micro-managing the Arab Spring: on NGOs, management, movements, and social change
This is an excerpt from "Anarchists in the board room - how social movements and social media can help your organisation be more like people", by Liam Barrington-Bush. Liam is…
What does UEA have against protesters?
By Elliot Folan Earlier this month, the University of East Anglia dropped a disciplinary case against two students for taking part in an anti-tax avoidance protest. I was one of…
Trust
By Mike Small There’s been a lot of talk about ‘re-establishing trust’ in the food system. But that’s probably the last thing we need to be doing. What we’re living…
tours of Greece: Life and Debt in Thessaloniki
By Nick Dearden - this blog first appeared on the website of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, of which he is director. Nick is currently in Greece on a fact finding…
It's time to reclaim our economy for global justice
By Kara Moses What is the economy? An abstract pseudoscience constructed by experts that has little to do with the average citizen? Simply the way money flows through a society?…
Film: The horse meat scandal explained in 2 minutes
By Peter Lefort and Richard Roaf
Response: the IF campaign is no government cheerleader
Chris Hegarty is Senior Policy and Advocacy Advisor at Christian Aid Scotland, and Chair of the IF campaign in Scotland. Last week’s Bright Green Scotland blog about the IF campaign…
Here’s why David Cameron should do community service
By Stuart Roger Phew! Thank God that’s over. 100 hours of community service for disrupting a speech David Cameron was giving in Scotland, as an act of protest against his…
Crunch time for big biomass in Scotland
by Oliver Munion The next couple of months will make or break industry hopes for new large-scale biomass projects in Scotland. This month we're expecting a government announcement of their…
Rail privateer finds privatisation works, he couldn't be more wrong
By George Woods If the publication of the Brown Report passed you by last week, don’t be too hard on yourself. The media greeted the government’s review on rail franchising…