Activism Archives Page 5 of 11

Gurney at Al Shifa hospital, Gaza, by Kerry Anne Mendoza

In Gaza : The Aftermath of Hell

02/09/2014

I fail to see the military value of these targets. It feels more like a terror campaign to beat any notion of statehood out of Gaza’s population....

Remains of the Al Masrani's apartment, Gaza

In Gaza : ‘They Gassed Us in Our Beds’

28/08/2014

F-16s roar across the sky, drones buzz, and the deep thud of shelling can be heard....

They Shot My Baby Dead in My Arms : Gaza

26/08/2014

“We will not anymore live like animals. Let us live in dignity, or die with honour.”...

United Over Ukraine [Interview]

31/07/2014

A completely civic initiative, without any backing from government and/or organizations affiliated with political parties...

Veracity of Soul and Materialist Reductionism

26/07/2014

a person who believes they have no soul is as dangerous to our besieged planet, in their own way, as one who is out to save the soul of others...

Send Scriptonite to Palestine!

17/07/2014

This is not a conflict, it is a slowly unfolding genocide....

Austerity = Kids Eating from Bins

12/07/2014

Logic has been ignored – and now we have children eating scraps from bins to survive. ...

Blake / St. Mungo’s Broadway : Interview

13/06/2014

Homelessness can affect anybody and everybody. Homelessness is not a class or economic problem. It’s a social and support problem....

Politics as usual, Has Failed

27/05/2014

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

Appeal to the great spirit by Jim Heaphy

The NHS ‘Permanent Frontier’

24/05/2014

We either acquiesce to the piecemeal destruction of our public services, or we remove all support for those who seek to destroy them....

UKIP Turn to Police to Censor Twitter

17/05/2014

When a political party and its members seek to use the police or lawyers to silence legitimate criticism of their policies in the run-up to an election, we cannot merely cuss about it....

Shafting the Welfare State [Part 2]

10/05/2014

Social reform driven by market needs, with social policy development using corporate models. ...

Shafting the Welfare State

03/05/2014

The reality of social enterprise hides behind opaque language and mysterious ‘third sector’ jargon that alludes to volunteerism and good intentions. The key word is ‘enterprise’. They are run...

Felix Kubin : Interview

02/05/2014

I don't want to be a pop underground star when I'm sixty on stage. I love the genre of pop but it's just one of many genres....

Killing Joke In Dub

16/04/2014

A cornucopia of delights released from Killing Joke ...

Parcelforce : Payments, Fines, Duties and Pain

03/04/2014

It seems the issue is that some post offices, especially at busy times, aren’t careful to mention every eventually that might concern you....

March from Jarrow for the NHS

02/04/2014

Following the basic route of the Jarrow Crusade, we will march on Parliament and build support for the NHS on route....

Dragons or Flies? The State Apparatus of Fear

31/03/2014

Meet your fears, look them in the eye, live among them for a time. Discern whether they consist of an insect buzzing at your windowpane or is a dragon on the roof...

Apicture of a nurse by Charlotte Jarvis @ Waag Society

This is not a Government : This is a Mafia

29/03/2014

This government, with unprecedented audacity and speed, are transforming our nation run on laws and institutions, into one run on patronage and privilege – more like a mafia of the 1% than a...

Slammed : Phone Companies Stealing Your Number

28/03/2014

Telephone companies can take, replace, steal or remove your number, leaving you with few options, little recourse to complain, and in the dark as to how this can happen...

Stop the sale of the land registry

23/03/2014

Stop the government selling the profitable Land Registry which generates £98 Million pounds to the public purse each year as well as having a satisfaction rating of over 90% from those that use the...

A picture of tankers by John Marakevelis

Walking in an Anthropocene Wonderland

13/03/2014

Although we have been graced with life - all its possibilities and abundance - it has become apparent, we have fallen in love with Extinction....

Edward Snowden Interview [Live Leak]

03/02/2014

A quick repost of NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden's interview with German channel NDR....

A poster for Gastonbury benefit, Falkirk

Silent auction for ‘Gastonbury’ benefit gig

28/01/2014

Raising money to pay for legal representation at the upcoming Public Inquiry into Dart Energy’s controversial plans to drill for coal bed methane gas on farmland and under homes...

|A npicture of a house for sale by Freedigitalphotos.net/Artur84

50 Years of Social Progress. Reversed.

28/12/2013

People born in the 1960’s and 70’s will retire poorer than their parents...

Happy Holidays from Trebuchet

26/12/2013

2014 Cultural Forecasts and Happy Holidays from all the staff at Trebuchet...

A Christmas Consumer Guide to Ethical Food

20/12/2013

Talking Turkey: A Christmas Consumer Guide to Ethical Food...

A picture of documents by Nuttakit/Freedigitalphotos.net

Applied Carpe Diem : Part 2

13/12/2013

What makes a person choose whether or not to end one’s own life? It comes back to that tradeoff, I suppose, between quality vs. quantity....

Dear Media, Where Were You?

09/11/2013

A few days ago on 5th November, hacktivist group Anonymous succeeded in mobilising hundreds of thousands of people in 477 locations in over 150 countries around the world. ...