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Blog: Carol Grayson - When Is A Disaster Not A Disaster?

Blood and oil, two liquid commodities, two very different responses. Carol Grayson reports on how the reactions towards the recent BP oil spill compare to the lack of action taken after “the worst medical treatment disaster in the history of the NHS”...

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The Wakeup Campaign

Viviane Williams is on her own mission to promote global development issues, moved by her life-changing trip to Ghana for overseas volunteering scheme Platform2. Find out more about her Wakeup Campaign and work in Brixton, London...

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Peru: Health Checking In

Fresh from her volunteering trip to Peru, Pier Garcia looks back at the amazing experience, from the good, the bad, the sad – in this blog, she looks back at her Peruvian family and a mother’s fight for better health…

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Ctrl Meets Queens English

Voted ‘Best Hip Hop Group’ at this year’s UK People’s Music Awards - Queen’s English is set to rumble our music scene. Before that though, a pint and a bit of political pub banter with our James Prosho was on the bill…

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Stray Bullets - Death And Despair From Gaza To The DR Congo

From the protests following the attack on the aid flotilla to Gaza, to the human rights activists found dead in the DR Congo - Richard Lemmer provides the latest news headlines from across the world…

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Adventures In Ghana - The Difference Between McD’s And A Swing

Jessica Gibbons recently came back from her ten week volunteering trip to Ghana with the Platform2 programme. Here she reminisces over a small task she did for some Kasapin children that gave her a big perspective on the value of two British pounds…

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CAS Preview: ‘Welcome To Thebes’ Play @ The National Theatre

Greek mythology with the real life drama of contemporary West African politics? Eva Baker tells us more about Richard Eyre’s latest play…

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Welcome To Thebes - Trailer!

Richard Eyre returns to the National Theatre to direct a superb cast led by David Harewood and Nikki Amuka-Bird; Greek mythology meets West African politics head-on in this startling modern epic...

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Postcards From The Edge: Kenya - At the Car Wash, Yeah!

Another diary entry from James Prosho’s trip to Kenya earlier this year; today read about his encounter with the boys from the Dagoretti Youth Welfare Organisation. Topics of convo – drugs, battle scars and more drugs…

Submitted by James.Prosho

Stray Bullets - Malawi’s Gay Pardoning, BP Protests In Colombia, And Human Rights Threats In Jamaica

Richard Lemmer gives the latest headlines from across the world – including human rights campaigners in Jamaica criticising the military, an occupation of a BP facility in Colombia by aggravated workers, and the conditional pardoning of Malawi’s gay couple…

Submitted by Richard.Lemmer