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An Auspicious Day for the World’s Peasants
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May 1, 2013. May 1, 2013. An Auspicious Day for the World’s Peasants. Wednesday the 17th of April 2013 saw a curious combination of events for land. Workers the world over. It was, of course, Thatcher’s funeral; an ironic orgy. Of public funds in commemoration of the grand architect of the neoliberal. Model It was also International Day of Peasant Struggle. A day established to. Commemorate the massacre of 19 landless peasants on 17th of April 1996 in. Is Wales and England’s branch of Via Campesina.
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Tell the Church of England to stand up to the anti-gay bill in Uganda
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November 14, 2012. November 14, 2012. Tell the Church of England to stand up to the anti-gay bill in Uganda. Help #blockthebill against homosexuality in Uganda ask the Church of England to condemn the criminalisation of homosexuality! The bill against homosexuality in Uganda will be passed by the end of 2012 as a ‘Christmas gift. 8216; to Ugandans, according to the speaker of parliament in Uganda, Rebecca Kadaga. The bill proposes that gay people are imprisoned for life. If convicted of homosexual acts.
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My walk home in Cartagena
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September 27, 2014. September 28, 2014. My walk home in Cartagena. The historic centre of Cartagena is a splendid Spanish colonial town where cruise ship tourists buy coconuts and t-shirts. It’s surrounded by thick walls and patrolled by street vendors and scores of police. Here you can sip cocktails on what looks and feels like Miami Beach. Most tourists don’t see past the pretty streets in the centre of the city. Barefooted men sort through the rubbish. Fisherman, with cheap cigarettes in their mouths ...
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A royally dangerous obsession
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December 8, 2012. December 8, 2012. A royally dangerous obsession. An obsessive variety. But I don’t see anywhere it being taken as such. I do not intend to assess the full cause of Jacintha Saldanha’s death. That would be insensitive and ignorant. I do however wish to suggest that this hoax call. Was a contributing factor (with immediate influence), and that it itself would be inconceivable (along with its consequences) in the absence of a gloablly pervasive obsession with the British royal family.
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Sweatshops on the seas
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August 4, 2014. September 30, 2014. Sweatshops on the seas. I stepped onto the gangway and walked up the steps to the deck of the ship. ‘This’, I thought, ‘Is a truly ridiculous place to spend the next two weeks.’. As the 15 days on board went on, however, I was soon convinced that I was the luckiest man (and yes they were all men) on board the vessel. Two weeks, with no obligations other than staving off boredom, is infinitely easier than the lives of the seafarers with whom I spent the voyage. Matthew,...
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A simple conversation
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October 26, 2014. October 26, 2014. 8216;Hello mate, how you doing’. He looks up, momentarily bewildered and aware. He has blue eyes and grey stubble. He is probably mid-50s. I realised my attempt to sound confiendently friendly had probably made me sound like a policeman. 8216;Ah…’. He realises I’m not. 8216;Not good mate. I’m struggling. People just keep on walking by’. What do I say to that? 8216;What’s your dog’s name? I begin to say hello to Sonny. 8216;He can’t hear you, he’s deaf’. I have a fiver ...
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Trading vital medicines for ‘cheap’ meat
https://segmentpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/trading-vital-medicines-for-cheap-meat
October 3, 2013. October 3, 2013. Trading vital medicines for ‘cheap’ meat. This blog originally appeared on campaign group Farms Not Factories’ website, here. Public awareness that antibiotics are on the wane as, arguably, the most effective weapons in western medicine’s arsenal has been increasing over the last decade. What is still foreign to many is the idea that food production could be a major culprit in the development of deadly drug-resistant human diseases. Are, fundamentally, unsanitary. It...
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Why I am going to Thatcher’s funeral. And why you should too.
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April 12, 2013. April 12, 2013. Why I am going to Thatcher’s funeral. And why you should too. Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher. She’s dead, you know? With the passing of a political monolith is born a very modern PR battle. And it is one Thatcher’s advocates, acolytes, admirers, political dependents and press pushers are winning. Many acts of her premiership were unpleasant – her administration’s sale of weapons to East Timor. Her oppositi...
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You cannot be Syrias
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August 29, 2013. August 29, 2013. You cannot be Syrias. I’m not sure a pun in the title of a blog on this topic is acceptable. What is surely not is military assault on a population already ravaged by violence. This is a blog I’d quite obviously rather not be writing, so I’ll attempt to keep it brief and to the point. I’ve read this morning. Second, a draft resolution being put to the UN security council to authorise ‘limited’ strikes on Syria (remember those? The ones that – somehow – manage...I’m...
