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sarah field
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on public international law’s iteration of the republic of conscience, its Yes to humanity, through stories that echo its meaning https://fromsaltintears.com; plus radical or root international justice for kids cahtreaty4kids.org #hope-walking
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is a beautiful articulation of #climatejustice #hope-walking
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
How is possible to talk about British empire without beginning with Ireland? I give you Amitav Ghosh www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
From the Triennale’s 24th International Exhibition: inequalities
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just in front of the Basilica di Sant’Ambrogio, Milan this spectacular display
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In a world where this is possible www.jaffnamonitor.com/featured/we-... there is hope
November 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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September 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
A single bullet to a child’s brain or heart in my view is a strong indication not just of a war crime but of the seldom invoked crime against humanity of age persecution of children i.e., persecuting children as children: fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...
September 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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September 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
‘Somehow, in Israel, there always seems to be an argument to justify the killing of a child’ says Eyal Landman introducing his Zero Range exhibition of children killed in Gaza under the age of 1 www.haaretz.com/life/2025-09...
September 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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August 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Look at these limbs? are they not those of a man?

While Frederick Douglass drew inspiration from this piece to denounce the erasures in the US Declaration of Independence, a judge across the Atlantic was invoking the principles of humanity to refuse a slave trader’s standing before his Court.
August 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Thank you @cenricc.bsky.social

Another example of the way language oppression targets children specifically, using them as an implement of violence for its effective performance. #youngagepersecution
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 AM
August 15, 2025 at 6:25 AM
In his essay, republished in The Guardian, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o explains the roots of language oppression, beginning with Ireland, concluding:

‘Education policies [& I might add law & its enforcement] should be devised on the basis that all languages are treasuries of history, beauty & possibility.’
August 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In 442 BCE Sophocles’ Antigone marched to ‘the rock vault’ to die for defending her brother’s right of burial. Millennia later in The Rights of War and Peace (1625) Hugo Grotius argued the right of burial was an ‘office of humanity owed to all’ grounded in human ‘dignity’.
August 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Like The Sea Around Us, the beginnings of our claim to possess rights are ‘shadowy’.

Rather than rising in one bright wave in the mid 20th-century, it rose from many bright waves, a steady succession of sources, carried by the music of what happens #hope-walking fromsaltintears.com/twelve-thing...
August 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
August 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
And who stores the surveilled data used to perpetrate these crimes? Ireland & the Netherlands 3/ #spéirgorm bsky.app/profile/shan...
August 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM