I didn't have the chance to write a new poem for the #PoetryDay. In consolation, here's a photo showing me reading my poem "Exile as a toxic marmalade" on #WorldRefugeeDay last year. Time flies. But poetry stays forever: beautifully incurable, eternally inseparable. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

The NUJ is concerned by a decision to revoke the passes of journalists attending the Labour Party Conference yesterday. Our full response: www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Dear friends, we have the pleasure of inviting you to the exhibition I curated for Black History Month, featuring inspirational 11 female and 7 male Black philosophers. It's on display at Brighton Jubilee Library until 31st October. Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊ #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BHM2025

Dear friends, today is the International Day of Older Persons. The 2025 theme is: “Older Persons Driving Local and Global Action: Our Aspirations, Our Well-Being and Our Rights.” We'll host more films on ageing well. Today, we have a French romantic & poetic comedy. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

Dear friends; today is the #EuropeanDayOfLanguages, celebrated in 46 member states of the Council of Europe. 2025 theme is: "Languages open hearts and minds." To mark this day, at #EuroMernet Film Club, we have an Irish language comedy-drama. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

Killers of Martin O’Hagan must be brought to justice. Ahead of the 24th anniversary of the murder of journalist Martin O'Hagan, the NUJ has repeated its call for an independent investigation and for the killers of O’Hagan to face justice. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/kil...

#Egypt: We welcome the long-overdue release of writer & activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah after nearly 6 years in arbitrary detention. Our thoughts are with Alaa and his family as they reunite after this painful struggle. Read our full statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/egypt-a...

We're incredibly relieved that Alaa Abd el-Fattah has finally been released from prison. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who has supported Alaa and his family over these difficult years. www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

We warmly welcome the news of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah's pardon. This is an important and positive development, and a huge relief for his family. We remain by their side and guided by them, and will share more once there is further clarity. fairsq.org/alaa-abd-el-...

#Türkiye: @pensweden.bsky.social member Joakim Medin faces years in prison on spurious terrorism grounds in #Türkiye. His trial in absentia will open in Istanbul on 25 September. All charges against him must be dropped. Read our joint statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/trkiye-...

We join @pressfreedom.bsky.social in condemning Israel’s killing of 31 Yemeni journalists and media workers, the deadliest attack on the press in 16 years. Journalists are civilians and must be protected under international law. We call for accountability and end to impunity. @penmena.bsky.social

This story highlights the risks AI-generated summaries pose to public trust in journalism. The NUJ said: “With misinformation and disinformation rife online, tech giants have a crucial role to play in ensuring they do not amplify false news stories.”

Dear friends; today (21 September) is #WorldPeaceDay. At EuroMernet Film Club, we have a documentary about the history of the peace process in Northern Ireland: “The Secret Peacemaker”. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️ EuroMernet team

Dear friends, at EuroMernet Film Club, this week we have a thriller to pay tribute to Robert Redford, who died this week: “The Company You Keep”. Julie Christie, a member of EuroMernet’s International Board of Patrons, is the leading actress in this film. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

The Write to End Violence Against Women Awards, sponsored by the NUJ, recognise journalists and writers who report on violence against women responsibly, sensitively and accurately. There are several categories you can enter before 30 September ⬇️ www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/campaign/wri...

At PEN’s 91st Congress in Kraków, we launched the Manifesto on the Defence of Nature. Signed by writers worldwide, it calls on us all to be witnesses, protectors & visionaries in the face of the climate crisis. Read the Manifesto ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/pen-int...

The #Taliban's decision to cut off Wi-Fi access in the Balkh region will have devastating consequences, particularly for women and girls who rely on a Wi-Fi to communicate and attend classes: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

We are concerned by news that four people have been arrested over a projection on Windsor Castle protesting the arrival of #DonaldTrump. This seems to be another heavy-handed response to dissent by police: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Event: reporting on transgender people within journalism. On 24 September from 5.30pm-6.30pm, join the NUJ's Ethics council webinar on reporting on transgender people within journalism. Read more about speakers and register your free place. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nuj-ethics...

At our 91st Congress in Kraków, Centres adopted a landmark Resolution on Gender Diversity, the Human Rights of Transgender People, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Read our commitments and the full resolution ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/pen-int...

Big applause, big welcome, and.. big Mediterranean hugs to the new centres! 👏👏🤗💐 Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️

Today, PEN International President Burhan Sonmez reaffirmed our association’s commitment to writers everywhere. Built on the defence of free expression, PEN International continues to stand firm against threats that silence voices around the world.

PEN International is delighted to announce the appointment of literary giant and Nobel Prize-winning Polish writer and activist Olga Tokarczuk as Vice President of PEN International. Read more ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/nobel-l...

