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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📣 Dispatch 16 of #VoicesOfResistance is now live! Safa Ahmed examines how Hindutva politics casts Muslim life in India as a security threat - from “love jihad” to “vote jihad” - legitimising #surveillance, #criminalisation and violence while Hindu supremacist violence is framed as defence. Read ⬇️

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Securitization, Jihad, and Hindu Supremacy in India by Safa Ahmed - Noor

When targeting Muslim communities, securitization is often justified by the same bogeyman: jihad, that nebulous specter of Muslim-perpetrated violence against the non-Muslim masses. According to the f...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(2/2): From anti-war and anti-ICE protests to student encampments and movements for Palestinian liberation, the piece asks us to imagine a politics rooted in collective care and mutual liberation. 🔗 Read Dispatch 15: wearenoor.org/violent-domi... #AgainstSecuritization #StateViolence

“Those who resist dominance, or those who dissent, will naturally be framed as the state’s biggest threat to achieving dominance.”

“The war the United States has launched on its own citizens is impossible to extract from the war on Iran.”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(1/2): Have you read our latest #VoicesOfResistance dispatch yet? In “Violent Domination: Legacies of the American Empire,” Tina Al-khersan examines how securitisation connects state violence at home with US violence abroad, and how resistance can challenge these systems of domination.

“If the state can unleash violence on its own civilians, what then can it do to the ‘others’ deemed less worthy?”

“Violence imbued every point of a colonizing state’s formation and maintenance.”

“Securitisation thus became the means for which the United States was able to continue to use violence as a tool to maintain power and dominance.”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📣 Dispatch 15 of #VoicesOfResistance is live! Tina Al-khersan traces US #StateViolence from immigration raids & repression at home to war abroad through American empire. How does securitisation turn dissent into “threat”? And how can resistance help us imagine a world beyond violent domination?

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Violent Domination: Legacies of the American Empire by Tina Al-khersan - Noor

As the United States wages wars abroad in Palestine and Iran, the administration has been waging its own war domestically, manufacturing threats to license violence the state typically reserves for ex...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(1/2): Missed the global launch of Roots of Hate or want to revisit the conversation? The recording is now live! 🎥 Hear activists & experts from across the Caribbean unpack anti-rights and anti-gender movements, their impacts, and the resistance taking shape. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onlz...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

💊 Ready to take The Pink Pill? Introducing Noor’s new podcast, The Pink Pill — conversations with activists, thinkers, artists and academics unpacking fascisms, fundamentalisms, gender, power and resistance through feminist, anti-racist and decolonial perspectives. 🎙️ Coming soon. Stay tuned.

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

(1/3): Meet our speakers! 📣 Join us on 2 Sept for the global launch of #RootsOfHate, bringing together voices from across the #Caribbean to unpack the forces driving #antirights & #antigender movements across the region.

Zoë Mercedes Teague: Zoë Mercedes Teague is a multi-faceted bold Queeribbean (queer + Caribbean) woman. She was born, raised and educated in the twin-island state of Antigua & Barbuda and then moved onto Barbados and Jamaica where she pursued her legal studies. She describes herself as a “Jane of many trades” as she is an accomplished lawyer, creative entrepreneur, gender justice and LGBTQI+ activist, content creator, public speaker, writer, narrative change practitioner, black feminist, philanthropy professional and deeply passionate about the Caribbean region. This multi-dimensionality shines through her work and gives her a unique vantage point in which she approaches every opportunity. A key part of Zoë’s life and work is centered around gratitude. She is the creator of the mantra “life nice. Thank you, more please.” which has grown from mantra to movement, inspiring many others to shift their perspective and see life through a more expansive lens. It is all of this passion, lived experience and dynamism that Zoe brings to her intervention, this panel discussion and to life, more broadly.

