Sarah W

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Vegan in France. Planet, animals, music and dancing.
I still love my dog.
She/her.

Avatar is black and white medium sized dog playing with a stick. She's inside the flat in front of the open door showing its dark outside.
Background pic is sloping country garden with edge of house to the right, trees at the rear and foxgloves and marguerites in the foreground.

#vegan #anarchism #politics #France #gardening #permaculture #theArchers #ballet #music #punk #ska #disco #funk #reggae
#dancing

The Palestinian economy is witnessing one of the worst financial crises in recent global history.

In 2024, Palestinian GDP fell by 27%, marking the worst economic contraction in a generation. Gaza was particularly hard hit, with an 83% reduction in GDP, while the West Bank recorded a 17% decline.

On top its assault on Gaza, Israel is waging another kind of war in the occupied West Bank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f0f53uMqRM

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Economic crisis worsens in occupied West Bank

YouTube

"Much of the UK's saltmarshes have been lost to agriculture but [WWF] says they are unsung heroes in nature's fight against #ClimateChange.

It is now calling for these muddy, tidal habitats to be added to the official UK inventory of how much carbon is emitted and how much is removed from our atmosphere every year.
This formal recognition could, it hopes, provide more of an incentive to restore and protect more of these sites."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dq9xwd97no

UK's muddy saltmarshes vital to tackle climate change - report

The UK's saltmarshes lock away climate-warming greenhouse gases in layers of mud, a new report from WWF says.

Nearly fifty, I stand
in the slow bend of a river
listening to birdsong.

I am tired of trying to mend the world.

Soon, I must walk back
upstream, but for now

martins sift the sky, and perhaps
a kingfisher will bless the morning.

A lovely article on the *indigenous* languages of these islands (not fucking English) and why they need fighting for. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪

https://nation.cymru/opinion/welsh-the-language-that-shaped-britain/

#Cymraeg #Gaelic #Language

Welsh: the language that shaped Britain

Owen Williams Listen carefully, and you’ll hear it: a language older than the hills, older than the state. The names of rivers and mountains still whisper it – Pen-y-Fan, Penicuik, Aberystwyth, Aberdeen. These are not English names. They are Welsh, Brythonic, Celtic – fragments of the first voice of these islands. Before English. Before empire. […]

Nation.Cymru

From 31 May through 1 June 1921 the Tulsa Massacre took place. Deputized whites killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to the ground 40 square blocks of 1,265 African American homes, including hospitals, schools, and churches, and destroyed 150 businesses.

White deputies and members of the National Guard arrested and detained 6,000 Black Tulsans who were released only upon being vouched for by a white employer or other white citizen. 1/2

Tánaiste lashes out at Israeli Defence Forces 'reckless' firing on Irish troops in Lebanon https://jrnl.ie/6719589
Tánaiste lashes out at Israeli Defence Forces 'reckless' firing on Irish troops in Lebanon

Irish soldiers of the 126th Infantry Battalion, patrolling with Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers near the village of Yaroun, were fired on by Israeli Defence Forces soldiers.

TheJournal.ie
@Kellys I expect there will be more IDF firing on Irish peacekeepers, now Ireland has _finally_ made a statement and commitment on Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza
UN warns all of Gaza at risk of famine as far-right Israeli minister calls for 'full force' https://jrnl.ie/6719052
UN warns all of Gaza at risk of famine as far-right Israeli minister calls for 'full force'

A UN humanitarian spokesperson described Gaza as “the hungriest place on earth”.

TheJournal.ie
I'm pruning my overgrown bay tree today. Any tips?
One more family moment.
We are successfully distracting ourselves by looking at photos.
I wrote notes next to most of the photos and this one made us laugh.
We needed a laugh.
The grandkids wanted chickens so chickens we got. The youngest named them and felt like they were his personal pets. I remembered that he gave them nontraditional names. This one was Ratchet.
The first thing he would ask when he got to our house was if he could go outside and soft the chickens. Who could deny him.
Here he is softing a chicken.
Our lives have been blessed.