Category: activism
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Who are we?
Who are we, the monstrous, pitiless, violent, racist enemy you can’t understand, and can’t defeat? How did we become the despicable, cruel demons you stare at daily in horror? How do we do it? We take our children, as they approach adulthood, and put them in a heroic cult-army where at first they have adventurous…
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EDI: how clever is Elon Musk?
EDI stands for ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’. It’s the corporate-friendly, de-fanged version of anti-racism, anti-sexism and all those other things we need do to combat the obstacles neoliberalism sets up against fair play. The reason most companies spend so much time on business-friendly, colourful beanos like Pride and Stonewall but firmly reject serious campaigns for…
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Jewish not Zionist: an invitation from JVL
Leah Levane, Co-Chair of JVL (Jewish Voice for Labour) kindly wrote the introduction to the UK edition of Marilyn Garson’s latest book, Jewish not Zionist. Her introduction summarizes how the situation we are now challenging in Israel / Palestine came about. It covers the Balfour Declaration, and the likely motivations behind it, and how the…
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What’s a fiscal black hole, and how do you fix it?
It’s what you get when the magic money-tree suffers a crop failure. I don’t know whether our old MP Amber Rudd was the first one to claim “there is no magic money tree”, but she was most definitely one of those stashing their income in tax havens whilst telling us there was no magic solution…
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Rule One: Don’t give up
There’s lots to do, and plenty of people are in action, learning more every day about how it’s done. First, how it’s not done: I think most people have worked out that our party-political system is – if not broken, certainly captured, and not doing what it says on the tin. It’s taking us a…
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Hastings needs a strong voice
On the probable demise of HBC, and a possible citizens’ answer In the first week of the New Year I said this on FB… I was in a towering rage. Sure, the utterly destructive nature of party politics in recent years had pretty much disabled our local council and yes, a dysfunctional council is hard…
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The day I got Twit-mobbed
Or, Munitions, mobs and mobile phones So here’s a blog I never got around to sharing much back in November 2023… I am posting it now because of a sudden, someone somewhere is sharing it and it reminded me of the way that day went, and how that story links up what I think are…
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Help! I’m being repressed!
I wrote an article this morning about anti-Palestinian racism. There were the tags WordPress recommended… They clearly don’t have any recommendations for ‘Palestinian’ or ‘anti-racism’. Facebook immediately took it down as against community standards, and this is what they did when I objected…. They have done this many times when I write about Palestine, and…
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Why I am wearing that Palestinian badge today
An appeal from a Palestinian woman A year ago we were all shocked (well, those of us paying attention were shocked) to hear of a Palestinian boy reprimanded for turning up at school with a Palestinian flag badge on his coat. Yesterday, I heard Dr Zahira Jaser talking about what it’s like being a Palestinian…
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To AirBnB or not to AirBnB…?
Murder and theft in Palestine is the question. In November, I wrote to the London office of AirBnB. I said… I signed up as an AirBnB host a couple of years ago, partly because I had a bedroom I could spare for a while and it answered the problem of rising household bills, partly because…
Kay Green 