Patrice Daniel: Patrice Daniel is an Afro-Caribbean feminist and Psychotherapist from Barbados. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counselling from Vermont, USA. Her academic background is rooted in anti-oppression teachings, focusing on dismantling white supremacy and cisheteropatriarchy. Having minored in Sociology and Anthropology, she locates the individual person within the wider socio-cultural context. Patrice’s recent work has included supporting gender-focused research, advising within world health systems, and organising around Global South feminism as a distinct political identity. She has a significant history in social justice, particularly in sexual and reproductive justice and combating gender-based violence. As a feminist and anti-racist practitioner, Patrice creates participatory workshops, guides student research, and challenges regional and international organisations to engage in anti-colonial work.

Judith Wedderburn: Ms. Judith Wedderburn is the recently retired Director of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, (FES) Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean, and for over 30 years, has been an advocate in the field of gender and development in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. Ms. Wedderburn was responsible for the conceptual development of education and training programmes, and the design and implementation of diverse “learning experiences”, which involved the use of conventional as well as participatory methodologies. These programmes were developed in collaboration with a diverse range of partners in civil society, the public sector, trade unions and the academic community, nationally and regionally.

Nastassia Rambarran: Nastassia Rambarran (she/her) is a Guyanese Barbadian researcher, activist and writer whose work focuses on LGBTQ+ history and health, human rights, decoloniality, and climate and gender justice.

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(2/3): In “Sell Your Cleverness,” @petramolnar.com challenges the inevitability of tech-driven borders — and the idea that people can be reduced to risks to be scored, bodies to be sorted and data points to be tracked.

“Rather, I have seen again and again the tenacity, care, stubbornness, creativity, and contestation of people who the system tries as hard as it might to reduce to data points and iris scans to remain steadfastly themselves.”

“Let us, instead, practice the bewildered conviction that no one is illegal, that no one is a threat for moving, that apartheid will fall, and that any notion of a safe and secure world should always be rooted in care."

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

(1/3): At today’s borders, drones, biometric scanners and #AI systems are sold as smarter, safer and more objective ways to manage human movement. But behind the promise of innovation lies a border-industrial complex built on #surveillance, #securitisation and profit. #VoicesOfResistance

“There is a lie at the heart of every modern border, and it is dressed as innovation”

“The border remains one of the most lucrative markets on earth (Akkerman; Akkerman et al.), and every political panic about people-on-the-move becomes a sales opportunity (De Genova)”

“Feminist and decolonial traditions have always insisted that real security is the presence of what people actually need: housing, a doctor, a community that will not turn you in”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

(2/3): Hear directly from movement organisers about how anti-rights actors are building power and connecting across borders & the Caribbean’s powerful traditions of feminist, Black, Indigenous, queer, labour, anti-colonial and popular resistance. French & Spanish interpretation provided 🔗 Register

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A virtual global launch hosted by Noor and invited Caribbean movement speakers for a presentation and discussion of the legal, financial, ideological and organisational infrastructures shaping anti-ge...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

(1/3): 📣 Save the date: Roots of Hate is launching globally! Join Noor and Caribbean movement organisers for the virtual global launch of Roots of Hate — unpacking the forces shaping anti-gender and anti-rights movements across the Caribbean. #RootsOfHate #NoorResearch

JOIN US FOR THE
VIRTUAL GLOBAL LAUNCH OF

ROOTS OF HATE:
FASCIST AND
FUNDAMENTALIST
NARRATIVES AND ACTORS
IN THE Caribbean

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2 September 2026

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

📣 Dispatch 14 of #VoicesOfResistance is here! @petramolnar.com exposes the “cleverness” of digital borders — where #AI, biometrics and surveillance turn people on the move into risks to be sorted and controlled. What if security was rooted in care instead? 🔗 Read: wearenoor.org/sell-your-cl...

