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Two women on death row in Iran have recorded audio messages from their prison cells and asked the free world to save their lives. Now I bring their voices to you.
Najmeh Amini is 23. An accounting student. Her crime? A post on social media. The regime calls it insulting the prophet. For one post, they will hang her.
Mahboubeh Shabani is 33. During the protests, she carried wounded demonstrators to the hospital. Her crime? Saving lives. The regime calls it waging war against God. For saving lives, they will hang her.
Let me be honest. Hashtags and tweets alone will not stop these executions. This regime only understands pressure.
So I call on American, European, and world leaders: make these executions your red line. Tie every sanction, every deal, every negotiation to the lives of political prisoners. Demand their release now. Impose real costs for every hanging.
Najmeh Amini and Mahboubeh Shabani must not die for the crime of freedom.
Act now. Before it is too late.
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‘But when the slates came off, extravagant
Sky entered and held surprise wide open.’
Seamus Heaney - from The Skylight
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"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
- Anne Shirley. Anne of the Island (L. M. Montgomery).
(no link with Ireland except the actress)!
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Irish Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental has died at the age of 90.
As a young boy, Mr Reichental was imprisoned in Bergen Belsen concentration camp and 35 of his relatives were murdered by the Nazis.
As a pensioner in Ireland, he educated thousands of children about the terrible things he witnessed and the evils of antisemitism.
“After all the horror, I am doing my best to keep the memory of those lost ones alive," he said.
"We – you, me, your children, and my children – must never forget.”
You can learn more about Mr Reichental's incredible story of survival in Newstalk's award nominated documentary In The Swastika's Shadow: Ireland and the Holocaust:
newstalk.com/podcasts/newsta…
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. May his memory be a blessing.
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let the staff have an easy sunday morning. you don't need to go to big tesco at 8am karen.
Would you like to see the extension of Sunday trading hours? About eight out of 10 people in Belfast are in favour.
bbc.in/4395j6t
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There are a number of unsolved murders of women that Gardaí and PSNI never appeal for information from the public.
Probably because they were middle aged or older women and nobody really cared.
I'll go through details of a few of them, given the police evidently won't do it. /1
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If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology.
Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes about Tom Stoppard
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Disciplinary literacy - The way that a historian reads, writes and thinks is different to how scientist operates. Each subject context has different needs and requirements. It's useful to point this out and have students (and sometimes teachers!) reflect on this.
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Today in 1945, George Orwell published a devastating critique of Communism.
Animal Farm reveals why every communist revolution follows the same tragic pattern: liberation to corruption to oppression.
Here are 10 truths from Animal Farm Orwell warned us never to forget 🧵👇🏼
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English teachers! Are you joining our free livestreamed CPD on Macbeth in context tomorrow? Explore ideas of agency and blame with the wonderful Professor Emma Smith, and teacher & author @MichaelDonkor. There's still time to book your place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/131889900…
ALT Black and white print of Macbeth and Banquo, with arms outstretched, as if to fend off the three witches, who appear as apparitions in the sky.
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📒 Barak Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction offers 10 evidence-based strategies that all teachers should know based on key research from cognitive science and research on master teachers. This poster outlines the lot!
👊 REPOST and grab a free HQ copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics
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⚠️📵Call for 'bell-to-bell' mobile phone ban in schools over risks to 'mental health and online harm.'
🎥🎤@SDLPlive Leader and MP @ClaireHanna speaks to Chief Reporter @jamesgould23.
✍️👥This comes ahead of a public event tomorrow at St Bernard’s Primary School in south Belfast, where local parents and school leaders will discuss the risks smartphones pose to children’s wellbeing — "including exposure to online harms and the impact on mental health and development."
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Irish author Bram Stoker was from Clontarf, Dublin. It is thought that his #gothic horror novel Dracula, was inspired by his mother's memory of the cholera epidemic of 1832 in Sligo! Dracula was published 26 May 1897. #FolkloreSunday 🧛♂️🦇 xitter.cf/rtenews/status/1187108…
