kategray
@revkategray.bsky.social
Activist. Practitioner Pastor. Dr. Theologian. Researching faith responding to poverty in the UK & trauma theology. Interest in climate crisis, overcoming exclusion & fascism. #phd #CoventryUni #Manchester #UnitedReformedChurch
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And just like that, the historic Employment Rights Bill lands. Sick pay from day one. Day-one parental leave. Unfair dismissal rights after six months. Ban fire-and-rehire. Bereavement leave. Protections for pregnant women. Tougher redundancy rules. Fair Work Agency to enforce rights. #ukpolitics
Brilliant news!
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#OtD 4 Jan 1932 martial law was declared in Honduras, to quell a revolt initiated by sacked workers from the United Fruit Company stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...
January 4, 2026 at 7:25 AM
#OtD 4 Jan 1932 martial law was declared in Honduras, to quell a revolt initiated by sacked workers from the United Fruit Company stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...
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#OtD 4 Jan 1917 a 10-day strike of wharf workers started in Guyana against price rises. They won an increase in wages and a shorter working week, and sparked a national strike wave stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...
January 4, 2026 at 8:55 AM
#OtD 4 Jan 1917 a 10-day strike of wharf workers started in Guyana against price rises. They won an increase in wages and a shorter working week, and sparked a national strike wave stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...
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#OtD 4 Jan 1960 Nobel Prize-winning author, Albert Camus, died aged 46 in a car accident in France. As well as writing novels, plays and philosophical texts, he also participated in the French resistance and supported Spanish anti-Franco prisoners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...
January 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
#OtD 4 Jan 1960 Nobel Prize-winning author, Albert Camus, died aged 46 in a car accident in France. As well as writing novels, plays and philosophical texts, he also participated in the French resistance and supported Spanish anti-Franco prisoners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1043...
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‘Durham’s other cathedral’: mining union hall reopens after £14m restoration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Durham’s other cathedral’: mining union hall reopens after £14m restoration
Considered one of world’s finest trade union buildings and famous for its ‘pitmen’s parliament’, Redhills was built on a grand scale
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January 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
‘Durham’s other cathedral’: mining union hall reopens after £14m restoration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Snowy Manchester! Wolf supermoon. Beautiful snow clouds.
January 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Snowy Manchester! Wolf supermoon. Beautiful snow clouds.
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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
January 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
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Uniter
Protest Signs of our Times
“2025 Signs from the Heartland of America. The work continues in 2026.”
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 🎼 Beyoncé YA YA→@informedactionks, @indivisiblekc.bsky.social, @riseabovejustice.bsky.social, @50501kansascity.bsky.social, @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social
Protest Signs of our Times
“2025 Signs from the Heartland of America. The work continues in 2026.”
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 🎼 Beyoncé YA YA→@informedactionks, @indivisiblekc.bsky.social, @riseabovejustice.bsky.social, @50501kansascity.bsky.social, @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Uniter
Protest Signs of our Times
“2025 Signs from the Heartland of America. The work continues in 2026.”
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 🎼 Beyoncé YA YA→@informedactionks, @indivisiblekc.bsky.social, @riseabovejustice.bsky.social, @50501kansascity.bsky.social, @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social
Protest Signs of our Times
“2025 Signs from the Heartland of America. The work continues in 2026.”
#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 🎼 Beyoncé YA YA→@informedactionks, @indivisiblekc.bsky.social, @riseabovejustice.bsky.social, @50501kansascity.bsky.social, @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social
Thanks to my new followers and for adding me to various democratic, kind, just and lovely woke Starter Packs! Have a colourful inclusive day welcoming the stranger as a guest, and bringing peace on earth a little closer to a neighbourhood near you.
January 2, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Thanks to my new followers and for adding me to various democratic, kind, just and lovely woke Starter Packs! Have a colourful inclusive day welcoming the stranger as a guest, and bringing peace on earth a little closer to a neighbourhood near you.
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#OtD 2 Jan 1920 the start of the second Palmer Raids, an attempt by the US Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical workers and leftists, especially anarchists. Some 6000 were arrested and held without trial and over 500 deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9188...
January 2, 2026 at 7:25 AM
#OtD 2 Jan 1920 the start of the second Palmer Raids, an attempt by the US Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical workers and leftists, especially anarchists. Some 6000 were arrested and held without trial and over 500 deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9188...
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#OtD 2 Jan 1950 the 300 meat porters at Smithfield's market in London launched a "lightning" strike completely shutting down London's meat supply in protest at bosses' refusal to employ one man who did not have the required references. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9189...
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 AM
#OtD 2 Jan 1950 the 300 meat porters at Smithfield's market in London launched a "lightning" strike completely shutting down London's meat supply in protest at bosses' refusal to employ one man who did not have the required references. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9189...