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Sell Your Cleverness by Petra Molnar - Noor

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” – Rumi Graffiti in Edinburgh, P. Molnar, 2024 There is a lie at the heart of every modern border, and it is dressed as innovation. We are told again and ag...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

(3/3): The conversation builds on Noor’s Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean, which examines the narratives, actors and networks driving anti-rights mobilisation across the region. 📖 Read the report ahead of the session: wearenoor.org/roots-of-hat...

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Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - Noor

This report examines how anti-gender and anti-rights movements are expanding across the region within a broader context of imperialism, authoritarianism, racial capitalism and ongoing crisis. Building...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

(1/3): How is anti-rights backlash reshaping masculinities work, gender justice and movement-building across the Caribbean? Join Noor + CariMAN for Learning Together — an online learning exchange and facilitated dialogue. 📅 9 Sept | 10am–12pm AST 💻 Online

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

✍️ جديد ضمن #زمالة_الصحافة_النسوية: الصحافة بوصفها مقاومة: "النكتة التي ليست نكتة: داخل «جهاد الهاهاها» ضد مجتمع الميم في مصر" بقلم إيناس كمال. تحقيق يكشف كيف يُستخدم التحرش الرقمي المنسق وحملات الذعر الأخلاقي كسلاح ضد أفراد مجتمع الميم في #مصر. 🔗 اقرأوا التحقيق الآن:

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النكتة التي ليست نكتة: داخل “جهاد الهاهاها” ضد مجتمع الكوير في مصر - Noor

هذا المقال متوفر أيضًا باللغة الإنجليزية . تم إنتاج هذه القصة في إطار زمالة الصحفية النسوية، وهي جزء من سلسلة تسلط الضوء على عمل زميلاتنا، طُورت بالتعاون مع مجلة ما انحكت ونور. يومًا بعد يوم، تتحول أن...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

(2/3): In "One Thing After Another: The Politics of Police Technologies", Chris Jones explores how digital policing and #AI reinforce surveillance, repression, and everyday inequalities & why resisting individual technologies isn't enough without challenging the broader systems that produce them.

"Opposition to a particular law, technology or corporation will, on its own, never be sufficient.”

“The technological forces that are reshaping police powers are generated through complex webs of money, power, science and academia. […]Overcoming that is a far larger challenge than single-issue campaigns.”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

(1/3): #Surveillance rarely arrives all at once. It grows one technology at a time - from airport spot-checks to AI-powered policing, predictive algorithms, and expanding border controls. Each new tool promises "security" while quietly reshaping the limits of state power.

“The digital harvest sought by the police is in fact one of fruits that ripen, but are never quite ready.”

“Even supposedly ‘progressive’ governments tend to continue providing new repressive powers to the forces of law and order, with fear and suspicion whipped up by media outlets to help usher in new laws.”

“Patrick Williams has aptly noted that predictive policing would best be referred to as “predictable” policing (Amnesty International, 2025).”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Missed the live webinar? Watch the recording of our Big Tech Cash for the Backlash global launch and hear from the researchers and movement leaders behind the investigation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub_o...

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Big Tech Cash for the Backlash: Corporate Funding Flows Sowing Hate

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

(2/3): Our speakers bring expertise across investigative journalism, feminist organising, digital rights & philanthropy to unpack the report's findings & what they mean for movements resisting anti-rights backlash worldwide. #BigTechCashForBacklash #BigTech #PhilanthropyWatch #NOORxIJSC

Jerry Richardson - Jerry Richardson Is a researcher at the Institute for Journalism and Social Change (IJSC), where her work has been predominantly focused on cross-border follow-the-money investigations. She has a Master’s degree in Investigative Reporting from Birkbeck, University of London and previously worked on investigations at Truth Defence, a non-profit focused on state-disinformation and lawfare.

Sheena G. Magenya - Sheena G. Magenya has nearly two decades of civil society working experience in East and Southern Africa. She has a background in media and communications, and is interested in the opportunities that African women have to influence and effect change in social and political spaces, including online spaces. She is curious about technology and the internet, and passionate about intersectional feminist ideas and approaches to social justice. Sheena leads Communications and Community Engagement at the Association for Progressive Communication’s Women’s Rights Programme.

