Blogs
Our online fundraiser to support displaced communities in Calais proves social distancing doesn’t mean social apathy
By: Hiba Ahmad
Date: 13 May 2020
Campaigns: Migration
On Wednesday 6 May, Our Future Now (OFN) held an online fundraiser in support of the work of Calais Food Collective (CFC), an organisation providing essential food services for displaced communities in Calais and Dunkirk in France. Over 2000 refugees from various war-torn places are currently displaced in Northern France, and have found themselves in a perpetual state of uncertainty and marginalisation as European countries reject their claims to asylum.
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Stopping climate change also means stopping the vampires known as the arms industry
By: Hiba Ahmad
Date: 11 September 2019
Campaigns: Climate
I am here today, blockading the set-up of the arms fair with you all, because I am a former refugee and current migrant. I have seen my country and people torn apart by the companies looking to sell arms here in the next couple of days. I am a person whose land and community suffers every day from the trauma and pollution that the slow and fast violence of war creates.
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How racist myths built the population growth bogey-man
By: Hiba Ahmad
Date: 9 March 2019
Campaigns: Climate
The environmental movement in the Global North needs to address the elephant in its white and middle-class room – the myth of overpopulation as a driver of climate extinction. For […]
Read moreGlobal sacrifice zones and why ‘we’ are not in this together
By: Hiba Ahmad
Date: 22 October 2018
This September, I had the pleasure of attending The World Transformed. All the talks and workshops I attended left me in awe of the strength, beauty, and resolve found in left-wing movements in the UK and beyond, but there was one event which really struck a chord with me.
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