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...in order to bring about the rapid change required to protect life from the accelerating climate emergency and the political decisions being made that pour fuel on the flames and which sentence us all to a catastrophic future.' Let's send their words around the globe.
I'm so sad for Phoebe Plummer & Anna Holland, imprisoned today. Glad that they got the chance to explain their actions: "I made those choices because I believe that non-violent civil resistance is the best, if not the only, tool that people have... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Phoebe Plummer, 23, receives two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident
Great, please do stay in touch Ben. I've got lots of thoughts on 'light work'!
Also Arthur McIvor would be a go-to historian on this
2/2 Varrier-Jones founded Papworth Industries precisely because a most common impairment, tuberculosis, excluded workers from light roles. And women were never included in this moral economy of long service and light work. Nor those with childhood impairments
1/2. Interesting. But need to be careful not to mythologise 'light work'. It was notorious for being recommended by doctors but impossible to get in practice across much of the twentieth century. And some large categories of workers never 'qualified' for it in the first place
A great two year postdoc here for someone interested in memory, memorialisation and feminist/women's history euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/269915
MAIN SUB RESEARCH FIELD OR DISCIPLINES: History and memory of women’s suffrage The Project:
The Western Front Association is offering awards of up to £2,000 to Ph.D. researchers working on the First World War. "Applications are sought from doctoral candidates in their second year or later. The grant is not restricted to the Western Front." #WWI#FWW#milhist#skystorians
Mainstream sports clubs often have to be pressured to include disabled people - who only need small adjustments. My local parkrun were really reluctant to allow race-chair users to start just ahead of non-disabled runners to prevent a crush. Why so slow? www.theguardian.com/sport/articl...
Keir Starmer has been asked to focus on inclusion and teacher training to get more children with disabilities into regular physical education