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Fellow Britons: Help me re-elect President Obama
TL;DR -- Download Skype, buy credit, make calls. We're just two days from an election which, though not here in the UK, will certainly have a bigger impact on all…
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Black Heroes: Elizabeth Eckford
Black History Month runs the length of October. If you'd like to write for us about your Black Heroes, get in touch at A couple of years back I went…
Innocent or guilty, if Assange's rights aren't upheld then neither are ours
I’ve been having heated exchanges with a number of Greens on Twitter about the Assange case. Seeing people whose politics I identify with tweet “he’s a rapist” or “he’s guilty”…
Bright Green hero: Senator Bernie Sanders
Today we celebrate the 1 year anniversary of an eight-and-a-half hour filibuster by independent, socialist US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Bernie's day-long speech, against extending Bush's tax cuts for…
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No money for food, but $350bn for Apple & friends?
US Uncut protest in Seattle, WA. By Simon Li. What if your family's finances were tight, and you had a water bill that you couldn't afford to pay? What if…
Apple next in line for US Uncut protests
Grassroots anti-austerity campaigners US Uncut have announced that their next tax-dodging target will be Apple computers. The hipsters' favourite is a leading voice in the "Win America Campaign" (WAC) for…
US Uncut and the forgotten legacy of MLK
"Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana;…
Call to Action – US Uncut, Washington DC Chapter
Call to Action US Uncut, DC Chapter February 15, 2011 US Uncut DC is calling on you to join a series of protests that link the avoidance of taxes by…
US Uncut is born
Carl Gibson is the founder of CIVIL USA - the first of what we hope will be many US Uncut groups. Visit the CIVIL USA website, and follow the campaign…
UKIP and the Culture War
I was surprised to find that Godfrey Bloom, the UKIP MEP for Yorks and Humber had been running his re-election campaign on the basis of climate change denial. This seemed…