BLAME GAME: A GOVERNMENT SCARED OF YOUNG PEOPLE

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged blame, BLM, Boris Johnson, covid, covid19, dominic cummings, eid, exams, featured, government guidlines, movement, NHS, protest, scapegoat, student, uk, young people, youth.

by Howard Green

Since Monday, people living in England are no longer allowed to meet in groups of more than six. Although this is not hugely practical given that many employees and students are being required to return to work and study, these new restrictions show that our incompetent Government is prepared to occasionally act in service of public health rather than into the hands of the free market. But it’s very apparent that these restrictions are aimed at minimising social gatherings amongst young people, who have unjustly been the subject of blame for the recent upsurge in COVID-19 cases.

UNITED WE STAND, IGNITED WE MARCH – NEW YOUTH POLITICS IN INDIA

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Akhil Gogoi, BJP, Chandrashakhar Azad, Dalit, disinformation, featured, Gujarat, Hindu, India, Jignesh Mevani, Kanhaiya Kumar, Lucas Chancel, Muslim, Narendra Modi, politics, propaganda, protest, rally, Sagarika Ghose, Shehla Rashid, Thomas Piketty, Uttar Pradesh, violence, Yogi Adityanath, youth, Yuva Hunkaar.

by Scott McLaughlan

Politically engaged and youthful social movements of India’s marginalised and oppressed are coming together, under one umbrella, to demand social change with one voice. The situation on the ground has rattled India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

9th January 2018 12.00pm, Presidential Road, Delhi: Yuva Hunkaar Rally!

The slogan Yuva Hunkaar expresses a powerful agenda and a call to action. Yuva (meaning “youth”), attached to the term Hunkaar (roar/shout out/loud call) expresses a forceful, clarion call for social change. It’s a roar to action on issues of systemic discrimination against India’s marginalised and oppressed.Continue Reading

LITTLE CUTS

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged borstal, creative writing, Disney, dole, domestic violence, grades, graft, growing up, happy ending, Kev Walker, poem, poetry, police, reality, school, self harm, shoplifting, stealing, substance misuse, theft, violence, youth.

by Kev Walker

Content warning: mentions domestic violence, substance misuse, neglect and self-harm

He woke in the morning, as often he’d done
awake with the birds and the half risen sun.
The room was a tip, he hated it so
but to tidy takes time, it was time to go.

Throw on some clothes from off of the floor
kick his way through the grubby, knuckle-marked door.
Sneak down the staircase, dodging needles and glass
peer into the lounge, they’ll be easy to pass.Continue Reading

THE DAMAGE DONE BY GENDERED SCHOOL UNIFORMS

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Buckinghamshire, classism, code, college, discrimination, diversity, dress code, education, Exeter, fluidity, gender, gender binary, gender neutral, heforshe, Isca academy, school, shorts, skirt, student, summer, uniform, youth.

by Laura Potts

The long standing debate regarding gendered school uniform has been raised once more in the news recently, when a number of students at Isca academy in Exeter chose the much cooler option of wearing a school skirt in the recent high temperatures. They were protesting the fact that students are not allowed to wear shorts.

This is not an isolated case, but one of several in recent months. One call centre worker in Buckinghamshire, for example, also chose to question his firm’s anti-shorts rules by wearing a dress, and his tweets about this act of defiance went viral. Protests like these partly reveal the rigidity that gendered uniform creates – but, contrary to what most coverage suggests, the issue goes much deeper than just whether schools allow shorts and skirts in hot weather.Continue Reading

YOUNG ONES, PULL UP A CHAIR! HERE’S THE STORY OF HOW YOU SAVED US ALL.

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GE2017, alternative vote, AV, avocado, avocado toast, Brexit, children, coalition, conservative, corbyn, Crosby, crosbying, david cameron, electoral reform, EU, EU referendum, general election, hope, hung parliament, indyref, Labour, lib dem, living wage, NHS, nick clegg, nihilism, politics, SnapChat, the game is on, Tory, turnout, voting system, young vote, youth.

by Natasha Senior

I was considered a youth once, only a few years ago in fact. Yes, I remember those days. Casting my first ballot in 2010 in favour of the Liberal Democrats; the Hung Parliament that resulted; the slight guilt I felt for being complicit in hanging said Parliament. But never fear, I thought, the politicians know what they’re doing. It’s fine. The Lib-Dems have partnered up with the Tories.

But it wasn’t fine, because that whole tuition-fee-£9000-a-year-wtf palaver happened. This is when I felt political disappointment for the first time, and I have most other times subsequently.Continue Reading

REVIEW: THE BRICKS THAT BUILT THE HOUSES, BY KATE TEMPEST

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, Akala, Alex Preston, art, artivism, Benjamin Zephaniah, billy bragg, book, Brecht, character, disenfranchised, Everybody Down, government, inequality, Kate Tempest, Laura Marling, millennials, myth, mythologies, novel, poet, poetry, powerless, prose, Regina Spektor, review, Shakespeare, solidarity, spoken word, The bricks that built the houses, women artists, writing, youth.

by Carmina Masoliver

Kate Tempest is well known for her work within the world of poetry and music, yet her latest venture sees her trying her hand at prose, using her original modern mythologies weaved into a different form. Although the points of move from character to character, Becky stands out to be the central character.

