By @JustinTheLibSoc
“It’s offensive, it’s like our narrative is always being told from the perspective of being enslaved or being in servitude when there’s so much more to African history than just slavery.” – Sara Myers, lead campaigner of Boycott the Human Zoo
“The role of the white liberal in the black man’s history in South Africa […]
UK Politics
Activism
Posted by Ant X on 22 Sep 2014 /
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By @ant_x_ince
An unexpected outcome of the narrow defeat of the Scottish independence referendum is that some form decentralisation of the UK, specifically with a devolution of powers to its constituent nations, seems inevitable. Government ministers, media, and political commentators across the spectrum all talk of the process as a done deal. Much like the now-hegemonic […]
Activism
Posted by Justin on 16 Sep 2014 /
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By @JustinTheLibSoc
[Content note: Sexual Abuse; experience of sexually abused is outlined]
I write this because Novara Wire, the BuzzFeed of the Left, seems to have fallen for the reprehensible “Betrayed by PC Cowards” argument. Craig McVegas wrote “Police were scared of being labelled racist because they are racist” which is both nonsensical and untrue. There are […]
Activism
Posted by Justin on 10 Sep 2014 /
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Friday 12th September, 4pm
Athene Place
66 Shoe Lane
London
EC4A 3BQ
Facebook event:Â https://www.facebook.com/events/690368971038985/
On Friday 12th September, Deloitte, the biggest professional services company in the world, is facing a wave of angry demonstrations outside one of their offices in Central London.
The protests are organised by the contracted cleaning workers at Deloitte, who speak of a culture of bullying, unsafe working […]
Art
Posted by Voyager on 13 Aug 2014 /
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It’s 2013, a bustling Monday night and autumn has finally started eyeing up winter clothing. Inside my chosen venue, the walls are lined with baby-faced images of the alternative comedy elite: faces who make you laugh, but with a clear conscious. Up there, in their pre-pubescent glory, Baddiel, Skinner, Merton, I kid you not, are […]
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Culture
Posted by Justin on 21 May 2014 /
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By @JustinTheLibSoc
[Content note: references to racial violence and rape]
Welcome to a world where Diane Abbott stumbles to say what David Lammy states fearlessly. Where The Sun’s Trevor Kavanagh did what Ed Miliband couldn’t. James O’Brien elegantly provided an open door but leading political figures declined the offer. Contrary to what appeared to many as obvious, Cameron and […]
London
Posted by Justin on 01 May 2014 /
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By Wolfgang Moneypenny/Â @MoneypennyHomes
For the past year or so it has felt like housing politics has entered the Zeitgeist, perhaps another steroidal effect of George Osborne’s potentially reckless Help To Build stimulus. There has been a growth in dialogue and activism. And now the Labour Party enters the conversation by beginning to release details of planned […]
Posted by Justin on 15 Apr 2014 /
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Great parody track and video by @femioyeniran @richkidcambell
Here is the original:
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London
Posted by Justin on 28 Mar 2014 /
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On Wednesday 26th March,  Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, the black woman who coined the term “Intersectionality” and professor of law at University College of Los Angeles and Columbia, gave a lecture entitled “Justice Rising: moving intersectionally in the age of post-everything”
For those of  you who missed it, you can listen to the recording of the event here.
Activism
By Ken Fero / @KenFero
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.â€
Malcolm X
The power of film to document stories, inspire action and agitate for change has run hand in hand with revolutionary cells, social struggles and mass movements. One of the critical points of our current situation is a rupture within our […]
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