INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR AND UEA ALUMNUS JOHN DENNEHY

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged arrest, art, artivism, book, border, Colombia, creative non fiction, creative writing, Ecuador, George W. Bush, illegal, immigration, interview, Iraq War, John Dennehy, migration, New York, novel, police, privilege, protest, resists, revolution, Trump, UEA.

by Hannah Rose

Your new book, Illegal, tells the story of your arrest and deportation from Ecuador and your consequent return over the Colombian border with the help of corrupt police. There’s also a love story which runs through it. Crime and love both sell books – was this thematic mix deliberate?

My original intent was to focus on borders and revolution but almost every person who read a draft, especially early on, wanted to know more about the love story. So I kept adding more with each new edit. We’ve all been in love so that shared experience makes it relatable and easier to digest. That common basis is a great launch pad to touch on everything else, too.Continue Reading

THE NORWICH RADICAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Inter|national, Perspectives, Student and tagged #noDAPL, #readwomen, #shakespeare400, #standwithJNU, 2016, academies, Amelia Womack, articles, arts, Australia, BDS, Beyonce, biomass, black lives matter, BLM, Brazil, Brexit, canada, caroline lucas, Chris Jarvis, Colombia, comics, Community, conference, cricket, cuba, david bowie, divestment, easter rising, editorial, education, empire, Ende Gelände, energy, erik petersen, EU ref, feminism, football, fossil free, France, gender, Green Party, hate crime, HE, Heathtrow 13, housing, India, international, iraq, israel, Italy, IWD, JNU, Jonathan Bartley, journalism, Leave, LEMONADE, LGBTQIA+, malia bouattia, Marina Prentoulis, meantal health, media, mental health, migration, mischief brew, music, national, Nigeria, norfolk, Norway, norwich, Norwich Radical, NUS, owl sanctuary, Panama Papers, people and planet, Perspectives, Peter Tatchell, poetry, PokemonGO, politics, punk, queer, racism, radical, reclaim the power, refuge, refugee, refugees, Remain, representation, resist, review, round up, SAAC, sadiq khan, school, sexuality, Standing Rock, student, student movement, Syria, the gambia, the Philippines, trans, translation, UEA, UEA SU, uk, university, US, US presidential election, violence, visibility, War of Words, whitewashing, wrestlemania, writing, year in review, Zambia.

by The Norwich Radical

2016 was a bleak year for many. Across the world, the forces of liberty, of social progress, and of environmental justice lost time and again in the face of rising fascism, increased alienation, and intensifying conflict. That notwithstanding, there have been moments of light. In the Austrian Presidential election, the electorate confirmed the independently Green candidate Alexander van der Bellen; the #noDAPL water protectors gained a soft victory in early December; in fact, there is a full list of positives from the past year, if you want cheering up.

2016 saw our team expand to more than 25 writers, editors, and artists as well as host our first ever progressive media conference, War of Words. Our readership has grown from 5,000 per month to more than 6,500 per month. In total, nearly 80,000 people have read content on The Norwich Radical website this year.

In 2017, The Norwich Radical will turn three years old, with plans to grow our team and publication more than ever before. We’ll also be returning to Norwich to bring debate and discussion on the future of the media, with War of Words back for a second year. Continue Reading

THERE’S A SNAKE IN MY BOOT — CHECKING IN WITH ITALY

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #BastaUnSì, #IoVotoNo, Beppe Grillo, Berlusconi, Brexit, Camera dei Deputati, Colombia, constitution, daesh, EU, Europe, FARC deal, Gustavo Zagrebelsky, international politics, iraq, Italian politics, Italians, Italy, Lybia, Maria Elena Boschi, Matteo Renzi, media, Movimento 5 Stelle, PD, politics, proposed bill, referendum, representation, Republic, rise of the right, satire, Senato della Repubblica, Syria, Trump, US presidential election.

by Alex Valente

It feels like the international landscape of politics is readying itself for some massive shift, in the geological, tectonic plate sense. We’ve had the rightwing rising across European countries, from Hungary to France, via the UK and Austria, to name a few. We have the constant shitshow that is the US presidential election campaign. We have the war stages of Syria, Lybia, Iraq, with Daesh’s fluctuating relevance and interference. We have the stifling of oppositions and minorities across India, Hungary, Turkey. We could go on.

So what is Italy up to, in all this joyous mess? Italy which is, I’ll remind you, the inadvertent (except for all things geographical) front stage for the Mediterranean migration fluxes, one of the minor players in the EU’s whatever-it-is-it’s-doing-right-now, and trying so very hard to stay internationally relevant — as it has been strenuously doing for the past however many years.Continue Reading

MEANWHILE, SOME GOOD NEWS: PEACE IN COLOMBIA

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged anti-imperialist, cartels, ceasefire, civil war, Colombia, communism, drugs, FARC, guerrilla, Havana, international politics, Juan Manuel Santos, La Violencia, Marquetalia, Marxist, negotiations, Patriotic Union Party, peace, peace process, politics, revolution, socialism, trafficking, UN, united nations, UP.

by Zoe Harding

You know what? Everyone’s writing about how my racist Gran and 17,000,000 of her mates have screwed the UK over. Instead, let’s talk about something positive.

On June 23rd 2016, while the eyes of the world were decisively elsewhere, the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos emerged from negotiations in Havana with the left-wing FARC rebel group and announced a ceasefire. This ceasefire is the first major break in a fifty-year conflict which has claimed 200,000 lives and left Colombia a mess of drug trafficking and insurgencies. While the deal is nothing more than a ceasefire, it has been hailed by many Colombians as the first step in a peace process that’s been a long time coming.Continue Reading

STATE MEDIA AND THE DETERIORATION OF FREE SPEECH

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged alternative, alternative media, china, Colombia, corruption, facebook, free press, free speech, freedom of press, freedom of speech, government, Gulf War, International Federation of Journalists, John Whittingdale, journalism, journalist, Lauren Kuenssberg, media, monitoring, Norwich Radical, press, Reporters Without Borders, RSF, Russia, social media, surveillance, Syria, turkey, uk, US, World Press Freedom Index.

by Gunnar Eigener

Out of the May 5th elections the biggest story was the criticism of the coverage by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets. Particular focus of this was on BBC Question Time and the BBC Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg. This isn’t the first time that Kuenssberg has come under fire and it probably won’t be the last. A petition was doing the rounds demanding an independent review of how biased her actions may have been but has now been taken down. Additionally, the lack of coverage over the alleged Tory fraud in the last General Election has generated a sense of distrust in the BBC, an organisation that states: ‘impartiality lies at the heart of the public service and is the core of the BBC’s commitment to its audiences’.

Colombia

INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR AND UEA ALUMNUS JOHN DENNEHY

THE NORWICH RADICAL YEAR IN REVIEW 2016

THERE’S A SNAKE IN MY BOOT — CHECKING IN WITH ITALY

MEANWHILE, SOME GOOD NEWS: PEACE IN COLOMBIA

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