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Extinction Rebellion: 'We're the planet's fire alarm'
For the last 10 days Extinction Rebellion has blocked roads, railways and bridges in a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience. Now that the period of action has wound down, Owen Jones asks some of the organisers what they have achieved,...
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How the Amazon has started to heat the planet
The Amazon absorbs huge amount of CO2 and helps to cool the world, but recent studies have shown the rainforest is approaching a tipping point, with profound implications for the global climate and biodiversity. The section in Brazil,...
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I feel like the Beyonce of Brazilian politics
Discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+ communities in Brazil are widespread and the country has the highest levels of violence against trans people in the world. In the face of this stark reality, Erika Hilton became the first...
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Akala tells Owen Jones: ‘The black-on-black violence narrative is rooted in empire
Akala talks to the Guardian’s Owen Jones about the dangerous legacy of empire, which he argues is directly linked to the black-on-black violence narrative around knife crime in the UK today. The musician and author says he does not...
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They're teaching children to hate America': the culture war in US schools
Carmel, Indiana, is an affluent suburb just north of Indianapolis known for low crime rates and some of the country’s best public schools. But early last year, the school board brought in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, or...
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London's toxic school runs: how polluted is the air children breathe?
Most UK cities have had illegally polluted air for nearly a decade, and the effect of air pollution is particularly bad on children. Ahead of Clean Air Day, we conducted an experiment to assess the air quality on a school run in central...
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He said: "I’d break the law for you." I was 13': calling time on street harassment
Rape threats, racist slurs, being followed home, just some of the things that women and girls are subjected to on a daily basis. But there is a growing generation of young women who are no longer prepared to put up with it and have...
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Munroe Bergdorf: ‘It's like people have free rein to harass the trans community’
The trans activist and model Munroe Bergdorf was working with the NSPCC’s Childline until the charity suddenly cut ties with her. She speaks to Owen Jones about the impact of that decision, her life as an activist and how she copes with...
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Oklahoma rodeo: 'I can be gay and I can be a cowboy'
Rodeos are a cultural staple of the American south. The bulls, the horses, the lasso. A gay rodeo has all those things, with equally capable participants. But it also has goat dressing, a drag contest and provides a family for gay men...
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The story of No 20: how does a London family home end up empty in 2018?
This is the Portland street estate, a community ravaged by years of cuts. The council made a bold move in an attempt to turn the estate around – but how did the £1 homes experiment turn out?
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Why rivers shouldn't look like this
The quintessential image of a river you might recognise from post cards and paintings – nice and straight with a tidy riverbank – is not actually how it is supposed to look. It's the result of centuries of industrial and agricultural...
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Ireland's forgotten mixed-race child abuse victims
Rosemary Adaser was one of many mixed-race children considered illegitimate who was brought up in institutions run by the Catholic church in Ireland between the 1950s and 1970s. She tells of the abuse and racist treatment she suffered,...
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The 24-hour emergency hotline for Syrian refugee
Mohammed Abu Amar runs a makeshift 24-hour helpline from his flat in Hamburg, guiding scared refugees fleeing the violence in Syria across the water to Europe. Despite losing the use of both legs in a shelling in Damascus in the early...
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Drying up: inside the Californian communities without enough water
California's Central Valley grows a large portion of America's food – and that requires a huge amount of water. But the region is experiencing a drought and drying up the surface water that farms rely on. So farms are now pumping water...
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Cuts, covid and community in Blackpool: 'There's no such thing as a hopeless case'
Mark and Abbie Butcher run Amazing Graze, a pizzeria that hands out free food and advice to people in Blackpool who need it. The town, one of the poorest in the UK, with jobs seasonal and dependent largely on tourist income, has been...
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Life in the Arctic: how climate change is killing a culture
As the arctic warms four times faster than the global average, Europe’s only indigenous population is under threat. For centuries, the Sámi people have herded reindeer throughout northern Europe. Now, warmer winters are turning the snow...
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How heat is radically altering Americans' lives before they're even born
Even before a child is born in the US, their race plays a huge part in how they'll experience heat and pollution. It starts with America's history of racist housing policies that segregated families of color into undesirable...
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Banned by the Taliban: the Afghan girls fighting to go to school
After the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, millions of teenage girls have been forbidden from receiving a high school education. Taliban officials have claimed the ban is temporary, but said the same thing the last time they were...
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Why is Russia still in love with Putin?
Established politicians the world over are facing crises of confidence with their electorates. But 17 years after he took charge of Russia, Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings are still high. Shaun Walker visits Irkutsk in Siberia to...
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I'll ask God to intervene': the Christian volunteers doing police work in Reading – video
As government cuts affect police numbers, Reading is feeling the pinch. With one officer claiming there are 'very serious jobs, for instance stabbings, that we cannot get to', Thames Valley police have turned to a group of Christian...
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Is this inclusive? Why only 4% of children's book heroes are BAME
More than 33% of students at UK schools are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, but only 4% of the protagonists in children's books in the UK are BAME. The publishing industry has made big claims about its push for inclusivity...
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I'm very aware I’m mixed race here: organising a rural UK Black Lives Matter protest
Small towns, as well as big cities, across the UK have been holding Black Lives Matter protests and continue to do so. Flora, 23, meets fellow activists Hannah, Annabel and Alex for the first time at the demo they are organising together...
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What's in a vaccine and what does it do to your body?
There are all sorts of different vaccines but many of them share specific types of ingredients. Josh Toussaint-Strauss talks to Prof Adam Finn to find out what is in most conventional vaccines, as well as what's going on in our bodies...
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Tunisia and the Arab spring 10 years on: 'We tried to rise'
When a young street seller set himself on fire to protest lack of employment opportunities and government corruption, Tunisia became the cradle of the Arab spring revolutions that swept the middle east. Less than a month later, the...