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Some of the many graffiti murals seen around the UK since the Grenfell Tower fire on the 14th of June 2017, which killed at least 72 residents of the social housing block.
The blaze was the direct result of decisions made by developers and politicians, from the fact that highly flammable cladding was added to make the building look more attractive to rich people in nearby luxury tower blocks, to the fact that Tory politicians had voted down a bill to require landlords to ensure that the properties they rented out were “fit for human habitation”, to the fact that local Tory councillors had deliberately chosen a more fire-prone cladding to save money – the same local government that forced Grenfell survivors to bid against each other for new homes and then paid the same company that installed the flammable cladding to replace it.
#grenfell #justiceforgrenfell #justice4grenfell
The blaze was the direct result of decisions made by developers and politicians, from the fact that highly flammable cladding was added to make the building look more attractive to rich people in nearby luxury tower blocks, to the fact that Tory politicians had voted down a bill to require landlords to ensure that the properties they rented out were “fit for human habitation”, to the fact that local Tory councillors had deliberately chosen a more fire-prone cladding to save money – the same local government that forced Grenfell survivors to bid against each other for new homes and then paid the same company that installed the flammable cladding to replace it.
#grenfell #justiceforgrenfell #justice4grenfell
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On this day, 16 June 1531, English king Henry VIII modified the vagrancy laws he brought in the previous year, which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds, and on their first offence were to be whipped, then on the second whipped with half an ear sliced off and upon a third offence they were to be executed. This and similar laws enacted across Europe, backed up by intense state violence, created a class of people forced to sell their labour to survive: the working class. Karl Marx described these legal mechanisms in volume 1 of his work, Capital: "Thus were the agricultural people, first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system." This expropriation was extended across the globe by violent colonialism. Rather than being a natural state of affairs as it is often portrayed, the creation of the working class was fiercely resisted for hundreds of years, and indeed still is to this day in some areas. Learn more about the expropriation of common lands in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/stop-thief-the-commons-enclosures-and-resistance To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo Pictured: contemporary illustration of the punishment of a Tudor vagrant
On this day, 16 June 1531, English king Henry VIII modified the vagrancy laws he brought in the previous year, which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds, and on their first offence were to be whipped, then on the second whipped with half an ear sliced off and upon a third offence they were to be executed. This and similar laws enacted across Europe, backed up by intense state violence, created a class of people forced to sell their labour to survive: the working class. Karl Marx described these legal mechanisms in volume 1 of his work, Capital: "Thus were the agricultural people, first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system." This expropriation was extended across the globe by violent colonialism. Rather than being a natural state of affairs as it is often portrayed, the creation of the working class was fiercely resisted for hundreds of years, and indeed still is to this day in some areas. Learn more about the expropriation of common lands in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/stop-thief-the-commons-enclosures-and-resistance To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo Pictured: contemporary illustration of the punishment of a Tudor vagrant
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RT was a parody account all this time
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1801686039612035165
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1801686039612035165
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Black youth are internalizing racial discrimination, leading to depression and anxiety
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Black youth are paying an emotional toll due to racism
The brain tries to protect Black youth from perceived discrimination. It may come at a mental health cost.
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Imperialism abroad, policing at home fundamentally connected, says researcher
The culture and tactics of U.S. and U.K. policing are often referred to as militarized, but how such excessive use of force developed isn't fully understood. But research from sociology Prof. Julian Go ...
Was unterscheidet die rechtsradikalen Fraktionen im EU-Parlament voneinander? Wie lassen sich die Jungen gewinnen? Und welche Rolle spielen Genderfragen dabei? Ein Gespräch mit der Wiener Politologin Dorit Geva. https://www.woz.ch/!YNYRNDPWS063
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Die Zukunft der EU: «Mehr als eine Protestwahl»
Was unterscheidet die rechtsradikalen Fraktionen im EU-Parlament voneinander? Wie lassen sich die Jungen gewinnen? Und welche Rolle spielen Genderfragen dabei? Ein Gespräch mit der Wiener Politologin Dorit Geva.
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Good Idea: Get the facts right about our current situation
https://www.gapminder.org/
At Gapminder you can quiz yourself about different topics like Ocean health, Global warming or other urgent issues and make sure your outlook on these issues is based on truth.
Many issues in life have improved more than we think.
https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better
But at the same time, there are still many issues that need dire attention! Make sure you know where you want to spend your energy!
🙏 to one of our ministers for the gapminder submission
https://www.gapminder.org/
At Gapminder you can quiz yourself about different topics like Ocean health, Global warming or other urgent issues and make sure your outlook on these issues is based on truth.
Many issues in life have improved more than we think.
https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better
But at the same time, there are still many issues that need dire attention! Make sure you know where you want to spend your energy!
🙏 to one of our ministers for the gapminder submission
Our World in Data
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.
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