Blogs
Ten great podcasts on activism, movements and social change
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 18 August 2017
Podcasts present an amazing opportunity to look into so many of the dim and distant corners of movement history. This International Podcast Day here is a selection of ten inspiring […]
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How do we deal with nightmare mega-farms & post-Brexit food insecurity?
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 19 July 2017
There’s been two pretty terrifying stories about food and farming in the media this last week. Taken together they could be seen to foreshadow a dystopian future where insecurities about […]
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To the board of M&S – your advertising is fuelling harassment and violence
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 10 July 2017
This is a letter being delivered to the board of M&S today at their Annual General Meeting, signed by 72 different anti-racist and migrant solidarity groups across the country. To […]
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Six things you can do to get the youth vote out on Thursday
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 6 June 2017
Like the great Whitney Houston, I too believe that the children are the future. So it just seems all wrong that the demographic with the highest percentage of voters (the […]
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Have Paul Nuttall or other UKIP politicians lied to you about trade deals?
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 22 February 2017
Campaigns: Trade
UKIP have been making all sorts of headlines for lies recently, mainly around leader Paul Nuttall’s fabrications about being part of the Hillsborough disaster. It’s pretty despicable that anyone would […]
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The hustles in Brussels – MEPs vote to block legal scrutiny of toxic trade deal
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 23 November 2016
Campaigns: Trade
One of the most controversial aspects of the toxic trade deals being pushed by the EU is the system of corporate courts. This is a parallel legal system that enables […]
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Nine quotes of hope in the face of US election despair
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 9 November 2016
It’s been a pretty dreadful day. It’s dreadful in the abstract for those of us living outside of the US, much more concretely dreadful for those within the USA, and […]
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Stopping the new planned detention centre near Glasgow
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 7 November 2016
The UK Home Office plans to build a new Detention Centre in Renfrewshire, next to Glasgow airport. The Conservative government’s proposal has been met with widespread criticism from human rights […]
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Reclaiming Democracy: Say the Unsayable!
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 18 July 2016
This weekend at Take Back Our World festival in Devon, I spoke alongside two inspiring activists, one from London, one from Barcelona. The theme of our session was Radical Democracy- […]
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The Panama Papers and our rigged economy
By: Kevin Smith
Date: 6 April 2016
In every clichéd popcorn movie, there’s a moment when the baddies are unmasked and reveal their true villainy. For us, the Panama Papers leak might just be that moment. The […]
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