Category: activism
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What we are
I feel silly writing this, but it appears to be necessary… Has this ever happened to any other group of people? Ever since the last Labour Party conference, we people formerly known as women have been subjected to politician after politician being asked, ‘what is a woman’ and getting into a sweat over the answer.…
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A thank you, and some thoughts
I’m not sharing this post around social media, just publishing it where those who actively follow my blog will see it, and sending it to those who’ve helped with the blog one way or another. (But if you want to share it anywhere, feel free). The failure of democracy I set up this blog in…
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Amplifying Elaine
This may shock you, but if you haven’t already, we need you to look at this – we really, really do. (I’ll get to what you need to look at in a minute…) I think this is world-changing information – maybe it’s going to break through anyway – it’s got 6000 views in a couple…
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Is our Post failing?
I’ve had a lot of post arriving well over the one-day or two-or-three-day expectation of first and second class post in recent months. Most notably, on the 31st of January, I received three letters, all of which had been posted in December. I have a book launched this weekend without all the necessary books in…
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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…
Kay Green 