Category: activism
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July 4th: Independents’ Day?
Will it be Independents’ Day? Or Green day? Or Galloway day? Or hold-your-nose-and-vote-Labour day? It has to be Get the Tories Out Day. Some people are determined to vote Labour, and are saying we all need to get behind Starmer to get the Tories out. You won’t change those people, and that’s most likely what…
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Hurty feelz
My town has just experienced a stinking rotten council campaign in which the combined forces of the Labour and Green and Tory campaigns seemed to focus on a visceral desire to discredit a sitting candidate, a woman rejected by Labour, who went on to do a couple of useful years as a member of an…
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Oh no, a MAN lost his job!
Is that the headline that’ll get the attention we need on this issue? The crime…. The consequences… Up until now, it was mostly older women who got ‘switched off’, ‘cancelled’, because of the inconvenient noise trans activists made. Let’s get one thing straight — it’s not unpopular opinions people get cancelled for, nor is it…
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On being killed by politicians
It’s happening all over the world. There are several countries in Africa where people are currently yelling for attention to mass murders — but we in the bit of the world that calls itself The West are used to hearing about death in Africa. We ignore mass murder in Africa and, until recently, when the…
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Living with privatized ‘services’
The header pic is a screenshot from Southern Water’s latest self-promoting newsletter, passed to me in the week they managed to leave 31,000 households in Hastings with no water coming out of their taps, in some cases for five days straight. Southern’s incident updates made much of the fact that they set up three ‘water…
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Why we all hate Southern Water
Over the last few years, as utility bills have pushed more and more of us onto the breadline, and increasing numbers are falling over the edge into destitution, Hastings has had numerous problems with both electricity and water supplies. Water is the big issue just now. In my part of town, the taps ran dry…
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Braybrooke – I will be voting after all!
I always write a blog about my ward’s elections just before voting day. I really thought I wouldn’t this year, local politics being as it’s been lately but – look, I’m doing it! This has been a very strange election campaign period for me – a few years ago, I would have been right in…
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Facebook got it right for once
Graphic violence indeed. Facebook has taken to covering up images of USA police violently assaulting university staff and students. This is one of three horrendous arrests I had videos of on my page – the other two appear to have disappeared. In each case, it was university professors who’d come to support and protect their…
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Let more daylight in
Why are local politicians in Hastings putting their names to a Shon Faye event? What is the “sex doesn’t exist” / “sex doesn’t matter” / “it’s complicated” ideology that Shon Faye promotes? Just how convoluted is this? Let me attempt to put it a coherent sentence… Starting with Judith Butler, it’s a build-up of out-of-context…
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Who’s a racist, then?
We really aren’t that racist. What matters most to most people is figuring out how to be decent humans and get along with everyone. That doesn’t mean that racism and all the other dreadful behaviours aren’t out there – they are, and they’re deadly – but out and about amongst people, you don’t see much…
Kay Green 