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Mohammed Z Rahman on art, solidarity and the power of dreaming

Art as an antidote to obfuscation and how liberation is rooted in collective solidarity

Jeevan Sangha and Sali Mudawi

A week of Biden being sued for genocide, Free Palestine protestors disrupting the “Thanksgiving” Parade and the NYPD encrypting public radio

Disrupting Banality and Loneliness

Mohammed Z Rahman on art, solidarity and the power of dreaming

Art as an antidote to obfuscation and how liberation is rooted in collective solidarity

Jeevan Sangha and Sali Mudawi

What is Gentrification?

A week of Biden being sued for genocide, Free Palestine protestors disrupting the “Thanksgiving” Parade and the NYPD encrypting public radio

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Love Beyond the Binary

First session starting Tuesday! Session only tickets available. In the first session we will be exploring All About Love by bell hooks.

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“Prisoners are the Compass of Our Struggle”: why the release of Palestinian prisoners is central to our liberation

We must historicise and contextualise the Palestinian prisoners struggle in order to understand the significance of the release of Palestinian prisoners and this watershed moment in the Palestinian liberation struggle.

The Palestinian Youth Movement

To All The Blocks I’ve Loved Before

A reality of love, loss and gentrification in Brixton

Simmone Ahiaku and Marcie Mintrose

What is Gentrification?

Everything you need to know about gentrification, how it impacts communities, why it is a climate justice issue and what we can do to resist it

Simmone Ahiaku and Javie Huxley

Beyond a ceasefire: how humanitarian can a “pause” be?

A call to direct action

Amardeep Singh Dhillon and Tinuke Fagborun

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Guest episode: The Power of Filmmaking as Indigenous Storytellers

In this episode, contributing SHADO writers, Samara Almonte and Rachel Edwardson discuss the importance of indigenous storytelling in filmmaking as a tool for cultural preservation and revitalization.

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Artist Spotlight: Theresa Lola

Artist Spotlight: Mohammed Z Rahman

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Artist Spotlight: Rashod Taylor

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The frontline groups around the world working to defend their land, water and human rights in the face of increased oppression and violence.

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Palm oil is not sustainable: defending the rights of communities in Cameroon

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

Eugenie Tailhandier and Sayeeda Bacchus

“We don’t have the luxury of failing”: what it takes to preserve Indigenous farming systems in North-East India

Amid state and national pressures to cultivate palm oil, farmers are finding novel ways to preserve local food sovereignty.

Sharlene Gandhi and Sayeeda Bacchus

Fighting for the forests in Eastern Congo

How Indigenous and local communities are struggling to protect their lands from extractivism and exploitation

Eugenie Tailhandier and Thumy Phan

Palm oil is not sustainable: defending the rights of communities in Cameroon

In conversation with Emmanuel Elong on how agro-industrial plantations are affecting local communities’ life and reinforcing violent colonial domination

Eugenie Tailhandier and Sayeeda Bacchus

Editors

Tommy Hodgson

Samara Almonte

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi

Larissa Kennedy

Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara

Your guide to accessible breakdowns of social justice issues including introduction to resources, key leaders in the movements and ways you can get involved.

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What is Gentrification?

Everything you need to know about gentrification, how it impacts communities, why it is a climate justice issue and what we can do to resist it

Simmone Ahiaku and Javie Huxley

What is health justice?

Everything you need to know about health justice, how our access to health has changed in recent years and what movements are working towards health justice and collective liberation

Healing Justice London and Fernanda Peralta

What is #StopRosebank?

Everything you need to know about the Stop Rosebank campaign, how climate litigation is being used to hold governments to account and ways to get involved

Jessica Kleczka and Sayeeda Bacchus

What is Gentrification?

Everything you need to know about gentrification, how it impacts communities, why it is a climate justice issue and what we can do to resist it

Simmone Ahiaku and Javie Huxley

Comfort Angels

Meet the team bringing inclusion and integration to refugees and people seeking asylum in Liverpool

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Editors' Picks

Venice Architecture Biennale: how radical can an architectural fair be?

What is the hostile environment?

The NHS as a site of structural violence

“Talking about the stars whilst standing in the mud”

The fight for reparations for women affected by forced sterilisations in Peru

Editors' Picks

The fight for reparations for women affected by forced sterilisations in Peru

“Talking about the stars whilst standing in the mud”

The NHS as a site of structural violence

What is the hostile environment?

Venice Architecture Biennale: how radical can an architectural fair be?

See

Arts as advocacy and all things visual

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Arts as advocacy and all things visual

Mohammed Z Rahman on art, solidarity and the power of dreaming

Art as an antidote to obfuscation and how liberation is rooted in collective solidarity

Jeevan Sangha and Sali Mudawi

Coconut Head Generation

How Alain Kassanda shows political engagement and consciousness-raising in Nigeria's repressive higher education system

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi

The Shit and the Sunrise

Wura-Natasha Ogunji's 'lalala ha!' explores the beauty in imperfection and the complexity of a dynamic Lagos

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi

The Scottish collectives taking the ego out of architecture

A collective of collectives bringing radical co-production to the Venice Architecture Biennale

Zoe Rasbash

Hear

Music for social change and all things audible

HEAR

Music for social change and all things audible

“Mother Nature is a peng ting”

Louis VI on how his latest album is a vision for living harmoniously with the planet

Samia Dumbuya and Karla Lizethe Hunter

From Raves to Resistance: Amsterdam’s nightlife is moving beyond hedonism

How music collectives are rebuilding communities

Safiya Bashir and Natasha Phang Lee

“We just wanted to give ourselves a chance”: Berlin’s next-gen ravers talk partying and politics

The city’s complex relationship with its clubbers and why not everything has to be activism

Justin Kendall and Natasha Phang Lee

Anarchy in the capital

How music collectives in London are creating alternative mutual aid networks

Erin Cobby and Natasha Phang Lee

Act

Protests, movement-building and collective actions being taken on the ground

ACT

Protests, movement-building and collective actions being taken on the ground

Beyond a ceasefire: how humanitarian can a “pause” be?

A call to direct action

Amardeep Singh Dhillon and Tinuke Fagborun

The Instafada: social media as resistance

Misinformation, lies and dehumanisation – how traditional media has failed Palestine

Kareen Haddad and Hayfaa Chalabi

Living in fear in Copenhagen

How Denmark is deliberately infringing on the rights of people seeking asylum

Polina Bachlakova and Natasha Phang Lee

Demonising migrants, fortifying borders: Germany’s downward asylum spiral

Migrant communities in Berlin fight against racism and for the right to asylum

Hannah El-Hitami and Natasha Phang Lee

Do

Inspirational individuals, organisations and ways we can all be activists

DO

Inspirational individuals, organisations and ways we can all be activists

World-building in a time of constant heartbreak

How Birmingham-based organisation MAIA imagine routes to collective liberation

Nikita Sena and Naomi Gennery

Afrochingonas: the seeds of resistance on a flowering field

One of Mexico's most influential Afro-Mexican collectives embodies the power of childhood in its joyful rebellion

Santiago Flores and Sayeeda Bacchus

Should we all be feminists?

Rachel Omolola White on Naija Girls Surf and women's empowerment in Nigeria

Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi

Breaking the American Dream

Talking diasporic identity and the “New Americana” with Khashayar J. Khabushani

Maia Golzar Anderson and Christina Atik

Opinion

First-hand perspectives and op-eds

OPINION

First-hand perspectives and op-eds

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