Justin Chidozie - Justin Chidozie the Co-Executive Director of CHEVS, a youth-led feminist collective advancing LGBTQI+ equality across Africa. A public policy professional with six years of experience in the LGBTQI+ and feminist movement, Justin works at the intersection of rights advocacy, strategic partnerships, and movement building across the African continent. At CHEVS, Justin leads the organisation's overall programme strategy, navigating the complex terrain of funding, power, and accountability that shapes what is possible for frontline organisations in the Global South. His work has given him a grounded, first-hand understanding of how external funding flows — including those from major philanthropic institutions — can simultaneously resource and undermine the communities they claim to support.

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

(1/3): Who's joining us for the global launch of Big Tech Cash for the Backlash? 👀 Join us for a conversation on corporate funding, the political economy of the anti-rights movement, & what transparency, accountability & defunding hate can look like in practice. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

VIRTUAL GLOBAL LAUNCH - BIG TECH CASH FOR THE BACKLASH: Corporate Funding Flows Sowing Hate - 16 July 2026 1 PM UTC / 9 AM New York / 4 PM Beirut. Available in English, Spanish and French. Registration required.

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (moderator) - Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is an African Feminist activist and the author of The Sex Lives of African Women. She was cited by the BBC as one of its 100 most inspirational and influential women from around the world in 2022. She is the CEO of MAKEDA PR, a strategic communications company that specialises in working with feminist organisations globally, and Co-Founder of MASI Media which produces Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, a website, podcast and festival that publishes and creates content that tells stories of African women’s experiences around sex, sexualities, and pleasure. She was previously Director of Communications and Tactics at the global feminist organisation AWID. She’s the Co-Founder/Co-Director of the Institute of Journalism

Islam Al Khatib (moderator) - Islam Al Khatib a Palestinian researcher and doctoral candidate at the LSE. Her work sits at the intersection of surveillance, knowledge production, and global tech infrastructures islam is currently the Knowledge building co-strategist at Noor’s, The (KB) Unit mission is to move beyond the one-size-fits-all paradigm and address the rising anti-rights movements, trends, and rhetoric. We operate on both macro and micro levels, analyzing discourse, tactics, imaginaries, funding streams, and institutions associated with these movements. Our focus extends to understanding their impact on democracy, marginalized groups, civil society, and societies as a whole.

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

(1/2): ¡Debido a la gran demanda, la Escuela Conoce a Tu Enemigo 2026 ofrecerá interpretación al español! 💥 Si necesitas interpretación al español, indícalo en tu solicitud. El plazo de solicitud finaliza el 6 de julio. Solicita aquí: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

(1/3): 📢 Join the global virtual launch of Big Tech Cash for the Backlash, a new investigation by @ijsc.bsky.social & Noor exposing how #BigTech philanthropy has funded anti-rights orgs while also supporting human rights groups. #BigTechCashForBacklash #NOORxIJSC

July 2026 1 PM UTC / 9 AM New York / 4 PM Beirut. Available in English, Spanish and French. Registration required.

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Thrilled to launch Roots of Hate: Fascist & Fundamentalist Narratives & Actors in the Caribbean—3rd in Noor’s #RootsOfHate series! Mapping anti-gender & anti-rights movements across the #Caribbean amid imperialism, authoritarianism, racial capitalism & climate crisis. wearenoor.org/roots-of-hat...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

(2/3): The impacts are material and uneven. They are shaped by both colonial legacies and contemporary power structures that continue to influence whose rights, voices, and futures are valued and protected.

On Caribbean traditions of resistance
“This is the region of the Haitian Revolution, the first successful slave revolt to build a free Black republic. It is the region of Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, Claudia Jones, Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, M. Jacqui Alexander. Caribbean feminist, Black, queer, Indigenous and working-class movements have been teaching the world how to resist for centuries.”

