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Interview with Scott Blair

January 29, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 0 Comments

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is your family and personal story – culture, education, and geography? I had a classic American beginning. My father was a General Motors Engineer; my mother was a nurse (until starting a family – this was the late fifties). We were a TV-like family of five in an all-white community in […] Read more

Linda Sarsour is a Disgrace to Feminism

January 28, 2017 | by Tara Abhasakun | 0 Comments

Sarsour’s statements are an affront to women and men around the world who fight an uphill battle to escape and fight against misogynistic laws. The praise and support that Sarsour has received makes it appear that American feminists are not particularly concerned about the wellbeing of their sisters in far-off lands. Read more

The Populism of the Women’s March in the US

January 27, 2017 | by Houzan Mahmoud | 0 Comments

In light of Donald Trump’s controversial inauguration as 45th president of the US, women recently organised themselves into a series of marches in order to show their power and political will. As many of us feminists know, institutionalised sexism, patriarchy, warmongering, racism and class division have finally come to the fore and have become far […] Read more

Humanism: Realising and Resisting Change in Africa

January 25, 2017 | by Leo Igwe | 1 Comments

In 1994, a student gave me a book, and one of the lines in the book read, “If you want to change the society, start a movement”. I did not understand the full importance of this statement but the insight struck me and stuck with me, and never left me since then. In 1996, I […] Read more

Kept in the Dark: Immigration detention in the UK

January 19, 2017 | by Hunia Chawla | 0 Comments

Dev* stood in front of his PowerPoint slideshow in a glass-walled room in the Warwick Oculus building and recalled his first 3 months in the UK for his audience. He had volunteered to hold a discussion on immigration detention for Warwick Amnesty before their trip to Campsfield Detention Centre. A once-hopeful asylum-seeker emerging from difficult […] Read more

Interview with Haras Rafiq – CEO and Executive Board Member of the Quilliam Foundation

January 12, 2017 | by Scott Jacobsen | 1 Comments

Haras Rafiq is Quilliam’s CEO and an Executive Board Member. He is currently a member of Prime Minister’s Community Engagement Forum (CEF) Task Force and was formerly a member of the UK Government’s task force looking at countering extremism in response to the 2005 terrorist bombings in London, as well as being a peer mentor […] Read more

2017: Post-Truth, Post-Intolerance, Post-Understanding

January 8, 2017 | by Roger Dubar | 1 Comments

As predicted, 2017 hasn’t started with a wave of tolerance and understanding. Facebook’s Live feature gained unwanted attention in a viral video of apparently drugged-up black youngsters in Chicago tormenting a white teenager with learning difficulties. They shouted “Fuck Donald Trump” and “Fuck White People”. While the Chicago Police and CNN pundits downplayed the racial […] Read more

“In the Name of Allah: Thou Shalt Not Treat Women as Equals”

January 4, 2017 | by Leo Igwe | 0 Comments

Supposedly Allah demands that we do not treat women as our equals. All Muslims who are progressively minded must speak out against this disgusting edict. We, as Nigerians, must make sure the gender-equality bill passes! Read more

Why Trump’s Ideas on Science Are Illogical and Dangerous

December 24, 2016 | by Angelos Sofocleous | 0 Comments

With less than a month until Inauguration day, Donald Trump has already provided us with an insight about what his administration is going to be like: Scary. Specifically, the views of Trump and his government officials on science are utterly concerning: denying climate change, supporting the idea that vaccines are related to autism, denying the […] Read more

Fears and Terror: Europe under Attack

December 22, 2016 | by Leo Igwe | 0 Comments

For over five years I have been living in Europe, and I have never at any time been as worried as I am right now for humankind. I have never had any reason to be more apprehensive or more disturbed about the future than I am today, at this very moment. This is because the […] Read more