Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
This news feature was published in Palestine Times on December 18, 2006. I now work for the paper as head copy editor. Since their website was not operational at the time, I'm publishing it here.
Defiant villagers unified in face of violent occupation
by Asa Winstanley
BIL'IN, West Bank – The demonstration is ...
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
A couple of interesting pieces on the state of the global anti-capitalist movement from soon before the start of the American war in Iraq from those celebrity activists George Monbiot and Naomi Klein. They're both about the World Social Forum 2003, Porto Alegre. Klein's one is particularly goood as ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2004
In the weeks before the the 15th of February, the scale of world opposition to the impending invasion of Iraq started to become clear. Even the majority of the Western ruling elite were against it and proposed alternatives.
In the run up to the London demo, much of the liberal press ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2004
Back in February 2003 there was quite a lot of coverage of the anti-war movement in the liberal press. One decent article was about the politicisation of young British Muslims in reaction to the increasingly agressive stance of western governments against Muslim countries since 9/11.
At the same time, there was ...
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Saturday, February 28th, 2004
I wrote this essay back in 2004 as a follow up to another on the connections between Free Software and anarchism. It seemed a logical continuation on the theme. It was originally published in the March 2004 issue of the (seemingly late) online journal Tangentium.
Another one I only got ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2003
I wrote this essay back in 2003 and it was originally published on Indymedia UK back in December 2003 (see that link for some discussion of the piece). It was also published in Freedom newspaper sometime in 2004.
For some reason, I did not get around to posting here on my ...
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