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AntiCOP 2024 concludes with indigenous peoples' climate proposals - Freedom News
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Global Meeting for Climate and Life brought together more than 250 delegates from Latin America and around the world ~ from Desinformémonos ~ After five days of work, the Global Meeting for Climate and Life – AntiCOP 2024 concluded in Oaxaca, bringing together more than 250 representatives of...
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The ruptures of militant anarchism in Brazil - Freedom News
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“Where we come from and where we are going”: a reflection on Brazilian anarchism, then and now ~ from O Amigo do Povo ~ Brazilian anarchism lost influence over the masses with the decline and later, the end of revolutionary syndicalism in Brazil between the 1920s and 1930s. This syndicalism...
18h ago
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From Chiapas, a tale about warnings, consequences and denial It was at pozol time. The insurgent compañeras told me about the multiple accidents, falls and forced collisions when they were learning to ride a bicycle. The forced collisions are explainable: when they lost control of the bicycle...
on Sep 6
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Trustees should not be bosses: A note on the crisis at Peace News - Freedom News
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A Trust holding assets for a radical progressive organisation is there to serve -- not to act as jury or boss to the workforce from positions of assumed authority
on Sep 5
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Thales 5 release appeals rejected - Freedom News
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Court reduces two Palestine activists’ sentences from 12 to 10 months, again ignoring social work reports which did not recommend jail time ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Two Palestine Action activists, imprisoned for taking action to disrupt the operations of French arms company Thales in Govan, Glasgow,...
on Thu, 2PM
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Notes from the US: Power unchecked - Freedom News
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What a resurgent MAGA presidency means for policy and resistance ~ Louis Further ~ It is a week since the elections, and our preliminary assessment of how and why Donald Trump – a twice impeached convicted felon, and an incompetent, largely economically ignorant white supremacist, misogynist and...
on Thu, 9AM
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Freedom News Review - November 12 - Freedom News
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Items discussed in this program: Valencia anger after flooding • First contact with Ocalan in almost 4 years • Trump victory and the ‘far right international’ • UK at Climate summit • AI job losses
on Wed, 9AM
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Activists blockade two Elbit sites in Bristol - Freedom News
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Lock-on devices inside vans used to block the gates of Israeli arms company R&D hub in Filton and headquarters at Aztec West ~ Scott Harris ~ Palestine Action says its activists today blockaded the entrances of two sites in Bristol operated by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company. The...
on Tue, 5PM
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Fugitive antifascist Johann G. arrested on train in Germany - Freedom News
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Televised appeal and surveillance operation preceded the arrest, as authorities clamp down on alleged associates in the Antifa East and Budapest cases ~ Juju Alerta ~ Antifascist activist Johann G. (31) was arrested in Thuringia on Friday by the fugitive squad of the Saxony State Criminal Police...
on Tue, 9AM
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Demonstrators demand justice after Valencia floods - Freedom News
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For two weeks, municipalities in the region have been virtually left to their own devices by public authorities, as much of the population turns to mutual aid networks to find survivors and provide material support ~ Sonia Muñoz Llort ~ From Thursday and through the weekend, numerous...
on Mon, 8AM
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"You can actually see this 'far right international' taking shape" - Freedom News
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Grzegorz Piotrowski discusses far right power and its international networking and funding ~ Uri Gordon ~ The far right agenda has never been so powerful since the end of the second World War. After decades of the political centre shifting steadily to the right, ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist...
on Sun, 11AM
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The far-right and their new internationalism - Freedom News
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Uri Gordon interviews Grzegorz Piotrowski The far right agenda has never been so powerful since the end of the second World War. After decades of the political centre shifting steadily to the right, ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist forces are now in open alliance with populist and conservative...
on Sun, 9AM
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First contact with Abdullah Öcalan in years as conflict escalates in Iraqi Kurdistan - Freedom News
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Supporters hail prison visit a step towards a political resolution to the Kurdish question ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ Supporters of incarcerated Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan have made a significant political breakthrough as Turkish authorities permitted his first face-to-face meeting with a...
