Activism and Politics
Skateistan
Great video, great NGO. Skateistan empowers youth in Afghanistan, Cambodia and Pakistan. Girls can shred it too
How to give to charity without spending money
From sponsored sites that donate every time you click to giving charity shops the nice things that eBay rejected, you can help.
Ethics, LARP and Fur
A vast amount of LARP fur costume comes from unethical sources like modern fur farms and this is a PROBLEM. Learn how to source ethical fur whether you are a player or a crafter.
Volunteering for Green London
Green London are an urban eco tours outfit who explore the possibilities of enjoying the hidden green gems of London and leaving a minimal carban footprint. They do internships, too.
Teen Feminist Site Blacklisted In Schools
Feminist website Mookchick Online questioned educational web filters when hotlisted in US and UK schools and libraries for supposed occult and pronographic content.
Occupy Movement
Okay. So what is the Occupy Movement? What's it all about? Let's have some facts. And statistics. And some opinion. Let's have a mini mooky history of Occupy.
Yarn bombing - Why?
Graffiti's come a long way, baby. Yes, it was always about making one's unique stamp on a faceless, authoritarian world. But now it's got all eco-consicous, and street art has taken on a new form in... yarn bombing. Or guerilla knitting. Or just making the world really, really cosy.
Mass Effect 2 Marathon
The Mass Effect 2 Marathon is ON. Get video gaming for charity, save all your Mass Effect squaddies and help save sick children throughout the galaxy! Spread the word...
OWL electricity monitor review
If you knew how much energy you were wasting in your house, you could tweak your bad habits (like leaving all the lights on), help stop climate change and save money. We review the OWL electricity monitor, which promises to do just that.
Slutwalk London!
SlutWalk London is one branch of a worldwide protest marching under the radical notion that nobody deserves to be raped. 'No' always means 'no', and rape is never justifiable, regardless of what a person's wearing...
Activist's Guide to Modern Anarchy
Calling all chicks with flags! Let's pay a brief visit to Anarchist London and paddle in the pond of modern anarchy. An anarcho activist's very beginner guide.
The hidden life of factory farmed hens
The hidden life of factory farmed hens makes for sad reading. There is, of course, an alternative...
Fundraising ideas for breast cancer awareness
Sally (whose mother is a breast cancer survivor) presents all mooks with fresh fundraising ideas for breast cancer awareness. We mooks particularly love 'buy a butler'.
Japan Disaster - How to help
It's pretty bad. How can we help? We've listed our preferred charities and aid organisations, people finders for victims/survivors of the Japan disaster, and ways to raise money. Suggestions welcome.
7 Ways to celebrate Human Rights Day
Let's say you're reading this and it isn't 10 December (Human Rights Day). Does it truly matter? Resolve to do these wonderful things regardless, from YouTube playlists to the Amnesty International Write-a-thon.
Reusable sanitary towels
One gorgeous way to help save the environment is to address your period. As well as the joy of the Mooncup, we can consider reducing landfill one reusable sanitary towel at a time...
Reusable sanitary towels
One gorgeous way to help save the environment is to address your period. As well as the joy of the Mooncup, we can consider reducing landfill one reusable sanitary towel at a time...
10 Tips to keep your heating bills low and help the environment
Yep... Pretty much what it says on the tine. We've got some genuinely clever ways to keep a little bit warmer if you can't afford to turn up the thermostat... or, for ecological reasons, don't want to.
Sweatshop child labour
People are quick to campaign against anti-fur by not buying it, but they're less quick to eschew a cheap and pretty dress even when they know a child made it during a 16+ hour factory shift. Here's how to avoid supporting companies that use sweatshop labour.
Living organ donation
What's the opposite of lovely zombie escapism? Why, lovely saving someone in reality. Organ donation after death, living organ donation, blood donation... find out more. You can't save a zombie but you can save a human being.
Climate change
Activism: You can't cover climate change in a single zine article. Some claim global warming is a myth. Others claim we're causing climate change through human activity. Either way, what can we do about it? Answer: Research. And think global, act local.
Climate change
Activism: You can't cover climate change in a single zine article. Some claim global warming is a myth. Others claim we're causing climate change through human activity. Either way, what can we do about it? Answer: Research. And think global, act local.
How to become a child sponsor
Activism:Mookychicks want to make a difference, be it to 1 or 1,000 people. Good news! We can take the '1 person' part literally with child sponsorship.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
No plastic bags in supermarkets... for real.
Activism: No plastic bags! 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 then set a car filled with non-degradable plastic alight in the street in sheer frustration. 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.
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. 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...
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!" 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
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. Annie Sprinkle, we salute you.
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.
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?
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.
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'.
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. 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?
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'
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...
Activism and Riot Grrl
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