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On Nakba Day 2026, Palestinian journalist @muhammadshehad2 releases a powerful short film on Israel’s creation through the words and deeds of its founding leaders. The destruction of Palestine from 1947 onward, fully documented and long obscured, is now forcefully resurfacing.

Dear @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @5_News 🔔This is all across local news. The government hasn't yet briefed the public on the severe threats from climate change and nature loss, so civil society is taking matters into its own hands. Articles from last 10 days👇

Sir David Attenborough is not just a cuddly old man educating us about butterflies and bears, he warns us that you, me all of us, may not make it through the coming years if we don’t reverse the damage to the planet.

If you’re a Barclays customer, pledge to shut your account on 30 July, our next mass account closure day. If you’re not a customer, tell the bank you won’t use its services until it ends its complicity in Israel’s crimes. palestinecampaign.org/boycott-barcla… (4/4)

Sexual and Gender-based violence to forcibly displace Palestinians dates back to the Nakba. And it continues.

🚨 May 3 is the World Press Freedom Day More than 300 journalists were killed in Gaza since October 2023. UN Special Rapporteur @Irenekhan warned that Israel appears to be following a "deliberate strategy" & the aim is not only to kill journalists but to “kill the story.”

The UK government must ACT NOW and: • Condemn the Israeli Navy’s illegal actions against the Flotilla • Demand the safety and release of all British Citizens involved in this mission • Stop all arms exports to Israel immediately • Do everything in its power to end this ongoing genocide

🚨 START POINT ANNOUNCED - NAKBA 78 - March for Palestine United against the Far Right ⏰ Sat, 16 May, 12PM 📍 Exhibition Road, London On Saturday May 16th we need everyone who can make it to be in London for this crucial demonstration. We will march to commemorate the Nakba – for 78 years, Palestinians have been subjected to a racist system of oppression including ethnic cleansing, settler-colonialism, apartheid and genocide.  We march to reaffirm our commitment to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the refugees’ right to return home. We march against the far right in Britain who glorify Israel’s racism and brutality. Our unity and solidarity is stronger than their hatred and division. Stand with the Palestinian people whose demand for justice is as important now as ever before.

In the face of UN's inability and Italy's unwillingness to protect me from the impact of US sanctions in Europe, I am glad #Courage is acting to defend me, ICC judges/prosecutors and Palestinian HR organisations. PLEASE SIGN the PETITION and share.

One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.

Organisations are not "fungible". “Fungibility” is an assumption that if you redesign an organisation & replace one set of people with a different set, you will still get equivalent outputs. This mistaken belief underlies many organisational restructures: that you can redistribute roles, reporting lines & teams without meaningful loss. I've been reading "Communities Are Not Fungible", a recent essay by @JoanWesten7568. She examines 1960s urban renewal, when planners believed demolishing old neighbourhoods & rehousing residents would allow communities to reform. They didn't. The residents moved. The community did not. A community is not a set of people: it is a historically produced web of relationships between them. Destroy the web, & you have strangers in a building. The parallel to organisational life is uncomfortable. When we restructure, we may preserve many of the people but destroy the relational infrastructure that made them effective. The informal trust that lets someone ask for help. The shared knowledge of who to call when a process stalls. The accumulated understanding of each other's judgment. These live in relationships, not individuals. Redrawing an org chart doesn't transfer them. Research backs this up. Tacit knowledge - the "knowing how" driving real-world performance - depends on trust to flow. Break those relationships & you block the transfer. Studies show informal networks persist along old lines long after formal structures change, creating tension between old loyalties & new mandates. Social capital is the value created by connectedness. It can be destroyed in restructuring & take years to rebuild — a cost that almost never appears in a business case. What leaders can do to protect collective value: 1. Audit informal networks before redesigning formal structures. Use, eg., System Network Analysis or Relational Coordination. Breaking key network nodes causes capability losses no productivity model captures. 2. Treat relational capital as a real cost. Business cases for restructuring rarely account for social capital destruction. Making it visible leads to better decisions & stronger cases for change. 3. Design around high-value relationships. Identify relationships carrying the most trust & history & actively design the new structure to protect them while enabling necessary change. 4. Invest deliberately in building new relationships. Create conditions for them to form through shared work, peer learning & social connection. 5. Give explicit attention to belonging & psychological safety for everyone (not just those who lose or change roles): This creates conditions for the discretionary effort that makes new structures succeed. 6. Slow down at the point of irreversibility. Ask not only "what do we gain?" but "what do we lose - & can we recover it?" The value of an organisation is not the sum of its people's individual capabilities. It is the web of relationships between them. That web is not fungible. Link to Joan Westenberg's essay: joanwestenberg.com/communities-ar…. Thanks to @charlie_psych who sent me the essay.

We’re in trouble

1. You join voteclimate.uk 2. We tell you at each election the strongest vote for climate in your seat 3. We follow government progress and hold politicians to account for their climate performance 4. We take our membership numbers to the parties so they commit to ambitious action on climate, to win more votes and seats

People don’t understand the stakes because the media are as ignorant as everyone else. NASA scientist @ClimateHuman #netzero #climate #edmiliband #reform #restore

I just signed an open letter calling for Gov to stage a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis. Sign here: nebriefing.org/open-letter-ke… #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

Our global climate is in a state of emergency. The latest @WMO report clearly shows that every key climate indicator is flashing red. The way ahead must be grounded in science, common sense & the courage to take urgent #ClimateAction. wmo.int/news/media-cen…

To everyone in the UK - this could absolutely happen to you at any time. Last year one of our leading climate scientists Prof @HayleyJFowler warned the U.K. could see 2/3 of a years worth of rainfall in two days - enough to wash away cars and homes - not in 50 years time - but now. This was not reported by the media @bbcnews @itvnews @skynews @ITNProductions

The world’s most respected climate scientist issues alarming remarks. I bet 99% of the media have no idea who he is. He hasn’t been on Big Brother or I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here…

44°C in Arizona… in March. Let that sink in. Records aren’t just breaking — they’re collapsing. This isn’t natural variability. This is human-driven warming, and it’s speeding up. End war - come together and build climate mitigation urgently.

We held The Gaza Tribunal to expose the full scale of Britain's complicity in genocide. Our conclusion: the British government has been an active participant in one of the greatest crimes of our time. Read the full report below. thegazatribunal.uk/report