Those of you watching #Defiance may be interested in this 1978 Sounds feature on Southall. Both Misty In Roots and Ruts DC are in it.
PunkAndNewWave Past Tense Scottish Post-Punk
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Interesting take on the social enterprise 'difference'. Olmec Olmec-Pauline maybe useful discussion point in Step Change training?
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WARNING DISTRESSING PHOTO
London 25 March. This was sent to the HSA.
A fox hanging from a fence by a belt wrapped round it's neck. Peoples behavior to animals need changing. The fox need the complete protection under the law.

I know plenty of folks who use Linux because they perceive Microsoft to be the devil, but then happily use Google products, or Amazon hosting. What am I missing?

I've backed this #solidarity #coops not #capitalism

I’ve been saying it for a while - we tax money made with money at a lower rate than we tax money made with a pair of hands. There’s no good reason why, it enriches the already rich, adds to the growing wealth gap, and makes the government less able to spend on public services…

'There is a video of an Israeli drone that is so disturbing, it is worse than the most horrifying, torture porn scene Hollywood could ever imagine. I can't fathom the terror of the last man killed, hunted after seeing his friends blown up, knowing the end is coming.' (Dr…

Oppressed peoples who suffered man made famine
showing solidarity. Continues to this day.

#OTD in 1847 – Choctaw Indians collect money to donate to starving Irish Hunger victims.

Moved by news of starvation in Ireland, a group of Choctaws gathered in Scullyville, Ok, to raise a relief fund.

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Southampton City Council: On collection days, bins should be placed on boundary of your property by 6.30am. Bins should be brought back from road/pavement by 11.59pm on day they are emptied.
Also SouthamptonCC : Bins uncollected for 3 days.
Bin on boundary is in way of posties

'A common object of worker co-ops is to reduce socially necessary labour time'. Discuss...

Did you sack all the editors and sound engineers BBC Sounds (and other podcast producers)? I find a podcast I'm really interested in but the studio presenter is twice the volume of the 'field recorded' interviewees so I end up not listening

Today sees the final session of run 6 of our Barefoot #coops and community business advisor training. A reflective session looking at how folk have applied the learning in practice and sharing lessons learned. Barefoot alumni now reaches 100. Many are delivering great support.

Imagine getting up , winding up a pack of unloved dogs , rampaging around until they illegally kill a badger and then stuffing its bloody , dismembered body up your coat and running away across a barren muddy field to try and hide the facts . FFS get a life you sad savage sicko

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Leading a story about further removal of rights to protest with the words 'political violence' is at best misleading, at worst anti-democratic. If there is violence rather than voices MPs would rather not hear, police have powers already under Public Order Acts etc #R4Today

Another attack on democracy and the right to protest. ft.com/content/e27b67…

Rob Stark from co-operative pub The Fox & Hounds in Denmead tells the story of how they saved a derelict building and have a thriving tenanted pub in their village using community shares. #coops Try a Discover Co-ops session in your area
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Clare from OctoberBooks telling the story of #Southampton co-operative community owned bookshop including the support they have received from Co-operatives UK in a Discover Co-ops session #coops . Join a session near you!
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This is what the desk looks like when you got back late after delivering a busy workshop session. Today job #1 is putting all the materials away before starting another busy day