Georgia continues to protest.
Day 315

#GeorgiaProtests

I've read This Slavery, given a copy to one friend, lent a copy to another, and left a copy on the book swap shelf in my local café. Was very happy to see this week that someone has taken it from the café.
It's great. Read it!
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"The suffragette protest campaign calling for the vote for women in Britain lasted for nearly ten years. The British state repeatedly imprisoned and force fed protesting women before eventually granting them the vote." - David J Bailey
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"The decision to halt fracking in the UK in 2019 came at the end of an anti-fracking campaign that involved repeated protests over the course of a decade. The controversial drilling method was ended once it became clear that it risked causing earthquakes for nearby residents." - David J Bailey
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"Sustained campaigns are widely considered necessary for democracies to function. Successful attempts by the public to influence politicians are often the direct result of repeated actions seeking to hold the powerful to account through protest." - David J Bailey ⬇️
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Today on 314th day of the continuous protests in Tbilisi the police tried to unblock the road and stopped restricting the traffic. The cars started to come on Rustaveli meanwhile people were still standing on the road. Protesters stopped the coming cars and reoccupied the road.

"... one of the rarest creatures in Britain."
"... shocking to hear the chancellor boast allowing people with privileged access to try and circumvent some of these processes that have been put in place by parliament..." - Craig Bennett, CEO Wildlife Trusts.
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If you can't protest against genocide, what sort of country are you in?

#Palestine
#RightToProtest #CivilDisobedience

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Hello America & Canada, it’s publication day for This Slavery!

It’s the story of two sisters living in 1910s UK who work in cotton weaving factories. It’s about women’s place in industrial capitalism, and how marriage can be about power & control.

It’s also an inch-thick comic with a dog in it

And I expect this also to be righteously strident, passionately polemical and powerfully enraging, as Neil & Rukmini tell this never-more-timely tale on stage. ⏬️ ⏬️
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"Righteously strident, passionately polemical and powerfully enraging, engaging, this never-more-timely tale... is superbly readable, dramatically enticing..."
This Slavery by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth adapted by @rickardsisters.com - read it ASAP!
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At last week's members meeting, we voted on ending our dispute. Administrators offered to pause compulsory redundancies until February, at which point they will begin in full what they have threatened all along.

Over 90% of members in attendance voted to reject this (non-)offer.

Chicago journalists are suing ICE and the Department of Homeland Security over "extreme force" during their raids.

Kharkiv Mayor: In just twenty minutes of a drone attack on Kharkiv, nearly two dozen explosions were reported. Several fires have broken out across the city.

So far, there are no confirmed reports of casualties.

Another wave of enemy combat drones is heading toward the city. Stay alert!

Police said they arrested 13 people over involvement in October 4 election-day unrest at the presidential palace in Tbilisi, noting search is underway for 2 other individuals as authorities continue to identify additional suspects.

For the second night in a row, Kharkiv is under massive russian attack!

20 explosions reported in the city!

"... Georgians continue to fill the streets.
While their country has so far avoided the widespread bloodshed that has engulfed Ukraine, there is a slow & progressive crushing of civil society & independent media, as a new iron curtain descends."
Steve Goodrich
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L&DTUC back on the Leicester UCU picket line for week 2 of 3. Join them at 09:00 every morning. And chip in to the fighting fund. www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc....

Congratulations to Unison members! ⏬️ ⏬️
#JoinAUnion

We offer #bursaries up to £500 for final-year undergraduates or taught Masters students to support archival and library research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history. Find out more sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

When Labour came to power last year it followed 14 years of Tory rule in which international monitors had issued stark warnings about the UK's "authoritarian turn" through crackdowns on political protest and migrants' rights. Starmer is continuing that project.
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Rustaveli Avenue blocked on 312th day of continuous protest

#GeorgiaProtests

⭕️Despite the MIA’s warning earlier today that any gatherings would be treated as a “continuation of attempts to overthrow the government,” the road on #Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue was blocked once again for the 312th consecutive day.

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