We're attending the opening of @peninternational.bsky.social 91st congress in #Krakow. Excellent hosting by tireless friends at Polish PEN Club. Inspiring words by Margaret Atwood, and with PEN International President Burhan Sönmez and Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk. Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️

Dear friends, at EuroMernet Film Club, today we have a documentary: “The Last of the Sea Women”. The film profiles the haenyeo, a declining community of women in Jeju, South Korea, all over 60, who support themselves by free-diving in the ocean to collect seafood. ♀️ Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

Dear friends, at EuroMernet Film Club, today we have a romantic drama-comedy. Centred on the story of a struggling American writer and his quest for finding love. With picturesque scenes from Montenegro and good combinations of poetic and philosophical lines. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

📚 PEN Recommends | August theme: Truth in Non-Fiction This week: Is Journalism Worth Dying For? by Anna Politkovskaya. A searing collection of her fearless reporting on war and corruption. Her voice endures as a testament to the cost & courage of truth-telling. #PENRecommends

The NUJ is calling for members to join 48 hours of action (26-27 August) in solidarity with Palestinian journalists. Members can show support in various ways - see our suggested actions⬇️

This week marked the 80th anniversary of two catastrophic dates in 1945: atomic bombing of #Hiroshima (6 August) and #Nagasaki (9 August). At #EuroMernet Film Club, this week we have two films on the catastrophic effects of a nuclear war. ☮️ Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

Dear friends, it was 24 years ago on this day, 10th July 2001, when we founded @EuroMernet! We are eternally grateful to our past & present committee members, board of patrons, over 900 tireless interns and volunteers & all partners, funders & supporters. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

Dear friends, at EuroMernet Film Club, this week we have a drama-comedy from Germany. The film looks at the stereotypes about refugees. Love, peace, and solidarity, EuroMernet team ❤️🕊✊️

Today would've been the 90th birthday of Musa Moris Farhi, a former Vice-President of PEN International and a former Chairman of its Writers in Prison Committee. He was a patron of my charity, EuroMernet & my mentor, guru, neighbour & my "Abi" (Elder brother) for 3 decades. Love and peace. ❤️🕊🙏

Dear friends, Following many requests, our two June exhibitions are back on display at the Jubilee Library until 6th July: "We got the power" (for #RefugeeWeek) and "You are my inspiration" (for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month). Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️

Feline philosophy: "Be the change.. only if you want to." 😅🐈 Academic evidence in National Geographic magazine on how cats themselves decided to change from feral into domesticated cats: you can't force cats to change - they will, only if they want to. 😻✊️✌️🐾 www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

In north Germany for meetings with community groups in 5 cities. Magnetic power of my inner "Cat wifi" signal: a 4-eyed kitty face greets me on arrival; then a sticker at a friend's front door: "Eat the rich", and a ginger cat sticker: "Scratch the Nazis." Love, peace & solidarity.❤️🕊✊️ #cats #catlove

Today is the end of #RefugeeWeek2025 At #EuroMernet Film Club, this evening we have a historical drama that reflects the #RefugeeWeek 2025 theme: "community as a superpower." Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️

Today is #WorldRefugeeDay. 2025 theme is: #SolidarityWithRefugees As the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stated: "Becoming a refugee is never a choice. But how we respond is." Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️ #EuroMernet and #NoHateSpeechUK team

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. We pay tribute to all victims through history, but as the overwhelming majority are women and girls, we particularly highlighted them on this year's poster. Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️ #StopRapeInWar #StopRapeNow

Dear friends, we would like to invite you to the EuroMernet Refugee Week 2025 launch event: “Refugee Week – the First Peek" We will have poetry, music, a dance workshop, a panel of inspirational speakers, and lots of homemade Mediterranean food. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️ EuroMernet team

Dear friends, you are welcome to visit my next exhibition that I curated on behalf of Euro Mediterranean Resources Network (@euromernet), in celebration of Refugee Week 2025. It'll be on display at Brighton Jubilee Library from next Monday, 16th June. Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊ #RefugeeWeek

Dear friends, Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay. The 2025 theme is "Beat Plastic Pollution," so we have this award-winning documentary for you. Also, on this day in 2022, Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira were killed while investigating environmental crimes in Brazil. We salute their legacy. ❤️🕊✊

Dear friends, here's my latest exhibition, in celebration of the Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month (GRTHM). This exhibition features individuals from GRT communities in the UK and worldwide who describe the inspirational role models in their lives. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️

Dear friends, This week, at EuroMernet Film Club, we have a romantic drama and comedy. As the film title suggests, it's about the beautiful, incurable condition called LOVE! ❤️ And the story is told in a film within the film. Love, peace, and solidarity ❤️🕊✊️ EuroMernet team

Dear friends, thanks for your lovely birthday messages. In the quest for a safer & peaceful future for the planet, cats are the best shields against tiredness & despair. Here's a photo with my neighbour Ginger on my birthday last year when she was 3 months old. 😻❤️🥰🐈🐾 Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️

#JanKuciak would be celebrating his 35th birthday today if he and his fiancee Martina were not brutally murdered by the organised crime assassins in Slovakia in 2018. Happy birthday, Jan. Rest in power with Martina. 💐🖤 Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊ #JournalismIsNotACrime #PressFreedom

Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay Love, peace, and solidarity with colleagues around the world. ❤️🕊✊️ #PressFreedom #EndImpunity #WPFD2025 #JournalismIsNotACrime

We're in Belfast for a symposium in loving memory of #LyraMcKee. An excellent panel of speakers discusses the theme of the evening: "AI & Journalism - Opportunity or Threat?" Let's hope that threats won't outweigh the opportunities. Love, peace, and solidarity. ❤️🕊✊️

"All those hard cases doing hard time melt like butter on a summer sidewalk when they visit the felines, feed them, watch them chase the birds and bees, and when they make toys to entice the cats to play with them."