on Nov 8
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Athens explosion: Injured anarchist to be questioned while in critical condition - Freedom News
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Lawyer warns ‘anti-terror’ investigation being used to target wider radical movements ~ Kit Dimou ~ Anarchists in Greece and Germany have released solidarity statements with the comrades killed, injured and arrested following an explosion in an Athens flat on 31 October, which authorities...
on Nov 7
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Politics at all levels, by all means - Freedom News
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A fascist in the White House, and the ‘traffic lights’ go out in Germany ~ Jonathan Eibisch, Paradox-A ~ The promised turning point is clearly coming much louder than many would have expected. Why do anarchists care who is in government, one might ask. In fact, the ruling order remains the same...
on Nov 7
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Trump's victory: "Manipulable, Aggrieved, Gullible, Ahistorical" - Freedom News
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On the day after the election half — but only half — of Americans woke up sombre, stunned, sickened, and rightly very scared ~ Louis Further ~ On Tuesday Rudy Giuliani, disgraced and debarred lawyer and felonious election denier, arrived to cast his vote in Florida in a car which he had been ordered by
on Nov 6
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Bristol residents blockade Elbit site - Freedom News
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Barclays Plc and corporate lobby firm APCO recently cut ties with the Israeli arms company ~ Scott Harris ~ Dozens of residents and local activists this morning (6 November) blockaded the entrance to the Elbit Systems production facility in Northern Bristol. According to a press release by the...
on Nov 6
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Freedom News Review 5.11.2024 - Freedom News
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Items discussed in this program: US elections and vote-shaming • Valencia flooding — climate change, neoliberal neglect and mutual aid • Palestine Action nonviolent tactics push Barclays to divest from Elbit • Kemi Badenoch elected Tory leader: culture wars and “reverse identity politics”
on Nov 6
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Book review: Zerox Machine - Freedom News
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An absolute triumph of punk scholarship and alternative historiography ~ Jim Donaghey ~ Reading through this richly detailed overview of punk zines from the late 1970s and the 1980s, you can feel the effort that Matt Worley has poured into this. I imagine him elbow deep in piles of fading...
on Nov 5
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A black woman Tory leader? Sure, as long as she's batshit right-wing - Freedom News
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Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right of the political spectrum ~ Daniel Adediran ~ Kemi Badenoch is the death’s head of the Tory Party. A withered husk,it is now completely hollowed out...
on Nov 4
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Avoiding the 'peaceful protest' trap - Freedom News
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As the far-right seizes ground, we need energised communities who can resist nationalism ~ Blade Runner ~ On October 26, another Tommy Robinson-led rally took place outside 10 Downing Street under the “Unite the Kingdom” banner. Neo-fascist crowds gathered to advocate for Robinson’s release...
on Nov 3
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Greece: Harsh sentencing for squatters - Freedom News
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Matrozou 45 re-occupiers sentenced to 77 months together while 79 defenders of the Prosfygika community go on trial today ~ Kit Dimou ~ In Athens, the trial continues today of 79 defenders of the Prosfygika community who resisted a police raid in 2022. On Tuesday, four participants in the...
on Nov 1
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Malcolm Archibald: 50 years of Black Cat Press - Freedom News
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This month, Black Cat Press (BCP) founder Malcolm Archibald sat down with Freedom News to reflect on a lifetime of publishing and his personal journey through anarchism over the years.
on Oct 31
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Valencia floods: 70+ dead, unions say firms risked workers’ lives - Freedom News
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Ikea trapped its workers inside warehouses while Uber Eats and Glovo forced couriers to make usual deliveries ~ Emilia Aiguader ~ The city of Valencia was today dealing with the consequences of a devastating flood. Overnight, this “once in a century” storm laid waste to one of Spain’s most...
on Oct 30
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Labour’s anti-trans health betrayal - Freedom News
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Trans people must form coalitions to face a government joining the side of cruelty ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ From the genocide in Gaza to refusing to apologise for the enslavement of millions of Africans, from the two-child cap to banning all trans healthcare for under 18s – Keir Starmer’s government...
