akwe
@akwe.bsky.social
Program director and pod host with the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights@strengthandsol; poet; coach.
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When @billmckibben.bsky.social starts to feel overwhelmed in the fight to save the planet from climate catastrophe, he listens to two songs that tell him it's going to be all right - find out what they are! #climate #humanrights strengthandsolidarity.substack.com/p/the-coda-4...
The Coda #46: It’s gonna be all right
Bill McKibben on songs that make a difference
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August 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When @billmckibben.bsky.social starts to feel overwhelmed in the fight to save the planet from climate catastrophe, he listens to two songs that tell him it's going to be all right - find out what they are! #climate #humanrights strengthandsolidarity.substack.com/p/the-coda-4...
#sealeychallenge Day 1 - Gabeba Baderoon's 'A hundred silences.'
August 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
#sealeychallenge Day 1 - Gabeba Baderoon's 'A hundred silences.'
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Years of dreaming, research & consultation followed by months of collective work with the broader Afghan civic community & here we are: launching the first People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan @rawadari.bsky.social
An initiative for justice by Afghan civil society for women and girls of Afghanistan: launch of the first People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan. Read more here:
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July 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Years of dreaming, research & consultation followed by months of collective work with the broader Afghan civic community & here we are: launching the first People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan @rawadari.bsky.social
You may have been seeing a lot of posts about @globalvoices.org's fundraising campaign and realising a lot of us feel passionate about its survival. To get the back-story, read GV co-founder @ethanz.bsky.social's blog about its remarkable journey. Then donate! globalvoices.org/donate/
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July 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You may have been seeing a lot of posts about @globalvoices.org's fundraising campaign and realising a lot of us feel passionate about its survival. To get the back-story, read GV co-founder @ethanz.bsky.social's blog about its remarkable journey. Then donate! globalvoices.org/donate/
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From drone strikes to facial scans, legal frameworks are being bent to justify AI-powered targeting and biometric control in a new era of algorithmic warfare.
Automated surveillance, targeted killings, and AI warfare in Gaza: A conversation with legal scholar Khalil Dewan
From drone strikes to facial scans, legal frameworks are being bent to justify AI-powered targeting and biometric control in a new era of algorithmic warfare.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
From drone strikes to facial scans, legal frameworks are being bent to justify AI-powered targeting and biometric control in a new era of algorithmic warfare.
Another beauty from Illuminations #40: Ingrid De Kok’s “For now” - a quiet invitation to set grief down, for this one night at least. #lifttothesky #poetsofbluesky
July 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Another beauty from Illuminations #40: Ingrid De Kok’s “For now” - a quiet invitation to set grief down, for this one night at least. #lifttothesky #poetsofbluesky
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All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
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Ten THOUSAND (10,000!!!) meters of elevation! Support @natematias.bsky.social's incredible challenge with a donation to @globalvoices.org! The community, especially the Nepal team incl @sankuchy.bsky.social, are working on a playlist for him, which we will share so you can listen along!
July 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ten THOUSAND (10,000!!!) meters of elevation! Support @natematias.bsky.social's incredible challenge with a donation to @globalvoices.org! The community, especially the Nepal team incl @sankuchy.bsky.social, are working on a playlist for him, which we will share so you can listen along!
Alex De Waal knows famine - it's his subject. Not that this situation requires any technical expertise. Every actual human knows what they are looking at in Gaza and has long understood, ever since Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant promised, October 9,2023 a "total blockade" on food and water.
Alex de Waal: "this is famine... what is unique about this one is that the intl agencies are standing by with the capacity, the plans.. and they're not being allowed to implement those plans. If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to have breakfast tomorrow, he could do it"
July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Alex De Waal knows famine - it's his subject. Not that this situation requires any technical expertise. Every actual human knows what they are looking at in Gaza and has long understood, ever since Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant promised, October 9,2023 a "total blockade" on food and water.
