Archives for Social Movements - Page 2
Floating cities and dirty secrets: Environmental impact of luxury cruise ships
Image credit: AudaCity3371, Creative Commons Floating cities seem like science fiction, and have been mentioned by some as one way humanity could in future cope with a rapidly growing global…
Power beyond borders: Organising for climate justice
Image credit: Neil Cummings, Creative Commons Since 2012 Reclaim the Power (RtP), a network of people, has been taking action for social, environmental and economic justice, primarily in the UK.…
Interview: Meet the activist who brought the youth climate strike to China
The youth climate strike started when the then 15 year old Greta Thunberg decided to strike from her school in Sweden in August 2018. Since then, the movement has been…
Building a Green, Black and Brown New Deal
Image Credit: Creative Commons: Senate Democrats Around a year ago I knocked on the door of a Black family. The parents asked me about jobs and opportunities for young people.…
“What we need is really massive radical change”: An interview with Lib Dem MP Layla Moran
Image credit: Creative Commons, UK Parliament Layla Moran has a lot of reasons to be happy. She isn’t just celebrating the Lib Dem’s recent electoral successes – last week also…
Milkshakes and bad mouthing: time for an Anti-Moaning Movement?
Image credit: YouTube screengrab “Nothing unites people more strongly than a common dislike. The easiest way to build friendships and communicate is through something negative,” author Trevor Blake. A harmless…
Why Pride is still relevant
Image credit: Creative Commons, The Lilac Bonzai Every year in June we celebrate Pride month. We do this to remember the Stonewall riots which occurred in 1969, which happened in…
The campaign for a four-day working week: Good for wellbeing or economic disaster?
Image credit: Vimeo screengrab “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.” Michelle Obama When was the last time you felt…
An open letter to the labour movement: support the strike, don’t cross the climate picket line
On 15th March 2019, from Scotland to South Africa, an estimated million children and teenagers skipped school to participate in the global youth climate strikes. As the world’s youth gear…
The hashtag that’s giving young people a voice in the EU elections
Image credit: Creative Commons, Mark Dixon Young people are the ones who will live to see the worst impacts of climate change. But they are also the ones who have…