The first chapter made me think of the question uttered by both Shakespeare and Brecht about the role of art, suggesting to possibility for it to be both a mirror and hammer, when it comes to most peoples’ realities. Yet, at times it felt like the outlook was too cynical, too similar to the thoughts in the heads in this generation where we so often feel powerless to make change. It was almost too real, holding a truth too close to the bone.Continue Reading

TRISTAN THINKS ABOUT THE NEWS, WHILE EATING RICE AND BEANS

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged activism, art, Bible, breath, breathing, breathless, creative writing, death, eating, food, heresy, journalism, love, male, men, news, norwich, poem, poetry, police brutality, reality, reflection, report, scripture, Siberia, sin, smoking, Tristan, vision, writer, writing, young, youth.

by Julian Canlas

Isaiah 11:2 New International Version (NIV)
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord—

Tristan does so without the fear of God, like a pinprick—
a spitting image of all those heretics and unknown curses—

no doubt, in this bog of a living room, where moments
of explosions become dictators, pushing him headfirstContinue Reading

PRETENSION IS A SCOURGE

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 23 Things They Don’t Tell you About Capitalism, academia, bourgeois, Brexit, Britain, capitalism, civil unrest, Deptford, disenfranchisement, economy, education, finance, general election, gentrification, grassroots, ha-Joon Chang, Leave, Lionel Shriver, london, middle class, party politics, prejudice, Remain, respect, right wing, shoreditch, uk, underprivileged, Universal Basic Income, We Need to Talk About Kevin, working class, youth.

by Sunetra Senior

On Friday June 23rd 2016, millions of us woke up to the rattling reality of a momentous decision: the pound had plummeted to a 31-year low, our young people had lost the right to live and work nearby abroad, and oh yes – the UK as we knew it was now officially in a state of civil conflict. But this isn’t going to be another article about how we should respect the people who voted Leave – though of course we should – nor one that commiserates upon how we’ve tragically lost touch with the ‘underprivileged and disadvantaged’ of us, for the simple fact that it is the sole circulation – and indulgence of – such statements that is fanning the right-wing heat blowing an insidious hole through our country.

‘A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO PATRONISE US’

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged anger, arts, austerity, people, poem, poetry, politics, poverty, young people, youth.

by George Laver

Take a moment, to reflect
The anger of youth
Without disrespectContinue Reading

EUROPE, YOUTH, AND AN ENDURING TASTE OF NATIONALISM

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged anti-war, EU, Europe, European Parliament, European Youth Event, EYE, freedom of speech, Front National, Human Rights Heroes, integration, MEP, migration, national front, nationalist, Nour Machlah, populist, progressive future, refugee, Strasbourg, Syria, UEA, unemployment, youth, youth engagement.

by Sam Naylor

On the 20th and 21st of May, myself and thirteen other students from the University of East Anglia (UEA) attended the European Youth Event (EYE) in Strasbourg. Over 7,500 young people attended the event, coming together to share ideas on how to tackle youth-related issues through interaction with European decision-makers and speakers.

Through attending plenary sessions on addressing youth unemployment and migration, to panels of Human Rights Heroes and ERASMUS+ opportunities, right the way through to pop-up-tent-style refugee meetings and anti-war talks, EYE provided a space for European youth to imagine a progressive future for the continent and its young people. Sadly, this sparked the cynic in me as the European Union is by no means a shining institution of perfection. An inner voice continued to nudge, searching for some sort of foul play; was the event just one big act to get European youth on board with the EU project? Or is it fair to view young people as more likely to push for their ideals and move away from business-as-usual politics and policies? I’d still like to believe in the latter.Continue Reading

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BLAME GAME: A GOVERNMENT SCARED OF YOUNG PEOPLE

by Howard Green

UNITED WE STAND, IGNITED WE MARCH – NEW YOUTH POLITICS IN INDIA

LITTLE CUTS

THE DAMAGE DONE BY GENDERED SCHOOL UNIFORMS

YOUNG ONES, PULL UP A CHAIR! HERE’S THE STORY OF HOW YOU SAVED US ALL.

REVIEW: THE BRICKS THAT BUILT THE HOUSES, BY KATE TEMPEST

TRISTAN THINKS ABOUT THE NEWS, WHILE EATING RICE AND BEANS

PRETENSION IS A SCOURGE

‘A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO PATRONISE US’

EUROPE, YOUTH, AND AN ENDURING TASTE OF NATIONALISM

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