Category: activism
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Please don’t make me join the Green Party again
I joined the Green Party briefly, around a decade ago, along with 60 000 others who joined in the same week for the same reason. It was a protest, when Nigel Farage was, as usual, all over the television and his party-of-the-moment had just been granted a party political broadcast slot. When the Greens asked…
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Where is the news?
Header pic: detail from a Guy Smallman photo taken in Lebanon An Israeli missile came out of the sky, without any warning, and plunged straight through the roof of the building, the blast blowing the bodies of residents out of the windows. For those who survived, there’s the option to register online for government compensation…
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Will I see you there?
***This is a long post, a personal account, which I hope will be helpful to those who maybe haven’t been in the thick of the Your Party goings on, but have been worrying about it.*** Let us suppose Jeremy Corbyn’s team are a battle-scarred political family. Let us suppose they had not entirely recovered from…
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A legal duty
I went for a walk on Hastings prom today. I went because I’ve always believed in supporting citizens’ right to protest and, living as I do in the town of the Hammerblow women, I believed, for most of my life, that our country supports a citizen’s right to stand up against violent crime. …but it’s…
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Ordinary politics?
Yesterday (that was 6th April – the nearly-Armageddon day) just like millions of other people, I spent the day trying to earn a crust and thinking that although you can’t live on the state pension, it really can’t come soon enough if I’m to hold my little world together – but also yesterday, the BBC…
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On burning ambulances
On March 23, 2025, the Israeli military attacked five ambulances, a fire truck, and a United Nations vehicle, killing 15 aid workers. Exactly one year later, someone attacked three Jewish volunteer-run ambulances in Golders Green. No one thought it was a co-incidence, but beyond that, reactions fanned out in a range of ways. It serves…
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Stand up to misogyny
This morning, I asked Shereen Benjamin if I could reproduce a post from her social media for a blog article. Here it is… Edinburgh Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) said this: Yesterday’s demo would not have been possible, or half as much fun, without the amazing Tom and Nathan from @cabaretagainst 🎶 Constantly keeping the…
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Fly a kite, tell a story, read a book…
In February last year, I went to a talk by Dr Zahira Jaser, which focused on what it’s like being a Palestinian woman in the UK lately. One of the issues mentioned was some people’s attitudes to people wearing the keffiyah. These days, people seem to think it means ‘terrorist’. Jaser spoke eloquently about the…
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The air that we breathe
When Israel bombed Iran last time, I thought – my dentist’s in Iran, visiting her mother. Please don’t kill my dentist! It sounds like a joke when I write it that way, but that’s what normal people do, when a war starts. We think of the people we know, and try to find out if…
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Democracy – who needs it?
This is a personal view of what’s currently happening in my town. Please note – it’s my opinion – I am all too well aware that there are currently people who seem to remember things panning out quite differently and I have no intention of ‘doing a whatsapp’ and setting my version against theirs. Reality…
Kay Green 