Tag: grassroots
Books over borders: joy as bombed shop in Gaza reopens
A global outpouring of support has allowed a destroyed bookshop to open its doors once more
Culture Society World
Fracking suspended across England in major government U-turn
In a victory for green and grassroots groups, the UK government has called a halt to fracking in England amid fears about earthquakes
Conservation Energy Environment
The project redirecting US election cash toward long-term progress
Both Trump and Clinton’s presidential election campaigns have spent huge sums on advertising – up to $1m per day. What if this went to grass...
Economics Money Politics
‘It won’t stop until we talk’: peace movement perseveres in Israel
Anna Behrmann talks to grassroots groups protesting for peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and discovers their defiant commitm...
Democracy Peace Politics Society
Riot clean-up in Pakistan
Recently the news has been filled with so-called ‘Muslim rage’ in response to an anti-Islam film made by an American citizen. Pakistan hit t...
Society
The August riots, a year on
Caspar Walsh revisits three communities hit by the 2011 August riots to find out how places have healed and what positive initiatives have r...
Society
