Category: activism
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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…
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The long road to Farringdon
aka state of the Sisterhood 2025 ***NB there is a damning view of the Labour Party here, and a lot about FiLiA 2025 along the way, so I would like to make a distinction: whilst the Labour Party deserves to be despised, FiLiA is a unique and tremendously useful organisation, a charity which is largely…
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An orgy of destruction
Your Party, FiLiA, Zionism, the trans issue… People are asking now, is Your Party over? We never did figure out who ‘you’ is but, after New Year, local groups across the country who reckon we are us will be mustering to do what Your Party founding documents require, which is to organise, to further engage…
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Credit where it’s due
[Header image: a video by The Canary, as the police inform those standing vigil that an ambulance is finally on its way to Bronzefield] To friends who aren’t willing to give Your Party a go, and to those who’ve given up in exasperation – I get it, I really do! But – well, the following…
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There’s a one-in-five chance you just don’t matter
What if someone convinced you that we have a government that has consciously abandoned around one fifth of our population to a miserable life and an early death? Doesn’t it make you angry? Doesn’t it make you want to leap over all the bullshit and fix this hellishly dysfunctional country? In the course of education…
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A cascade of burning books
Three books, a short film and a talk This morning, I read somewhere that Israel has a huge mental health crisis to deal with after all the tormenting and killing of Palestinians the IDF have been doing in Gaza and across the West Bank. It made me think about what kind of trauma must be…
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How do you salve a guilty conscience?
Well, one way is to point attention away from yourself – spread the guilt around as far as you can. This weekend saw protests like these all over the UK – five of our own in Hastings were arrested. Our local activists have been on pretty friendly terms with Hastings police, especially those who have…
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This is what we mean by erasing women
‘Your Party’ have chosen the delegates for their first conference ‘by sortition’. They said this would ensure that a genuinely representative cross section of their supporters would be present. I suppose as we’re aiming for a ‘bottom up’ democracy, the fact that this has ruled out some of the natural leaders who’ve been working for…
Kay Green 