Congratulations to Adam Bychawski, who came highly commended for 'Health Journalist of The Year' at the press awards, for his amazing work for openDemocracy 🥂🎉

Brilliant colleagues at openDemocracy UK have been laid off. Ramzy Ramzy Alwakeel, the best editor you can have, honors in this thread the amazing work of Adam Bychawski ruby lott-lavigna Lou Ferreira Anita Mureithi Sam Gelder Adam Ramsay. This is the journalism you need. Hire them!

Ramzy is an amazing editor and working with him has certainly been an incredibly valuable experience for me. He's nurtured me into a better writer and reporter, and I'm deeply saddened to see him go.
Any newsroom would be lucky to have him; he's truly exceptional!

I’ve been made redundant from openDemocracy along with several of the kindest, most supportive and talented people I’ve had the honour of working with

I’m now looking for new opportunities. Here are some of the stories I’m most proud of:

We've also been tracking the impact of Britain's clampdown on protest, both legislatively and culturally. My colleague nandini broke this astonishing story about counter-terror cops questioning a teenager on whether he'd marched for Palestine.

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Not everyone at oD is being laid off and I wish all who are left the very best. And I know everyone who is leaving this week will go on to shine just as brightly elsewhere. But that doesn't change how much of a colossal shame this all is. I hope we've made a positive difference.

Sad to say I've been laid off by openDemocracy, along with several of my incredible colleagues in the UK. It's one dark day of many for British journalism, but I'm immensely proud of everything we achieved together. Here's some of the best. 🧵

I've been made redundant from openDemocracy along with several of my brilliant colleagues.

I'm looking for work. Here are some of my clippings:

Exclusive : 2000 misconduct allegations about Met Police firearms squad in 6 years – but only 5 officers sacked opendemocracy.net/en/met-police-… Sam Gelder openDemocracy

McDonald's is suing for losses. Puma has cut ties with the Israel Football Association. Starbucks says profits have been hit. The UK wants to ban public bodies from engaging in boycotts and divestment altogether.

Is BDS working?

✍️ by nandini

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NEW: “We won’t stand by while councils, companies and charities are complicit in genocide and politicians are failing to speak up or represent us as they should”

Finally something uplifting: the BDS movement is on 🔥 opendemocracy.net/en/israel-pale… openDemocracy

🚨some personal news: i'm being evicted – again.

something a bit closer to home from me. i've written about when the professional becomes personal, and how broken and cruel our rental system is.

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Until the UK government shuts down the war machine, calls for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation of Palestine, they remain totally complicit in the deaths of over 30,000 innocent men, women and children in Gaza.

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Revealed : The UK government just handed a fresh round of public cash to the Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit - whose weapons are used for ‘genocide’
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My latest with Angie de los Santos and Monica Cordero is about the Knights of Columbus. These men not just seek to ban abortion, they’ve also invested money to limit women’s access to contraception.

Hate marches? You'd be safer at one than you would at Glasto. opendemocracy.net/en/palestine-g…

Since 1999, at least 391 people have died at our borders, according to a new report by openDemocracy; that's one person a month.

Rather than making sick bets on asylum seekers' lives, I asked the PM to provide them with safe and legal routes, not extreme and failed deterrents.

New data proves Palestine protests 'overwhelmingly peaceful' – despite govt obsession with banning the so-called 'hate marches'

opendemocracy.net/en/palestine-g… Netpol PSC openDemocracy

Please watch my dads harrowing testimony about what he witnessed in Sudan.

#KeepEyesOnSudan