Category: activism
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What is Your Party really dying of?
With thanks to Chetan Bhatt and Paul Knaggs for some definitions of things that we know but are very good at forgetting to take into account. A very wonderful am dram group presented a rendition of Peter and the Starcatcher in my town last Christmas. Good it was, funny it was, troubling it was, because…
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But seriously, folks…
Are you still ‘for the many’? Are you one of the 850,000 who signed up as soon as Jeremy Corbyn declared a new party? Are you one of the (now less than) 50,000 who are still hanging on? Or one of the 4,000 or so who are still engaged enough to join in the endorsements…
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Campaign to save the NHS from Palantir
I had a wee rant the other day about Palantir, and my doctor’s surgery’s inability to communicate with humans. This evening, I listened to Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project meeting discussing how to fight back for our NHS. Corbyn spoke about how well the government petition against Digital ID worked, getting over a million…
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Bolivar circles
There were around 20 of us – we’d come along to this month’s Left in the Cinema in Hastings. We’d just watched The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, to remind ourselves of some of the history of Venezuela. Now, the film was done, and we gathered in a circle to discuss it. We weren’t all…
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What do we need slates for?
As ‘Your Party’ struggles and spats its way to getting started, I’ve read some of the current arguments about this and that slate for Executive Committee elections, and I think this might be a key issue. What are slates for? When loads of us joined the Labour Party to support the Corbyn movement, many of…
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I’d quite like to talk to my doctor…?
Palantir was helpful for people to communicate, until Sauron got hold of it. – Lorenzo Obi Abadinas A nice man from Birmingham or some such place phoned me up and asked me if I wanted him to arrange a shingles vaccination for me at my GP’s surgery. I said ‘yes thanks, I’ve been trying to…
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What do you think about International Law?
What is International Law, and why was it established? Formalised by organisations like the United Nations, the purpose of International Law was initially to make trade deals between states workable but, and this is what interests me, also to protect us, the people of the world, from rogue governments. It is supposed to force states…
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But what can we dooooooo?
On Sunday, wondering what on earth we could do about the terrible events in the world in the last few days, I listened in to an emergency rally for Venezuela, hosted by the VSC, with attendees from the main anti-war groups and other organisations, such as trade unions. There were 500 in the zoom, and…
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International law
I wrote to my MP this morning. I suggest we all do this. Here’s what I said… Dear Helena Dollimore, In his attack on Venzuela, Donald Trump has further progressed the world’s catastrophic slide into gangster-rule. In what is without question a multiple breach of international law, Trump has kidnapped the president and his wife,…
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Nation states, surveillance and control
I am hearing resolutions this year about a renewed search for peace and justice, and liberation. Resolutions made, in many cases with more determination than hope. One of the things we need if we are to take meaningful steps toward those celestial goals is memory. In some cases, it’s just about remembering a year or…
Kay Green 