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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 08/09/2026

I’ve donated to @globalvoices.org and if you have any spare cash, it’s a great organization to support. Spreading the word is also awesome if you can’t donate.

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Symposium for Strength and Solidarity @strengthandsol.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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...

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The Coda #46: It’s gonna be all right

Bill McKibben on songs that make a difference

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

#sealeychallenge Day 1 - Gabeba Baderoon's 'A hundred silences.'

Poem by Gabeba Baderoon:
Out of time

I have nothing of yours
I can keep
only your words to me
the way we place hands over faces
close each other's mouths
time a hollow bone
that draws us like breath
out of time

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Shaharzad Akbar شهرزاد اکبر @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025

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.

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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!

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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.

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 21/07/2025

🎧 Where others overlook, we listen. 🈴 Where others erase, we translate. 🌎🌍🌏 Support Global Voices’ mission to center the Global South. #KeepGVStrong🌱 globalvoices.org/donate/

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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some rapper who may be discredited in general but remains memeable saying no to billionaire-backed news media, but definitely yes to community-backed independent multilingual news media

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Justice Info @justiceinfo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"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

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 18/07/2025

Help us keep amplifying local voices, around the world. globalvoices.org/donate/

1,200+ Contributors
170+ Countries and territories
30+ Languages
20 Years
1 Mission

Amplify local voices, globally

Support our work: globalvoices.org/donate

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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/

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

@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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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 11/07/2025

🗣️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/

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Asteris Masouras @asteris.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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.

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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...

Danish coach Trine Christensen in a white sweater with brown hair and glasses quoted as saying, 'It's not whether we'lll burn out, but when.'

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Great food for thought from Murat and -as always- a joke at the end! #humanrights #turkiye #turkey

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Negin's explanation of why she chose to form a network of diverse groups, rather than one organization with a unifying mission was fascinating. She's trying to nurture mutual confidence where there is suspicion, and reframing failure as a source of growth. linktr.ee/strengthands...

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Global Voices is a remarkable organisation of which I'm privileged to be a board member, supporting hundreds of talented, passionate writers, translators, activists and bridge-builders to celebrate difference and build connection. I just donated - please join me!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

going to keep saying: it's important for basic functioning for a society to discourage baldfaced lying

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Global news with no paywall, no ads, no "ai" or llms, no data tracking ~ instead, a committed community of bloggers, translators, journalists, researchers, editors, and readers - and your support globalvoices.org/donate/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

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Patrick Zaki @patrickzaki.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Today is the Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s birthday. It also marks the fiftieth day of his mother Dr. Laila Soueif’s hunger strike asking for Alaa’s release. #freealaa

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Jessica Montell @jmontell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

TAKE THE DEAL STOP THE WAR GET OUT OF GAZA Protests around Israel tonight, as every Saturday night, to stop this fucking war

Standing Together poster of demonstrations

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We're back! Season 6 of the Strength&Solidarity pod launches with two veterans of human rights in the Middle East on Gaza; over 42K Palestinians dead from violence, an incredible 62k dead from starvation. Can the global human rights system survive such a failure? Listen: linktr.ee/strengthands...

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View strengthandsolidarity’s Linktree. Listen to their music on Spotify here.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This week's @globalvoices.bsky.social newsletter, curated by yours truly! Cycling for dumplings, calligraphic art, activist photography, and your recs for music and books from around the world from the GV community~ mailchi.mp/globalvoices...

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Local news from around the world

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Americans are learning the reality of Israeli apartheid and oppression of Palestinians from what's happening in Gaza. In S&S Ep 40, Stefanie Fox of Jewish Voice for Peace tells me how 30 years of organizing to challenge Zionist narratives is fuelling current protest. #Gaza #Apartheid #HumanRights

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akwe @akwe.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

One of the best things about my job is the people I get to work with - so much good conversation and learning. This round-table discussion was typical - some provocation, some disagreement but always more light than heat. I'm grateful. #humanrights #udhr@75 #unitednations #solidarity

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Symposium for Strength and Solidarity @strengthandsol.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

So good to see that Nick Opiyo has been honoured by the National Endowment for Democracy with a 2023 Democracy Award for Individual Courage. We're not at all surprised - see his erudite and frank challenge to anti-queer hatred in Uganda - link below. #LGBTQ #Uganda #HumanRights

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Symposium for Strength and Solidarity @strengthandsol.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

In the Coda of Episode 38 of our podcast, a Venezuelan rights investigator Lissette Gonzalez speaks to Akwe Amosu on what poetry can do that activists can’t. Listen here: strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/the...

A poem is not a political statement. It's about you, your struggle. Venezuelan Lissette Gonzalez on the power of poetry.

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