as children.” - Ann Packer, The Children's Crusade

"Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel." - Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

4 years ago, environmental lawyer Dang Dinh Bach was unjustly imprisoned in Vietnam. Finance is now flowing for a "just" energy transition, but critical voices like his remain silenced. We call for Bach’s urgent & unconditional release! #FreeBach #StandwithBach

Love this 👇 from @radical_data, who sadly are still on Twitter.

One of the participants in the workshop I facilitated this week referred to millennials as the older generation. I am GenX. Ouch. But bright side it was a human rights workshop so I guess the kids are alright.

convened a group of people working on open source software that is intentionally designed to give people more power. i took notes.

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural Hisotory

🆕 We've recorded over 6,400 attacks against people speaking out against corporate harm in the past 10 years - close to two attacks per day on average. Attacks were reported in relation to almost every business sector and region of the globe over the past decade.

Today I again learned that 26.2 is a lot of miles to run. #running

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

The privileged act of naming often affords those in power access to modes of communication and enables them to project an interpretation, a definition, a description of their work and actions, that may not be accurate, that may obscure what is really taking place. -bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

Got some stickers to wear on my shirt when I run the Utrecht marathon in a couple of weeks.

Looking forward to teaching this with @rightscolab.bsky.social colleague @joannebauer.bsky.social. Please share with your networks. Call for participants: Training and funded research opportunity on #bizhumanrights for Russian human rights defenders in exile: araminta-advisers.eu/call-for-par....

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

It's been six months since I put this together and SO MUCH has happened since then. Please reply with more suggestions to add to this list. We need each other. go.bsky.app/JcbrRb8 #bizhumanrights

Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival = Fun way to keep up with my Spanish learning.

Ultimately, privileged people are able to make their own meaning and impose meaning on the world more than they are required to accept the meaning making of others. They set the terms of the interaction. This self-location is valued and extolled in Western societies. - Cyndi Suarez, The Power Manual

"Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil." - Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem

Spring felt like a miracle on my long run today.

"One can build one’s capacity for liberatory power. It requires a commitment to living mindfully . . . so that when one finds oneself in an interaction that positions one as powerless, one is able to perceive it, keep calm, and assert mutuality." - Cyndi Suarez, The Power Manual

"What are the opportunities and imponderables, the risks and rewards, that inhere in the work of translation across epistemic and hegemonic divides? " - Marisol de la Cadena, Earth Begins

Wrapped up a work trip with a quick visit to Chengdu and an epic run on the Nanhe River.

I'm skeptical every time I see white NGOs saying they work with Indigenous peoples -- yet not close enough to let those same Indigenous peoples speak

Celebrated International Women’s Day hitting some PRs on a long run in Het Bos and followed by a feminist march through the Canal District

Long run along the Amstel today under rare blue skies.

Welcome to International Corporate Accountability roundtable @theicar.bsky.social Added to my BHR starter pack - go.bsky.app/JcbrRb8

Just added @unwgbhr.bsky.social to my BHR starter pack - nice to see them here. LMK others to add! go.bsky.app/JcbrRb8

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

Someone is gonna learn real quick why lawyers cost $$$ and not $4.99 bsky.app/profile/tech...