Feyzi Ismail

We are excited to announce our joint event with
@transitionsec.bsky.social on April 22, 2pm EST: "The Workforce of the Military-Industrial Complex: From Unions and Pensions to “Competing with McDonald's”". Register here: torontomu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨 ONLINE EVENT

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

“The massive flotilla, which Italian and Spanish ships shadowed until it approached Gaza, is the fourth one attacked in the last year.”

Read @premthakker.bsky.social's BREAKING story about the 44-Ship Global Sumud Flotilla that has just been intercepted by Israel:

zeteo.com/p/global-sum...

Thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social and Will Shoki for this interview - and thanks also for expertly editing the written version #Nepal

Colourful cubist style painting with semi abstract rectangular forms which suggests multiple buildings in a cityscape

City, 1913 by Avant Garde painter Alexandra Exter #WomensArt

Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days - News From Antiwar.com Israeli attacks have killed at least 198 Palestinians and wounded 786 in the Gaza Strip over 72 hours, according to death toll updates released by Gaza's Health Ministry, as Israel continues its US-ba...

“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days”

It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

Dockworkers from across Europe gather to plan trade squeeze on Israel Dockworker unions are fast becoming an important factor in exerting pressure over the war in Gaza.

“The ports are now strategic battlegrounds — and we need a common stance and stronger coordination.”

Solidarity with the dock workers
🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸

www.politico.eu/article/putt...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

“If I were a planetary doctor, I would sit down with my patient and say: ‘Last year, I suggested you change something but you didn’t. (...) So your health is declining further." PIK scientist Levke Caesar on the 2025 Planetary Health Check via @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We are sailing to Gaza. Here’s why | David Adler Governments have failed the people of Gaza. Now, ordinary people are taking humanitarian matters into their own hands – and putting their lives on the line

From David Adler aboard the Sumud Flotilla on why he and others are sailing to Gaza:

UN "member-states continue to arm, aid, and abet the state of Israel in its expanding campaign of destruction, eviction, and annexation of the occupied Palestinian territories"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tonight in East London 👇🏽

Who funds Labour Friends of Israel – and why won’t it say? LFI is one of the largest lobbying forces in British politics, but refuses to disclose its sources of income. What is it hiding?

Before Labour Friends of Israel removed its webpage, we found 73 of Labour’s 197 MPs were parliamentary supporters or officers of the group

Dozens of MPs have been funded by LFI. But it refuses to disclose its donors.

For how much longer can this go on❓

www.declassifieduk.org/who-funds-la...

Painting featuring a white woman dressed in white sitting looking right at a Breakfast table leaning on her arm in a casual way, on the table are the remnants of a meal and a teapot, behind the figure the interior wall has her drawings pinned to it

After breakfast, c.1900 by Finnish painter Elin Danielson-Gambogi #WomensArt #Tuesday

Photo of a black stone sculpture of a female figure crouching with strong protective arms around her small child and a baby, on a plinth in a gallery space

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with two Children, 1932-1936, sculpture #WomensArt

Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist The British-Egyptian activist is one of six people whose sentences President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi commuted, according to state media.

Alaa Abdel Fattah: Egypt's president pardons prominent activist

Amazing news!!

Exclusive | Trump Administration Cancels Annual Hunger Survey The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

They can’t stomach the truth.

New series from @EmpirePodUK
THE HISTORY OF GAZA

291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...

ASO DISON OJA DUMUR 50 Boats Are Now Sailing As Part of Gaza Aid Flotilla But some are expected to drop out, amid high winds at sea. Photo: REUTERS/Giorgos Solaris

🇵🇸 ALL TO LONDON FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸

🚨 Start building now for October's National Demonstration

🗓️ Saturday 11 October
⏰ Noon
📍 Central London (route TBC)

‼️ Two years on, we have to make this march absolutely massive‼️

#EndTheGenocide #StopStarvingGaza #StopArmingIsrael

Nepal’s new reality The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change.

Thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social for publishing this piece by @frasersugden.bsky.social and I on the #Nepal situation
africasacountry.com/2025/09/nepa...

Textile artist featuring three small black and white birds with long forked tails in flight, flying right against a swirling blue green sky

'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt