Ruth Ben-Tovim
@RuthBenTovim
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Socially and Ecologically engaged artist, facilitator, activist & #atmosfortotnes @walkingforest4 #townanywhere #theartofinvitation
Totnes, Devon
Joined May 2011
Delighted to share this video of #TownAnywhere our hands on participatory visioning process adaptable to different contexts & communities. First developed for @transitiontowns currently working with @TheIdeasFund @TimeBank_HER facilitated with @lucyhneal
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Do you or someone you know live around #Liverpool? Join us and the Town Anywhere team next Saturday! Business as usual is running out of road. Time to rehearse the future. More info + sign up 👉 https://t.co/vjuMCgk8e4
@RuthBenTovim @PhoebeTickell @GreenRupertRead
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Join us to celebrate! ACE is our annual opportunity to come together, share news of our projects and how to get involved. We'll premiere Lily Lowe Myers film of Town Anywhere - Tooting and share a full report. See you there. Sat 29 Mar 2 – 4pm URC, Rookstone Rd, SW17 9NQ
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BREAKING: Thames Water CEO citizen’s arrested at their offices this morning. It’s time someone held these criminals to account for the harm and disruption they are causing to our lives. Follow for updates. #CitizensArrest #ThamesWater
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UN special rapporteur and human rights lawyer Francesca Albanese on Wednesday slammed US President Donald Trump’s proposal to have the US take control of Gaza for the foreseeable future.
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Man,,,, just woke up to see a fugitive wanted on war crimes charges and a convicted felon in the Whitehouse discussing ethnic cleansing of my people. what fucked up twilight timeline are we on!
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My detractors cannot wrap their head around it: I am not paid by anyone for my work on Palestine, not even the UN. Special Rapporteurs serve pro bono. And I have so much fun at doing what I do, you know why? Because I despise bullies, mafias and apartheid. It is in my DNA, and I
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Don't know if this is useful. What I do know is the best people in the world are in prison because they dared to say previously what sober institutions say now, while the super-rich in Davos know the world is doomed & want to go out with a bang!!! https://t.co/piFzTucQyE 12/🧵
dailymail.co.uk
EXCLUSIVE: Salome Balthus, 40, is a high-end escort and author from Berlin who has travelled to Davos, Switzerland, to meet up with clients during the World Economic Forum (WEF).
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Victory and defeat in Gaza https://t.co/3tz7ElKacq via @AJEnglish
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For 15 months, death did not defeat us.
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Wonderful 'Fifth Anniversary of Nothing' today in Totnes. Speeches by @RuthBenTovim @robintransition @guyshrubsole followed by the tying of 1,854 hand-numbered tags to the former Dairy Crest site fence. The UK urgently needs a Community Right to Buy with real teeth. #AtmosTotnes
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More photos from yesterday's moving 'Fifth Anniversary of Nothing' outside the gates of the former Dairy Crest site in Totnes. 1,854 individually numbered tags, each one representing a day wasted by @fastglobe. Speeches from @RuthBenTovim @guyshrubsole @robintransition
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Our film is nominated for an Oscar, the community it is about is now under attack by settlers.
NOW, 2 days after No Other Land was nominated for an Oscar, settlers are invading my community, Masafer Yatta, burning and breaking homes. I'm honored for the nom but we're being erased while Trump lifted US settler sanctions. Do people in Hollywood care? Please don't be silent.
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Please read and share. ❗️Genocide is the intention to destroy a group as such❗️Using a 'triple lens approach' allows to easily understand it. All is needed is looking at: ➡️the totality of conduct (which may include either crimes per se - killing, torture, forced displacement,
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01 October 2024 To learn more about Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage. Report of the Special Rapporteur on...
Special Rapporteur (SR) @FranceskAlbs report to the UNGA highlights patterns of conduct that evidence an intent to employ genocidal acts as a means to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). 🧵
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🧵 Independence and honesty are powerful tools against injustice. @UN_SPExperts serve pro bono at the request of the @UN_HRC, documenting/reporting on human rights violations, often at great personal cost. We act based on knowledge of int'l law and profound belief that applying
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9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations
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There is an urgent need to engage with deep leverage points in sustainability transformations—fundamental myths, paradigms, and systems of meaning making—to open new collective horizons for action....
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It was a wonderful day - full of connection, courage and imagination! Thank you @RuthBenTovim for guiding us to 2040 and back again with such skill and care.
@TransitionNM @KevinClimate @TransitionTog Despite the snow storms new mills courageously travelled to 2040 to rehearse the future #townanywhere it was a pleasure to be here
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Climate Action Network wholeheartedly rejects the outcome of #COP29. https://t.co/121LbkxwnW
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BREAKING: LDCs and AOSIS suspend #COP29 negotiations on #NCQG #ClimateFinance goal. CAN members @Rebecca_Thissen @BrandoncWu and @MohAdow speak to an intensely interested media scrum. No deal is better than a bad deal. #PayUp
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1/2. “Those countries that are rich build their wealth on the poor. Through #Colonisation, #Slavery and whatever else you can think of. They have a debt. The need is much higher than US$ US$ 1.3 trillion a year.” @JacoboOcharan of @CANIntl on the New Collective Quantified Goal on
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Yesterday in the High Court, the UK's complicity in atrocity crimes in Gaza was exposed. The key points: 1/ In response to questioning, the government was forced to admit that “Israel is not committed to complying with international humanitarian law” by its own assessment
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