VIDEO: BP, Tate Modern, Balloon Power and Dead Fish
A 5 minute video of a “Liberate Tate” action which is part of an upcoming documentary: Balloon Power from Sharon salazar on Vimeo. For more info on this action, read Sunny Hundal’s post on Liberal...
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Liberate Tate action against BP sponsorship
After Monday night’s mini-spill outside the Tate Britain, enacted by the artist-activist group Liberate Tate, there has been a flow (‘scuse the pun) of press coverage from around the world, opening up...
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That Swedish Cake, Colonialism and Female Genital Mutilation
Little Black Sambo: Innocent times? By Mhairi McAlpine / @Mhairi_McAlpine Growing up in the 1970s, I didn’t have the most politically correct upbringing. A gollywog adorned the jam jar I stared...
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Keep On Pushin: the warrior music and political soul of Curtis Mayfield,...
On what would be Curtis Mayfield’s 70th birthday, Kerem Nisancioglu explores the soul artist’s musical legacy and the political context in which his music found its resonance. “We’re believing very...
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From two fans of Lupe Fiasco: Why “Bitch Bad” was misguided and sexist
By @JustinTheLibSoc & @Mod_Charissa According to Spin Magazine, Lupe Fiasco has mansplained his way into a terrible mess, he attempted to challenge misogyny in rap only to be attacked for doing in...
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The “Urban” Racism Report: ShakaRa’s view on the English Frank Situation
By Tafadzwa ShakaRa Mbandaka “HE’S SO DUMB INNIT. I DON’T MEAN TO SOUND RACIST YEAH, BUT HE IS AFRIKAN” These are the words of English Frank to a room full of Afrikans at a Hip-Hop showcase in London....
View ArticleGlastonbury Festival An Alternative Review
The Good Ole Days It’s that time of year, war wounds are brought out, camera phones revealed. Pub tables are pulled together and people yell in your face about how mad it was. Yes Glastonbury...
View ArticleComedy School Fundraiser Review [Recollections from an Autumn Night]
It’s 2013, a bustling Monday night and autumn has finally started eyeing up winter clothing. Inside my chosen venue, the walls are lined with baby-faced images of the alternative comedy elite: faces...
View ArticleOn (White) Advocates
By @JustinTheLibSoc “It’s offensive, it’s like our narrative is always being told from the perspective of being enslaved or being in servitude when there’s so much more to African history than just...
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