#idlenomore: Clayton Thomas-Muller speech on indigenous rights
Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba Canada is the tar sands campaign director for the Indigenous Environmental Network and a friend of Bright Green. He…
Mexico to Canada, indigenous North Americans take brave first steps into a new era
By Liam Barrington-Bush As the Mayan calendar came to a close yesterday, signifying the end of what the ancient empire had described as ‘the fifth era,’ Indigenous peoples of North…
No silver lining: The ugly truth about Canadian mining in Oaxaca, Mexico and beyond
Jen Wilton and Liam Barrington-Bushreport from San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico In a small, dry town in the south-west of Oaxaca, Mexico there is a deadly political battle being…
Skyfall: M for Mummy
Comedian Caroline Newte Hardie went to see Skyfall. She didn't like it very much. I have decided to mitigate my fury about the retrograde misogyny in Bond by focusing this…
BREAKING: Why we plebs occupied Andrew Mitchell's office on budget day
by Roz Burgin Today, December 5th, George Osborne is to deliver his Autumn Statement outlining further cuts and ‘sacrifices’ to be made in the name of austerity. My friends and…
We shall reach them in the classrooms: Promoting a 'military ethos' in schools
Will McCallum Fostering a 'military ethos' in schools: what's going on. Earlier this month the Department for Education published a statement on their website outlining their ambition to promote…
Inflation, stagnation and speculation
What happens if you cross the scandal of food speculation with the stars of BBC3’s The revolution will be televised? In the unlikely event that you were wondering, the result…
Fighting for the Public University
Luke Martell Jérémie Bédard-Wien from the Quebec students’ union CLASSE has been on tour in England, telling his story about the movement at home against fees and for public education.…
Stopping bankers betting on hunger
On World Food Day, the World Development Movement's Miriam Ross says we are less than a month away from a major breakthrough on financial speculation on food - or another…
8 months of police harrasment, finally behind me.
Last week, Sean Farmelo was found not guilty of violent disorder at a student protest in February. Here is his shocking account of what happened: a story of fabricated evidence,…