Universities shake hands with EWRE and Halliburton
Image: Kxlly Kxsh, Flickr. Two studies at UCL and the University of Edinburgh that have received money from a new €12 million EU funding pot for research into the impacts…
Cycling through lost Palestine: the JNF Bike Path
Remap, remember, return: cycling from Jaffa to Jerusalem. Image: Cycle 48. We are about to embark on a cycle trip through Palestine's history. We are three women who found each other in…
The fight against fossils: are we beginning to win?
Protest against coal-seam gas (known as coal-bed methane in the UK) in Australia. Image: No CSG Illawarra. Tomorrow is the world's first ever Global Divestment Day. I'm quite excited. The…
Palestine diaries: one amazing woman, among many
Women protesting about the arrest and mistreatment of Palestinian youths, Gaza, 1988. Image: Robert Croma. I sit at a long conference table with around twenty women from a few of…
Palestine diaries: the psychology of occupation
Grafitti in Hebron reading "GAS THE ARABS". Image by the author. Emotions often come in short sharp stabs here. Horror, disgust, anger. Meeting the woman who was beaten up by…
Black* minds matter to the Green movement
Credit: South Bend Voice, Flickr Once again, Naomi Klein hits the nail on the head with her brilliant analysis of the connection between the #blacklivesmatter movement and the global fight…
Soliloquy of chaos: the political poetry of the golden age of Hip Hop
Gang Starr with Keithy E. Image: Wayne Marshall. Early in the third year of secondary school some of my friends assured me that I'd get into hip hop by the…
Lessons from Ferguson and #Blacklivesmatter
Image: nefer|media We've all seen reports from Ferguson, protests, and the killing on camera of a black man in New York. The Police, far from being the servants of the…
The Hong Kong test
One thing China has in common with the UK is four football teams. China, like Scotland, is older than the concept of “nation-state”. But whereas the Scots held a referendum…
At a crossroads: where do the European Greens go from here?
The Green Group in the EP. After a difficult set of elections in May, European Greens face a lot of hard choices about strategy and how to position themselves. As…