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Arts PR at Arts PR London, trustee, mentor, flower lover
Happy May Day, Beltane and International Workers’ Day! ✌️🌞🌍 Sunrise next to Greenwich Park, London, England✨🌳🌸
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Mothin Ali
6 months ago
The RSF’s capture of Darfur is a tragedy unfolding in silence. Thousands have been killed, millions displaced, a man-made famine, driven by foreign interference — and the world looks away. We must demand accountability, humanitarian aid, and an end to the violence in Sudan.
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Newham Heritage Month
7 months ago
Do you know the ✨extraordinary story✨of visionary Newham artist Madge Gill?…
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👋 Welcome to Bluesky, amazing
@artrefuge.bsky.social
! 🦋 🧡 Art Refuge is a really phenomenal charity that uses art and art therapy to support thousands of people every year, who have been displaced due to conflict, persecution, poverty & the climate emergency
#RefugeesWelcome
#TogetherWithRefugees
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Art Refuge
9 months ago
Yesterday we joined over 200 organisations to stand in solidarity with those affected by the recent anti-refugee protests across the UK, many of whom have already fled unimaginable horrors to try to find safety. This must be a turning point.
#togetherwithrefugees🧡
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Together With Refugees
9 months ago
"It is time for you, our leaders, to take a strong and united stand." Thanks to the 200+ orgs that joined our call for communities & the country to be brought together for a different way forward – one that's compassionate & united 🧡
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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200 charities tell leaders to take 'strong stand' against anti-refugee protests
Demonstrations have been held outside hotels housing asylum seekers including the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, and in London and Newcastle. They have been met with counter-protests by anti-racism camp...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/over-200-charities-tell-leaders-35712474
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National Trust
10 months ago
The Big Butterfly Count is on! By taking part in a UK wide survey, you can help assess the health of our environment simply by counting butterflies - and there's a handy app (and ID sheet) to help:
buff.ly/Juy2MCp
Photo: Paul Harris
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Amnesty International
10 months ago
Over the past six months, the headlines have been dominated by stories of fear, division and hatred. However, activists around the world are working away to ensure hope prevails. Here are 29 human rights wins we can be proud of 👇
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29 human rights wins to be proud of
January Afghanistan In 2023, Amnesty International released a report on the Taliban’s war on women. Following its findings, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor filed a request for arrest warrants against the Taliban’s Supreme Leader and their Chief Justice, citing crimes against humanity. The request charged the Taliban’s Supreme Leader and their Chief Justice for gender persecution […]
http://amn.st/6332647b8w
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Dave Vetter
10 months ago
"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.
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Sian Berry MP
10 months ago
We have re-introduced
#EllasLaw
to Parliament. This Bill is about the right to breathe clean air, and the right to grow up and grow old without potentially lethal harm being done to our lungs, hearts and brains by preventable air pollution. It is also about a little girl. This is Ella's story 👇
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🧡 Huge thanks to Dua Lipa’s Service95 for including
@artrefuge.bsky.social
in their roundup of amazing organisations supporting refugees on both sides of the Channel.
www.service95.com/organisation...
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Organisations Supporting Asylum Seekers in France and the UK
Dua’s Monthly Read for July is Small Boat, a powerful novel that fictionalises events around the real-life drown
https://www.service95.com/organisations-supporting-asylum-seekers
10 months ago
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Human Rights Watch
11 months ago
📣 Today, on World Environment Day, we want to celebrate some good news for people and the planet! 🌎 👏 Watch and share to help support local communities who are fighting to save their homes and our planet ⤵️
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Together With Refugees
12 months ago
🚨The gov has just released their white paper on immigration. But their plan won’t fix our broken asylum system. Instead, we need a fair new plan for refugees. This👇is how it can be done. It’s going to take all of us to make them listen. Get involved now
togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/fair-begins-...
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Maria Popova
about 1 year ago
Maya Angelou would have been 97 today. Nothing has given me more consolation in these unworlding times than her poem "A Brave and Startling Truth," which flew to space to hold up cosmic mirror to the best in us and the worst in us and the possible in us
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A Brave and Startling Truth: Maya Angelou’s Stunning Humanist Poem That Flew to Space, Inspired by Carl Sagan
“Out of such chaos, of such contradiction / We learn that we are neither devils nor divines…”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/05/09/a-brave-and-startling-truth-maya-angelou/
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Amnesty International
about 1 year ago
Our top moments from the 2025 Oscars 💛
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP
about 1 year ago
“Our amendment is simple: children should have the same legal protections from assault as adults.” Proud to work with Jess Asato MP on a joint op-ed advocating for the abolition of the 'reasonable punishment' defence. Read our full piece here:
www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...
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End the legal loophole for physically punishing children
The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is a vital piece of legislation that will help ensure all children get the best start in life, driving th...
https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/end-legal-loophole-physically-punishing-children
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Art Herstory
about 1 year ago
Museum Exhibitions about Historic Women Artists: 2025
artherstory.net/museum-exhib...
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Historic Women Artists | 2025 Museum Exhibitions
This post lists current and upcoming museum shows that focus on women artists of past centuries, which will be on view during 2025
https://artherstory.net/museum-exhibitions-about-historic-women-artists-2025/
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Amnesty International
about 1 year ago
🚨As leaders gather for the Paris
#AIActionSummit
, they must confront a stark reality: rapid deployment of AI in the public sector is deepening inequality, expanding mass surveillance, & violating human rights. Our analysis in
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
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AI as Double Speak for Austerity | TechPolicy.Press
Amnesty Tech's Likhita Banerji and Damini Satija say the Summit should prioritize people and communities over the whims of corporations.
https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-as-double-speak-for-austerity/
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Carole Cadwalladr
about 1 year ago
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/
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IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/it-is-a-coup?r=nv9u6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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The Green Party of England & Wales
about 1 year ago
"It’s time this government showed a bit of backbone and told the truth – that migration is good for this country."
@carladenyer.bsky.social
responds to Labour's shocking decision to broadcast footage of people being detained and deported.
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ARRAY
over 1 year ago
Imagine thinking you could stop us. We don't need permission to celebrate ourselves. Black history is not a curriculum to be revised, a government celebration to be canceled or textbook to be taken off a shelf. It’s a legacy that can not be erased. Visit
array101.org
for our free learning guides.
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Maria Popova
over 1 year ago
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.” On Derek Jarman's birthday, his timeless meditation on gardening
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Growing Through Grief: Derek Jarman on Gardening as Creative Redemption, Consecration of Time, and Training Ground for Presence
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/04/derek-jarman-modern-nature-gardening/
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
over 1 year ago
A blue sky for Bluesky! ☁️
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