Tag: politics
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Under capitalism, it does not matter if I die
3 transformative ideas to put people back into the centre of politics. About five months ago I realised my heart was playing up again. It’s happened before. A few years ago I had a heart attack. Back then, I was on the waiting list for a scan. The scan hadn’t happened because I’d left it…
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We can do this. It takes guts though
To make the world better, we must imagine better. The future is made when we all become artists. ‘Why can’t things be how they used to be?” ‘I remember the good old days…’ ‘Everything was better when we were kids…….’ A brief glance at literature from the last thousand years suggests people have been lamenting…
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Take Action
However inconsequential it seems, an action achieves more than words. The slaughter continues. As you and I go about our day, a population deprived of fundamental rights for decades shelter from carpet bombing. Women, children, men, desperately hunt for food and water to survive the day. Children without parents howl in bombed-out buildings they once…
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A World Without Words
I’m finding it hard to write these days I’m finding it hard to write these days. Writing is a gentle place for me, but I struggle to go there. So much to be said, and no words adequate to the saying. How to address the enormity of the horror in Gaza? How to talk, without…