Sample from the just-dropped Illuminations #40 - Saint Lucia poet John Robert Lee’s ‘Migrant’ with a stark question-as-epigraph from Darwish.
#poetsofbluesky #poem #poetry #lifttothesky
#poetsofbluesky #poem #poetry #lifttothesky
July 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Sample from the just-dropped Illuminations #40 - Saint Lucia poet John Robert Lee’s ‘Migrant’ with a stark question-as-epigraph from Darwish.
#poetsofbluesky #poem #poetry #lifttothesky
#poetsofbluesky #poem #poetry #lifttothesky
Poets, check out Illuminations #40, ed. Simon Lewis (Charleston College) – nearly 100 wonderful US and global poems. At random - Ingrid de Kok, John Robert Lee, Georgia Tiffany, Jim Tilley, new Neruda translations...riches! www.facebook.com/illumination... #LifttotheSky #poetsofbluesky
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July 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Poets, check out Illuminations #40, ed. Simon Lewis (Charleston College) – nearly 100 wonderful US and global poems. At random - Ingrid de Kok, John Robert Lee, Georgia Tiffany, Jim Tilley, new Neruda translations...riches! www.facebook.com/illumination... #LifttotheSky #poetsofbluesky
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🎧 Where others overlook, we listen.
🈴 Where others erase, we translate.
🌎🌍🌏 Support Global Voices’ mission to center the Global South.
#KeepGVStrong🌱
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🈴 Where others erase, we translate.
🌎🌍🌏 Support Global Voices’ mission to center the Global South.
#KeepGVStrong🌱
globalvoices.org/donate/
July 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🎧 Where others overlook, we listen.
🈴 Where others erase, we translate.
🌎🌍🌏 Support Global Voices’ mission to center the Global South.
#KeepGVStrong🌱
globalvoices.org/donate/
🈴 Where others erase, we translate.
🌎🌍🌏 Support Global Voices’ mission to center the Global South.
#KeepGVStrong🌱
globalvoices.org/donate/
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July 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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"Afghanistan is fading from the public memory around the world while the Taliban are being normalized despite their brutal policies."
- Shaharzad Akbar 👉 @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social
Read her article on Justice Info 👇
www.justiceinfo.net/en/147963-ke...
#Afghanistan #Taliban #GenderApartheid
- Shaharzad Akbar 👉 @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social
Read her article on Justice Info 👇
www.justiceinfo.net/en/147963-ke...
#Afghanistan #Taliban #GenderApartheid
July 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"Afghanistan is fading from the public memory around the world while the Taliban are being normalized despite their brutal policies."
- Shaharzad Akbar 👉 @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social
Read her article on Justice Info 👇
www.justiceinfo.net/en/147963-ke...
#Afghanistan #Taliban #GenderApartheid
- Shaharzad Akbar 👉 @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social
Read her article on Justice Info 👇
www.justiceinfo.net/en/147963-ke...
#Afghanistan #Taliban #GenderApartheid
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Help us keep amplifying local voices, around the world.
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July 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Help us keep amplifying local voices, around the world.
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Support our by-human, for-human journalism, which we do not fund through ads, paywalls, selling data, or subscriptions - only through the contributions of readers like you globalvoices.org/donate/
July 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Support our by-human, for-human journalism, which we do not fund through ads, paywalls, selling data, or subscriptions - only through the contributions of readers like you globalvoices.org/donate/
@globalvoices.org is an amazing project, proof that when you centre the people who produce the content, they show you a wider, richer world - from new angles on global news to uncovered yet vital stories. As a board member I'm proud to ask you to back our stellar writers, translators and activists.
🗣️Today we're launching a campaign to raise $250,000 to keep Global Voices alive and thriving.
👉🏿We’re ad-free, paywall-free, and community-powered — but funding cuts and a tough media landscape are putting us at risk.
#KeepGVStrong🌱
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👉🏿We’re ad-free, paywall-free, and community-powered — but funding cuts and a tough media landscape are putting us at risk.
