Tag Archives: protests
Tyrants destroy their own freedom
Seeking to rebalance the world and make the major changes needed to bring about financial justice are laudable aims, but rarely achieved easily. Those ‘doing quite nicely, thank you’ out of the current system can hardly be expected to hand … Continue reading
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Occupy everything
At first, like Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi, some of us could confess to having had mixed feelings about the Occupy movement. For me, these may have been caused by distance and time difference getting in the way rather than … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving
Long-time readers of ten minutes hate may remember this post, about Emily Richmond and how she was going off for the horizon to sail around the world single-handedly. She funded the trip via creative projects funding site Kickstarter and her … Continue reading
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Road to nowhere
For all of those readers who aren’t students of the 1930s – and why wouldn’t you be, given that we seem to be hell-bent on recreating it? – all I can say is, well. Be warned, the last time foreign … Continue reading
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Scorcery
ten minutes hate is moving to a new location and, unfortunately, unlike in my dreams last night, my possessions are not jumping into boxes of their own accord to this soundtrack… Which is one very elaborate way to say that … Continue reading
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Let’s push things forward
So if, as Paul Mason observed last month, it really is kicking off everywhere could the UK be about to follow suit? Anger at the proposed round of cuts appears to be building to an extent where even that famous … Continue reading
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Get angry
I know, it’s the weekend. You want to be relaxing, chilling, letting it all go. But you can’t. You have to read this. And then try to find an answer to the question: why is nobody from Wall Street going … Continue reading
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The state of us
It is becoming increasingly clear that the things we need to have happen in order for a fairer, more just society to emerge, from economic reforms to climate change measures, as well as improvements in education, health and social care … Continue reading
Hints of Spring
Wandering around Tokyo over the last day or two and the weather has definitely felt a little warmer, not that we are breaking out the flip-flops just yet, but if you have to take off a mitten for a minute … Continue reading
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