Catriona Robertson
@multifaith.bsky.social
religious & unreligious people getting along • reconciliation • intentional community • justice • public policy • nature+climate • liturgy • arts
https://catrionarobertson.substack.com
https://catrionarobertson.substack.com
Reposted by Catriona Robertson
Every word ❤️ “This idea took me to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a secular statement with a rarely quoted preamble, which urges “every individual and organ of society” to strive “by teaching and education” to promote awareness of and respect for the declaration’s rights and freedoms.”
March 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Every word ❤️ “This idea took me to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a secular statement with a rarely quoted preamble, which urges “every individual and organ of society” to strive “by teaching and education” to promote awareness of and respect for the declaration’s rights and freedoms.”
Reposted by Catriona Robertson
Monica’s words in the interview are so resonant especially right now.
“I speculated that having the bravery to resist injustice might be connected to a strong sense of communal commitment to a clearly articulated ethical code.
“I speculated that having the bravery to resist injustice might be connected to a strong sense of communal commitment to a clearly articulated ethical code.
March 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Monica’s words in the interview are so resonant especially right now.
“I speculated that having the bravery to resist injustice might be connected to a strong sense of communal commitment to a clearly articulated ethical code.
“I speculated that having the bravery to resist injustice might be connected to a strong sense of communal commitment to a clearly articulated ethical code.
Reposted by Catriona Robertson
Monica developed Anniversary - an act of memory in 2005, in response to the Met police’s shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazillian electrician living in London.
www.artforum.com/columns/moni...
www.artforum.com/columns/moni...
Monica Ross
Monica Ross on Anniversary—an act of memory
www.artforum.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Monica developed Anniversary - an act of memory in 2005, in response to the Met police’s shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazillian electrician living in London.
www.artforum.com/columns/moni...
www.artforum.com/columns/moni...
Reposted by Catriona Robertson
This International Women’s Day I have been thinking of my dear friend, artist Monica Ross.
Her work Anniversary an Act of Memory - a recitation of the Declaration of Human Rights from memory, is more salient with every passing day. #IWD
Her work Anniversary an Act of Memory - a recitation of the Declaration of Human Rights from memory, is more salient with every passing day. #IWD
March 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This International Women’s Day I have been thinking of my dear friend, artist Monica Ross.
Her work Anniversary an Act of Memory - a recitation of the Declaration of Human Rights from memory, is more salient with every passing day. #IWD
Her work Anniversary an Act of Memory - a recitation of the Declaration of Human Rights from memory, is more salient with every passing day. #IWD
Memories of WOW, for years @southbankcentre.bsky.social , appreciation of women in my life & past generations (hunger marchers tending blisters - #Resistance exhibition, Margate) @wahidashaffi.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social @fidgefidgin.bsky.social #IWD25
March 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Memories of WOW, for years @southbankcentre.bsky.social , appreciation of women in my life & past generations (hunger marchers tending blisters - #Resistance exhibition, Margate) @wahidashaffi.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social @fidgefidgin.bsky.social #IWD25
Stockwell shooting - 16 year-old - these young lives gone, the sorrow of it. Remembering Billy Cox, Damilola Taylor, so many others. We need to love our young ones & make sure we offer them all they need for growing up well their teens @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stockwell shooting: Teenage boy killed near Tube station
A 16-year-old boy is found dead after being shot in south London on Tuesday afternoon.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Stockwell shooting - 16 year-old - these young lives gone, the sorrow of it. Remembering Billy Cox, Damilola Taylor, so many others. We need to love our young ones & make sure we offer them all they need for growing up well their teens @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
To everyone observing this special month in the Islamic year, Ramadan Mubarak #ramadanmubarak
February 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
To everyone observing this special month in the Islamic year, Ramadan Mubarak #ramadanmubarak
‘Here a woman is blindfolded. She is on her knees, in straw in front of a block of wood. A man with an axe waits at her side. His weapon rests inverted while the woman's hands move, feeling the darkness.’ Katrina Palmer’s brilliant “The Touch Report” @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
‘Here a woman is blindfolded. She is on her knees, in straw in front of a block of wood. A man with an axe waits at her side. His weapon rests inverted while the woman's hands move, feeling the darkness.’ Katrina Palmer’s brilliant “The Touch Report” @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social
'From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the spring ...'
New thread
catrionarobertson.substack.com/p/the-place-...
flowers will never grow
in the spring ...'
New thread
catrionarobertson.substack.com/p/the-place-...
The Place Where We Are Right
A new thread
catrionarobertson.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
'From the place where we are right
flowers will never grow
in the spring ...'
New thread
catrionarobertson.substack.com/p/the-place-...
flowers will never grow
in the spring ...'
New thread
catrionarobertson.substack.com/p/the-place-...
#SteveMcQueen #Resistance at @turnercontemporary.bsky.social Margate - from small protests to million-strong marches, people out on the streets to get things changed. Hunger marches & lie-ins 1930s
February 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#SteveMcQueen #Resistance at @turnercontemporary.bsky.social Margate - from small protests to million-strong marches, people out on the streets to get things changed. Hunger marches & lie-ins 1930s
Philippe Sands speaking last autumn “Proving genocide is very difficult”. The categories of crimes against humanity & war crimes are more likely to succeed stmartins.digital/als24-genoci...
Autumn Lecture Series 2024: Genocide and other International Crimes - Protecting the Individual and the Group, Now and Tomorrow (14.10) - St Martin's Digital
stmartins.digital
January 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Philippe Sands speaking last autumn “Proving genocide is very difficult”. The categories of crimes against humanity & war crimes are more likely to succeed stmartins.digital/als24-genoci...
