Suffering people, killed children, our beatiful southeren heart, Odesa, today. War is always about people, not about numbers of victims.

Rise and shine from day five of Columbia University’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

I take a taxi to the airport in Washington with a sense of relief. The aid package for Ukraine passed the House of Representatives, where it was blocked for eight months. Most likely, it will be voted on in the Senate on Tuesday, but there will be no problems there.

I will

Another aerial attack on Odesa, Ukraine—completely ignored by the Western news—multiple wounded and dead, including children:

BREAKING: Israel is intensely bombing Rafah, where more than 1.7 million Palestinians are trapped, in the middle of the night, targeting residential homes and killing civilians, including children.

Don’t look away.

I made it to the very busy The Poetry Society Free Verse poetry book and magazine fair (started way back when by Charles Boyle). Photo du jour: Phil Hancock signing his book at the request of Abigail Parry — who always asks for a drawing of a lemur. There you go.

Please share to let the world know how beautiful and peaceful our young people are. So much hope is generated by people of all religions taking turns to celebrate according to their customs in mutual respect. This is the message of love we need now.

It's happening.

There's still time to sign up by Charles Boyle's A Personal Anthology, his pick of and introduction to a dozen favourite short stories. Some real corkers in there.

Get your weekend reading sorted here: apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

Spain, Ireland, Norway, Malta and Slovenia to recognise Palestine statehood this month.

If you are not familiar, here is a classic Falastini 🎶🔊 فلسطين

As-simple-as-this.

Russia freely hits Ukrainian hospitals, universities, residential houses, cars; kills civilians en masse.

Ukraine isn't allowed to hit russian oil refineries that generated 650 billion $ profits for russian war machine in 2022-23. Nor is getting air defences & missiles to defend

I am outraged. Today the president of my university called in NYPD to put 100 of our students in handcuffs and *arrest* them for engaging in a political protest on campus, illegitimately criminalizing political dissent. columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/1…

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Sketch du jour 🖤⚡️

👀 April’s episode is due to land very soon!

Catch up on March if you haven’t done so already.

Listen to Marianne Brooker and I discussing INTERVALS (@FitzcarraldoEds)

Memoir, philosophy, polemic - just damn powerful writing Marianne gives insight on

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