On polycrisis “Polycrisis is not a backdrop to fascism and fundamentalism. It is the condition that allows them to grow.”

On Caribbean resistance as tradition “The Caribbean has never stopped producing movements, thinkers and organizers who refuse the terms of their oppression. That refusal is itself a tradition.”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

(1/3): Our latest #RootsOfHate mapping report explores how anti-rights and exclusionary movements shape law, public discourse, and everyday life across the #Caribbean. These dynamics are not abstract; they have real political & social consequences for communities across the region.

Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - Consequences in the Region

On the region in crisis “This mapping is being published while a region is in crisis, and the crisis is not singular. Cuba is enduring the intensified suffocation of a renewed U.S. embargo, Haiti is facing the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the Western Hemisphere, while Jamaica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Haiti are still rebuilding from the October 2025 Hurricane Melissa.”

On the consequences in the Caribbean
“The consequences are not abstract. They translate into court cases defending colonial-era anti-sodomy laws, regional conferences, billboards greeting delegates at regional summits, and legislation banning gender-affirming care.”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

(3/3): By following funding flows, institutional relationships, and shared narratives, the report reveals how anti-rights actors build influence and shape laws, policies, and public discourse. Read the full report for the evidence and analysis: wearenoor.org/roots-of-hat...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

(2/3): It traces the actors, alliances, and infrastructures that sustain these movements. It shows how ideology, resources, and political strategy move together across countries, connecting local campaigns to broader global agendas.

On how anti-rights movements operate “Anti-gender and anti-rights movements move across all of these roots, frequently connecting actors, sharing strategies, and targeting the most marginalized.”

On the Caribbean as a site of thought “Shaped by geopolitics that treat the region as a site of extraction rather than a site of thought, this mapping follows the lead of, and learns alongside, the scholars, activists and movements already doing this work for decades.”

On Caribbean feminist and LGBTIQ+ movements “Caribbean feminist and LGBTIQ+ movements have long been the ones naming these forces, tracking them and resisting them on the ground.”

On the anti-rights project “Anti-gender and anti-rights organizations are well resourced, well coordinated and ideologically committed to reverse the rights that feminist, queer and progressive movements won.”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

(1/3): #RootsOfHate - Caribbean report maps how anti-rights movements are structured, funded & coordinated across borders. It examines how power operates through transnational networks, strategic funding, political influence, & coordinated messaging to challenge advances in gender and sexual rights.

Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - How Anti-Rights Power Operates

On the natural family “The ‘natural family' is a dog whistle for white supremacist values.”

On extractivism “Extractivism is a key tool in colonial and neocolonial projects.”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

(2/2): But the Caribbean is also a site of theory, resistance, and knowledge shaped by generations of feminist, queer, Black and Indigenous organising. Read the full report to explore the analysis and case studies in depth wearenoor.org/roots-of-hat...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

(1/2): Our new mapping shows how anti-rights and fundamentalist movements in the #Caribbean are not isolated, but part of deeply entangled global systems of power — from extractivism to coordinated funding and ideological networks that move across borders.

Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - A Transnational Field of Power

On the entanglement of forces
“These roots share soil. They share actors.”

On global power and the Caribbean
“What happens in the Caribbean is never only about the Caribbean.”
(Audre Lorde framing)

On the under-researched gap
“That absence from wider literature is not neutral; it reflects the same patterns of invisibilization that Noor's work exists to challenge.”

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

(2/2): In its 2nd edition, the School deepens feminist political education on propaganda, funding networks, infiltration & the political economy of the far right. Applications close 06 July 2026. APPLY NOW wearenoor.org/noors-popula...

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NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

(1/2): Applications are now open for Noor’s Popular Education School - #KnowYourEnemy 2026. A 5-week political formation space for organisers, activists & thinkers confronting the far right in real time - not just resisting, but analysing and building collective power.

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