Also, I saw a recently-dead fish in a field near a mere (lake) today on my new year winter walk. What is the symbolism of this weird thing?! What on earth?
January 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Also, I saw a recently-dead fish in a field near a mere (lake) today on my new year winter walk. What is the symbolism of this weird thing?! What on earth?
How are your boundaries? Permeable? Rigid? Are your roots deep enough to enable you to be agile? Consider your energetic and spiritual boundaries so they can be fit for a purposeful year ahead.
January 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
How are your boundaries? Permeable? Rigid? Are your roots deep enough to enable you to be agile? Consider your energetic and spiritual boundaries so they can be fit for a purposeful year ahead.
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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back." - Albert Camus
January 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. No matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back." - Albert Camus
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“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”
-Zohran Mamdani
-Zohran Mamdani
January 2, 2026 at 2:00 AM
“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”
-Zohran Mamdani
-Zohran Mamdani
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House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
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House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
12 takeaways from Smith's closed-door testimony
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January 1, 2026 at 9:22 PM
House Republicans Buried the Jack Smith Transcript on New Year’s Eve. I Read It So You Don’t Have To.
open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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#OtD 30 Dec 1997 the community-run Chico Mendez Mural Garden in NYC’s Lower East Side was bulldozed by real estate developers after its unsuccessful occupation. Further protests against the sale of 112 other gardens led to their eventual protection stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1027...
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#OtD 30 Dec 1997 the community-run Chico Mendez Mural Garden in NYC’s Lower East Side was bulldozed by real estate developers after its unsuccessful occupation. Further protests against the sale of 112 other gardens led to their eventual protection stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1027...
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#OtD 1 Jan 1974 the UK govt implemented the three-day week to save electricity, which had been restricted by overtime ban by coal miners. The miners ended up bringing down the government and winning their pay increase. Learn more in our podcast: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8072...
January 1, 2026 at 12:11 PM
#OtD 1 Jan 1974 the UK govt implemented the three-day week to save electricity, which had been restricted by overtime ban by coal miners. The miners ended up bringing down the government and winning their pay increase. Learn more in our podcast: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8072...
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#OtD 1 Jan 1994 the Zapatista uprising began, when indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico rose up and took control of their communities, redistributing power and organising new, directly democratic ways of running society. Learn more about the Zapatistas: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
January 1, 2026 at 10:55 PM
#OtD 1 Jan 1994 the Zapatista uprising began, when indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico rose up and took control of their communities, redistributing power and organising new, directly democratic ways of running society. Learn more about the Zapatistas: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
Creativity call out! Painting pebbles, drawing a snippet of winter spiral, reading bit of Bible, and journaling - NYD - gathering inner resources for courage, acts of solidarity & radical welcome for excluded people.
January 1, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Creativity call out! Painting pebbles, drawing a snippet of winter spiral, reading bit of Bible, and journaling - NYD - gathering inner resources for courage, acts of solidarity & radical welcome for excluded people.
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-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
December 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence
These are the foundations of real freedom.
Grief and Bereavement supoort services - all year round. www.sueryder.org/grief-suppor...
Grief support services
www.sueryder.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Grief and Bereavement supoort services - all year round. www.sueryder.org/grief-suppor...
Retreat resource In Barnsley, Yorkshire www.eaglesriseinternational.org
Eagles Rise International
Eagles Rise International is a Christian organisation committed to resource, strengthen, revive and renew the hearts of people. We have a unique retreat, bible school and powerful prayer ministry as w...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Retreat resource In Barnsley, Yorkshire www.eaglesriseinternational.org
Interior time of 12 sacred nights of Winter: candlelight, daydreaming, journaling, frosty walks, rest, panto laughter, reading, fireside, cocooning, cave, gentle stitching. Hoping you can make some of that with your community where you are. Art window by artist Evie Gray, Wales.
December 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Interior time of 12 sacred nights of Winter: candlelight, daydreaming, journaling, frosty walks, rest, panto laughter, reading, fireside, cocooning, cave, gentle stitching. Hoping you can make some of that with your community where you are. Art window by artist Evie Gray, Wales.
Community Solstice Spiral was beautiful! Bringing the outside in with evergreens, beeswax candles set in apples, people from all walks of life, walking the spiral to put down the past year & walk light and warmth into the new year, their/our future. All witnessed and made together.
December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Community Solstice Spiral was beautiful! Bringing the outside in with evergreens, beeswax candles set in apples, people from all walks of life, walking the spiral to put down the past year & walk light and warmth into the new year, their/our future. All witnessed and made together.
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