Category: activism
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Out Promenading with Hastings Friends of Al Mawasi
Hastings Friends of Al Mawasi had a sponsored walk along the seafront a week or two back, and had a bit of bother from some of those people who don’t understand why we defend Palestine (it’s because settler-colonialism is a particularly violent form of illegal occupation and in Palestine, it’s escalated to genocide.) So, to…
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Helena Dollimore sent me another letter
When the Handala was attacked and boarded by Israeli occupation troops, and its crew abducted, I wrote to my MP asking her how the government is supposed to respond to acts of piracy. Just as when the Madleen was attacked, she responded with a letter full of her opinions about Israel / Palestine. Here is…
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Here’s how to help bring down this dreadful government from the safety of your own home
Step one is watching the Handala tracker. Step two is making sure you have the email addresses of your MP and the Foreign Office to hand. Why is this such a powerful opportunity? Because there’s plenty of evidence that Keir Starmer and his associates were seriously put out by our reactions to the attack on…
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Pirates ahoy!
A cry central to the history and spirit of Hastings — I wonder if an understanding of that will outlast the determination of commercial developers to fill the town with those who can afford affordable (and even unaffordable) housing. The Stade and all who sail in her It’s a favourite twist in Hastings history, the…
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Forever black? I don’t think so.
After October 7th 2023, as soon as it became clear that neither our government nor the mainstream media were capable of giving due respect to Arab lives when Israel was in the equation, some of us changed our social media profiles to black, and declared that they would stay that way until our government ceased…
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I’ve never been to a protestival before
It’s fun! This one was everything that traditionally happens at a summer weekend gathering by the sea, but with real, community-level politics. If you walk along to the west end of Hastings seafront, you come to a pleasant, green space but with signs of the demolition of the former bathing pool, now ingeniously turned into…
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Saturday in Parliament Square
*** Guest post from Leah Levane *** So today I happened to be passing Parliament Square where there was clearly something going on. Peaceful – and very quiet – protestors were standing by the Nelson Mandela statue. I understand that they had gathered around midday, or perhaps 1pm and by the time I got there…
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This woman won’t wheesht about Palestine
I think one of the most disastrous things that’s happened as our lives moved online is that ‘block’ function on social media. I think we’ve brought up a generation of humans who can’t cope with the fact that they can’t block everyone they don’t like in real life. What’s even more destructive is that it’s…
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Please don’t wait for Jeremy
Apart from anything else, I have a feeling it’s the last thing he wants you to do. If he’s learned the same lessons I have from being involved with the assemblies movement, he’ll be hoping like hell that you’re just getting on with it, your way. We really, seriously do need that thing everyone’s been…
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It all becomes easier when you realise politicians aren’t using the same dictionary as us
If you were a Labour Party member during the leadership election and the early days of Keir Starmer, you’ll remember all the wry jokes about his stated aim of creating ‘a party of unity’. We very quickly saw that his method of achieving this was to root out and expel anyone who wasn’t his preferred…
Kay Green 