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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 4h

So excited for this!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 5h

This Sunday, we ride, against genocide. Join us!

Big Ride for Palestine poster. Ride departs at 11:15 from Birmingham's Centenary Square on Sunday, 4 October.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 5h

Join us on Friday for @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org's Circle the City ride, as we demand infrastructure that will protect cyclists from drivers, connect our car-dominated streets to global politics, and have fun by reclaiming road space and looking out for each other while riding as a group!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 6h

1972. We've known for so long.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 12h

Much appreciate this recap on some of the events in Dublin last week. Was an absolutely incredible time with so many amazing people.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clearly, the people with the power to protect this pedestrian street from drivers plowing through think it's just fine as it is, and are happy with the results.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Planners and politicians of Birmingham: listen to Paul!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ed Miliband might be a decent person trying to steer his colleagues toward a conscience. But the Starmer period exposed how many senior Labour figures, many still in positions of power, can stomach children being killed at scale if they think it favors their fortunes. And us millions won't forget.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Christ. Quite apart from the nauseatingly patronising attitude, what the actual fuck is he in about? One side absolutely wants to go back and is actively trying to, that's why we're here again!

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 28/09/2026

"I want to shift the focus from the technical aspects to the social and political aspects.” The goal isn’t to create more cyclists. It’s to create cities where more people can live full, healthy, connected lives—and where cycling simply becomes one of the most normal ways to do that: bit.ly/4rxF9FE

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Eric Einsame @cyclingennui.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mamdani arrived at exactly the right time:

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I still can’t believe this is true. If you’re curious, the paperback is out. A huge thanks to everyone who’s been in touch with kind words and congratulations. I’m deeply moved and honoured that my words are helping so many readers think about how to build a just future for all life on earth.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What's most remarkable about this news story from Los Angeles isn't the circumstances, sadly, but news coverage that is sympathetic to tactical urbanism and precise in its use of language. Something is shifting public perceptions of the problem of traffic violence, and how to solve it.

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Residents protest deadly intersection where 16-year-old boy was killed by hit-and-run driver

YouTube video by KTLA 5

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Drumcree was not just a ‘march’ it was an annual extended period of fear that threatened to destabilize the entire province and resulted in a significant number of deaths. No one should forget that the catalyst for the march being halted was the deaths of the Quinn boys in their firebombed home.

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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Patriots regarded the British Alliance with native peoples as a tyrannical obstacle to the colonists' right to make private property from Indian lands" (251).

A copy of American Revolutions, taken in London.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a fairly local issue. We do, after all, live in Britain, the country that is aiding and abetting the genocide.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The worst political outcome is one in which I have to share" sums up the logic of many rich people when it comes to taxes and many car owners when it comes to public space.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Because Israel won't allow skateboards to enter Gaza, skaters there have been digging through the rubble of their destroyed homes, trying to find boards and other equipment. This, too, is resistance to genocide.

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‘We skate on the rooftops of damaged buildings’: a day in the life of a skateboarder in Gaza

Rajab al-Reefi teaches children to skate to ‘bring some joy’, but finding boards and safe spaces is a daily challenge

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Michelle @michelle-colleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Impressive turnout at #criticalmass #bikeTO to show our opposition to Doug Ford's plan to rip out bike lanes & endanger our lives. Bike lanes save lives! Doug Ford is a corrupt animal. Shame on him! #cycling #visionzero #toronto #ONpoli #TOpoli

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dom Whiting's visits reveal that Birmingham's policy is to supress demand for cycling, and deprive most of its residents from having the option of getting around the city this way.

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Birmingham cyclists say 'we don't feel safe cycling here'

Thousands of cyclists hit the streets for a viral ride around Birmingham

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What a perfect illustration of what needs to be done. The infrastructure is already there, but too much of it was reserved for car owners. It's not expensive or complicated to redistribute public space. It just requires leaders with ethics, vision, and political will. #AnyCityCanDoThis

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now I'm just here to brag. I didn't write this on there, honest!

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Driving around in the SW of England last summer, everything utterly scorched, no green anywhere, tattered faded flags hanging from the lamp posts here and there, it wasn't like Mad Max exactly but it wasn't not like it either.

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meet The Radical Irish Cyclists.🔥🔥 This was the final wall art found in the hotel c/o the incredible @ibikedublin.bsky.social @peteer-ie.bsky.social

Horizontal poster on a wall of 3 kids cycling
Radical cyclists

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What a beautiful and dignified response to the insult of Netanyahu’s presence in NYC

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would love to see @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social live up to its "Be Bold, Be Birmingham" slogan by going way out on a limb and following the lead of Paris and a bunch of other cities.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home

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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.

Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House.
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you missed the book event yesterday evening on Alfred McCoy's Cold War on Five Continents, you can check it out here on YouTube!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The truth that mobility in cities is about the distribution of space is often camoflaged by the lie that mobility in cities is about police catching "dangerous drivers."

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We have a publishing date: November 2! It was a joy to co-edit this volume on the histories of women whose seemingly “mundane” actions and thought in unexpected spaces articulated bottom-up, feminist challenges to prevailing power structures. 🗃️ #BookSky #EduSky www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

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Radical in the Ordinary

Feminist protagonists, high-profile protest movements, and legislative achievements have anchored our collective memory of the struggle for women’s equality. Simultaneously, the activism for women’s r...

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today - but there's still time to register!

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thinking today of the time, not long ago, when I watched police arrest my friends for holding a sign indicating their opposition to genocide.

Police arresting someone in Birmingham, UK, for holding a sign.

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David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The East-West Cycle Superhighway in London weighs in at around £47m for about 18 miles of route. Double that for all of England is frankly pathetic.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The betrayal of #MayarYahiaSquare is a deeply shameful episode in the history of Birmingham.

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Danny Axford @dannyaxford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyday, most places :sigh: Marvel at the inefficiency, the shear waste of space and energy, the vehicles impeded by the storage of vehicles not even in use...

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

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