US Coup Gains Speed

This week the Guardian's owner, the Scott Trust, gifted the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media. This isn't just a dark day for journalism, it's a sign. Meet the team. This is Putin giving Tortoise's energy advisory board member an 'Order of Friendship' medal in 2017. 1/

Austerity is a political choice. Children & pensioners are being pushed into poverty while billionaire wealth skyrockets. Ahead of the Budget, we’ve written to the Chancellor demanding wealth taxes to fund public services & put the needs of the many over the greed of a few👇🏽

institutions, museums, media labs, other organisations, academics, scholars, curators, and artists. Please sign our petition against the EU's decision to discontinue funding in the field of media arts. https://t.co/plHktz8Gzr

“The issue with the fee system that we have, it doesn’t work on its own terms.” ⁠⁠UCU General Secretary @DrJoGrady tells LBC. Listen to it here 👇

💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 INDUSTRIAL ACTION SUSPENDED Offer from UEB to be voted on by members. There is Power in a Union & this branch.

Trump will be remembered in history for giving the internet such an amazing gift… It will be an even bigger gift to Harris and America in general though.

Tony Benn’s five key questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you? And if you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you don’t live in a democratic system.”

Brilliant branch ✊️

Featuring a documentary by Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, the full version of Mike Dibb’s conversation with #EdwardSaid, a performance by Sarah Agha and films + screen talks Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham, Mahdi Fleifel, Inas Halabi and more.

Solidarity @UCUHallam! @ucu please sign this petition! Protect jobs and t&c, defend the student experience, defend post-92 institutions, defend post-16 education! #ucuRISING @ucu_solidarity @LondonUCU

Solidarity with our comrades @UCUHallam @UNISON_SHU who are fighting against job cuts and degradation of conditions. Such short-sightedness from Hallam management. 🖊️Please sign and share their petition 👇 https://t.co/KU0Rqk9xkx

Know your history

This week’s riots aren’t happening in a vacuum. We’re living and breathing on platforms that billionaires have optimised for outrage. This is the world that social media made. My piece for @ObserverUK with contributions from the great @mariaressa + more https://t.co/o0fPgFTeJR

The scenes in Rotherham aren’t a protest, they aren’t even a far right riot, they are an ongoing attempt to murder the men, women & children inside by burning them alive. The stench of these days will hang around those who incited and justified it for the rest of their lives.

Mick Lynch, "We will not allow the right wing to dominate our working class communities" #FarageRiots

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Archiving Care, call for participants. 2-day Training school, (1-2 September 2024) in Limassol, Cyprus hosted by NeMe, co-organised by NeMe + Alessandro Ludovico. Deadline to apply: 10pm CET, 12 August, 2024 (Successful applicants notified by 15 August) https://t.co/3ED4FQgBE7

Takes a lot of courage to do this. An act of leadership.