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Sarah Alldred
@sarahdoc72.bsky.social
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Northerner 🏳️‍🌈 Works with Co-ops. Lives in Manchester. Peace Studies Alumna. The cat is Rajah. Drawn to stories of solidarity, creativity and hope.
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So good x
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The Verb - Shaun Usher, Katrina Naomi, Amani Saeed, Fran Edwards and Jennifer Jones - BBC Sounds
Ian McMillan hosts Shaun Usher, Katrina Naomi, Amani Saeed, Fran Edwards & Jennifer Jones.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Diana Davies, US photographer who documented the US Gay Liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s, including activist Marsha P. Johnson #WomensArt
March 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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The threat of Peace 🕊️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge breaks into US Institute of Peace building after White House guts board
Remaining members of board – Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio and Peter Garvin – fire president of independent non-profit
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March 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Incredible TV. Recommend 👇

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Adolescence review – the closest thing to TV perfection in decades
Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s drama about a teen accused of murder is astounding. Its dazzling performances, and the devastating questions it asks, will linger with you
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Kamala Harris Delivers Uplifting Message While Accepting Chairman’s Award | NAACP Image Awards '25
YouTube video by BETNetworks
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February 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
Prescient words from Michael Rosen.
Fascism: I sometimes fear... I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... It doesn't walk in saying, "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution." - Michael Rosen
February 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This is so good. A warning of the times we're teetering into.

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I’m Still Here review – wrenching true-life saga of a Brazilian family torn apart by military rule
When a congressman is abducted from his beachfront home in 1970s Rio, his wife and children are left reeling – for decades – in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated drama starring an extraordinary Fernanda...
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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This is a hope filled read: 👇💜https://www.juancole.com/2025/02/make-art-not-war.html
Make Art, not War
( Tomdispatch.com ) - The world is in danger, mind-numbingly so, from a combination of crises: disease, hunger, mass displacement, …
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February 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
One of my absolute favourites.
The Thing Is BY ELLEN BASS to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.
January 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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At last! Let there be light ✨
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Winter wonder: Jeanette Winterson and others reveal why the cold has them under its spell
Too dark, too cold – winter’s charms aren’t as obvious as summer’s brassy joys. But for Robert Macfarlane, Alice Oswald, Poppy Okotcha and others, this is a rich season. Here, they offer ways to lean ...
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January 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The fantastic David Hockney exhibition at Aviva Studios, Manchester ✨
January 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Courage.
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Episcopal bishop preaches ‘mercy’ at Trump prayer service
YouTube video by Washington Post
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January 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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‘A welfare state with a budget on the right side of zero’: Iceland’s youngest-ever prime minister has a plan for a new kind of governance
Kristrún Frostadóttir, who entered politics just four years ago, speaks to the Observer about feminism, the far right and reopening talks on joining the EU
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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An exciting year ahead ✨ #coops #coops4dev

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Fund for International Co-operative Development launched by UK co-ops
Image: Paul Gerrard, Rose Marley, Debbie Robinson, Sarah Alldred and Peter Westall at the lunch of the fund A development fund which aims to strengthen and rebuild communities across the globe through...
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January 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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👇❤️✨
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Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds
Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:37 AM
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My fantastic colleague Anca Voinea pulled this together from our visit last week 👇❤️🔥
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Inside SEWA: empowering women through co-operatives in Ahmedabad
YouTube video by Anca Voinea
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December 11, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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The superb women from the SEWA federation hosting a solidarity dinner in New Delhi this week ✨ #coops
November 29, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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Have the privilege of visiting SEWA next week in Gujarat. Here's a fantastic podcast,with this episode exploring the Social and Solidarity economy ✨ #coops

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Understanding the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) - In Solidarity
The recent global health crises, the impending climate crises, global economic instability and recession, highlights the loopholes in our existing understanding of the economy and the current developm...
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November 20, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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This gorgeous short film about the Boomalli Artists #coop in Sydney, created by @aroundtheworld.coop, is why I💜working with #coops and the solidarity economy. It's also why I'm hopeful x www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUDX...
A COOPERATIVE STORY N6, BOOMALLI ARTISTS CO-OPERATIVE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
YouTube video by Aroundtheworld. coop
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November 19, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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The author I always go back to: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
The making of Barbara Kingsolver
In Holding the Line, the author’s newly republished account of the 1983 Arizona miners’ strike, the novelist and the reporter combine.
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM