Category: activism
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Trying to guess what happened in our council yesterday
***There are now two links on the end of this post which, I think, make it pretty clear what happened.*** Hastings Borough Council full council meeting did not happen this week It’s supposed to be a meeting of citizens democratically elected to represent the town, open to members of the public who get to join…
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Trespassers Will: a great, long, monster blog-post posing as a book review
“Ownership insecurity”- a fascinating concept that, especially on the topic of land. It’s a vicious form of paranoia that threatens to manifest as soon as someone lays claim to a bit of land larger than the average family allotment. Until recently, most of us were completely baffled by the obsession Israel and its followers had…
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There’s a tiny chink of light in the darkest hour…
Close on the heels of our nationwide horror at seeing almost all of our UK politicians excusing Israel’s blatant and atrocity-strewn destruction of Gaza, this week we had to witness yet another disgrace in the House of Commons, where MPs claim to be the voice of the people. In a packed House, each MP was…
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Samud: an afternoon in Chalton Street
Today, I went to the last day of the Palestine exhibition at P21 gallery in Chalton Street, London. You can see quite a lot of it here… Click here to watch the reel on Facebook When I arrived, I recognized the face on the screen in the main hall. It was Wael Dahdouh, talking about…
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It’s Galloway — be happy — really!
Galloway wins by a landslide. He finished way ahead of Labour’s former MP, a right-wing racist and the candidate they abandoned shortly before the election. I know Galloway’s an egoist, I know he hasn’t got his head round the urgency of climate crisis and I know the nascent party he supposedly heads will probably implode…
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Is something burning?
I hope not, I really do – but I was reminded today of a tweet that blazed across the screens from women’s groups a few years ago. I had no idea who this guy was, but he said… … That was two and a half years ago. And THAT was several years after women started…
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The collective noun for feminists
It is an annoying cliché that a gathering of feminists is inevitably an argument, and I’m not going to argue with that, I’m going to tell you why it’s both inevitable and perfectly okay. Women in general A gathering of women is more likely to be noisy and argumentative than a gathering of men or…
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Inspiration from old bags
I love those bags you get given at conferences. As a trade union and a Labour Party officer a few years ago, I became a gleeful picker up of pens, badges, note books and above all, what I insist on calling book-bags, because when I wasn’t doing political conferences I was doing book fairs. Those…
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From Hastings to Gaza
Through this coming half term week, there is a series of workshops, and an exhibition of poetry and art for, by and about Palestinian children. Whether you want to spend a few minutes in the quiet hall, just looking at the paintings, to sit down and make use of the art materials provided to write…
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In memoriam
In the course of his career, John Pilger made 61 documentaries, all questioning the ‘establishment narrative’ on big, international news stories. Topics he’s covered include Palestine, the Thalidomide scandal, Julian Assange and Wikileaks, and the ‘Coke v Pepsi’ battles. Bottom up journalism People often talk about ‘bottom-up v top-down’ politics, but Pilger believed in bottom-up…
Kay Green 