sarah field

The poem takes possession of the poet

Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Poverty is a policy decision. Concentrated wealth is a policy decision. Inequality is a policy decision. Remember this.

"It has been said that the United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell" - Dag Hammarskjöld On #UNDay and #WorldDevelopmentInformationDay, we highlight our work alongside UN agencies for five years.  🔗https://f.mtr.cool/lmwftbphju

The Justice Minister interfering with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre consent campaign "because it does not represent the views of the Government" is unsettling. Interference like this risks creating a chilling effect and self-censorship within wider civil society. www.iccl.ie/news/justice...

Jacqueline Rose

It's big squall-and-rainbow kind of weather, oh yes! We are windswept and seared by light. Autumn in Wester Ross, NW Highlands, Scotland.

My shortened response to the UN Special Envoy for Global Education’s call for a specialised international criminal court to try crimes against children: #radicaljustice4kids instead fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it." Ursula K. Le Guin gold: www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/22/t...

9 years ago, Myanmar’s military crackdown in Rakhine State forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from their homes. We’re sharing a poem by Ro Hefzu’ from his debut book Still I Breathe, written for a community still fighting to be heard. Read more ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/committee-ne...

Little Accents by Vasily Kandinsky, 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137937

I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvellous. Anaïs Nin

“…recognise that it is for the people of the island of Ireland alone, by agreement between the two parts respectively and without external impediment, to exercise their right of self-determination on the basis of consent, freely and concurrently given… to bring about a united Ireland”.

‘A woman writer is always caught between the gavel of power and the anvil of society.’ — Najwa Bin Shatwan

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Light working off darkness fromsaltintears.com/the-journey/...

As it got closer to the maximum of yesterday's solar eclipse in the West of Ireland the dimming light upon the cloudscape produced unfolding Gothic moments. #eclipse #skyphotography #speirgorm

Live coverage of the 0.973 magnitude solar eclipse in West Cork. #eclipse #solareclipse #ireland #spéirgorm #TheGreatGigInTheSky

TOTALITY. Castrojeriz, Burgos, Spain minutes ago.

UN: Five years after the Taliban seized power, women and girls in Afghanistan have been systematically stripped of their rights. De facto authorities have issued more than 100 decrees curbing education, work and freedom of movement – restrictions now compounded by deep cuts to aid on the ground.

Sound on 🔊 Dripping water echoing through a Seacave at lowtide. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

‘Shared decision-making for resilience…’

What’s the most fundamental of rights? fromsaltintears.com/the-journey/... #arcjustice #walkhope

‘Can the subaltern speak?’ fromsaltintears.com/the-journey/... #arcjustice #walkhope

There are layers to this silence. The crime of gender persecution even apartheid is called out but not age persecution. Pursuing justice for Afghan girls demands calling out this crime too fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...

Why I blend public international law’s Yes to humanity with storytelling fromsaltintears.com/the-art #arcjustice

Who has human status? fromsaltintears.com/the-journey/2-proofs-of-injustice-who-has-human-status #arcjustice

“In fact I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide.” www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/womens-...

Fiadh, slinking about in a Seacave. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

If you love books, this is for you: The moving story of how Proust saved one man’s soul in a Siberian labor camp www.themarginalian.org/2019/07/31/j...

In the ruling, the judge notes that Meta created a “public nuisance” by being a significant contributor to the state’s teen mental health crisis.

I think Rachel Carson might concur

Out of Office Replies: Samuel Beckett. Failing elsewhere.

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Their core principle of non-refoulement – prohibiting the return of people to a place where they would face persecution, torture or other serious harm – is recognized under customary international law, which applies to all countries, whether or not they have signed the Convention.

Charlie Mackesy

Aughinish Alumina: 'A ticking environmental time bomb' Irish Times investigation found: 🛑 Aluminium levels 4,700x safe EU limit 🛑 Arsenic levels 129x EU limit 🛑 Zinc levels 125x safe limit An Taisce calls for a full investigation by Government into plant www.antaisce.org/submission-o...

Would like some Actual Good News about the environment ?

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Derry Soweto Gwangjo Daraa Yangon Jenin and Gaza City El Fasher… Proper nouns or common nouns for young age directed child killing? fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...