ZAD DU CARNET: A BASTION OF RADICALISM ON THE LOIRE ESTUARY

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged biodiversity, capitalism, climate crisis, development, Extinction Rebellion, extractivism, featured, France, green capitalism, greenwash, Loire, occupy, radical ecology, renewable energy, ZAD, ZAD du Carnet.

by Yali Banton-Heath

Graffitied in swirly red French handwriting, on the wide concrete track that leads through the camp, is the motto: ‘Nous sommes toutes des enfantes du Carnet!’: we are all children of the Carnet. The Carnet is a stretch of land on the Loire Estuary, next to the Saint-Nazaire seaport and downstream of France’s sixth largest city, Nantes. The 110 hectare area which incorporates 51 hectares of wetland and is home to hundreds of species of wildlife, many of which are endangered and on the brink of local extinction, is under threat of development. With a nationwide shift towards supporting green energy projects, and the Saint-Nazaire seaport earmarked as a prime location for offshore wind farms, the Carnet has been chosen as the site for a new ‘green energy industrial park.

CHINA STRENGTHENS TIES WITH MYANMAR AS HUMAN RIGHTS FALL BY THE WAYSIDE

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, Belt and Road Initiative, china, development, economy, featured, genocide, human rights, Human Rights Watch, ICJ, Myanmar, Rohingya, Uyghur, war crimes, Xi Jinping.

by Yali Banton-Heath

Chinese head of state Xi Jinping made his first official visit to Myanmar (Burma) on Friday, where he met with State Councillor and de facto leader of the country Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint, and the Burmese military’s infamous commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Although it was Jinping’s first visit since assuming office, the occasion marked 70 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries and signifies a continued mutual desire to unite their economic and strategic interests. A total of 33 agreements were signed to speed up China-backed development projects in Myanmar and bolster the China-Myanmar-Economic-Corridor; a vital component of the wider Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. Both countries have track records of serious state-sponsored human rights abuses, and share an increasing disdain for, and distancing from the West. With the tantalising promise of economic prosperity, has China got Myanmar under its thumb, and will development come at the expense of human rights.Continue Reading

IS IT UP TO ASEAN COUNTRIES LIKE THAILAND TO TURN THE TIDE ON OUR PLASTIC PROBLEM?

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged ASEAN, Cambodia, climate crisis, development, energy, environment, environmental policy, featured, microplastics, oceans, oil, overconsumption, plastic, pollution, recycling, thailand.

by Lotty Clare

Back in August much of the Asia Pacific region, and the world, was captivated by the death of a baby dugong called Mariam. Washed up on the beach in southwestern Thailand, the ill and orphaned dugong gained the attention of the public, complete with live webcasts, only for her to die a few months later due to plastic poisoning.

In a stark contrast to the depictions of idyllic white-sanded Thai beaches, this story seems to have captured the hearts of many and has added momentum to the growing anti-plastic movement in Thailand and the Asia Pacific region.

Plastic pollution is a huge problem, and humanity’s plastic production is expected to grow over the coming decades. Plastic is now in the deepest parts of the ocean, in our food, in our bodies, even our water and air. 8 million tonnes of the stuff is estimated to end up in the ocean every single year, an amount set to double by 2030. By 2025, there will be one tonne of plastic for every tonne of fish in our oceans.

DECOLONISE WALES: II

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #decolonisewales, 1905, absentee landlords, All Blacks, British exports, Butes, Capel Celyn, Cardiff Coal Exchange, carnifal, cymreictod, decolonise, development, Dic Penderyn, Eisteddfod, environmental cost, featured, Glan Rhondda, Haka, hell, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadua, Herbert Asquith, human cost, Iago ap Euan, industrialisation, James James, Liverpool City Council, merthyr rising, metal works, miner, National Miners Union, nonconformity, north south divide, Pontypridd, postcolonialism, Prince of Wales, Red Flag, solider, South Wales, South Wales Coalfield, sport, Taff, Taff Vale Railway, Talbots, Thatcher, Trade Unionism, Wales, welsh government, Welsh language, Welsh Language Act, welsh national anthem, Welsh Nationalist movement, Welsh sporting events, Wild West, workers' power.

by Jonathan Lee

Decolonise Wales: Part 1 can be found here.

The Welsh National anthem was the first anthem to ever be sung at a sporting event. In 1905, when Wales played the New Zealand rugby team for the first time. Declining to sing the official “God Bless the Prince of Wales”, the crowd gave a spontaneous rendition of “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau” in response to the All Blacks’ Haka. The song became a staple of Welsh sporting events from then on. Although until 1975 organisers refused to let the anthem be sung unless accompanied by “God Save the Queen”.Continue Reading

‘SHITHOLES’ AND GLOBAL PERCEPTION OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Africa, countries, development, discrimination, featured, global, Haiti, perception, politics, racism, shithole, Trump, US, wealth.

by Gunnar Eigener

The term ‘shithole’ allegedly used by US President Donald Trump to describe Haiti and African countries drew widespread condemnation from a number of world leaders and US domestic politicians. Although no attempt was initially made to denounce the comment, it was only until a while later that the White House denied it happened. Since the source regarding the comment was the only US Democrat in the room with the President and others and those others can’t seem to remember whether or not it was said, we can’t be absolutely certain that it was made. However, the comment represents a bigger issue at hand: the blatant disregard that the current US administration has for developing countries.Continue Reading

BUSINESS, AS USUAL: THE ROHINGYA CRISIS, REPATRIATION AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, china, citizenship denial, development, ethnic cleansing, FDI, India, land acquisition, land law, Myanmar, Rakhine State, refugees, Rohingya, tatmadaw.

by Yali Banton Heath

Content warning: ethnic cleaning, sexual violence.

