Transformation doesn’t fit into neat and tidy boxes. Intangible emotions are just as important to social change as power relations and material equality.
While at Dale Farm, I consider myself to have witnessed an incidence of ethnic cleansing. Basildon Council argued the site was built on green belt land. In reality, it was a former scrap yard.
Eleni wants to go to school. She can read and write already and says emphatically: “I don’t want to be given to get married. I want to learn my letters, learn to speak Greek properly and be a hairdresser”.
Social media facilitate differing degrees of involvement in political action, helping more people to take small steps as part of a larger movement: the fourth piece in our series on social media and the transformation of society.
This week Focus E15 Mothers showed how London councils are prising out tenants, replacing their homes with expensive private housing. Property guardian companies make this social cleansing possible.
Gender has moved away from a binary understanding of male and female tickboxes, to a more fluid space, a gender spectrum. Meet the man whose new film could help save lives.
The global people's climate march is the right time to confront the culture of denial that still exists among many activists. Our political movements are intimately connected.
The fluctuating cycles of popular movements can’t be avoided, so how do activists translate periods of peak activity into substantive and enduring social change?
Secular narratives of social transformation are often separated from religious narratives of personal transformation. This division ignores the lived realities of people who are struggling for change.
