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Feature: Islam, Hip Hop and Social Change

Date: Thursday 26th February 2009 Location: The Drum, BirminghamThe panellists were Michael Mumisa, a graduate in classical Arabic literature and classical Islamic sciences and theologies, Muneera Rashid and Sukina Abdul Noor who form the group Poetic Pilgrimage and Ismaeel Yasin and Rakin Fetuga who are from the group Mecca2Medina.

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Tescos Fairtrade Banana Protest

Tescos Can Eat My BananaToday we were joined by a nationwide army of Ctrl.Alt.Shift volunteers, tooled up with Fairtrade bananas, with our sights set on Tesco stores around the country in a flashmob protest against the fact that the retail giants disgracefully still sell non-fair trade bananas.

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift Film Project Update!

With nearly 100 treatments to sift through, the massive judging panel - Riz Ahmed (Shifty, Road To Guantanamo, Brits), Adam Deacon (Adulthood, Dubplate Drama), Andy Noble (Warp Films), Amplify, Ctrl.Alt.Shift, Little White Lies, Clash and LIVE - had to fight it out.

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift + VICE launch

Check pictures from the VICE & Ctrl.Alt.Shift photography exhibition. Rizwan Ahmed, Example, Semothy Jones, The Crown Prince, Queenie, Banders, Luckers, Sian, Rahul Verma, Camelia Muldermans, Don't Panic and the VICE photography mentors all representing. <a href="http://photos.viceland.com/albums/78">Click here...

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Blog: Gavin Martin

No one should ever have to visit the 'jungle of screaming souls' andyet the very fact that it exists fills me with wonder. Wonder firstly at the tenacity, forbearance and principles of the man that created it - Veitnamese author Bao Ninh in his masterful novel The Sorrow of War published in 1991.

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Feature: Age Of Stupid

Forget ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and ‘The 11th Hour’ – the daddy of all climate change films is coming and it’s called ‘The Age of Stupid’. Starring Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspects, Romeo & Juliet) as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, the film looks...

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Blog: Russell Myrie - Was The War On Terror Legal?

As wholly expected, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has vetoed the publication of the minutes of the crucial Cabinet meetings in March 2003 which led to Britain's involvement in the war in Iraq. The meetings which, principally, tried to determine whether or not the invasion was legal under international law or not.

Submitted by Russell.Myrie

Lemmer's Rogue Report - St Bernard To The Financial-Rescue?

“I watched two embarrassed St Bernard dogs pad through the snow yesterday, each with a pink copy of (the Financial Times) tied under its neck”. An interesting sight from a canine savvy journalist (how can a dog look embarrassed?) reporting from The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Submitted by Richard.Lemmer