Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent
Laurie Penny
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0745332080
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government.
Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent collects Penny's writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Her journalism is a unique blend of persuasive analysis, captivating interviews and first-hand accounts of political direct action. She was involved in all the key protests of 2010/2011, including the anti-fees demos in 2010 and the anti-cuts protests of spring 2011, often tweeting live from the scene of kettles and baton charges. An introduction and extensive footnotes allow Penny to connect all the strands of her work, showing the links between political activism and wider social and cultural issues.
This book is essential for understanding what motivates the new generation of activists, writers and thinkers that bring creativity, energy and urgency to the fight against capitalism and exploitation.
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Will find something in this book to argue with. And that’s good. Laurie Penny makes you shout, but she also makes you think. Laurie Penny makes you engage, which is vital in a society that in the last 20 years had wandered a fair way towards turning passive acceptance into an artform. Someone once said that if you want objective journalism, get yourself a CCTV camera. Subjective journalism isn’t a crime. It’s a joy and a necessity. Reportage needs to be a living thing. And I love Laurie, and I.
Logorrhoea, I’d like to hear Julia Bradbury saying it on Countryfile. I’d like to hear Kirsty Young saying it on Desert Island Discs. Men have so many words that they can use to hint at their own sexual power, but we have just the one, and it’s still the worst word you can say on the telly. Let’s all get over ourselves about ‘cunt’. Let’s use it and love it. WHAT SUN READERS SWALLOW WITH THEIR CORN FLAKES 17 November 2010 Page three, the pink and willing soul of British sexism, celebrates its.
Tweeted; Is that a Truncheon in Your Pocket?; One Man and His Tent; How the Disabled were Dehumanised; Hey, Dave: Our Society’s Bigger Than Yours; In Defence of Squatting; Inside the Gaddafi House Details of Original Publication Acknowledgements Thanks to everyone at the New Statesman magazine for having faith in this body of work giving me a platform to write. Most of the articles that follow were published in the New Statesman, either online or in the reactionary hard-copy remix that a few.
Caused by capitalism – and you can’t fix one without fixing the other.’ Some of the protest stunts border on silly – marching a papier-mâché pig full of oil through central Edinburgh, for instance – but the daily life of Climate Camp is just as important as the direct action. With gruesomely wholesome reclaimed toilets and chores distributed between all comers, this is more than a campsite – it’s a model community built on sustainability and a lack of hierarchy, and the campers are extremely.
Between people with disabilities and everyone else is that people with disabilities sometimes need a little extra support to live the best lives that they can. They should get that support – and they should not have to ask nicely. HEY, DAVE: OUR SOCIETY’S BIGGER THAN YOURS 18 February 2011 The words ‘big society’ will be written on the tombstone of this Conservative government. They were written on the side of the Treasury – which is, in effect, the same thing – in angry spray-can letters.