Protest in a post-truth worldJoyous choral music provides the background as the video begins with a burst of sunlight. Enter UKIP leader Nick Tenconi, a stocky, bald…Feb 1Feb 1
A Call to ActionThis summer, the country endured a series of racist attacks that were perhaps the most vivid expression of hatred we’ve witnessed in…Oct 11, 2024Oct 11, 2024
Writing a new chapter of hopeFirst came the trauma. Then the fight. Now the hope.Aug 9, 2024Aug 9, 2024
Resisting the Rwanda ActIt’s a Monday morning like any other for most of us, but not for everyone. Outside Portswood police station dozens of men and women seeking…May 24, 2024May 24, 2024
Saving the VennyIn my mind’s eye it was a vast space, an epic playground that would take forever to run from end to end. I’m talking about Newtown…Apr 24, 2024Apr 24, 2024
Brown face in a white room“My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon it, learning to use it before it laid my visions…Mar 13, 2024Mar 13, 2024
Gaza, Barclays, the climate crisis and meI remember the moment when the realisation hit me, and it hit like a punch to the gut. Early in the conflict in Gaza, two news reports in…Jan 31, 2024Jan 31, 2024
Free speech isn’t freeJimmy Carr returns to perform at the city’s Mayflower Theatre next month, and so it seems like an opportune time to revisit his joke about…Apr 16, 20221Apr 16, 20221
A Hidden Humanitarian CrisisAs we watch in horror as an immense refugee crisis unfolds in Ukraine, this seems like an apt time to remind ourselves of the often untold…Mar 1, 2022Mar 1, 2022
Climate change and conflict in AfghanistanIt feels like misdirection that the climate movement continues to view the crisis in reductive terms: the earth heats and then people die…Oct 8, 2021Oct 8, 2021
The personal costs of activismI’ve been reflecting constantly about the role I have adopted as an activist over the past months. I’ve been compelled to; because of the…Sep 27, 2021Sep 27, 2021
The Death of Freedom Under Buhari’s Dictatorship In NigeriaBy Sanyaolu Ayowole and Manthan PathakSep 26, 2021Sep 26, 2021
Climate migration: reimagining utopia“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the…Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021
THE FIRST 11 DAYS OF 2021; ASSAULT, DETENTION AND INJUSTICE IN NIGERIASanyaolu Juwon and Manthan PathakJan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021
The 3 XR demands: a climate justice readingI’d like to preface this article with a statement of intent: my words are not meant to be an attack on Extinction Rebellion, particularly…Jun 30, 2020Jun 30, 2020
Extinction Rebellion, racism and the climate crisisWARNING: the thoughts that follow aren’t based entirely on climate science and come from a distinctly political and sociological point of…Jun 11, 20203Jun 11, 20203
