January, 2014
Blogs, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, January 31, 2014 1:30 - 2 Comments
Blog">On ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Blog
While 'The Wolf of Wall Street' should not be mistaken for a morality tale about the excesses of finance capital, it does capture something of the way the global financial system eludes and frustrates our human-scale narrative demands for balance and closure, writes Dominic Fox.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 20, 2014 20:41 - 2 Comments
Interview">Anjali Appadurai on Climate Justice: “You have been negotiating all my life. Get it done!” Interview
Environmental campaigner Anjali Appadurai speaks to Ceasefire's Phil England about the incremental progress made at the Climate Change talks in Warsaw in December and why colonial attitudes and corporate interests are holding us back.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, January 18, 2014 14:11 - 2 Comments
Ideas">Beyond a hierarchy of victimhood: The case for Genocide Memorial Day Ideas
In the lead up to tomorrow's fifth annual Genocide Memorial Day, Adam Majeed argues we should reject seeing historical crimes and injustices through a hierarchy of victimhood.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, January 17, 2014 0:56 - 2 Comments
Comment">My Sussex suspension: why Vice-Chancellors are clamping down on protest Comment
One of the suspended Sussex Five, Adriano Marotta, speaks out about the key reason behind his suspension: the near complete “de-democratisation” of Sussex University.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, January 10, 2014 0:00 - 7 Comments
Politics">Mark Duggan, State Violence and the Long History of British Propaganda Politics
Yesterday's verdict in the Mark Duggan case has sent shockwaves of anger and disbelief in communities across the UK. Ceasefire's Adam Elliott-Cooper argues the case epitomises the enduring nature of systematic and institutional injustices at the heart of the British political establishment.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 6, 2014 20:21 - 2 Comments
Ideas">Pan-African Classics: Walter Rodney’s Legacy Ideas
Amber Murrey pays tribute to the legacy of Walter Rodney, whose book 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' transformed the modern debate on slavery and colonisation.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, January 4, 2014 14:38 - 16 Comments
Special Report">Western Sahara: “These camps will never be our home, we want to return to our homeland.” Special Report
Sabiha Mahmood reports on her three-week visit to the Western Sahara and the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria, with powerful photography documenting the lives of Sahrawis in Africa's last remaining colony.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, January 4, 2014 0:00 - 4 Comments
Blog">Free the Hares boys: Protestors demonstrate outside G4S London headquarters Blog
Lucy Yelland reports on yesterday's London protest against G4S's involvement in the torture and detention of five Palestinian children.
Africlimate, New in Ceasefire - Friday, January 3, 2014 12:45 - 3 Comments
Africlimate">The DRC: Beyond the atrocities, an emerging environmental crisis Africlimate
With much of the analysis of the events in the Congo concentrating on ethnic conflicts, Ceasefire's Luqman Onikosi looks at the environmental destruction and its effects on the lives of the people in the region.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, January 2, 2014 13:19 - 1 Comment
Comment">The Hunger Games: Riding Roughshod over Human Rights and Human Dignity Comment
2013 saw hunger strikes by detainees held without charge or trial at Guantánamo Bay and immigration removal centres in the UK. In spite of worsening conditions and growing desperation, in both cases, the response was further repression. Parallels can be drawn.
