Category: activism
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Philosophical question for the weekend
The vast majority of women who get involved with Woman’s Place, or go to its meetings, do so for these two reasons: Reason one They have experienced the mind-numbing horror of childhood sexual abuse, such as rape, manipulative sexual behaviour in the family or FGM; or the fear and frustration caused by sex discrimination and…
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Beware the Thatcherite Greens
I was in the Green Party once but, it feels like a lifetime ago. Just about all the socialists in the Green Party left to support the Corbyn movement in Labour – it seemed the best opportunity in our lifetime to bring both socialism and environmentalism into our government. Unfortunately, that failed. Many of the…
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What shall we do about education?
…but as someone said, “no-one is going to give you the education you’ll need to overthrow them.” I first saw it as a Charlie Brown cartoon but a bit of Google brought up Assata Shakur. The education we need If you can’t analyse a problem, you are not likely to solve it. If you don’t…
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UBI Hastings? Let’s work on it
Tonight, I joined the inaugural meeting of the UBILab Hastings – becoming part of the growing network of people nationwide, looking into how Universal Basic Income might be made to work for all of us. The idea is to provide a stable, economic floor through which no-one is allowed to fall. The UBILab networks include…
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About those energy bills
20% … 30% … someone just said 40% … someone just said *what*? How much have your latest bills gone up? Can *you* afford it? Can you fight the energy companies alone? No, so – Please don’t let this pass, please don’t let it slip off the agenda. People will be losing their homes and…
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Does end-game capitalism appear as a gas bill?
We have quite simply decided not to risk putting the heating on any time, ever. It’s jumpers over jumpers, socks over socks and if there is another really cold night – I don’t know, go in the garden and huddle round the bonfire bin? Slow-cook some vegetables and sit round the oven? Himself doesn’t look…
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Where is ‘the West’ on a ball?
‘The West’ is one of the many charged words the media are using, words that feed into social media conversations about what’s going on in Ukraine, and what we should do about it. This morning, I saw a post from a bloke who’s off to join in the war and ‘fight for the West’ and…
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The behaviour required of our councillors
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for the local paper, asking that we remember borough councillors are our fellow citizens, and should be treated decently. I am now in the rather contrary position of needing to remind borough councillors to treat each other decently. I don’t want to see any of our…
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What kind of country tolerates police seizing people’s books?
Yep, it happened. It happened in Wales. As one woman put it to me recently, surely that’s a red line for everyone. This was a gathering in support of a woman who was arrested, detained for ten hours, and has been messed about ever since. The police searched her house, and took a book they…
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The G-police* and the gender-wars
You cannot stop the women. All you can do is make their lives difficult and harm your reputation by being seen bullying them. These are the armies you are trying to fight (do you want to pick a side?) Mothers, sisters and allies 1. The confabulators Almost all women and girls – the vast majority…
Kay Green 