The black panther cubs making history

“It’s lineage work, it’s not something that I do because I want to, it’s something that I do because I have to,” says Malkia Cyril, whose mom Janet Cyril was an activist in the Black Panther party. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn We spoke to Cyril, Fred Hampton Jr and Ericka Suzanne who are all children of the Black Panther party in our film ‘The Black Panther Cubs: when the revolution doesn’t come’. Born into the Black Panther movement, we join the ‘cubs’ as they continue to wrestle, 50 years later, with the dichotomy of their extraordinary childhoods: the enormous pride and love it gave them as members of the Black Panther family, and the booming loss they endured – of parents, of security, and of the hope for radical change that did not materialise. Watch the video to hear Cyril’s reflections on America’s current crisis. Follow the link to watch the documentary ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fql4jvVrxPA The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► https://bit.ly/3biVfwh Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► https://ift.tt/fKiOh4e Website ► https://ift.tt/KsUub2e Facebook ► https://ift.tt/YDsrSwO Twitter ► https://twitter.com/guardian Instagram ► https://ift.tt/tg8Ai0n The Guardian on YouTube: Guardian News ► https://bit.ly/guardiannewssubs Guardian Australia ► https://bit.ly/guardianaussubs Guardian Football ► https://bit.ly/gdnfootballsubs Guardian Sport ► https://bit.ly/gdnsportsubs It's Complicated ► https://bit.ly/ItsComplicatedSubs Guardian Live ► https://bit.ly/guardianlivesubs #blackpanther #blackpanthercubs #theblackpanthers #blackpantherparty #blackpanthers #fredhampton #elainebrown #politics #revolution

We need to tackle rampant misogyny in schools

The hit Netflix drama Adolescence has unleashed a wave of panic around teenage boys, sparked a national conversation about how to protect children from misogyny and added to longstanding scrutiny over the influence of toxic online “manfluencers”. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn The prime minister, Keir Starmer, has called for the programme to be shown in schools, while the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has said that “the behaviour of boys, their influences, and the young men they become, is a defining issue of our time”. But does the series actually reflect what schools are like at the moment? Matt Pinkett has been a teacher for more than a decade and has spent the last few years travelling around UK schools educating young people about topics from positive masculinity to misogyny. Not only does Adolescence get a lot right, Pinkett says, including that parents and teachers are struggling to grasp what’s going on – but also around how some young boys can get radicalised online; it only takes an average of 23-26 minutes for TikTok and YouTube Shorts to recommend toxic or misogynistic content to young men’s accounts, according to a study from Dublin City University. But beyond this, from what he’s seen in classrooms, Pinkett – who has written books on rethinking masculinity and improving boys’ mental health in schools – says misogyny, especially “casual misogyny”, has gone “mainstream”. And while we should be careful not to demonise young boys, he adds, “something needs to change”. This renewed attention also comes as a new report from Whitehall’s spending watchdog finds that the “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the UK is getting worse. “Tackling misogyny [in schools] is the start of tackling rape culture. It’s really important,” says Pinkett. Watch to find out more about what could be done to tackle these issues, and follow this link as our podcast team headed to a sixth form in Manchester to speak to five teenagers about what boys really think about the influences shaping their lives ► https://ift.tt/y6eWExJ #misogyny #andrewtate #adolescence #manosphere #masculinity #men

How microplastics could lead to millions of people starving

This is an “alarming scenario” for global food security, researchers are warning as they describe their findings about microplastics hindering plant growth. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences earlier this month, combined more than 3,000 observations of the impact of microplastics on plants, taken from 157 studies. They found that the world’s staple crops – such as wheat, maize and rice – are under threat from pervasive particles. “Humanity has been striving to increase food production to feed an ever-growing population [but] these ongoing efforts are now being jeopardised by plastic pollution,” said the researchers, led by Prof Huan Zhong, at Nanjing University in China. People’s bodies are already widely contaminated by microplastics, consumed through food and water. They have been found in blood, brains, breast milk, placentas and bone marrow. The impact on human health is largely unknown, but they have been linked to strokes and heart attacks. To understand exactly how microplastics are threatening millions of people with starvation, watch this video explainer with our environment editor, Damian Carrington – and here for his deeper reporting ► https://ift.tt/dgYknrc The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► https://bit.ly/3biVfwh Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► https://ift.tt/PYNtJZd Website ► https://ift.tt/rjbx7XE Facebook ► https://ift.tt/6hqDpt2 Twitter ► https://twitter.com/guardian Instagram ► https://ift.tt/2vbgr1q The Guardian on YouTube: Guardian News ► https://bit.ly/guardiannewssubs Guardian Australia ► https://bit.ly/guardianaussubs Guardian Football ► https://bit.ly/gdnfootballsubs Guardian Sport ► https://bit.ly/gdnsportsubs It's Complicated ► https://bit.ly/ItsComplicatedSubs Guardian Live ► https://bit.ly/guardianlivesubs #microplastics #plastic #plasticpollution #nanoplastic #plasticwaste #recycling #photosynthesis #foodshortages #food #foodproduction

