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Shireen Hassim

@shireenhassim.bsky.social
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African socialist feminist political junkie, loves all who make the world beautiful. Work in Ottawa, live in Toronto, love in Johannesburg. Knitting my way to sanity.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
More folks should watch Raoul Peck's Exterminate All the Brutes, especially right now. It's on HBO & Max. It's brilliant, and especially good at connecting slavery in the Americas with Native American genocide, and back further to European antisemitism and Islamophobia. www.hbo.com/exterminate-...
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Exterminate All the Brutes | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com
The official website for Exterminate All the Brutes on HBO, featuring interviews, schedule information, behind the scenes exclusives, and more.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I repeat: shipping people to forced labor camps in foreign countries based on little more than their ethnicity is a practice with a history.
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SALDRU @saldru.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Hello, Bluesky #EconSky! We're the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at UCT, dedicated to challenging inequalities through policy-relevant academic research. We are one of the leading Labour & Development #Economics units on the continent. Explore our work: saldru.uct.ac.za
A picture of the University of Cape Town, where SALDRU is based.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🔴 NEW 🔴 The Heritage Foundation, the group behind the radical pro-Trump Project 2025 agenda, held a private discussion this week about how to dismantle the EU. 📝 @desmog.bsky.social report 👇🏻
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Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU
The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investiga...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Have a great weekend. It could be our last.
Kemi Badenoch's latest bonkers claim about the West being in a crisis made by its own weakness.
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Shireen Hassim @shireenhassim.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"The need to be authentic was greater than the fear to die" Iman Muhsin Hendricks
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MambaOnline.Com @mambaonline.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
South Africa’s LGBTQ+ community is in shock after the assassination of Cape Town’s Muhsin Hendricks, widely known as the world’s first openly gay imam, in what appears to be a targeted killing.
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Horror as Muhsin Hendricks, "World’s First Gay Imam," Assassinated in Gqeberha
South Africa’s LGBTQ+ community is in shock after the assassination of Cape Town’s Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world’s first out gay imam.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
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University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students
These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza
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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Book extract: The origins of the use of the term ‘farm attacks’ in South Africa and how its meaning changed and assumed racial undertones EXTRACT | Farm Killings in South Africa: How the term 'farm attacks' came into use www.news24.com/news24/opini... From ‘Farm Killings in South Africa’
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EXTRACT | Farm Killings in South Africa: How the term 'farm attacks' came into use | News24
In her new book 'Farm Killings in South Africa', journalist and violence researcher Dr Nechama Brodie challenges many of the myths used to narrate farm killings.
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Shireen Hassim @shireenhassim.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Why doesn't the NYT have a share to bluesky option yet?
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Shireen Hassim @shireenhassim.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Masha Gessen in the NYT: '... the objective is to control the means of reproduction. That’s usually the goal of movements that purport to protect women and girls.'
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Opinion | The Secret Behind America’s Moral Panic
Trans rights aren’t just trans rights. They’re reproductive rights.
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Shireen Hassim @shireenhassim.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yes well, forked tongue and all that. JT has not yet stood up when it mattered on the issue of the Israeli government's impunity. 'Who we are' so far has been kowtowing to US agendas.
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Shireen Hassim @shireenhassim.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Of course they will refuse
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 21/11/2024
Kimon de Greef, Ihsaan Haffejee and Kimberly Mutandiro have been at Stilfontein reporting on the trapped zama zamas. Here Kimon describes the illegal mining situation (Ihsaan's pics mostly) groundup.org.za/article/stil... Here Kimon describes the rescue operation: groundup.org.za/article/scen...
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Stilfontein’s dangerous and desperate illegal mining industry
Zama zamas search for gold in a vast and unmapped underground network of tunnels
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.
Chart showing average number of children killed per year in global conflicts. Ukraine - 501. Syria - 4,725. Gaza - 11,355
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Nothing from Caitlyn Jenner today on the Great Capitol Bathroom Crisis.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Yes, we are also paying attention to the deafening silence of the MSNBC contributors and frequent guests to this. Will be noted and not forgotten. www.meidasplus.com/p/goodbye-mo...
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Goodbye Morning Joe. Shame on Joe and Mika.
Meidas has taken your place.
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