THE RICH NOTHING AT UGLY DUCK

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, artivism, arts, Code of Ethics for Art Museums, drugs, exhibition, featured, Guerrilla Girls, Joe Holbrook, nostalgia, performance, poem, poetry, politics, reading, review, Sophie Fenella, The Garage, The Rich Nothing, Valerie Savchits.

by Carmina Masoliver

On a rainy Friday, people in-the-know gathered to listen to poetry in Ugly Duck for the launch of Sophie Fenella’s debut poetry collection The Rich Nothing. Ugly Duck is actually a series of different event spaces, with this particular one being located at 47/49 Tanner Street in Bermondsey. Inside this old Victorian tannery (where leather skins are processed), therein lies ‘The Garage’. On the ground floor, the space is described as having ‘a grungy urban warehouse feel’, and without much natural light at the back, it has an underground vibe in more than one sense of the word. With genuine caution signs for wet floors from leaks, it feels like an abandoned building that has been turned into an exhibition space – but in a cool way.

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART II

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged American justice system, corruption, court, deportation, drugs, featured, gang, government, ice, interpreting, Juan José Martínez D'Aubuisson, judge, justice, law, maras, police, prison, traffic, trafficking, translation, trial, tribunal, US, USA, violence.

by Ana M. Fores Tamayo

Continued from Part I here.

When the police in Guerrero, Mexico told this young woman to leave their station, not to report her missing brother or something worse could happen, she realized she could not count on the police’s help to go after the cartels. Luckily, her brother was returned, beaten up but alive. hen she began to get harassed later that year, because she saw a woman abducted and then murdered, when she began to get subsequent death threats, when she began to hear that they were going to take her small son unless she complied to whatever they wanted from her, when they began accosting her sexually — so that she had to leave her job — she knew she could not go to the police: she had learned her lesson that first time.

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART I

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged American justice system, court, deportation, drugs, featured, gang, government, ice, Juan José Martínez D'Aubuisson, judge, justice, law, maras, prison, traffic, trafficking, trial, tribunal, US, USA, violence.

by Ana M. Fores Tamayo

I went to an Immigration Merits Hearing at the Dallas Courts recently — the last hearing before an individual or family is deported or given asylum — and this young mother and child from Guerrero, Mexico, lost – as asylum seekers in the majority of these cases do. Although the judge admitted that the young woman “might be in danger,” he said he could do nothing about the consequences such criminal activity affects these poor folk in the countries from which they are escaping. The actions perpetrated in such countries were individual criminal proceedings, not governmental undertakings, and thus the people who suffered individually were not privy to meriting asylum under our government statutes, according to the judge’s ruling.

How can these learned men say such a thing? Continue Reading

AMERICA’S FADING ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, capitalism, china, Clinton, deal, diplomacy, drugs, economy, featured, foreign policy, France, germany, Hezbollah, international, Iran, israel, JCPOA, john bolton, Lebanon, middle east, money, Netanyahu, North Korea, nuclear, politics, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Trump, USA, Venezuela, war, weapons.

by Gunnar Eigener

America’s influence in the Middle East is beginning to fray at the edges. This is bad news for both the region and the global community. America has, over the past decade, became something of a pariah in the area. Its foreign policy, already distrusted by enemies and allies alike, has looked increasingly unclear and erratic under the current administration.

While previous Presidents acted with caution and measure, the Trump White House presses on, having found in its new National Security Advisor John Bolton the man who would seemingly give weight to any decision that Donald Trump would be likely to favour, yet is already being rumoured to be behind Trump’s decision to withdraw from the North Korea Summit. Continue Reading

IRAN AND THE ART OF THE DEAL

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, capitalism, Clinton, deal, diplomacy, drugs, economy, featured, foreign policy, France, germany, Hezbollah, international, Iran, israel, JCPOA, Lebanon, middle east, money, Netanyahu, North Korea, nuclear, politics, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Trump, USA, Venezuela.

