CRIMINALISING TRESPASS, PART THREE: SUFFOCATING SPACES OF RESISTANCE

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, BLM, campaigning, compulsory purchase orders, Crackley Woods, criminalising trespass, direct action, featured, HS2, Jellytot, land justice, occupy, privatisation, protest, public land, resistance, right to protest, right to roam, Stonehenge, Swampy, TINAAR, trespass, XR.

by Tesni Clare

For those who don’t know – and there are many who don’t, because the press have been worryingly silent on the matter until recently – there are a number of small, self-organised communities of activists living in tents and treehouses between London and Birmingham, along the proposed route of high speed railway HS2. The railway, and the protest camps, thread through some of this country’s last remaining pockets of ancient broadleaf woodland. Whilst many have been evicted, some camps have been there for over a year.

TAKING WHAT’S OURS: ACORN NORWICH’S FIGHT FOR TENANTS’ RIGHTS

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged abbotFox, acorn, Acorn Norwich, ACORN renters' union, ACORN Tenants' Union, community union, direct action, estate agents, housing, illegal evictions, landlords, letting agents, Northwood, Norwich City Council, pandemic, rent, rent strike, trade union.

By Sean Meleady

ACORN Norwich, a community union which focuses particularly on tenants’ rights, has been dealing with member defence cases against two Norwich estate agents: abbotFox and Northwood.

FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE HOME FRONT – THE CAMPAIGNS TO PROTECT NORFOLK’S ENVIRONMENT

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged biodiversity, Broadland District Council, climate activism, climate change, climate emergency, conservation, council cuts, direct action, Easton, environment, Extinction Rebellion, featured, Honigham, Jerome Mayhew MP, norfolk, Norfolk County Council, Norfolk Wildife Trust, North Tuddenham, northern distributor road, norwich, Norwich City Council, Norwich Western Link road, river wensum, Stop the Wensum Link, Taverham, Thorpe St Andrew, Thorpe Woodland, Tories, Woodland Trust, XR.

By Sean Meleady

Norfolk people are rightly proud of the beautiful countryside and unique habitats which attract many tourists to the county. However, Norfolk’s environment and ecological sustainability are threatened by two planned developments located just outside Norwich: the Norwich Western Link road and a proposed new housing development near Thorpe St Andrew which threatens three local woodlands.

ACORN NORWICH – THE UNION TAKING ON DODGY LANDLORDS

Posted on June 19, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Acorn Norwich, ACORN Tenants' Union, activism, austerity, Brighton, Bristol, campaigning, coronavirus, Covid-19, Dereham, direct action, featured, flatfair, Generation Rent, Goldsmith street, grassroots, health and safety, housing, housing costs, landlords, letting agents, manchester, member defense, norwich, Norwich City Council, online activism, renting, residents, Sheffield, student accommodation, students, UEA, unions, wages, workers.

By Sean Meleady

Norwich may call itself a ‘fine city’, but this isn’t always the case for renters. Despite some positive stories, such as the Goldsmith Street social housing project, many tenants find life in the city tough.

RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AFTER COVID-19

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged capitalism, class war, Community, coronavirus, Covid-19, direct action, exploitation, featured, freedom, homelessness, Jamese Scott, McDonalds, mutual aid, neoliberalism, NHS, resistance, Sports Direct, Starbucks, strikes, Trump, uk, US, Virgin, Wetherspoons.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

What a time to be alive. As Covid-19 rampages its way across the globe ravaging families and livelihoods, a medical fetish company has had to supply the NHS with equipment because the British government is a lethal combination of neoliberal, greedy and incompetent. While kink is contributing to saving lives, and while many people are faced with the prospect of trying to subsist and keep their families afloat on £94.25 per week sick pay during the lockdown, the British government has been putting together £1 billion of public funding to be doled out to countries who then intend to use this loan to buy British-made bombs and surveillance technology. British people die through negligence, people in other nations die through cataclysmic violence: welcome to Tory Britain.

THE MORNING AFTER #GE2019

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged 2019, austerity, basic income, Boris Johnson, Brexit, candidates, direct action, election day, elections, EU, featured, funding, GE, ge2019, general election, green new deal, Green Party, greens, human rights, Labour, manifesto, MP, NHS, our streets, Parliament, platform, policy, politics, PR, racism, resist, samaritans, self care, self-help, toriesout, Tory, transphobia, Universal Credit.

