Category: Politics
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Activism works — here’s the evidence
I was a Green Party officer once. I was a trade union officer, and a member of a regional activist group in my union, and I have been a Labour Party officer. Every single time, I stood down from the roles I had because there was some politics that needed doing, and I couldn’t do…
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The Battle for Home
Imagine this: you’ve been barred from your home district while those who are conducting a war got on with it. You’ve spent your time trying to find food and get on with life in the parts of your town that are still semi-functional, whilst trying to teach your kids to recognize and find shelter from…
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Trying to guess what happened in our council yesterday
***There are now two links on the end of this post which, I think, make it pretty clear what happened.*** Hastings Borough Council full council meeting did not happen this week It’s supposed to be a meeting of citizens democratically elected to represent the town, open to members of the public who get to join…
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Trespassers Will: a great, long, monster blog-post posing as a book review
“Ownership insecurity”- a fascinating concept that, especially on the topic of land. It’s a vicious form of paranoia that threatens to manifest as soon as someone lays claim to a bit of land larger than the average family allotment. Until recently, most of us were completely baffled by the obsession Israel and its followers had…
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There’s a tiny chink of light in the darkest hour…
Close on the heels of our nationwide horror at seeing almost all of our UK politicians excusing Israel’s blatant and atrocity-strewn destruction of Gaza, this week we had to witness yet another disgrace in the House of Commons, where MPs claim to be the voice of the people. In a packed House, each MP was…
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Samud: an afternoon in Chalton Street
Today, I went to the last day of the Palestine exhibition at P21 gallery in Chalton Street, London. You can see quite a lot of it here… Click here to watch the reel on Facebook When I arrived, I recognized the face on the screen in the main hall. It was Wael Dahdouh, talking about…
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It’s Galloway — be happy — really!
Galloway wins by a landslide. He finished way ahead of Labour’s former MP, a right-wing racist and the candidate they abandoned shortly before the election. I know Galloway’s an egoist, I know he hasn’t got his head round the urgency of climate crisis and I know the nascent party he supposedly heads will probably implode…
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I found the racism, now what?
At least the BBC has the decency to mention the Pennines, the Co-operative Movement and Gracie Fields but other than those reasons to think about Rochdale, this article is mainly rattling with racism and as far as I can see, that’s really not the fault of the people of Rochdale. I decided to spend a…
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Inspiration from old bags
I love those bags you get given at conferences. As a trade union and a Labour Party officer a few years ago, I became a gleeful picker up of pens, badges, note books and above all, what I insist on calling book-bags, because when I wasn’t doing political conferences I was doing book fairs. Those…
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From Hastings to Gaza
Through this coming half term week, there is a series of workshops, and an exhibition of poetry and art for, by and about Palestinian children. Whether you want to spend a few minutes in the quiet hall, just looking at the paintings, to sit down and make use of the art materials provided to write…
Kay Green 