Category: Uncategorized
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
We keep winning, why haven’t we won?
This is for all those councillors, MPs, TU reps and organization heads who think women’s rights is a minority interest. The accurate answer to ‘transwomen are women’ is ‘no, women are women. Transwomen are transwomen‘. Unfortunately, the people running all our councils and government departments and big organizations hardly ever hear the right answer, so…
-
Cards on the table time
Now we find ourselves with a Green council leader in Hastings, I wonder if the local party is going to come clean about their part in the isolation and slandering of Ruby Cox, which led to her losing her former council seat. It still matters because sex still matters If you’re very good at reading…
-
Israel: the whole world is watching
Across the globe this weekend, millions came out on the streets again, to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Despite the vast numbers marching in our major cities, we still had enough of us left over to run smaller events in town and village squares. Very few people like wars. Even fewer people are willing…
-
Wilful Ignorance
I went to a discussion event in Brighton last week, and have been watching the furore around it on TwitX ever since. This was an unchaired discussion between Hannah Barnes and Helen Lewis on child-transition, puberty blockers and the various controversies around that topic. Looking at the #TimeToTalk tweets on the night, these were the…
-
Away with your ‘day after’ talk
Palestine needs help – so does Israel. Whilst Palestinians are doing everything in their power to call for help, and everyone except US and most European politicians are trying to respond, Israelis are also making themselves heard now. Some of the October 7th victims are suing their government and the IDF, there is an Israeli…
Kay Green 