The Norwich Radical Editorial Team

By now you’ve seen the headlines. There’s no easy way to say this: in the coming months and years, many in this country and elsewhere will suffer under a Tory government led by a racist liar. Social services will be dismembered. Workers’ rights will be eroded. Vulnerable people will face violence at the hands of increasingly aggressive immigration authorities and police. All of which will be sanctioned, incited, and protected by the country’s highest authorities and institutions.Continue Reading

‘DODGY BUT STABLE’: BRINGING BACK THE PROGRESSIVE PUNCH

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged abuse, action, alliance, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Cambridge Analytica, centrism, Chamberlain, Change UK, Contrapoints, democracy, direct action, electability, election, EU, Europe, featured, gaslighting, islamophobia, jeremy corbyn, left, LibDem, liberal, miliband, Natalie Wynne, NHS, no deal, Parliament, progressive, Trump, vote.

by Sunetra Senior

A news-based long read of the darkening climate under Boris Johnson, and consequent examination of the solutions.

NB: this piece was written before the announcement of the suspension of parliament. The call to progressive action is of the utmost urgency.

Shock, horror!! Boris Johnson is Prime Minister, we are on the verge of a catastrophic No-Deal Brexit, and Trump’s ego is bigger than ever before. Prior to this, the Scandinavian Peninsula, or the magical lands of social democracy and hygge, saw the rise of a nationalist group in Finland. There were also the New Zealand shootings in a show of Islamophobia, so horrific, that the country’s PM moved to ban militarised weapons practically overnight. So, amidst this caustic circus, where is the progressive clout? Given the gradual upheaval of the moral development of society, it’s apt to return to a timeless saying: ‘The personal is the political.’Continue Reading

DEAD PEOPLE DON’T CLAIM – DISABLED PEOPLE AGAINST THE CUTS AT TORY CONFERENCE

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged anti austerity, austerity, benefit cuts, Birmingham, conservative party conference, Dead People Don't Claim, direct action, disabled activists, disabled people, DPAC, dwp, Esther McVey, fake news, featured, people's assembly, politics, protests, theresa may, Tories, Universal Credit, Vince Laws.

By Robyn Banks

Last week’s Conservative Party conference in Birmingham was met with sizeable protests, as you’d expect given the party’s actions in its eight years in power. Groups such as the People’s Assembly opened the weekend with their usual rally and march against the continued austerity measures being implemented across the country, to the detriment of many in society. I was lucky enough to witness and be involved in one of the most powerful protests, on the final day of the conference, when Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) led action against the continued rollout of the failing universal credit system and the ongoing cuts to benefits by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).

ON ANARCHY, ANTIFA, AND APATHY

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged action, anarchy, anti-fascism, antifa, apathy, Bannon, Berkeley, Brexit, Civil Rights, Community, cooperation, direct action, Elisee Reclus, equality, featured, hate, justice, left wing, Milo Yiannopolous, Natasha Lennard, Peter Kropotkin, politics, Richard Spencer, Unite, volunteers, white supremacy, xenophobia.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

In a left wing social media group I am part of, a member recently asked whether anybody supported Antifa, before continuing on to state that he personally feels that “they sound like the fascists they are trying to rid the world of” and harming the potential of the left. This sentiment was unexpected given the online location. Why do the words “anarchist” and “Antifa” provoke such strong negative reactions?Continue Reading

JUSTICE FOR CLEANERS AT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

Posted on September 15, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged abuse, academic staff, accountability, Bush House, campaigning, cleaning, deportation, direct action, discrimination, economic discrimination, exploitation, featured, gendered labour, health and safety, homophobia, immigration, immigration raid, IWGB, Justice for Daniel, KCL J4C, King's College London, LSE, LSE J4C, migrant labour, migrant rights, neoliberalism, occupation, outsourcing, pensions, racialised labour, Servest, sexual harassment, SOAS, SOAS J4C, SOAS nine, solidarity, students, trade unions, UCU, UCU strike, UKVI, Unison, university management, University of London, university staff, UVW, workers, workers rights.

By KCL Justice for Cleaners Campaign

Content warning: mentions sexual harassment, homophobic abuse

This week, the KCL Justice for Cleaners Campaign released a short film revealing the struggles of migrant cleaners at King’s College London, a day before management made a recommendation to the College Council as to whether to end the outsourcing of cleaning. Through the film, cleaners speak in their own words about the violence of the outsourcing model and how mistreatment at KCL is normalised.

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CRIMINALISING TRESPASS, PART THREE: SUFFOCATING SPACES OF RESISTANCE

TAKING WHAT’S OURS: ACORN NORWICH’S FIGHT FOR TENANTS’ RIGHTS

By Sean Meleady

FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE HOME FRONT – THE CAMPAIGNS TO PROTECT NORFOLK’S ENVIRONMENT

By Sean Meleady

ACORN NORWICH – THE UNION TAKING ON DODGY LANDLORDS

RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AFTER COVID-19

THE MORNING AFTER #GE2019

‘DODGY BUT STABLE’: BRINGING BACK THE PROGRESSIVE PUNCH

DEAD PEOPLE DON’T CLAIM – DISABLED PEOPLE AGAINST THE CUTS AT TORY CONFERENCE

ON ANARCHY, ANTIFA, AND APATHY

JUSTICE FOR CLEANERS AT KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

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