Ben Phillips

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Wrote How to Fight Inequality. Director, the Public Good Narrative Project. Served as Director at UN, Oxfam, ActionAid & Save the Children. Writing a new book.

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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

A team of workers were on a job in Edmonton, Canada, when they saw through a window a library’s public piano. “I’d told my co-workers for years I played piano,” said Archie Gould of Venger Electrostatic Coating, “but never had an opportunity to show them”:

Council of Europe TV asked me where, as we see inequality breaking our democracies and our societies, can we find hope. My answer: In ordinary people’s organising. We are the people we’ve been waiting for.

Do *not* listen to this video. The university authorities have *condemned* it and urges you *not* to listen to it and *not* to share it in case you cause others to listen to it.

If you’re failing on justice, you’re failing on health, and if you’re failing on the most marginalised people in your society, you’re failing on every person in your society. There is no success without equity.

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this is perfect our economy explained in one minute 😉

Today is Africa Day. ￼ Enjoy this brilliance by the great Mwalimu, Julius Nyerere: “The jacket was mine”

Anyway today I am thinking of this. When Sinead O’Connor was asked to perform on a TV chat show &amp; surprised everyone by changing her planned hit song, dropping the musical accompaniment, &amp; singing a hymn. This hymn. The audience wept. I do too, each time.

Where we are in the HIV response, told entirely through the front covers of the last three years UNAIDS reports, and in under one minute:

Joe Stiglitz is hopeful on the Brazilian G20 making a difference. He told me

I don’t know who needs to hear this but

Do not listen to this video. The university authorities have condemned it and urges you not to listen to it and not to share it in case you cause others to listen to it.

Today is Africa Day. Enjoy this brilliance by the great Mwalimu, Julius Nyerere: “The jacket was mine”

Anyway today I am thinking of this. When Sinead O’Connor was asked to perform on a TV chat show & surprised everyone by changing her planned hit song, dropping the musical accompaniment, & singing a hymn. This hymn. The audience wept. I do too, each time.