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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ 50 Million Missing Women

When the feds stopped me and my mate before even reaching London's Guildhall, I was thinking damn! Things are really going to get crazy today...

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Pavement Peacocks Art Showcase

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Blog: Russell Myrie - Brobama

'Gordon Brown travels to United States for summit with President Obama' ran the tagline on News 24 throughout Monday evening. Still can't quite get used to that Pesident Obama. But that's what you call a high class problem.

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Feature: Playing Fair?

Watching the advertisement for Fair and Lovely skin cream makes for uncomfortable viewing. The successful fair skinned lady at one points states, in relation to obtaining her dream job, that, "one of the biggest obstacles of obtaining my dream was my skin" more than suggesting, I’d...

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Young Blood: The Student Activist

What does the whine of the apathetic student sound like? "Do we really care? A talk on what? Yeah, Gaza. The Croatian midfielder. What? Oh, the place - yeah, yeah terrible, I think it was on the news. Can't they just share? What about dinner? Ban Ki-who? Isn't that a Pokemon? Whatever...pub?...

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Vox Pops: Flashmobbing

Ctrl.Alt.Shift rustled some feathers this week, invading the premises of Tesco outlets around the country with a synchronised Fairtrade banana flashmob - the mission was to expose how the shameless economic giants refuse to sell solely fair trade bananas...

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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...

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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://...

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