IN SOLIDARITY WITH AL-MOUNADIL/AH AS MOROCCO CONTINUES TO STIFLE VOICES OF DISSENT

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Al-Mounadil/ah, arrests, dissent, featured, freedom of expression, journalism, justice, law, media, Morocco, online news, oppression, politics, press, press freedom, print media, protest, social media, solidarity.

by Yali Banton-Heath

The revolutionary socialist newspaper and website Al-Mounadil/ah or ‘The Militant’ is facing an existential legal threat from the Moroccan state under it’s continued assault on the Left, progressive voices, and freedom of expression in the country. The onslaught of arrests and passing of restrictive legislation in recent years has targeted independent journalists and publications, and the use of social media and the internet as a platform for political expression. As the statement released by Al-Mounadil/ah’s editorial team reads: “the restrictions will not succeed in gagging voices; the advancement of technology will make a mockery of anyone that tries.”

Al-Mounadil/ah’s director received a court summons late last month regarding the newspaper’s compliance with Morocco’s Press and Publications Law; a piece of legislation which places onerous conditions on reporters and journalists in attempt to suffocate dissent in the media. Continue Reading

ASSANGE ARRESTED: A WARNING TO JOURNALISTS WHO EXPOSE TRUTH ABOUT POWER

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged arrest, Chelsea Manning, extradition, featured, free press, free speech, investigative journalism, journalism, Julian Assange, media, US, whistleblowing, WikiLeaks.

by Lotty Clare

Fugitive, criminal or hero? Everyone seems to have an opinion on the sudden arrest of Julian Assange on April 11th, what the broader implications are, and what his fate should be.Continue Reading

THE DECLINE OF STUDENT MEDIA – AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged accountability, careerism, Concrete, expenses scandal, featured, investigative journalism, journalism, media, NUS, Rupert Murdoch, student activism, student media, student movement, The Tab, UEA, university management.

By Robyn Banks

Over the last couple of years, student media outlets on our campuses have lost much of their political clout. Often, their focus is on delivering a hot take with a snappy headline, not on the integrity of their journalism or on exercising their power to make change on students’ behalf. This is particularly true of the two main student media outlets at UEA, and can be seen in how they handled the UEA management expenses scandal last month.

THE POWER OF CONFUSION

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged #deletefacebook, Cambridge Analytica, conspiracy, data, facebook, featured, Forbes, journalism, local news, monopoly, news, News of the World, power, privacy, soros, Vladislav Surkov, zuckerberg.

by Joe Rutter

Last week a fishy deal was struck, as Facebook donated £4.5 million to the National Council for the Training of Journalists. It’ll fund some 80 traineeships with local newspaper publishers that will last two years. Fantastic, on the face of it. On the face of it (the mantra on which Facebook was built) a rainbows-and-flowers deal, an altruistic gesture on behalf of the almighty Facebook to rescue the vulnerable and decrepit print journalism industry from destitution. A good cause, I’m sure we can agree, for the Zuckerberg zillions: better than nuclear weapons or propping-up dictatorships. So let’s leave it at that, shall we? Except then there’s this lingering feeling that something more, something insidious, is happening.Continue Reading

NOT AS SIMPLE AS R/A/G – THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNI RANKINGS 2018

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged censorship, cultural appropriation, featured, freedom of speech, FSUR, journalism, league tables, Never OK, no platforming, privilege, sexual harassment, sombrero gate, spiked, students, students' unions, UEA, UEA SU, universities.

by Robyn Banks

Content warning: mentions sexual harassment

This month, Spiked launched their newest Freedom of Speech University Rankings for 2018. The fourth edition of the rankings, which started in 2015, are an ‘assessment’ of freedom of speech on our campuses. Spiked’s methodology is simplistic. They look at the policies and actions of both universities and their students’ unions (SUs), ranging from the no-platforming of controversial speakers to their codes of conduct. They then give each uni and each SU a rank of red, amber or green, and give an overall ranking to each institution based on these two scores.

HOTSPOT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL KILLINGS: THE PHILIPPINES MOVING INTO 2018

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged advance, Bobby Chan, Brazil, Colombi, Dailo Madal, Datu Victor Danyan, duterte, ecology, El Nido, Elioterio Moises, environment, environmental justice, farming, featured, Federico ‘Pande’ Plaza, Global Witness, human rights, impunity, journalism, Karapatan, killing, martial law, murder, Palawan, PAN Asia Pacific, Philippines, politics, Richard Heydarian, Ruben Arzaga, Tony Lavina.

by Yali Banton Heath

A figure which always captures my attention at the end of each year is the number of environment and land defender murders that have taken place over those past dozen months.

2016 was bloody. 200 people lost their lives that year while protecting their land and natural resources. The Guardian and Global Witness have estimated that last year, in 2017, there were 185 such deaths. Sadly, yet unsurprisingly, these figures are always underestimations, as in reality far more deaths occur over land and environmental struggles than get reported.

