WHAT NEXT AFTER THE SIEGE OF CAPITOL HILL?

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged attack, Bannon, Biden, black lives matter, BLM, capitol hill, Community, conspiracy, coup, education, featured, grassroots, mutual aid, QAnon, riot, shaman, siege, terrorism, Trump, USA, violence, White House.

by Sarah Edgcumbe and Clyde Collins

The storming of Capitol Hill in Washington on the 6^th January and the ongoing aftermath has dominated western media over the past few days with good reason. White Americans fuelled by bizarre QAnon conspiracy theories and egged on by Trump’s false narrative of fraudulent election results, forced their way into the building, ransacked the interior, hung confederate flags, stole items and generally behaved like a bunch of supremacist football hooligans who had been binge-drinking for several hours, and whose team had just lost. In doing so however, they demonstrated the extent to which they have become empowered by Trump – and that is terrifying. When Trump leaves the White House (hopefully in handcuffs; tears streaking his fake tan), his manifest right-wing extremist legacy is going to remain present for years to come.

THE NORWICH RADICAL IN 2020

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Inter|national, Perspectives, Student and tagged arts, asexuality, black lives matter, black rebellion, covid, defund, dictionary, Donald Trump, education, featured, future, glinner, highlights, hope, iraq, LGBTQIA+, mr ripley, mutual aid, Norwich Radical, noughts and crosses, Orban, pandemic, Poland, police, retrospective, review, Roma, transphobia, Yangon, year in review, yir, ZAD du Carnet.

by The Norwich Radical team

At year’s end, many of us feel the pull to try and put a positive spin on the preceding 12 month period – to celebrate its joys, while recognising its difficulties in order to put them behind us as we look to the new year with a hopeful eye. At the end of 2020, it is particularly difficult to find a positive angle from which to look back, or forward. The slow-motion explosion that is Brexit has rolled on, the UK government that came to power just over a year ago has taken every opportunity to demonstrate its incompetence and corruption, and the mainstream media has continued to side with the powerful over the marginalised. And then there’s the elephant in every room – the Covid-19 pandemic, which has pushed many of the institutions we rely on to breaking point, revealing just how little many governments care about the lives of their more vulnerable citizens.

ADAT YESHUA FOODBANK: ON THE FRONT LINE OF PANDEMIC POVERTY

Posted on October 2, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged Adat Yeshua Synagogue, after school club, child poverty, Clarendon Road, Covid-19, Emma Corlett, Essex Street, featured, food bank, food poverty, Judaism, Karen Davis, lockdown, mutual aid, norwich, Norwich Food Hub, NR2 Skills Share, Oxford Street, pandemic, poverty, Rabbi Binyamin Sheldrake, Suffolk Square, Synagogue, Town Close, unemployment, wealth inequality.

By Sean Meleady

The Jewish community in Norwich has a rich history which goes back centuries. As the Covid-19 pandemic writes a new chapter in the history of the city, one Synagogue on Essex Street has helped set up a food bank in an area sharply divided by wealth disparity.

MUTUAL AID IN ACTION: NORWICH’S COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO COVID

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Community and tagged charities, Community, community organising, coronavirus, Covid-19, digital divide, featured, Gateway Vineyard Church, grassroots, Hellesdon, Hellesdon Helping Hands, isolation, Lionwood Schools, lockdown, mutual aid, norwich, Norwich City Council, Norwich Soup Movement, pandemic, Pilling Park Community Centre, school holidays, schools, The Pantry, thorpe hamlet, Thorpe Helping Hands, Thorpe St Andrew, Trowse, volunteering.

By Sean Meleady

In Norwich, as in many other parts of the country, mutual aid groups set up in local communities through Facebook and Whatsapp have been helping people through the Covid-19 crisis in Norwich. These groups have been particularly important for the elderly, vulnerable, single parents and those asked to shield themselves by staying at home.

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.

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WHAT NEXT AFTER THE SIEGE OF CAPITOL HILL?

by Sarah Edgcumbe and Clyde Collins

THE NORWICH RADICAL IN 2020

by The Norwich Radical team

MUTUAL AID IN ACTION: NORWICH’S COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO COVID

By Sean Meleady

RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AFTER COVID-19

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