on Oct 30
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Freedom News Review 29.10.2024 - Freedom News
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Items discussed in this program: German antifascist arrests and deportations • Valencia square occupation for decent housing • Lisbon riots after police racist killing • Escalation in Chiapas • UK budget and Labour’s capitalist cult of growth • Tommy Robinson sentencing and the threat of fascist...
on Oct 30
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Portugal: Riots in Lisbon after police kill father of two - Freedom News
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While the community highlights a pattern of racism, violence, and police impunity, authorities have responded by ramping up police presence ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ Nights of unrest have unfolded in Lisbon for the past week, following the police killing on 21 October of Odair Moinz, a 43-year-old Cape...
on Oct 29
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Book review: No Harmless Power - Freedom News
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This warts-and-all bio of Nestor Makhno is folksy and refreshing ~ bob ness ~ I’m an old-fashioned guy, a romantic, even. In my heart of hearts what I really, really want to do is to ride down capitalism with cavalry and lop off its head with our sabres. We tried that already, but it didn’t
on Oct 29
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Antifascist in hiding arrested in Berlin - Freedom News
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Solidarity actions being organised with “Nanuk”, accused of attacking Nazis in Saxony ~ Juju Alerta ~ Anti-fascist Thomas J., also referred to as “Nanuk”, was arrested by investigators from the Saxony State Criminal Police Office in Berlin on Monday 21 October, reported German media. Following...
on Oct 28
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Plaça de Valencia occupation for decent housing - Freedom News
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A daily program turned the square into a space for community life, political action, training and meeting ~ Ainhoa Lleida, Directa ~ The rain does not prevent the fourth night of the protest camp for housing and against tourism in Valencia from going ahead. The evening before our phone starts...
on Oct 28
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Education and autonomy in times of ecological collapse - Freedom News
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Zapatista education promotes a relationship with knowledge based on the needs and questions of students and communities ~ Ana Paula Morel, from Teia Dos Povos ~ In the corn fields of the Lacandon Jungle in Mexico, it used to take three months to harvest; however, with the ecological...
on Oct 27
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Frontex: 20 years of human rights violations - Freedom News
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The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which “assists” European countries in “border management, control and security”, is 20 years old tomorrow ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Frontex is a tool for European countries, with an outsized budget of 845 million Euro in 2023. The objective is to...
on Oct 25
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Escalation in Chiapas: Priest assassinated, attacks on Zapatista communities - Freedom News
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Social movements denounce murder of Mexican priest as conflict intensifies with state-complicit cartels ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ Amid reports of attacks against Zapatista communities in southeast Mexico, an activist Jesuit priest who denounced the drug cartels has been murdered. Marcelo Perez, a...
on Oct 24
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Green colonialism in Western Sahara - Freedom News
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Under Moroccan occupation, renewables projects are being used to reinforce dominance ~ Tommaso Marconi ~ While renewable energy is seen as part of the solution to many environmental issues we are facing, it is also used as a pretext by capitalist lobbies and occupying states to overcome...
on Oct 24
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Milkshake Farage is a courtroom crybaby - Freedom News
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We’ve really reached a low point when throwing a milkshake at a politician is not only brought to court, but prosecuted as “assault by beating” ~ Rob Ray ~ Nigel Farage’s court case against Clacton hero Victoria Thomas Bowen is the latest example in a trend of politicians refusing to abide by...
on Oct 23
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A cautionary tale from my Russian anarchist great-grandfather - Freedom News
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On the danger of sacrificing principle for pragmatism ~ George Askaroff ~ When faced with substantial external pressure and uncertainty, principles of liberty are often sacrificed in the name of ‘pragmatism’. But doing so can come at a heavy cost. This is where the tale of my great-grandfather...
on Oct 22
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Official letter reveals extent and speed of operation to extradite queer antifascist to Hungary, despite injunction appeal ~ Kit Dimou ~ The authorities in the German state of Saxony “could hardly wait to extradite” antifascist activist Maja T to queer-hostile and authoritarian Hungary, say...
