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Feature: Building My Platform For Yaarah Schools

Adizah Tejani, a former volunteer on overseas programme Platform2, reflects upon a busy month (and year) working for global development; from P2 to her contribution for Yaarah Schools...

Submitted by Adizah Tejani

Blog: Carol Grayson - A Long Overdue Apology For Haemophiliacs (Part 1)

Carol Grayson reports on a haemophilia case from the 1970s and 80s which saw 4700 patients injected and infected with HIV and hepatitis viruses B and C through treatment trials with factor concentrates - and the demand for an official apology from the people responsible...

Submitted by Activist1

Ctrl Meets BECKERHARRISON - Political Artists

Ctrl.Alt.Shift’s Claire Williams meets the artistic talent behind BECKERHARRISON - a collaboration that combines photography and graffiti to address social and political issues throughout the world...

Submitted by Claire Williams

Feature: SEE What You Are Buying Into - And Make The World A Better Place

Michael Solomon tells Ctrl.Alt.Shift all about SEE What You Are Buying Into; a project set up to scope out financial transparency across various corporations, in turn, exposing the companies that lie and cheat in the pursuit of profit…

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Plane Stupid Blog: Reframing Race And Climate Change (Part 1)

We should never succumb to racial or climate injustice. We should never forget those lost in the battle. We should fight on, as a unit, for a better generation. Dan Glass from the Plane Stupid crew reports…

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Cowboys And Indians - Summit To Think About

Kevin E.G. Perry reports direct from a Millennium Development Goals summit in Orissa, India; where group of politicians, academics and development workers met to talk specifically about the chances of achieving the MDGs in one of India’s poorest states…

Submitted by Kevin E.G. Perry

Ctrl Meets Aggro Santos

Ctrl.Alt.Shift's Eva Baker catches up with Aggro Santos; the Brazillian born rap vocalist who's set for big things this year and beyond. He tells us about favelas back home, Carlos Santana, and what exactly makes Brazil so damn right special...

Submitted by Eva Baker

Stray Bullets - Activists Rally Against Shell And Chevron, And New UK Torture Guidelines

Richard Lemmer delivers this week’s wave of global news; from activists demonstrating against oil giants Shell and Chevron, two policemen in Egypt being tried for murder, and new UK torture guidelines causing a stir…

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Feature: Declan Stokle - Human Rights For The Next Generation

17 year old Declan Stokle is no average A-level student; he’s been visiting refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border in his school holidays since he was 10 years old. Josh Strauss caught up with the young human rights activist before his speech at the pope's prayer vigil in Hyde Park last week...

Submitted by Tou

Circus Of The Invisible

Ever feel like we're being kept in the dark about the issues that affect our society, and our planet? Come and join Ctrl.Alt.Shift as we lobby the government on tax and climate justice, and confront this masquerade...

Submitted by CtrlAltShift.