Justin Kenrick
justinkenrick.bsky.social
Justin Kenrick
@justinkenrick.bsky.social
economic growth or a living planet - delete as applicable
First they came for those they bomb
and starve to oblivion,
but I was too scared to say what I saw

Then they came for the peaceful protesters
but I didn’t stand with them

Then they came - one by one -
for everyone else
but they never came for me

Because I was already one of them
August 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Four years ago Kenmure Street in Glasgow became global news. Hundreds of people united in peaceful protest and successfully freed two men from the UK Home Office van in which they had been detained.
“…a nation that walks forward together” you could say.
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/05/13/k...
Kenmure Street not Downing Street
Four years ago, on May 13, 2021, Kenmure Street in Glasgow became global news. Hundreds of people united in peaceful protest and successfully freed two men from the UK Home Office van in which they…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Capturing the atmosphere of peace & love of the Quaker Meeting for Worship held outside New Scotland Yard from 12-1pm today.
💚🕯️💚🕯️💚🕯️
Meeting violence with love, ‘power over’ with ‘power of the people’
Next stop: the Houses of Parliament
Democracy & protest must not be criminalised

@quaker.org.uk
April 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Social democracy is not a viable alternative to capitalism. It is a tempting prospect, but ultimately suffers from violent contradictions that cannot be sustained. 🧵
February 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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"In 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. The wage value of this labour was equivalent to €16.9 trillion in Northern prices." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications
Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. Unequal ex...
www.nature.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
February 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is for American family and friends, in particular, in case any of it is useful

christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-to-fig...
How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration
Blue States, Labour organisations and Civil Rights organisations are doing the most - what can we learn from them?
christinapagel.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
*As the crow flies*

When I spend time with crows on the beach, they hop just ahead or walk alongside or run, but rarely fly

When they do, it’s to lift off at the moment a dog reaches them, to land the shortest distance away so the dog will resume its futile chase.

As the crow flies so can we
February 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I put this on www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... about where the Govt is coming from on this.

Prioritising Growth over Climate and Nature was not in the manifesto, and they have moved away from what they were voted in on.

The attack on me reflects them more on them than it does me
January 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM