Jess Worth's blog
Anonymous activist comes clean about fighting dirty coal
Submitted by Jess Worth on June 27, 2008 - 11:02am.
I didn't write this post – I am publishing it here on behalf of an activist who, for reasons that will become clear, prefers to stay anonymous at this time:
------------------------------------Whose world is it anyway?
'You did WHAT?' The words rang down the telephone line after I told my Mum what I'd been caught doing last weekend.
'WHY were you found dancing round a shovel on top of a train full of coal?!' Read more »
Australia's nuclear option
Submitted by Jess Worth on June 12, 2008 - 11:46am.
Will the world ever muster the momentum to ban nuclear weapons? Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has decided to have a jolly good stab at it. Read more »
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Shell booted out of Ogoniland
Submitted by Jess Worth on June 5, 2008 - 5:32pm.
So Shell's finally been given its marching orders by the Nigerian Government, after many bloody years of pollution, repression and conflict with local communities. Read more »
Show solidarity for 'Star Wars' hunger strikers
Submitted by Jess Worth on May 30, 2008 - 12:05pm.
Two Czech activists have been on hunger strike since May 13, in protest at their government’s intention to host part of the US’s ‘Son of Star Wars’ missile defence system. One of the two, Jan Bednář, was taken to hospital yesterday with liver failure. Despite being in critical condition, he says he cannot stop his strike. Read more »
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Debt: I was a brutal banker
Submitted by Jess Worth on May 16, 2008 - 12:05pm.
What were you doing a decade ago? I was dressed as an international banker, dragging a gang of sackcloth-wearing slaves through the streets of Birmingham, occasionally stopping to whip them and demand my money back. Not for fun, you understand (though it was, rather – apart from the fact that my bowler hat itched and my moustache was melting in the sunshine.) We were doing it because the G8 leaders were meeting there, and we were part of the Jubilee 2000 campaign to cancel ‘third world’ debt. Read more »
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Taking it lying down
Submitted by Jess Worth on January 14, 2008 - 4:16pm.
As I write this, a huge, beautiful old sycamore tree is being unceremoniously chain-sawed to the ground in Oxford city centre. Why? To make way for a monstrous gleaming new shopping centre so that, according to the Council, 'our retail and city centre economy can be viable into the future.' Read more »
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Bad company
Submitted by Jess Worth on October 29, 2007 - 10:42am.
I’m just putting the finishing touches onto the next issue of the NI – ‘Corporate Responsibility Unmasked’. It investigates the current craze for multinationals to project images of themselves as caring, sharing, green and clean. Unsurprisingly, I’ve come to the conclusion that when you peel away the spray-on conscience, big business is just as power-hungry and profit-obsessed as ever. Read more »
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Darfur Dilemmas
Submitted by Jess Worth on September 16, 2007 - 7:23pm.
When I spent time earlier this year in a desolate refugee camp in Kenya, I was given one clear message by many of the Darfurian refugees I met there: 'Tell the international community to end the bloodshed in Darfur!' Today is the fourth international Day for Darfur. So I felt that the very least I could do was to join a couple of thousand others outside the Sudanese Embassy in London, to march to Downing Street and demand action. Exactly what that action should be, however, proved controversial… Read more »
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What's hot and what's (ironically) not
Submitted by Jess Worth on January 25, 2007 - 4:15pm.
The World Social Forum is a good place to be if you want to get a handle on the biggest issues that grassroots activists are working on, that communities and movements are resisting, and that we all need to take notice of. This year, the four that really stood out for me are… Read more »
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Fall of the House of Windsor
Submitted by Jess Worth on January 25, 2007 - 2:29pm.
It seemed strange that amongst the hundreds of organisations’ stalls ringing the inner circle of the World Social Forum stadium in Nairobi there were only two that served food. At eye-watering prices. All the other officially-registered, slightly more reasonably-priced food vendors, who’d paid to be there, had been firmly placed outside the gates in the so-called ‘food court’ which I didn’t even find til the second day, given the total lack of anything resembling signs. Read more »
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