Article by Estelle DerrajPhoto by Koshu Kunii on Unsplash Protest is a conversation between individuals and institutions. For climate justice, protest creates an increasingly necessary dialogue between environmental activists, communities, corporations, governments,...
Category: Protest and repression
Exploiting the Exploited: How corporations turned the Black Lives Matter movement from a social movement into a lucrative scheme
Image: https://unsplash.com/@kaleamorgan By Molly Claire On the 25th of May 2020, the world saw the racially aggravated murder of African American man George Floyd, a catalyst that ignited the international organisation widely known as the Black Lives Matter...
Social Pride and Social Responsibility: Do we pick and choose?
Image: https://unsplash.com/@theeastlondonphotographer By Shannon Weeds It takes all of seven seconds to make a preconception of someone - where we begin to decide their trustworthiness but where do these ‘impressions’ come from? The colour of your hair, eyes, race,...
The Friendly Face of Capitalism? Performative Activism, Climate Change and Black Lives Matter
Image: https://unsplash.com/@jays_vers By Esme Hadfield The multinational oil company, Shell, is notorious for playing a prominent role in producing the current climate emergency crisis. However, on November 2nd 2020, Shell caused outrage after posting a twitter...
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