A collection of poems ‘for a new feminism’, edited by Daniele Barnhart and Iris Mahan. We share five our favourites.
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Read an extract from WOMEN OF RESISTANCE: POEMS FOR A NEW FEMINISM in The Big Issue
Wednesday, March 28th, 2018“The excitement; the dynamism; the heady, disorienting feeling of the impossible becoming possible.”: Read an extract from THE CANDIDATE at New Socialist
Monday, March 19th, 2018It was the movement that brought the magic to the Corbyn campaign. Although a process was already underway within the Labour membership, what gave the Corbyn phenomenon its distinctive character was the participation of people from outside the party. It was the sense that Jeremy Corbyn was at the head of a broad movement that made his leadership bid so extraordinary. The excitement; the dynamism; the heady, disorienting feeling of the impossible becoming possible—these were the trappings of movement politics.
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“So how DO you build a “people’s Brexit”? Not by marginalising the already marginalised”: Read an extract from FOR THE MANY in Open Democracy
Thursday, March 8th, 2018How do you analyse a moment, which was part of a process that is about everything, but was reduced to a yes – no decision? The EU referendum vote was both a mass participatory and mass exclusionary moment. This vote, and Brexit as a whole, can be described as a polarising conflict of marginalisations. The conflict exposed by the EU referendum constitutes an important point of entry into addressing the unmet needs and enabling the de-marginalisation of people who have been living violent marginalisation for generations.
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The Guardian features TWEETS FROM TAHRIR
Friday, April 15th, 2011The Egyptian uprising has been described as a “Twitter Revolution”. It was not. Revolutions do not come out of thin air, or even cyberspace. But the internet provided a vital organising tool, and it gave us some of the most riveting real-time coverage ever recorded. The tweets were instant, and so emotional and exciting that anyone following them felt an intense personal connection to what had been happening across Egypt since 25 January.
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Read an exclusive excerpt of Micah L. Sifry’s WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY on the Huffington Post
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Back in the fall of 2009, getting hold of Julian Assange wasn’t easy. The Australian founder of WikiLeaks seemed to be constantly on the move, and his email habits were unpredictable. My colleague Andrew Rasiej and I had invited him to speak at the inaugural European gathering of our Personal Democracy Forum (PdF) conference in Barcelona that November. “Micah, great!” he wrote in late October, accepting the invitation. “Currently in Laos. Denmark 18th Nov-ish. Iceland not long after. Can you send me all necessary details?”
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