“Hollaback” is an international movement to end street harassment. ¡Atrévete! BA is the Buenos Aires branch, which launched in early 2011. We are one of over 50 partner sites around the world. As an Argentine feminist with connections in the UK, I appreciated the idea of a global movement with […]
Two years ago, I revived my old World of Warcraft Holy Priest and got her up to the maximum level (at that time) of 80. I immediately set about raiding and questing (for the uninitiated, raiding is where large groups of players take on the same set of challenges collectively, […]
It is common for the British to look at the American system of lobbying government and smile disdainfully. Money influencing policy is something others do, not the Mother of Parliaments. It is of course as inaccurate as believing paying MPs will lead to better applicants for the job or that […]
What instantly captures the hearts of those brave enough to venture into the Venezuelan National Reserve, nestled in the Andes mountains, is the untamed beauty of the vegetation, the crystal waters of the rivers and their sumptuous cascades. Yet, scraping just below the surface of this idyllic scenario are the […]
The past few weeks have seen a fair few spats surrounding columnists Suzanne Moore and Caitlin Moran. The pattern was always the same: A columnist says something awful which contributes to the oppression of less privileged minorities, people call them out, and the commentariat closes ranks around them for protection. […]
Thirty to forty years ago, there was a “great debate” pitting biology versus society in relation to the role of gender. Just as there had been in relation to IQ and school success, and in earlier generations about class and race. Which was more important: nature or nurture? The reason […]
Against a backdrop of increasing poverty and environmental chaos, now more than ever there is a need for sustainable communities. The land-use planning system in England is becoming one of the biggest obstacles for those wanting to live in low-impact sustainable communities ‘Land-use planning’ is an ambiguous term, but it is […]
In a quiet corner of southern England a fight is brewing. Almost a thousand years after the Norman invasion, the prospect of a second battle of Hastings looms as protesters face off the government and East Sussex County Council over plans to build the 5km, £100m Bexhill-Hastings Link Road (BHLR). […]
Early morning in Nacogdoches, Texas on November 19. Protesters with the Tar Sands Blockade, dressed head-to-toe in camouflage gear, build wooden platforms 50ft up in pine trees. Three people will attempt to block construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline today. A few miles away, four more protesters lock themselves […]
The time was July 2012, almost a month after a second round of elections in Greece produced the Frankenstein-like coalition government, comprised of conservative right-wing New Democracy, faux-socialists PASOK and “left-wing” Democratic Left that was now running the crisis-stricken country. An hour outside Athens, in the town of Loutraki, strikers […]