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#GPConf STWR: Article25 and Universal #BasicIncome

Article 25 and the Universal Basic Income Part 2 What are the aims and objectives of STWR as an organisation, what common questions arise about economic sharing, and how can you learn more about our work and other sharing-related global issues? https://www.sharing.org/ Article 25, Universal Basic Income, Share the World’s Resources (STWR)[…]

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Stealing the night… because dirty work can’t be done in the light of day or power of witness

Stealing the night… because dirty work can’t be done in the light of day or power of witness. As Cuadrilla get permission for throughout-the-night deliveries for #fracking in Lancashire, the trees of Sheffield are hacked down under cover of darkness… #WeSaidNo
Image and this from Alison Teal:
[We arrived just after 6am and it was[…]

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This time one year ago, by Tina Rothery

This time one year ago, by Tina Rothery
 
This time one year ago, I was looking at the bag I’d packed for my two-weeks in prison. Court was in the morning and unless I agreed to sign agreeing my financial situation and agree to pay Cuadrilla £55,000 (cost of an eviction that wasn’t a[…]

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Dear Prince Harry: Congratulations from a fellow Brit married to an immigrant.

 

Dear Prince Harry
Congratulations on your engagement to Meghan!
As a fellow Brit married to an immigrant, I wanted to share some of the enormous battles that you will surely face in the years ahead to ensure that she is allowed to stay in the country so that the two of you can live[…]

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Fuel Poverty Action Press Release 21st Nov 2017

In Fuel Poverty Action  press release:

 
Photos:  https://drive.google.com/ open?id=14Pd4_SgEe8ogw_ zAeVHqsmDbOOK58IIK

FPA: fuelpovertyaction@gmail.com, tel: 07751 748026, twitter: @fuelpovaction
Disabled People Against Cuts: mail@dpac.uk.net, text:  07505 144 371, twitter: @Dis_PPL_Protest

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This morning, on the eve of the release of the latest excess winter deaths statistics, we delivered a tiny cap to Ofgem,[…]

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Charter of the Forest 800th year Anniversary

Charter of the Forest 800th year Anniversary
 

Dear Occupiers,
The Charter of the Forest 1217 was the first environmental charter in history, and enshrined the right of everyone to subsistence on the commons. The importance of this younger sister of the Magna Carta is deliberately overlooked by the establishment due to its radical implications.[…]

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Everytime we go to the camps to listen, my heart breaks some more

 
Every time we go to the camps to listen to stories, my heart breaks some more. By Hannah Aiyana.

This afternoon, Sophie and I met with a woman who had lost all of her children. The army had doused them with kerosene in front of her eyes and burned them alive. My heart[…]

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The community food movement and migrant solidarity

The community food movement and migrant solidarity by Melanie Strickland.
 
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) launched the campaign, Against the Walls of Capital, earlier this year. The group, whose coffee we sell at Organiclea to support their liberation struggle, called on supporters all over the world to “organize with autonomy, to resist[…]

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MeToo. Woman born in the 1960s.

When I was a teenager, I thought men treating me like a sexual object was just a fact of life, like cold wind with rain in it blowing horizontally in your face, or like when your first car breaks down and it’s before mobile phones and you have to hitch a lift to a phonebox[…]

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