As the country with the third highest environmental defender death toll globally (beneath Brazil and Colombia), the Philippines continues to have the highest environmental activist death toll for any Asian country. The archipelago of over 7,000 islands is seen to be one of South East Asia’s booming economies. But what will 2018 bring with regard to the country’s piss poor human rights and all too frequent environmental killings?Continue Reading

HOLD A DANCE TO SOLIDARITY – LIGHTS DOWN, IN EVIL HOUR REVIEW

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged album review, angry, bandcamp, bitter, Blinding Ropes, Build it Up, Built on Our Backs, capitalism, Darlington, Divide and Conquer, Don't Wake Up, Enemy Within, free press, government, Grenfell, hardcore, In Evil Hour, journalism, Lights Down, Modern Detachment, MTM, music review, music that matters, My Excuse, neoliberalism, Paveway IV, petrol girls, poetry, political music, progress, protest song, provocative, punk, radical music, refused, revolution, rise against, We are the Lost.

by Chris Jarvis

Following up on the incendiary Built on Our Backs EP in 2015, Darlington’s darlings of hardcore In Evil Hour are back, this time with their second full-length release – Lights Down. In the age of an emboldened far right, intensified hawkishness in the international military arena, and revelations of the worst excesses of neoliberalism with the likes of the Grenfell disaster, Lights Down is a much needed and timely response.Continue Reading

NORFOLK’S BAD MEAT

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged animals, Banham, british life, cctv, consumption, Deborah Wilson, factory farming, food standards agency, journalism, local, mass production, meat, meat consumption, meat eaters, meat is murder, norfolk, Norfolk Meat Traders, rebranding, Simply Halal, slaughter, slaughterhouse, undercover.

by Joe Burns

Content warning: this article contains links to graphic videos and mentions animal cruelty

Over a billion farmed animals are killed in Britain every year. That includes over 10 million pigs, over 15 million sheep, 16 million turkeys, and over 2.6 million cows.

This business is a traditional part of Norfolk, and British, life. Farming of all kinds has been a part of life in Norfolk for hundreds of years. This rural county is most well-known for breeding turkeys, though it is also a moderate producer of other meats, especially from cows and pigs. Is the mass production of animals for consumption something to be proud of though?Continue Reading

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY “DEBATE” IN AUSTRALIA

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Australia, australian bureau of statistics, Australian Capital Territory, Australian Greens, Australian Labour Party, australian politics, bestiality, civil union, electoral roll, equal marriage, expats, gay, Green Party, high court, homosexuality, indigenous, IVF, john howard, journalism, LGBT+, lgbtq, LGBTQI, liberal party, malcom turnbull, marriage, marriage act, marriage equality, marriage rebels, plebiscite, politics, postal ballot, postal plebiscite, postal vote, Queensland, referendum, rural, same sex, same sex parents, South Australia, stolen generation, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, tasmania, Tony Abbot, University of Melbourne, western australia, young voters.

by Laura Evans

Content warning: this article mentions homophobia

It’s been quite a week in Australian politics. You might have heard that the Turnbull government (a coalition of the centre-right Liberal Party and slightly further-right-but-mostly-rural National Party) have been debating marriage equality and have launched something called a postal-plebiscite. To understand why this is a Big Complicated Deal, we have to go back to 2004.Continue Reading

IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN? – STUDENTS AND THE ELECTION #6

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #GE2017, armed forces, Article 50, austerity, buses, clive lewis, commentary, cuts, education, end poverty, EU, EU citizens, EU referendum, exit poll, Free Education, general election, Green Party, higher education, jeremy corbyn, journalism, Labour, left wing, Liberal Democrats, living wage, london, manifesto, MPs, Northampton, norwich south, NUS, Parliament, politics, polls, prime minister, privatisation, public services, rent, rights, shadow cabinet, snap election, student politics, student vote, students, Students and the Election, Sure Start, tactical voting, tax, theresa may, Tim Farron, Tories, UEA, UEA Labour Students, universities, voters, voting, wages, Wales, work.

from a member of UEA Labour Students

In the midst of multiple crises faced by students, universities and schools, the outcome of the snap general election will be a major indicator of the future of the UK education sector. Each week until the vote we are featuring perspectives from our regular contributors and guests on what the election could mean for students.

Having resolved to sit down today and write this article, I’m struck by the appropriateness of my day. I caught the bus to UEA from outside one of the few remaining Sure Start centres, a public service provided by the last Labour government which has been decimated by the Conservatives (and Liberal Democrats) since 2010. My bus was 40 minutes late, the consequence of a privatised, under-funded service – and even the previously UEA-hosted launderette I went to had been privatised since I last used it. It served as a strong reminder of the power of Labour government to change lives for the better, which contrasts with the crumbling services and privatisation festival that has characterised the last 7 years of Conservative and ConDem government.

journalism

ASSANGE ARRESTED: A WARNING TO JOURNALISTS WHO EXPOSE TRUTH ABOUT POWER

THE DECLINE OF STUDENT MEDIA – AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT

THE POWER OF CONFUSION

NOT AS SIMPLE AS R/A/G – THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH UNI RANKINGS 2018

HOTSPOT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL KILLINGS: THE PHILIPPINES MOVING INTO 2018

HOLD A DANCE TO SOLIDARITY – LIGHTS DOWN, IN EVIL HOUR REVIEW

NORFOLK’S BAD MEAT

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MARRIAGE EQUALITY “DEBATE” IN AUSTRALIA

IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN? – STUDENTS AND THE ELECTION #6

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