by Gunnar Eigener

The US President, Donald Trump, has announced that the US will pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran much to the dismay of all those involved and many other countries around the world. The deal was viewed by Trump as ‘the worst deal ever’, possibly an overstatement since Iran surrendered 97% of its enriched uranium stockpile and limited to installing at a maximum 5,060 centrifuges, making the production of a nuclear weapon impossible. Still, time limits were placed on these and other elements of the deal, meaning that in 15 years, Iran could have begun its nuclear programme again. While the JCPOA can, and should, be viewed as a successful deal, it is another example of not dealing with the root cause of the problem, which is the part Iran plays in propping up terrorist organisations and brutal regimes worldwide.Continue Reading

OPIOIDS AND BAD PHARMA

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged addiction, Affordable Care Act, bad pharma, drugs, Fentanyl, Greg Walden, healthcare, heroin, incentives, national emergency, Obamacare, opensecrets, opioid, Orrin Hatch, pharma, public health, public health crisis, Trump.

By Gunnar Eigener

Content warning: addiction, needles, mental illness.

Last week, the US President, Donald Trump, instructed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis that is currently raging across the country a public health emergency. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that six out of ten drug overdoses involve an opioid, at a current rate of 91 deaths a day. Despite these kinds of statistics, this problem has not been declared a national emergency, as Trump promised it would be, resulting in no funds being released to tackle this crisis. Trump stated that; ‘we are going to overcome addiction in America’. In reality, this barely addresses the deep-seated problems of supply and demand and the culture of the pharmaceutical business ingrained in American life.Continue Reading

WE DON’T TREAT ALL MENTAL ILLNESSES THE SAME

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged addiction, art, artwork, drug addiction, drugs, health, horror, mental health, mental ilness, original art, pharmacy, recovery, rehab, treatment.

by Asia Patel

FRESHERS GUIDE #3: ADOLESCENTS AND ALCOHOL

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #soberforoctober, alcohol, drinking, drinking culture, drugs, freshers, freshers guide, freshers week, student, university.

by Robyn Banks

This weekend, thousands of freshers will descend on University towns across the UK, and pubs, clubs and takeaways prepare themselves for busy nights and big takings. Four years ago I was a fresher in Norwich, and this week my younger sister is hitting the town in Brighton for the first time. Before either of us even arrived in our respective new towns, we knew the score: pre-drinks, pub, club, after-drinks. Our party dresses were the first to be packed and the first to be unpacked.

We grow up in a culture where we know that the first year of university is about drinking, surrounded by tales of students who spend more money on beer than on food and the collective assumption that this is what our maintenance loans are for, and gently edged towards arranging our own priorities similarly. If the entire first year is not about drinking, then fresher’s week definitely is. That’s the first weekend and the first week. And the second weekend. And some of the second week. Fact.

FRESHERS’ GUIDE #2: ECSTASY AND THE SEROTONERGIC SQUAD

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged college, david nutt, dopamine, drugs, ecstacy, freshers, MDMA, mental health, serotonin, university.

by Robyn Banks

Ecstasy, or MDMA, has long been a popular student party drug. Despite being relatively safe for use, not many people understand the chemical change in the brain that comes with being high on MDMA, and the rise in students being medicated for anxiety and depression threatens to make a once rare overdose in to an all too common event.

FRESHERS’ GUIDE #1: WEED ETIQUETTE

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged cannabis, college, drugs, freshers, ganja, joint, marijuana, smoking, student, students, tobacco, university, weed.

by Robyn Banks

UCAS deadlines have passed, interviews are taking place across the country, college students are going through the clearing process. For many, university isn’t just about learning- it’s about the life experiences, the parties, and the new experiences you’ll have within your own minds. That is to say, drugs, and namely those most common university drugs: alcohol and cannabis.Continue Reading

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THE RICH NOTHING AT UGLY DUCK

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART II

THE US IMMIGRATION COURT & THE POWER OF ITS JUDGE KING, PART I

AMERICA’S FADING ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

IRAN AND THE ART OF THE DEAL

OPIOIDS AND BAD PHARMA

WE DON’T TREAT ALL MENTAL ILLNESSES THE SAME

FRESHERS GUIDE #3: ADOLESCENTS AND ALCOHOL

FRESHERS’ GUIDE #2: ECSTASY AND THE SEROTONERGIC SQUAD

FRESHERS’ GUIDE #1: WEED ETIQUETTE

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