Khaing Zar Aung will be in London next Saturday (20th) speaking at the Trade Unions Under Military Rule in Myanmar conference, and at the comedy fundraiser in the evening where she'll be in conversation with award winning author Tansy Hoskins.
Join us:
linktr.ee/myanmarconfere…

With our friend Khaing Zar Aung from Myanmar's CTUM federation visiting the UK next week, PCS Union, No Sweat & others are hosting a comedy fundraiser for the under fire Burmese trade union movement, with the peerless Mark Thomas & more

Sat 20/4 7pm 100 Club Oxford Street

10 days to go...
Join us for a day of solidarity with Myanmar ✊🏾
Saturday 20th April:
12pm - Trade Unions Under Military Rule in Myanmar Conference
Friends House, Euston
7pm - Stand Up For Myanmar Comedy Night with Mark Thomas
The 100 Club, Oxford Street
linktr.ee/myanmarconfere…

2 WEEKS TO GO! Join us in standing up for workers' rights in Bangladesh:

- Wages Not Warrants
- No complicity with criminalising protest
- Drop all charges against workers

I read Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I must die’ after my speech at Trafalgar Square, words that have become like an anthem. An honour to read. Refaat was only a year older than me when he was killed.

Thank you to Mo Abd Mateen Robinson for this video.

From Ancient Egypt to Amy Winehouse....
My latest newsletter is a deep dive into the cultural history of eyeliner and what it means in today's fraught world, with fabulous author Zahra Hankir:
tansyhoskins.org/in-my-eye-line/

If your conception of human rights does not extend to the majority world, there is nothing human about it at all. Just white supremacy dressed up in a suit and tie.

First time visiting the Shell HQ…

We brought them a gift.

'These teenagers are giving voice to fashion’s threat of getting left behind and being outcast or punished. Even the perfectly natural process of aging is used as a threat... All of this is gendered as the term ‘basic’.'

Tansy Hoskins 👏

tansyhoskins.org/patched-ii-ski…

Less than 3 weeks to go until Mark Thomas headlines this epic benefit for unions in Myanmar.
🗓 Saturday 20th April
⏰️ 7pm
📍 The 100 Club, Oxford Street
🎟 wegottickets.com/event/611318

🚨NEW LOCATION INFO - National March for Palestine - Saturday 30 March, 12 noon
📍 Assemble Russell Square, London

We will be marching again in London on 30 March, demanding our government call for #CeasefireNOW to #StopGazaGenocide . Join us.

#FreePalestine

Next Tuesday's newsletter one of my faves - featuring the author of a new non-fiction book that deep dives into a topic close to fashion. I loved the book and I was so pleased when the author agreed to be interviewed.
It's free to subscribe tansyhoskins.org/subscribe/

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This is powerful and worth watching 👇👇

Theres a good reason to be angry about England football shirts, but it's got fuck-all to do with the colours of the St George.

Join No Sweat and fight against this inhuman capitalist exploitation.

And always, ALWAYS fuck Nike