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Gender and Social Movements
This summer I started work at the Institute of Development Studies, based at Sussex University. I do a variety of editorial based things but one of the most exciting projects I have been involved with...
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What is internationalism anyway?
To celebrate their 40th anniversary, New Internationalist held an event at Amnesty International UK HQ called ‘What does it mean to be an internationalist today?’ An impressive panel of speakers was...
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Krey vs Rio Tinto: a community struggle against coal expansion
This article was originally published in the April 2014 issue of New Internationalist. John Krey moved to the village of Bulga in New South Wales expecting a quiet retirement. The 73-year-old did not...
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The new Transition Free Press has landed
Since the beginning of 2014 I have been working as the News & Sport editor of Transition Free Press, a quarterly newspaper working alongside the Transition movement and covering stories of...
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Beyond burnout: the mental health costs of activism
This article was originally published in the May 2014 issue of New Internationalist magazine. In 2009, the Iranian Green Movement became headline news as millions of people took to the streets to...
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Activist detained in Azerbaijan on her way to cover European Games
Platform campaigner Emma Hughes was detained at Baku airport on her way to cover the 2015 European Games, which runs from 12-28 June. The country has seen a crack down on people critical to the...
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What is London’s student rent strike all about?
Over 1,000 students in London students who are refusing to pay their rent for university accommodation. The rent strike is part of a wider Cut the Rent campaign against expensive university...
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Smiley-faced monopolists, Nuit Debout and Newbury’s ‘refutrees’
Nuit Debout, place de la République. By Thomas Bresson, under a CC License. The July issue of New Internationalist is out now, featuring three articles from me. The theme of this month’s magazine is...
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Solar buses, Cornish language, post referendum racism and crowdfunded housing...
I’ve been a bit rubbish about updating this blog with my writing lately so here’s a quick roundup: From the last two issues of New Internationalist: The response to racism after the UK’s European Union...
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Charter flight deportations and school census boycott
As the climate of hostility towards migrants in the UK continues to grow I wrote a short piece for December’s New Internationalist magazine about a boycott of the school census. This asks parents,...
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