on Oct 21
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Acclaimed Ukrainian human rights activist Maksym Butkevych released by Russia - Freedom News
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Among 95 Ukrainian prisoners of war released from Russian captivity was Maksym Butkevych, a prolific Ukrainian journalist and human rights activist.
on Oct 20
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Two, Three, Many ZADs - Freedom News
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A ZAD means a “zone to defend” (zone à défendre in French). These environmental protest occupations have recorded successes such as preventing an airport near Nantes and a dam in the region of Toulouse. This a roundup of recent ZAD news. In July this year, activists from ANV-COP21 and Extinction...
on Oct 19
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France: Last occupation against A69 motorway falls - Freedom News
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After violent police evictions, the few trees still standing in the way of the controversial road have been cut down ~ Zandra Russel ~ On Monday the 7th of October 2024 the last ‘squirrels’ left their trees named Zineb and Noguerre under pressure from the cops; now the struggle against the A69...
on Oct 18
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Notes from the US: Countdown to dictatorship? - Freedom News
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With the elections less than a month away, campaigning is dominated by filthy racism and climate denial ~ Louis Further ~ As ‘Notes from the US’ went live last month (September), attempts were just beginning by Trump, Vance and the MAGA crew to terrorise the town of Springfield, Ohio, by falsely...
on Oct 18
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“People are disillusioned, they believe Lebanon's fate is corruption and war” - Freedom News
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Interview with Lebanese activist Maroun, an active participant in the 2019 popular uprising in Lebanon ~ From Aftoleksi ~ Let’s pick up the thread from 2019, when many young people in Western countries heard about the Lebanese world for the first time. You are from the young generation that made...
on Oct 17
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Peter Kennard: "My art erupts from outrage" - Freedom News
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Now on show at Whitechapel Gallery, his work since the 1970s includes some of Britain’s most iconic images of resistance ~ Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan ~ Since the 1970s, Peter Kennard has produced some of Britain’s most iconic and influential images of resistance and dissent. These have spanned his...
on Oct 17
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An Eastern Europe mythbuster - Freedom News
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Zb and DR address some of the more prevalent left myths about Ukraine and the politics of Eastern Europe.
on Oct 17
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UK Workers Rights Bill and the spectre of capitalism - Freedom News
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The latest piece of legislation unveiled by our government emerges not as a beacon of hope, but as a harbinger of betrayal ~ Mark McEwan ~ As the sun rises each day over the grey skies of the United Kingdom, we find ourselves staring into the abyss of a systemic failure that has plagued workers
on Oct 17
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The Death of Leninism - Freedom News
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I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst the shadow puppets of English radicalism, lie inert various guises of Leninism: self-perpetuating central committees run tiny irrelevant organisations and use...
on Oct 16
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Clean energy can't save us - Freedom News
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From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about the looming catastrophe that threatens our societies because of climate change and deepening ecological crises. This is, one can suggest, an...
on Oct 10
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Hate fascism, hate the spectacle: Far right wins Austrian elections - Freedom News
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Instead of self-righteous identity politics, our practice should oppose fake empowerment narratives ~ Anon Grata ~ A right-wing populist party has won the elections in yet another European country—but as the international media reminds us, it’s not any country: it’s both the birthplace of the...
on Oct 10
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Cowley Club Interview: “Every community can benefit from a social centre” - Freedom News
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One of UK’s longest running social centres, the Cowley Club is Brighton is structured as a members-run co-operative ~ Interviewed by Zosia Brom ~ Can you tell us about who you are and how it all started and what are your activities? We are the Cowley Club, a social centre in Brighton, we’ve been around
on Oct 9
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Neighbours as lifelines: The power of mutual aid in Asheville - Freedom News
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Activists in storm-ravaged communities talk about about solidarity and collective survival ~ Kelly Hayes ~ Last year, researchers at Tulane University ranked Asheville, North Carolina, as one of the most “climate-resilient cities” in the United States – municipalities whose geographies,...
on Oct 8