Jas Nijjar
@jasnijjar.bsky.social
Teacher, reader, reluctant writer.
"At Friday’s demo, there was anger as locals and civil rights activists denounced what they called a massacre targeting the deprived favelas, that have predominantly black populations" - Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid
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Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid
Demonstrators demand inquiry after operation on Tuesday in which at least 121 people were killed
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November 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"At Friday’s demo, there was anger as locals and civil rights activists denounced what they called a massacre targeting the deprived favelas, that have predominantly black populations" - Thousands join protests in Rio favela after deadliest ever police raid
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This is a useful book for connecting past to present, relating the various struggles materialising today, and for building a unified movement towards a more humane future.
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(PDF) Book Review: Our History Has Always Been Contraband by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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October 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This is a useful book for connecting past to present, relating the various struggles materialising today, and for building a unified movement towards a more humane future.
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"The United Nations has released a report, revealing that more than 150 companies, including Airbnb, Booking[dot]com, Expedia and TripAdvisor, are profiting from Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank."
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September 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"The United Nations has released a report, revealing that more than 150 companies, including Airbnb, Booking[dot]com, Expedia and TripAdvisor, are profiting from Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank."
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"ICE placed more than 10,000 ppl in solitary confinement between April 2024 & May 2025 ... Immigrants, inc those experiencing medical & mental health crises, are placed in isolation for days, weeks &, in some cases, months, which U.N. says amounts to torture"
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Report: ICE Placed More Than 10,000 People in Solitary Confinement
A new report from the Physicians for Human Rights, the Peeler Immigration Lab, and Harvard Law School experts has found ICE placed more than 10,000 people in solitary confinement between April 2024 an...
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September 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
"ICE placed more than 10,000 ppl in solitary confinement between April 2024 & May 2025 ... Immigrants, inc those experiencing medical & mental health crises, are placed in isolation for days, weeks &, in some cases, months, which U.N. says amounts to torture"
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This is a piece I wrote for PhD students on strategies for doing doctoral work committed to political consciousness, anti-racism and social transformation.
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(PDF) Resisting Neoliberalism's War on the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on PhD Work as Anti-Racist Practice
PDF | This article reflects on undertaking PhD work as a form of anti-racist practice from an angle with significant promise for sociology and the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is a piece I wrote for PhD students on strategies for doing doctoral work committed to political consciousness, anti-racism and social transformation.
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"This is what the United industrial complex has always demanded: more turmoil, more upheaval, more bloated failure and waste matter for the detritivores of the MUFC cinematic universe to consume."
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Grimsby deepen ridicule for Ruben Amorim as he ploughs on with flawed, final stand | Jonathan Liew
Carabao Cup humiliation is the latest setback for a coach who may actually be the last real thing at Manchester United
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August 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"This is what the United industrial complex has always demanded: more turmoil, more upheaval, more bloated failure and waste matter for the detritivores of the MUFC cinematic universe to consume."
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
"Our foreign secretary no doubt believes that the impunity traditionally enjoyed by western leaders and Israel itself will protect him and his colleagues for ever. That assumes the winds will never change ... That is quite the bet."
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British ministers are betting they won’t face justice for complicity over Gaza. It’s a big risk to take | Owen Jones
David Lammy seemingly believes Israel and its supporters will always be able to act with impunity – but the status quo surely cannot hold, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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August 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Our foreign secretary no doubt believes that the impunity traditionally enjoyed by western leaders and Israel itself will protect him and his colleagues for ever. That assumes the winds will never change ... That is quite the bet."
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"IPC had warned that Gaza was on the verge of famine, but now says for the first time that the events of the past few months – new Israeli offensive, increased displacement & weeks of total Israeli blockade of the territory – have made famine a reality in Gaza"
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What has led to a famine being confirmed in Gaza?
The UN-backed IPC has found that Gaza now faces famine after 22 months of Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"IPC had warned that Gaza was on the verge of famine, but now says for the first time that the events of the past few months – new Israeli offensive, increased displacement & weeks of total Israeli blockade of the territory – have made famine a reality in Gaza"
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"The Atomic Bowl" filmmaker Greg Mitchell calls Gaza a "slow-motion Nagasaki." www.democracynow.org/2025/8/6/hir...
August 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"The Atomic Bowl" filmmaker Greg Mitchell calls Gaza a "slow-motion Nagasaki." www.democracynow.org/2025/8/6/hir...
"We must not allow the hell of the atomic bombing to be recreated. I feel a sense of crisis" - Hiroshima, never forget, never again.
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'Atomic bomb hell can't be repeated' say Japan's last survivors
Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki believe their horrific past must act as a warning for the future.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"We must not allow the hell of the atomic bombing to be recreated. I feel a sense of crisis" - Hiroshima, never forget, never again.
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My new article for Sociology on how PhD work, in resisting the neoliberalism of HE, may salvage an insurgent sociology. The piece reflects on my time completing a PhD committed to anti-racism, prompted by Mark Duggan's killing, the anniversary of which is today.