The Gaza girl whose face was ‘ripped off’ by an Israeli missile

Last June, Mazyouna was at home in Gaza when an Israeli missile struck her house. The blast threw Mazyouna and her mother out on to the street. Her little sister Tala was buried under the rubble but found alive. The bodies of her siblings Hala, 13, and Mohannad, 10, were pulled out of the wreckage in the hours after the attack. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn For five months, as Mazyouna’s wounds became infected and she suffered constant pain from the shrapnel still lodged in her face, her parents repeatedly tried to get permission from COGAT, the Israeli government body for humanitarian affairs, for her to be medically evacuated to the US, where a team of surgeons was waiting to treat her. Finally, in November, she, her mother and her sister were allowed to leave Gaza and travelled with three other critically injured children to the other side of the world, arriving in Texas where she will undergo multiple surgeries and try to rebuild her life. Mazyouna is just one of the thousands of children in Gaza who have been evacuated from Gaza to receive lifesaving treatment abroad. Last month, the World Health Organization urged a rapid scaling-up of medical evacuations from Gaza, where thousands remain in critical condition and an estimated 5,000 children require urgent removal for treatment abroad. Watch the full film here ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1J4O4wzccI The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► https://bit.ly/3biVfwh Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► https://ift.tt/JzgQMhv Website ► https://ift.tt/BQxHv3E Facebook ► https://ift.tt/SVnspk8 Twitter ► https://twitter.com/guardian Instagram ► https://ift.tt/NodJfcA The Guardian on YouTube: Guardian News ► https://bit.ly/guardiannewssubs Guardian Australia ► https://bit.ly/guardianaussubs Guardian Football ► https://bit.ly/gdnfootballsubs Guardian Sport ► https://bit.ly/gdnsportsubs It's Complicated ► https://bit.ly/ItsComplicatedSubs Guardian Live ► https://bit.ly/guardianlivesubs

Can the UK fix its broken prison system?

The prison population in England and Wales has doubled in the last 30 years, with overcrowding now endemic across the system. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn But the government's strategy of easing this pressure by granting early release to thousands of offenders has had a knock-on effect. With many lacking stability on the outside, reoffending rates are high, exacerbating the existing problem. The Guardian visited Wales to see this playing out on the streets of Bridgend; and the Netherlands, to find out how the Dutch have managed to close more than 20 prisons in the past 10 years, seemingly in complete contrast to the struggles in Britain With thanks to Prison Escape Utrecht: https://ift.tt/4ZVG9lx The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► https://bit.ly/3biVfwh Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► https://ift.tt/pUOImDa Website ► https://ift.tt/XxKGM6W Facebook ► https://ift.tt/Cka5pLR Twitter ► https://twitter.com/guardian Instagram ► https://ift.tt/4eDh50t The Guardian on YouTube: Guardian News ► https://bit.ly/guardiannewssubs Guardian Australia ► https://bit.ly/guardianaussubs Guardian Football ► https://bit.ly/gdnfootballsubs Guardian Sport ► https://bit.ly/gdnsportsubs It's Complicated ► https://bit.ly/ItsComplicatedSubs Guardian Live ► https://bit.ly/guardianlivesubs #prisons #uk #jail #youngoffenders #repeatoffenders #hmp

Disability welfare cuts: ‘They want me to sit in my wheelchair and do nothing’

Disability services in the UK have been consistently cut after 14 years of Tory rule and austerity. Now disability welfare payments are being targeted for a fresh round of cuts by Keir Starmer's Labour government. Musician and activist John Kelly is concerned that politicians are still not listening to disabled voices and what they need to live an independent life. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► https://bit.ly/3biVfwh Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► https://ift.tt/3Zdf0zA Website ► https://ift.tt/YrMHwRB Facebook ► https://ift.tt/cXoseDi Twitter ► https://twitter.com/guardian Instagram ► https://ift.tt/hM96DGf The Guardian on YouTube: Guardian News ► https://bit.ly/guardiannewssubs Guardian Australia ► https://bit.ly/guardianaussubs Guardian Football ► https://bit.ly/gdnfootballsubs Guardian Sport ► https://bit.ly/gdnsportsubs It's Complicated ► https://bit.ly/ItsComplicatedSubs Guardian Live ► https://bit.ly/guardianlivesubs #disabilitybenefits #disabled #disability #politics #uk #keirstarmer #austerity

Refusing to fight: Israelis against the war in Gaza

For many Israelis, military service is a rite of passage that lasts two to three years. Being such a formative part of the social contract in Israel, it is unusual for eligible young people to refuse their draft orders. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn Every year some ask for exemptions, but only a handful openly declare themselves as conscientious objectors, commonly known as refuseniks. However, since 7 October and the war in Gaza, refusenik organisations say the number of people refusing the draft has risen, even though during wartime punishments are harsher. The Guardian’s Middle East correspondent, Bethan McKernan, spent time with Itamar Greenberg, an 18-year-old who has been in and out of military prison for almost a year as a result of his refusal to serve The Guardian publishes independent journalism, made possible by supporters. Contribute to The Guardian today ► https://bit.ly/3biVfwh Sign up to the Guardian's free new daily newsletter, First Edition ► https://ift.tt/fbWJwAB Website ► https://ift.tt/PAb60Cj Facebook ► https://ift.tt/i85kLDP Twitter ► https://twitter.com/guardian Instagram ► https://ift.tt/NdjcOBX The Guardian on YouTube: Guardian News ► https://bit.ly/guardiannewssubs Guardian Australia ► https://bit.ly/guardianaussubs Guardian Football ► https://bit.ly/gdnfootballsubs Guardian Sport ► https://bit.ly/gdnsportsubs It's Complicated ► https://bit.ly/ItsComplicatedSubs Guardian Live ► https://bit.ly/guardianlivesubs #israel #refuseniks #antiwar #gaza #palestine #gazawar #idf #middleeast