Activism and Politics
Amnesty International
Activism: Email activism on behalf of Amnesty International does make a political difference. We can prove it. No politician wants one million emails clogging up their inbox...
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Restorative justice
Activism: We look around and see our world becoming just a bit... Stabby. Crimey. Whatever stats say, that's where public feeling lies. But restorative justice has been proved to reduce criminals re-offending by getting the criminal and victim face-to-face...
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How to go on a protest march
Activism: You want to make a change to the way things are done, but you aren't old enough to vote. Or, possibly, you've lost all respect for politicians and would rather not vote. What else can you do? You could try emailing your MP, but one way to really get your voice heard is to go on a protest march.
Read this article: How to go on a protest march
How to stay safe on a protest march
How To Guides: Last week: How to go on a protest march. This week: How to stay safe on one. With the recent events at the G20 protests, it's probably worth taking a moment, and 500 odd words, on looking at how protests are policed and the best way to keep safe on protests.
Read this article: How to stay safe on a protest march
Politicians, pirates, monkeys and Clause 28
Politics: When it comes to the abolishment of Clause 28 - hurrah! - and the eternal lies of politicians - boo! then sometimes the only thing you can do is to explain, in very nice and precise detail, exactly why it would be better to vote for pirates or monkeys. Or a monkey dressed as a pirate.
How to exercise your right not to vote
Politics: Voting is your duty and your right. And it's easy. Really easy. The hard part can be deciding who to vote for. If you decide not to vote, Debs explains how you can at least do it as a political statement...
North Korea and South Korea - Oh what a lovely cold war
How To Guides: Treaties are being strained. Nuclear weapons are being tested. A politician is dead. And the public isn't paying attention. Sounds like the premise of an action film, but unfortunately, it's all too true. Welcome to the dangerous world of North / Sorth Korea...
Read this article: North Korea and South Korea - Oh what a lovely cold war
No plastic bags in supermarkets... for real.
Activism: Dear Sainsbury's, it's really great you've removed all your plastic bags from the check-outs. The only problem is - you haven't! Photo evidence and facts from our lovely No Bag Lady prove that some of the biggest UK supermarkets are frankly lying to their public.
10 Easy Things You Can Do To Help The Environment
Environmentalism: Some of us would-be environmental crusaders over-enthusiastically tackle our filthy consumptive drive(making plans we're unlikely to stick to) then experience Quick Burnout Syndrome. Then set a car filled with non-degradable plastic alight in the street in sheer frustration. Instead of failing to reduce our carbon footprint to 0.57, let's talk reality.
The good, the bad and the ugly... environment tips
Activism: Mookychick aims to be there for you in the good times, the bad times and the times you get so mad you might as well smear your face with ice-cream and throw the nearest lizard you find into a tree. But, sadly, life isn't all just boys, ice-cream and lizards. Let's think about helping our environment, too.
Battery farming campaigns
Activism: Catherine Baker says that major UK supermarket chains want to treat the general public like they treat their battery-farmed chickens: kept in the dark and fed on shit.
What's left is right.
When people talk politics, they use overly complicated words to confuse their opponent into agreeing with them. It's called cant, though Miss Deborah Taylor believes that's a vowel or so away from the truth. This week, our Lady of Debs explains what goes on behind the terms 'left wing' and 'right wing'.
Real, clear politics for 'beginners' or 'experts'
Politics are important again. We're five years into a war we were told was won three years ago. Then there's all the problems with the Third World. All that genocide. So, yeah, there's a fair bit of politics around... Debs Taylor's gets chewy about politics in her newly-resurrected Frankencolumn.
Basic guide to getting green and recycling
When you're going shopping and swinging your bags of many new summery things the last thing you want to see is "90% OF THE WASTE IN THE SEA IS MADE UP OF PLASTIC BAGS!" but Roswell Ivory tells you how you can go green - even if you have no control over bills and car-use in your house and are too young to vote.
Annie Sprinkle: Post porn Feminist
Riot Grrl: Frank Zappa said: "Annie Sprinkle, America is better for your efforts." Annie Sprinkle is an ex stripper, ex prostitute, feminist porn activist artist. She heals us through controversial performances on the theme of sexuality. She's the sort of person that makes you glad to be a person. Annie Sprinkle, we salute you.
Read this article: Annie Sprinkle: Post porn Feminist
To write love on her arms
Grrl: 'To write love on her arms' sounds like a cutter's motto, but TWLOHA are dedicated to making every single person going through the blackest moment in their lives have the strength to pick up a phone, meet a counsellor or find meaning in their lives. We like them. We don't ever want to see a spate of suicides like Bridgend (23 suicides in a quiet little Welsh town in 2008) ever again.
Women, The Vote, and 2010
Riot Grrl: Clare Boothe Luce said, "Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.' Why is it so important for women to vote in 2010?
Losing your protest virginity
Activism: Go alone, or bring a friend? Thalia addresses this and other questions (Keep it legal? Protest panic?) on her first ever protest march...
Virgin voting - But what exactly is going to change?
Politics: With the country ripping its gizzards out with financial scandals and whatnot, our first-time voter looks at the three main UK parties and what they say they believe in. National policy? Foreign policy? Is there any difference between the parties at all?
Read this article: Virgin voting - But what exactly is going to change?
Queer mutiny
Activism: Queer mutiny is about redefining a movement. Are you Queer without knowing it? Now you don't have to be LGBT to be Queer.
Read this article: Queer mutiny
Protect and survive
Campaigning: The eighties, god bless them, weren't all lace bows and pop socks. In honour of how close to WW3 in 1983 we really were, Mookychick reprints a scary-scary leaflet from the 1980s called 'Protect and Survive'. If you were a child of the eighties, forget the bogeyman – The Bomb was the bogeyman. Let's admit the Bogeyman exists - then put him back in the closet.
Female sexuality and the Extreme Pornography Act
Society: Sexual arousal is a beautiful thing: You go about your day and then something a little bit kinky pops into your head. Hurrah! You may be pro sexual arousal, and anti-pornography. Lovely. No problem. But there's a potentially nasty and sour lemon-mouthed little thing called the Extreme Pornography Act, and Kate Morrison digs a bit deeper...
Is super-sizing the problem super-shrinking the people?
Society: Language gives away a lot about the state of society and the people in it. We have words for fat. We have words for super-fat. We label some things, and not others. Should the world turn into a nanny state that labels everything it can get its greedy, mollycoddled hands on? Or do we need to draw a line, and start taking some real responsibility for our actions?
The Battlefront Project - Support 'Anti Size Zero'
Riot Grrl: Anyone who's watched the film 'The Devil Wears Prada' knows that what you see in fashion magazines is supposed to be aspirational. And that's not just the film; women across the world, consciously or not, aspire to the images of the supposedly perfect women they see in magazines, on the catwalk and on television...
Ann Coulter - Feminine, Famous, Fascist...
Ann Coulter represents the foxy face of fascism and is getting away with saying incendiary bullshit that her male Republican counterparts would never dare to. She's not bright, she's rude and she's repetitive - so why has she hit the bestseller list 5 times? Prepare to be afraid...
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