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(PDF) Sociology 1 -18 Resisting Neoliberalism's War on the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on PhD Work as Anti-Racist Practice
PDF | This article reflects on undertaking PhD work as a form of anti-racist practice from an angle with significant promise for sociology and the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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August 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
My new article for Sociology on how PhD work, in resisting the neoliberalism of HE, may salvage an insurgent sociology. The piece reflects on my time completing a PhD committed to anti-racism, prompted by Mark Duggan's killing, the anniversary of which is today.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
"I'm proud and ashamed
Every fourth of July
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride"
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Every fourth of July
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride"
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'Merican
YouTube video by Descendents - Topic
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July 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
"I'm proud and ashamed
Every fourth of July
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykcs...
Every fourth of July
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykcs...
"We shouldn’t forget the real purpose of the action at Brize Norton – to draw attention to British military collaboration with the Israeli govt..British complicity in Israel’s war is a matter of public interest that is too often either ignored or under-reported"
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Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover
Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover
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June 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"We shouldn’t forget the real purpose of the action at Brize Norton – to draw attention to British military collaboration with the Israeli govt..British complicity in Israel’s war is a matter of public interest that is too often either ignored or under-reported"
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"We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally"
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Kneecap hit back at Starmer in highly-charged Glastonbury set
The Irish-language rap trio play to a packed crowd, despite calls for their performance to be banned.
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June 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"We understand colonialism and we understand how important it is to support each other internationally"
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"Scientists have uncovered genomic evidence that intensive fishing has driven rapid evolutionary changes that have contributed to cod roughly halving in average body length since the 1990s, from a median mature body length of 40cm in 1996 to 20cm in 2019"
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Overfishing has caused cod to halve in body size since 1990s, study finds
Evolutionary change driven by intensive fishing led cod to ‘shrink’ from average 40cm length in 1996 to 20cm in 2019
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June 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Scientists have uncovered genomic evidence that intensive fishing has driven rapid evolutionary changes that have contributed to cod roughly halving in average body length since the 1990s, from a median mature body length of 40cm in 1996 to 20cm in 2019"
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"Palestinians are starting to see GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] distribution hubs as “execution sites”, considering the repeated attacks there"
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Israel kills 37 Palestinians in Gaza, many while trying to get aid
13 starving Palestinians killed as they tried to get food near the Netzarim Corridor and in Rafah’s al-Mawasi area.
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June 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Palestinians are starting to see GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] distribution hubs as “execution sites”, considering the repeated attacks there"
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
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Propagandhi - "Devil's Creek"
YouTube video by Epitaph Records
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June 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"More than anything, this is just a sign of how dangerous it is to put billions of dollars, even the lives of astronauts, the whole future of the American economy and the political scene, in the hands of two sole human beings."
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Trump and Musk’s Dramatic Falling Out Displays the Hazards of Billionaire Rule
Author Quinn Slobodian speaks on how empowering these “titanically sized egos” threatens our collective wellbeing.
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June 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"More than anything, this is just a sign of how dangerous it is to put billions of dollars, even the lives of astronauts, the whole future of the American economy and the political scene, in the hands of two sole human beings."
truthout.org/video/trump-...
truthout.org/video/trump-...
“Starling societies aren’t just simple families, they are much more complex, containing a mixture of related and unrelated individuals that live together, much in the way that humans do”
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These birds form life-long friendships just like humans
Findings challenge prevalent view of animals only helping direct blood relatives
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May 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
“Starling societies aren’t just simple families, they are much more complex, containing a mixture of related and unrelated individuals that live together, much in the way that humans do”
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"When your deceptions finally fail, we will inspect the remaining entrails: narcissistic, Machiavellian, sadistic, straight-up Orwellian."
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Propagandhi - "Benito's Earlier Work" (Full Album Stream)
YouTube video by Epitaph Records
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May 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"When your deceptions finally fail, we will inspect the remaining entrails: narcissistic, Machiavellian, sadistic, straight-up Orwellian."
youtube.com/watch?v=cKnK...
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Blair Peach. Never forget.
April 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Blair Peach. Never forget.
"Jean Charles De Menezes’s family say his shooting was as a result of “police incompetence”. The truth, as far as the shooting of De Menezes is concerned, is that “incompetence” is the right word."
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Fatal error: 20 years on, the Met still has questions to answer about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. A new drama investigates the tragedy
The award-winning producer and screenwriter of Philomena’s new show, Suspect, is about the shooting of an innocent young Brazilian electrician on the London Underground in the wake of the 7/7 bombings...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"Jean Charles De Menezes’s family say his shooting was as a result of “police incompetence”. The truth, as far as the shooting of De Menezes is concerned, is that “incompetence” is the right word."
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Sven Lindqvist would have turned 93 today. His work remains essential.
March 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Sven Lindqvist would have turned 93 today. His work remains essential.