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Pants of protest

Humorous yet shocking, mundane yet intimate – underpants have proved a useful tool for change. Katie Dancey-Downs examines the power of political undercrackers.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022
Long live Shaheen Bagh

Long live Shaheen Bagh

Report from India by Husna Rizvi.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
Has Extinction Rebellion got the right tactics?

Has Extinction Rebellion got the right tactics?

Few argue that the mass movement to combat inertia on the climate crisis has a point. But is it going about it the right way? Chay Harwood and Marc Hudson, both environmental campaigners, go head to head.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Catalan revolutionaries get ready for action to defend their revolution from Franco back in 1936. Barcelona at the time was famously described by George Orwell as ‘a town where the working class was in the saddle’.Photo: CNT

Homage to Catalonia

Recent events have thrust Catalonia into the global spotlight. Kevin Buckland tells the background story we don’t get to hear – about co-operatives, ‘fearless cities’ and the real challenges to authoritarian capitalism.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Indigenous and other activists gather in front of the Honduran embassy in London in response to the murder of anti-dam campaigner Berta Cáceres in 2016.Photo: Peter Marshall / Alamy Stock Photo

Defame, criminalize, murder

Grassroots environmentalists are being violently targeted in Latin America. Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman believe there is something we can do about it.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
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Are we all terrorists?

Activist Scott Weinstein dances with the terrorist label and finds it a fickle partner.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
In the US, police often decide who has the right to demonstrate and who doesn’t. In this case riot police in Durham, North Carolina form an armed phalanx to control people attempting to protest against a white nationalist rally.Photo: Jason Miczek / Reuters

Whose streets?

The current clampdown on popular rights mirrors a profound malaise with our system of top-down political representation, argues Richard Swift.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017

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Rivers of life July, 2022
The fight for clean air May, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
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