Guardian Newspaper,Guardian Films: Bradley Manning Documentary
Guardian Films, the documentary section of The Guardian newspaper. See this link, http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/guardianfilms for online examples of their investigative film work on pressing issues from the effect of climate change on developing countries to crime & subterfuge in war-torn nations. I...
A Bahraini Mother’s Plea for Help
___________________________________________________________________________________________ “ Our situation is very difficult in Bahrain, they kill innocent people near their own houses. Schools, shops, work - all closed, we cannot go out at all. They attack the villages and Shiaa’s areas and terrorise them, confronting the unarmed people with their guns and bullets. The Saudis army to Bahrain is acting inhumane, they...
Voice of a Bahraini Child
_________________________________________________________________________________________ _ ” Brutal thing is happening here. Please!!! help us spread every thing, yesterday a young man was shot in his head and his brain fell out and just few second a go we heard shooting sounds. Please help us spread it in any site, since the 14 February 13 people are killed in...
Love 146: UK Parliament Conference on the Trafficking of Children to the UK
• The Meeting: The conference in Portcullis House was hosted on 2nd March 2011 by Conservative MP Peter Bone and Love 146‘s CEO Steve Martin, European Operations Director, Gaz Kishere, Global Communications Director, Christian Elliot and many others calling on the government to mobilise MPs, ministers, Lords , police and charities to tackle the lack...
Amnesty Interview on the Labour Friends of Palestine Website and Newsletter
• Front page article: • Click the above picture to read the article (Opens in a new tab). • http://www.lfpme.org/articles-p181 • MP Sir Gerald Kaufman speaks in Parliament (Member of LFPME). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGuYjt6CP8] • Visit the Labour Friends of Palestine Website for updates of all their campaign work: http://www.lfpme.org/
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Banksy Profile piece, Escape Magazine- Love 146 (Russian translation)
English language link here : http://jameelaoberman.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/banksy-leader-of-generation-graffiti/ Article featured in Love 146′s Escape magazine, Issue #5, http://escape4you.org/ru/journal/journal-issues/escape-4-2/#/1/ Escape is a Love 146 magazine: http://love146.org/slavery [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAmoJj86Cy4]
Amnesty International (UK): Crisis Response Manager Interview about Israel & Palestine
Amnesty International’s Kristyan Benedict was visiting Hebron in the West Bank, when he saw an Israeli army patrol approaching as some Palestinians were walking down the street. One of the soldiers turned to a woman in the group and hissed: ‘Sharmuta’, which means bitch in Arabic. The soldier looked at the Palestinian men accompanying her...
Banksy – Leader of Generation Graffiti
Showing us spray paint is mightier than the sword – Banksy is the leader of the biggest subculture movement since Punk. His surreal and tongue-in-cheek ‘graffiti art’ is daubed on public and private property walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cities throughout the world. You can spot anything from little girls cuddling up to...
The Vicar of Baghdad’s Memoirs of the USA Legacy in Iraq
At 9pm UK time and 12 am Iraqi time at the beginning of the fall September 1st 2010, Barack Obama marked the official departure of US combat troops in Iraq. More than 7 years since the invasion the people have democracy yet the country is extremely unstable. Violence is on the increase again, the danger...
The Guardian’s Editor on the Future of Journalism
I visited The Guardian for an insight into the newspaper, the staff writers’ views on the state of journalism and what lies ahead for the future of the media. Alan Rusbridger has been editor – in- chief for 15 years. He explained how social media and citizen journalism are revolutionizing the trade and how journalists...
People with attitude: contemporary
The following is a short intro to different kinds of people in the public domain today whose gutsy attitudes should be known and admired: Salma Yaqoob A self-proclaimed British -Muslim political crusader for peace, justice and equality. Salma has carved herself out a political career as a Birmingham city councilor and leader of Stop the...
Adbusters Magazine #98: Craftivist Collective, Robin Hood Tax & #Occupy Protests