Tweets on the ability to resist. Shares stuff on urban struggles esp. libraries & gentrification, visual practices, memory and tech. UK & Austria + more.
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In lockdown, @maqui_tuits and I joined the #FightTheTower solidarity network. This inspired us to make a timeline on gentrification struggles in Brixton: 60 events from the '93 City Challenge to @save_nour & #HondoTower. Check👩🏽💻 #BrixGentriTL:
brixton-timeline.maydayrooms…
"recasting public assets as sellable commodities" - report on the sudden closure of Edinburgh's museum of people's history. @maydayrooms, @56a #infrastructures_of_memory
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One of @shapirostephen's small comments, evoking a love for intellectual realities by pointing to a book published in 1979. Looking back, looking forward...
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Private bailiffs hound peaceful protest off university campus 👀
The management at the School for Oriental and African Studies has set bailiffs on their own students, to end a peaceful encampment calling out the university’s close
relationship with colonialism and the genocide in #Gaza.
Read more from Sul Nowroz here 👉 realmedia.press/hypocrisy-at…
#SOAS #PalestineGenocide #IsraeliWarCrimes
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A presentation by Quoyle at the ACABookfair 2023 about Migrant Solidarity in the Mediterranean working with @seawatch_intl and other NGOs in 2023 doing search and rescue supporting migrants moving toward Europe
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ALT report back from a wayward American anarchist in the Mediterranean search-and-rescue scene - Sunday 3:30 @ Different Wrld" over a photo of a sailboat and other worn out boat at sea
Check out Gennady Rakitin in this German language interview, also on Wikipedia:
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There's quite an affinity between public libraries and zine making. West Norwood offers a bring-your-baby zine club, #ILIT made zines with librarians and library managers. @faerber_alexa brixtonbuzz.com/2024/07/brin…
Norwood library has a knitting & crochet group, just like the "Bücherei am Schöpfwerk in Vienna. #libraryresearch brixtonbuzz.com/2024/07/knit…
The public library as a social infrastructure: This can mean many things. Nice to see that Streatham Library has a monthly mtg for over 50s! #libraryresearch
brixtonbuzz.com/2024/07/soci…
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Sadiq’s dagger to the heart of West London’s poorest communities - double-crossing and fast-tracking gentrification of one of London’s oldest street markets. Sadiq gave off-shore multi-billion developers 3 years to work up plans - but just a 6 hour window for objections. Shameful
I like this #OtD. For some reason i tend to forget victories more than defeats. The fall of #HondoTower was a victory, made possible by skilllfully & publicly using the kind of building regulations that are now dissed as nimby-protecting "red tape".
#OtD: 21st July 2023, #Brixton celebrates The Fall of #HondoTower. This was a huge achievement of @save_nour #FightTheTower campaign & local communities' struggle against further #gentrification of the neighbourhood.
💥See how that frantic week unfolded: brixton-timeline.maydayrooms…
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#OtD: 21st July 2023, #Brixton celebrates The Fall of #HondoTower. This was a huge achievement of @save_nour #FightTheTower campaign & local communities' struggle against further #gentrification of the neighbourhood.
💥See how that frantic week unfolded: brixton-timeline.maydayrooms…
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Labour's plans to deregulate planning processes will further open up Britain to the property developers who have already caused so much damage to the country — and do little to help those at the sharp end of the housing crisis. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/07/der…
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my heart is with my former colleagues @SociologyGold & other departs today where redundancy notices have been sent. It makes no sense to take a wrecking ball to the most vibrant & innovative intellectual community I have come across in order to cover mismanagement
Love and solidarity to all my Goldsmiths colleagues today experiencing Schrodinger’s job. You can support us here goldsmithsucu.org/support-fu…
Just photos of some painted stones, made at a meeting @HousingActionSL. Fun things merge with the heavy work of this amazing neighbourly and sturdy campaign, see 👇🏽@tomemurtha
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"Divide & conquer" is a favorite game of our council officers, although it becomes less successful each time it's exposed. It's only worked very patchily on @SaveCressingham, & only a little more successfully on Lambeth's other "regeneration" estates.
