“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"
- Paulo Freire

#Gaza
"As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation”
- Paulo Freire
“the former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. Conditioned by the experience of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear

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shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor travelled, much less listened to Beethoven. Any restriction on this way of life, in the name of the rights of the community, appears to the former

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oppressors as a profound violation of their individual rights – although they had no respect for the millions who suffered and died of hunger, pain, sorrow, and despair. For the oppressors, 'human beings' refers only to themselves; other people are 'things' ”
- Paulo Freire

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IMPORTANT QUOTATION!

“It would be an extremely naive attitude to wait for the ruling classes to develop a form of education that would provide the dominated classes with the means to understand social injustices in a critical way”
- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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21 May
SOME other matters that @BBCNews should ask Lord Dyson to investigate

1. BBC coverage of the Miners' Strike including Orgreave
2. How BBC systematically pushed Government agenda to push Austerity
3. How BBC has failed to properly inform as to the dangers of the Climate Crisis
4. How BBC has shown consistent bias against Scottish independence
5. How BBC systematically - and profoundly antidemocratically - smeared Jeremy Corbyn
6. How BBC effectively treat millions & millions of poor people in the UK as invisible
7. How BBC reports as Govt policy dictates rather than truth as they see it in Israel/Palestine, Saudi etc
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20 May
“The whole educational & professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on - because they're dysfunctional to the institutions”
- Noam Chomsky
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
- Noam Chomsky
“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit”
- Noam Chomsky
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3 May
Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's 1984?

Charles McGrath: -
"Huxley believed that his version of dystopia was the more plausible one. In a 1949 letter, thanking Orwell for sending him a copy of “1984,” he wrote that he really didn’t think all that torture and jackbooting

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was necessary to subdue a population, and that he believed his own book offered a better solution. All you need to do, he said, is teach people to love their servitude. The totalitarian rulers in Huxley’s book do this not by oppressing their citizens but by giving them

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exactly what they want, or what they think they want — which is basically sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll — and lulling them into complacency. The system entails a certain Trump-like suspicion of science and dismissal of history, but that’s a price the inhabitants

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2 May
I live in London. BUT if I lived in Hartlepool, I would vote for @Thelma_DWalker of the @FreeNorthNow
Here’s why in a thread
1.The candidate
2.Why I would not vote Labour anymore after a lifetime of doing so
3.Ten reasons from the Northern Independence Party Manifesto

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I've met Thelma Walker and believe we badly need people like Thelma in Parliament

Thelma spent decades as a teacher and a headteacher and was an MP from 2017 to 2019. She is clear-thinking, passionate and persuasive about Green issues, education, Social Justice and much more!
I resigned from Labour after 30 years. As a left-wing Jew, supporting social justice in UK and abroad, including the human & civil rights of the Palestinians, I felt very unwelcome in Starmer’s party

I saw Starmer break multiple promises to members & felt I could not trust him
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1 May
MUSIC by Raymond Carver

Franz Liszt eloped with Countess Marie D'Agoult,
who wrote novels. Polite society washed its hands
of him, and his countess-novelist whore.
Liszt gave her three children, and music.
Then went off with Princess Wittgenstein.

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Cosima, Liszt's daughter, married
the conductor, Hans von Bülow.
But Richard Wagner stole her. Took her away
to Bayreuth. Where Liszt showed up one morning.
Long white hair flouncing.
Shaking his fist. Music. Music!
Everybody grew more famous.

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"It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar"
- Raymond Carver
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"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins"
- I. F. Stone, probably my favourite 20th century journalist (and clear-sighted campaigner)
"All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out"
I. F. Stone

Johnson's Govt LIES & LIES, so that even members of the Govt cannot tell LIES from TRUTH
"Societies are kept stable & healthy by reform, not by thought police; there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress & to invite revolution and war"
- I F Stone
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