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Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Indeed - can’t stress enough the importance of recognising the bravery of local journalists in Palestine at this time - particularly local women journalists, who are risking so much to report the news despite the personal toll the situation inevitably takes on them – at Manhattan, NY
And she is back to work in the morning!
Shout out to Samar, Mariam & all the brave local journalists in #Gaza who are reporting what’s happening despite living through the horror! ✊🏽
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Spare us the comparisons to African and/or Middle Eastern and/or Asian nations to contextualize what is happening. This is American. Own it as such.
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
See I see a lot of people going into “what if a foreign agent” yada yada and I think that’s a bit much, but regardless now they have to *assume* everything is compromised and also inventory absolutely everything. It’ll suck.
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Since I got back to London, I see and hear people outside my window laughing & enjoying the weather, care-free. And I find myself angry at them. Angry they get to live a life without this wide-scale misery. I know it's not rational, it's unfair. But that's how I feel today.
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Foreign ministry was broken into by fed-up retired army soldiers.
“This building belongs to the people”
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Why aren’t Lebanese soldiers etc being deployed to help in the rescue/relief efforts? The state is nowhere to be seen.
Red Cross led medical response & clearance is being undertaken by civil defense (mostly volunteers) and an army of good neighbors w/ brooms/dust-pans/shovels.
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
My street is drenched in darkness. All the windows are blown out and all people inside seem to have left. But one neighbor left a candle in his empty living room and I cannot explain how much calm its small light keeps lending me.
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Was given the rate of 8,200 lira to the dollar in Beirut today.
Meanwhile, have never seen so many people asking for money on Beirut’s streets — most do not look like they’ve been asking for long.
A woman outside AUBMC kept yelling, “I’m Lebanese, lk wallah I’m Lebanese.”
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Dad closed our supermarket, the family business, due to the current financial situation. After 33 years, that business that educated us is crumbling apart. It infuriates me. It rages me. It saddens me.
If you like a politician, please unfollow. I don’t want sheep on my timeline. – at Lebanon
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
I am at a loss of words at what’s happening in #Lebanon nowadays. I was on the phone with my parents the other day. My mom hasn’t seen me in over a year, and all she kept saying is “thank god you left, there is no future here.” It breaks my heart when their voices break.
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
This is maybe the angriest thing I have ever written, and it’s how I feel about the week we’ve just seen: “Don’t tell me there are Nazis by the lake.” bylinetimes.com/2020/06/05/w… for @BylineTimes
#blacklivesmatter
#GeorgeFloyd
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Vigil in Beirut in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
Activists also demand the end of the kafala system in Lebanon, a set of rules that pushes migrant domestic workers to live in conditions that many consider modern slavery.
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Of all the economic explainers on the catastrophic situation in #Lebanon rn this is by far my favourite
The guy at the beginning says "guys, does anyone have change for two dollars?"
Absolutely love the random slipper and cake at the end
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Marches from all Lebanon converged in Tripoli today. Emotion when protestors remembered martyr Fouad El Samman, a 26 year old killed this week in the protests in Tripoli. #لبنان_ينتفض
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Here's the cover of WIRED Middle East's Spring edition, beautifully shot by @l4artiste. There are articles too! Thanks to @_LauraMack @Macoombs @withazed @MSmithJourno @JessicaMichault and, of course, many others. More here: wired.me/news/wired-middle-e…
Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Uptake of routine immunisations has dropped in many vulnerable countries, with people unable or unwilling to travel to clinics due to #COVID19. Now, disease outbreaks are inevitable
@_LauraMack for @SciDevNet #WorldImmunizationWeek
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Laura Mackenzie retweeted
Striking development in today's #Lebanon parliament session:
So many MPs had left the chamber by the end that quorum was lost, and a vote could not be held on 1,200 billion ($400 million) in govt aid for small/medium business, 30,000 agriculture workers, vocational workers, etc