#KeepGVStrong🌱
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Support Global Voices as we launch our donation campaign
Sharp cuts to foreign aid by a number of governments are shrinking the available funds for nonprofits, with digital rights organizations like ours taking a particular hit.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
@globalvoices.org is an amazing project, proof that when you centre the people who produce the content, they show you a wider, richer world - from new angles on global news to uncovered yet vital stories. As a board member I'm proud to ask you to back our stellar writers, translators and activists.
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🗣️With your support, local voices can cross borders and reshape the global conversation.
👉 Help us keep this work alive — donate today and support multilingual, independent journalism.
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👉 Help us keep this work alive — donate today and support multilingual, independent journalism.
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Donate · Global Voices
Support freedom of expression for everyone, everywhere, by donating to Global Voices.
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July 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🗣️With your support, local voices can cross borders and reshape the global conversation.
👉 Help us keep this work alive — donate today and support multilingual, independent journalism.
globalvoices.org/donate/
👉 Help us keep this work alive — donate today and support multilingual, independent journalism.
globalvoices.org/donate/
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Support our work to keep us going! Global Voices is a unique community of authors, activists and translators from all over the globe, and its work is vital at this time of systematic disinformation, mistrust and intolerance.
Make a difference: support independent news and translation!
We are a very low-cost organization, with no office and few operating costs, and most of our funding goes directly into staff pay. Even small amounts go a long way.
Support Global Voices now: globalvoices.org/donate/
We are a very low-cost organization, with no office and few operating costs, and most of our funding goes directly into staff pay. Even small amounts go a long way.
Support Global Voices now: globalvoices.org/donate/
Make a difference: support independent news and translation!
Make a difference: support independent news and translation! We've launched a new donation campaign to manage international funding cuts Support Global Voices You can make a difference by supporting local news, analysis, translation, and languages arou...
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July 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Support our work to keep us going! Global Voices is a unique community of authors, activists and translators from all over the globe, and its work is vital at this time of systematic disinformation, mistrust and intolerance.
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During the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza, I was a volunteer journalist at Global Voices. I had no budget, but I can promise you that I platformed more Palestinian journalists and activists in that month than the NYT had that entire year.
We were complaining about the NYT a decade+ ago. No one listened.
We were complaining about the NYT a decade+ ago. No one listened.
I will never get over the fact that the NYT's former Jerusalem bureau chief, Jodi Rudoren, had a kid in the IDF *while* she was serving in that job
(She is now an editor in charge of the NYT's newsletters lol)
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(She is now an editor in charge of the NYT's newsletters lol)
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Let us please stop pretending that it is not obscene to have this many high-ranking NYT editors and journalists with direct ties to the IDF.
The NYT literally has family links to the genocide.
The NYT literally has family links to the genocide.
July 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
During the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza, I was a volunteer journalist at Global Voices. I had no budget, but I can promise you that I platformed more Palestinian journalists and activists in that month than the NYT had that entire year.
We were complaining about the NYT a decade+ ago. No one listened.
We were complaining about the NYT a decade+ ago. No one listened.
Latest ep. of Strength&Solidarity takes a look at the accelerating incidence of burn-out in the human rights and social justice fields and asks why we aren't intervening at scale to try and stop - or at least slow- the train? #humanrights #burnout
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July 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Latest ep. of Strength&Solidarity takes a look at the accelerating incidence of burn-out in the human rights and social justice fields and asks why we aren't intervening at scale to try and stop - or at least slow- the train? #humanrights #burnout
strengthandsolidarity.substack.com/publish/post...
strengthandsolidarity.substack.com/publish/post...
If you live under authoritarian rule somewhere in the world and you're watching the US, what's your take on the best strategy and tactics? I asked Turkish human rights defender Murat Celikkan of @hakikatadalet.bsky.social. Check out Ep.55 of @strengthandsol strengthandsolidarity.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Are you listening? It’s the least you can do.
Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand.
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand.
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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April 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Are you listening? It’s the least you can do.
Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand.
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand.
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...