Tag: activists
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The circle radiates out (but corporates want to steal it’s power)
The sad thing about gentrification is that the developers KNOW they aren’t cool, that they are replacing vital communities that sell the area – the artists, the squatters, the radicals, the punks, the minorities, the queers, all these different cultures mixed together – with boring dullness. Grey square blocks crushing gardens, inner city villages and…
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To BP or Not BP
On Sunday I was on the People’s Climate March with Queer Bloc (pictures here) and earlier that day British Museum was targeted by activists from ‘BP or not BP’, the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE), and the London Quakers for a performance called ‘Gross Negligence’. (from John Hoggett) I’d heard of some of…
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Land Grab
While most of the country seems to be worried that Uragoing Home from the World Cup, I’m more concerned about the Infrastructure Bill and the land grab going on. There are two things: like the horror of what happened to Royal Mail, the Land Registry is being privatised, and this new Bill allows building on…
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The hijacking of gay equality as the new crusade and ‘War on Terror’
You need to read this article about HRC and vulture funds– Paul Singer, Daniel Loeb and HRC trying to pinkwash their evil and use the fight for LGBTQ equality to push US interests ‘in our name’. This is why some of the Russia stuff didn’t ring right to me. I hate what Russia is doing, but…
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Molly Crabapple’s Shell Game
Love these painting about the uprisings of 2011 by Molly Crabapple in an exhibition called ‘Shell Game’. It’s unusual to have artists working with political themes, and to do it so well, like a 21st century Hogarth…as she described it: “It was the year when everyone sat down in the main squares of their cities…
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Bushwhacked…
Twinkleboi’s Bushwhacked remix project is back – and bigger and better than ever! It includes tracks by Osysmyso, rx, wax audio, DJ Tripp, Earworm, League of Infinite Justice, RIAA and also my Instamatic – ‘Satan Bush Blair’ (Bootie mix)bootleg. It’s a mix of Freeland, Orbital, Jello Biafra, Bush, Blair and a cheeky bit of Eric…