Auschwitz, where my husband cried & I got angry, and where over a million people were murdered as part of the planned killing of all Jewish people & many others by Nazi Germany in occupied Europe 1941-45 #HMD2025
January 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Auschwitz, where my husband cried & I got angry, and where over a million people were murdered as part of the planned killing of all Jewish people & many others by Nazi Germany in occupied Europe 1941-45 #HMD2025
Seaweed on the south coast today
January 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Seaweed on the south coast today
Hilfield Friary this morning
January 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Hilfield Friary this morning
Bittersweet news for so many, and a plan for “sustained calm” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Israel and Hamas reach Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, sources tell BBC - live updates
An agreement to end 15 months of fighting has been agreed after talks in Qatar, sources say.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Bittersweet news for so many, and a plan for “sustained calm” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
That Was The News That Was
BBC News, World Service, Bush House, Greg Dyke - bitterly comic true-life episodes from inside the newsroom, starting December 2001 - March 2002 open.substack.com/pub/moorecg/p/…
BBC News, World Service, Bush House, Greg Dyke - bitterly comic true-life episodes from inside the newsroom, starting December 2001 - March 2002 open.substack.com/pub/moorecg/p/…
January 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
That Was The News That Was
BBC News, World Service, Bush House, Greg Dyke - bitterly comic true-life episodes from inside the newsroom, starting December 2001 - March 2002 open.substack.com/pub/moorecg/p/…
BBC News, World Service, Bush House, Greg Dyke - bitterly comic true-life episodes from inside the newsroom, starting December 2001 - March 2002 open.substack.com/pub/moorecg/p/…
“Truth in its beauty & love in its tenderness” - allowing the mysteries of Epiphany to settle. The tune Was Lebet has some of the best harmonies. Different aesthetics for the wise men at the crib - Rudolf Steiner, Italianate, home-grown, nothing to scale open.spotify.com/track/06ZuJg...
January 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Truth in its beauty & love in its tenderness” - allowing the mysteries of Epiphany to settle. The tune Was Lebet has some of the best harmonies. Different aesthetics for the wise men at the crib - Rudolf Steiner, Italianate, home-grown, nothing to scale open.spotify.com/track/06ZuJg...
Shabby response from those responsible - immediately after the disaster and for decades afterwards
Toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak factory removed after 40 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak factory removed after 40 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bhopal gas tragedy: Toxic waste removed from Union carbide factory after 40 years
The deadly gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in central India killed thousands in 1984.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Shabby response from those responsible - immediately after the disaster and for decades afterwards
Toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak factory removed after 40 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak factory removed after 40 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Iona calendar up on the kitchen wall today, plus pencil on a string. Gorgeous pictures. Thank you Iona Village Hall Community Trust - happy days!
January 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Iona calendar up on the kitchen wall today, plus pencil on a string. Gorgeous pictures. Thank you Iona Village Hall Community Trust - happy days!
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (At The BBC)
YouTube video by LouisArmstrongVEVO
m.youtube.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
‘How important humility is. Humility lends itself to dialogue, helps to overcome misunderstanding & generates gratitude.’ Pope Francis on @BBCRadio4 this morning
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Thought for the Day - Pope Francis - BBC Sounds
His Holiness Pope Francis shares a special Thought for the Day on hope and kindness.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 28, 2024 at 8:07 AM
‘How important humility is. Humility lends itself to dialogue, helps to overcome misunderstanding & generates gratitude.’ Pope Francis on @BBCRadio4 this morning
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Salisbury Cathedral in the fog today
December 27, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Salisbury Cathedral in the fog today
‘A supportive community is one in which respect and care for one another are not dependent on people having to think alike or share the same views’
Enumo Okoro @FT with pictures from Sarazhin, Guttuso & The Sisterhood photo from 1977 We’re all in this together on.ft.com/3VANrxJ
Enumo Okoro @FT with pictures from Sarazhin, Guttuso & The Sisterhood photo from 1977 We’re all in this together on.ft.com/3VANrxJ
We’re all in this together
A good community is the perfect place in which to confirm, refine or transform our individual perspectives
on.ft.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:03 PM
‘A supportive community is one in which respect and care for one another are not dependent on people having to think alike or share the same views’
Enumo Okoro @FT with pictures from Sarazhin, Guttuso & The Sisterhood photo from 1977 We’re all in this together on.ft.com/3VANrxJ
Enumo Okoro @FT with pictures from Sarazhin, Guttuso & The Sisterhood photo from 1977 We’re all in this together on.ft.com/3VANrxJ
Riffing on nine lessons & carols, a deep dive into the mystery, politics, desperation & beauty of today. Sharp, soulful readings, a hurdy-gurdy, clashing & sweet harmonies from @shardsvoices @tomrasmussen with @londonreviewofbooks at @stonenest_ldn (which was built for song as a Welsh Chapel 1888)
December 6, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Riffing on nine lessons & carols, a deep dive into the mystery, politics, desperation & beauty of today. Sharp, soulful readings, a hurdy-gurdy, clashing & sweet harmonies from @shardsvoices @tomrasmussen with @londonreviewofbooks at @stonenest_ldn (which was built for song as a Welsh Chapel 1888)
The Christmas tree from Norway at Trafalgar Square, moving in the wind & the rain this evening 🇳🇴
December 5, 2024 at 10:19 PM
The Christmas tree from Norway at Trafalgar Square, moving in the wind & the rain this evening 🇳🇴