Category: activism
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Israel: the whole world is watching
Across the globe this weekend, millions came out on the streets again, to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Despite the vast numbers marching in our major cities, we still had enough of us left over to run smaller events in town and village squares. Very few people like wars. Even fewer people are willing…
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Wilful Ignorance
I went to a discussion event in Brighton last week, and have been watching the furore around it on TwitX ever since. This was an unchaired discussion between Hannah Barnes and Helen Lewis on child-transition, puberty blockers and the various controversies around that topic. Looking at the #TimeToTalk tweets on the night, these were the…
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Away with your ‘day after’ talk
Palestine needs help – so does Israel. Whilst Palestinians are doing everything in their power to call for help, and everyone except US and most European politicians are trying to respond, Israelis are also making themselves heard now. Some of the October 7th victims are suing their government and the IDF, there is an Israeli…
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Are you independent enough to stand up for Hastings?
I was a member of the Green Party once. I was an enthusiastic Labour Party officer for a while. I am out of patience with party politics altogether just now – and you know, my opinions haven’t changed much. What is the point of going on supporting an organization because it once had policies you…
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Israelism: film review and three take-aways
I’m sitting in front of a big screen, crammed with 40 or more others in the back room of a pub. The film starts, and we’re watching one of those brain-melting Trump-style mass rallies, all flashing lights, reverberating electronic drums and streaming flags. Bright-eyed crowds are standing waving their arms, screaming in excitement – but…
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Resolutions for 2024: What the “United Nations” can’t do, we must
I put my head out of the door in the morning on Boxing Day, and the world seemed quite quiet – fresh, and undisturbed. I stepped outside and found my street a little damp, a little scruffy, but still there. I walked down to the local shops which were not only still there but lit…
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From Blairites to sex workers
*** Long Read*** [It’s taken me a few weeks to get around to writing this. It’s one of the articles I drafted out when I was thinking about dropping my FB account. There was absolutely no doubt it was giving me problems but, as the horror that is the Israel / Palestine story dominated even…
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Yay! Local politics just got really interesting again
Hastings has joined the growing roll of councils where politics is still alive. We’ve just developed a rebel indie group. My former socialist Labour colleagues have all been screaming at our remaining socialist councillors to step up and help the growing support for #Ceasefire in Gaza … well — I don’t know how many took…
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What every women’s rights campaigner wants for Christmas
The glorious wave of new feminist books published in this decade has been one of the joys of the women’s rights campaign. For a while, my favourite was Julie Bindel’s Feminism for Women… Oh hang on, before that there was Caroline Criado Perez’s Invisible Women… A lot of people swear by Helen Joyce’s TRANS, but…
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From Assange to AI
You forget the year, you forget the order of events, some names escape you but certain experiences stay with you, hard and bright and real, and inform everything you do for the rest of your life. Like being a part of a gathering after dark in Parliament Square, a gathering called ‘Occupy Democracy’ – hearing…
Kay Green 