A New Carnival

Carnival of Community Campaigns

....will be a fortnightly roundup of all the best posts put together by local community campaigns, aiming to spread their message - an international forum for local campaigns.

The carnival will favour the voices of people excluded from power, people and communities who the establishment parties may sometimes court at election time, but forget as soon as the polls are closed - turning back to their corporate paymasters, at least until the next time they want our votes!

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Let’s just say there was a working class community – of various skin colors – which was dominated for a century by a giant corporation who ran the town with bought-and-paid-for politicians, and whose operations regularly poisoned the community, threatened the health and safety of its workforce, and…
Indivisible is a lot like #Occupy but instead of being in tents, we are intense in other ways. I have been at a few Indivisible meetings over the last few weeks. One of the questions I have about the movement is this: How many people in Indivisible now had voted for Trump, or in my case, our local…
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