In fact,the sexual abuse dubbed virginity testing was stopped after a demo by Awaz followed by a sit in by Awaz & OWAAD at Heathrow. Soon after Mrs Kakar spoke out bravely about her horrific experience. Earlier I had exposed the practice in my book Finding a Voice Preeti Dhillon

It has been a year of war in Sudan. We lift up the Sudanese women and feminists working towards peace, justice and freedom all around the world.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

A definition we come back to often

My love for cedar increases every year. At one point I might do an entire painting just of cedar.

Very well worded, and politically spot on. Now is not the time for silence on any front.

Today I shared the importance of Chaitra Sangkranti, as I was told. The day before Bengali New Year is important because it is a moment of transition, neither beginning nor end.

As darkness falls across the empire, the sun rises on the resistance.

We can hold the multiple realities of how traumatic witnessing an attack on our people is while recognising the mobilisation of the category of terrorist by a settler colonial project directly involved in causing the precarity faced by our people does nothing to protect us

Today is the highest level of coordinated direct action we've seen since Oct 7. Weapons companies, highways, ports & airports shut down around the world. Why is April 15 so effective? The call to action was a reorientation from symbolic protest to material economic blockades.

I am writing this statement as unfortunately Novara Media have left me little choice. In light of the organization’s refusal to address the actions of one of its senior employees that led to the persecution of three young women of color and their ultimate conviction under the…

BREAKING: Local residents disrupt Somerset Council’s meeting to demand the immediate eviction of Elbit Systems

The council’s property at Aztec West 600 is used as the UK headquarters of Israel’s largest weapons firm

#ShutElbitDown

Oakland residents blocked Interstate 880 this morning as part of the global day of economic blockades calling for an end to US-funded genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive #A15 forPalestine #A15

Hundreds of trucks backed up. But majority workers we have talked to are supportive!

'somebody asked me my political view - I don't have a political view, I just want the fighting to stop' - speaker from Sudanese Legal Network

#KeepEyesOnSudan #AltTextSudan #Alt4You

The liberation of the Palestinian people is union business and we are responding the Palestinian council of trade unions, who have since October been calling for unions around the world to intervene to end Israel’s genocidal slaughter #antireport #a15action

⚠️ Breaking: Port of Delta blockade up! 

We join the  #A15ForPalestine global movement in blocking the arteries of capitalism & are completely blockading Delta Port to refuse business as usual. We demand immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel. Canada must stop arming genocide!

BREAKING: Organizers from St. Louis + Chicago in coordination with A15EconomicBlockade have blockaded the Boeing facility in St. Charles, MO.

This facility produces missiles and bombs sent directly to Israel at the hands of the US government❌

'The Israeli soldier stood before us, aimed his weapon at us & shot my mother near her heart, We left her & returned, Please bring her body !”

🚨Testimony: A child witnessed an Israeli army sniper shooting her mother as they tried to return to their homes in northern #Gaza .

C u there...

Protesters blocked the entrances today of the Pratt & Whitney aerospace factory in Connecticut to imped production of jet engines the Raytheon owned plant produces for use by Israel. Organizers are demanding the company end its complicity arming Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.