Myanmar and Bangladesh have just signed an agreement which concerns the repatriation of over 600,000 Rohingya refugees who have fled their homeland in Rakhine state since August. What many are now rightfully calling out as genocide, the persecution, murder and rape of Rohingya people and the burning of their villages has left deep scars. Continue Reading

BRITAIN AS A CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMY: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged co-operative, coalition, collective, conservative, consumer co-operative, consumers, cooperative, david cameron, development, economy, ethical, free market, growth, local, Madison, Mondragon, multinationals, neoliberal, shareholders, spain, sustainability, theresa may, US, Wisconsin, worker co-operative, workers.

by Oliver Steward

The UK’s free-market economy as a whole is facing one crisis after another. That is why policy makers and businesses need to consider the co-operative option which offers products and services to our economy. Our corporate and political culture’s lack of innovation and strict adherence to the neoliberal free market means this is sadly more of a dream than reality. However, other nations have successfully replicated this alternative economic model to adapt to their own individual needs.Continue Reading

THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS IS A CRISIS OF RACE

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #shutdown, animal produce, anthropocene, biodiversity, black bodies, black lives matter, blmuk, brown bodies, capitalism, climate change, climate crisis, climate migrants, co2 emissions, contaminated water, crisis of race, deforestation, development, ecology, environmental racism, ethnicity, Flint, g20, holocene, industrial growth, industrialisation, london, london city airport, mass extinction, migrants, oil, paris climate change, plastic pollutants, race, racism, sea levels, theresa may, ukblm, working class.

by Emmanuel Agu

Perhaps not in its inception, though undeniably, the climate change crisis is one of race. The protest today launched by the UK chapter of the Black Lives Matter (BLMUK) stands as a call to arms in opposition of worrying statistics of the UK’s Influence on both global climate change and the local effects — highlighting the disproportionate nature of these adverse affects on communities of colour in the west and world wide. Continue Reading

BLACK STUDENTS IN WHITE EDUCATION

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives, Student and tagged academia, African American, Afro European, American values, Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Birmingham, Birmingham City University, black education, black history, black literature, black scholars, black students, black studies, black voices, black writers, BME, contemporary blackness, development, education, gender studies, Harry Potter, Harvard, HBCU, Howard, international development, Jackie Kay, John Agard, literaturer, Malorie Blackman, Marlon James, Ming Te Wang, racial pride, racism, sexism, SOAS, The Colour Purple, university, Why is my Curriculum so White?, womanist, Womanist Society, Yale, Zadie Smith.

by Candice Nembhard

In May 2016, Birmingham City University announced it will be accepting applications for its new degree in ‘Black Studies’— the first of its kind in Europe. The course is said to be an interdisciplinary area of study that will look into migration of the African diaspora, black scholars, and the effects of economics within black communities. Estimated to parallel the popular and esteemed African-American study programmes present at the likes of Yale, Harvard, and Howard University, this programme is finally addressing an underlying problem within British education. More specifically, why black voices have long been ignored or overridden in academic spheres. As a Birmingham native, I have never been more proud to witness this advancement, but we cannot stand by the belief that its implementation is enough.Continue Reading

ASEAN NATIONS CONTINUE TO BE SILENT ON THE ROHINGYA CRISIS

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged ASEAN, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bangladesh, buddhist, Burma, development, economy, education, employment, Europe, genocide, healthcare, human rights, Indonesia, international, international news, international politics, Islamaphobia, malaysia, migrant, movement, Muslim, Myanmar, Nobel Peace Price, refugees, riots, Rohingya, singapore, Suu Kyi, thailand, UNHCR, united nations, woman.

by Faizal Nor Izham

The recent Rohingya crisis in South East Asia is nothing new — clashes between the ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have been ongoing since 2012 through a series of riots. By October of that year, Muslims of all ethnicities had begun to be targeted.

The riots were supposedly triggered by widespread fears among Buddhist Rakhines that they would soon become a minority in their own ancestral state. Riots sparked after weeks of sectarian disputes, which included a gang-rape and murder of a Rakhine woman by Rohingyas and the killing of ten Burmese Muslims by Rakhines.

It is the refusal from fellow South East Asian nations to
take in tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees which
has been the main source of recent controversy.

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ZAD DU CARNET: A BASTION OF RADICALISM ON THE LOIRE ESTUARY

CHINA STRENGTHENS TIES WITH MYANMAR AS HUMAN RIGHTS FALL BY THE WAYSIDE

IS IT UP TO ASEAN COUNTRIES LIKE THAILAND TO TURN THE TIDE ON OUR PLASTIC PROBLEM?

DECOLONISE WALES: II

‘SHITHOLES’ AND GLOBAL PERCEPTION OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

BUSINESS, AS USUAL: THE ROHINGYA CRISIS, REPATRIATION AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS

BRITAIN AS A CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMY: A MISSED OPPORTUNITY?

THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS IS A CRISIS OF RACE

BLACK STUDENTS IN WHITE EDUCATION

ASEAN NATIONS CONTINUE TO BE SILENT ON THE ROHINGYA CRISIS

It is the refusal from fellow South East Asian nations to
take in tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees which
has been the main source of recent controversy.

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It is the refusal from fellow South East Asian nations to
take in tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees which
has been the main source of recent controversy.