The 11th of June is the International day of solidarity with long term Anarchist prisoners. On this day we make a call for solidarity and to keep the light of revolution alive. Mutual support, care and unity are our strengths to bring down capitalism and keep our communities organised. Prison solidarity is not just a...
The sexual abuse campaigner and former reality star Georgia Harrison has told the BBC she is “honoured” to be receiving an MBE. Harrison, 30, will be awarded for her efforts to tackle violence against women and girls, which includes working with the government on the Online Safety Act in 2023. She says she feels “a...
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared to take a step toward circumventing federal laws that bar the military from taking part in domestic law enforcement in a letter she sent to the Department of Defense Sunday as the National Guard was deployed to Los Angeles amid mass protests over immigration raids. In a letter...
Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency and consequences for human lives, writing in a sharply worded letter that its actions are causing “a dramatic reduction in life-saving research.” In a June 9 letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, NIH workers said...
Writers including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Russell T Davies have put their names to an open letter – signed by 380 authors and organisations – calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The letter, also signed by Jeanette Winterson, Irvine Welsh, Kate Mosse and Elif Shafak, describes Israel’s military campaign in the territory as...
FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia — Steve Hotz started Black Horse Forge, a nonprofit organization that provides support for veterans, active-duty military personnel and first responders through the ancient art of blacksmithing. The retired sergeant, who served 17 years in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, said he started...
PDF metadata revealed a letter circulated in the House was written by Paragon Health Institute President Brian Blase. A letter that a group of 20 far-right House Republicans released earlier this week as part of a campaign in support of slashing Medicaid appears to have been authored by the head of a research institute with...
A letter written by a Titanic passenger days before the ship sank has sold for a record-breaking £300,000 ($400,000) at auction in the UK. Colonel Archibald Gracie’s letter was purchased by an anonymous buyer at Henry Aldridge and Son auction house in Wiltshire on Sunday, at a price five times higher than the £60,000 it...
Eleanor Lawrie Social Affairs Reporter Getty Images Supported housing is in crisis, the open letter says (stock image) Supported housing, which helps vulnerable or disabled people live independently, is in crisis, an open letter signed by more than 170 organisations in the sector claims. Services at one in three providers in England had to shut...
The president of the largest communal body of Jews in the UK has responded to an open letter signed by some of its representatives criticising Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Phil Rosenberg, president of The Board of Deputies of British Jews, said he disagreed with the letter, which he said “lays blame squarely on the Israeli...
The governing body did not offer any details around the investigation’s findings, which it said were “final and binding” and that it was “analysing the decision”. However, in his own statement, seen by BBC Sport, Herdman defended his actions and behaviour. “I acknowledge the Disciplinary Committee’s decision, which concluded with an admonishment, without suspension or...
Dear Editor, As was to be expected, there has been much written in recent weeks concerning the recently imposed ban on smoking in public places, and I would like to take the opportunity through your excellent, unbiased and campaigning newspaper, to say how much my life, and the the lives of my friends and family...