Social activism? Just press ‘Like’Modern day activists aren’t just slackers using a cause’s Twitter hashtag or pressing the ‘Like’ button on Facebook. But social media outlets are often the first step is convincing people to commit time and money to a cause.
Activism
Marieke Hardy: My life as an activist
Do protesters enliven democracy and hold our leaders to account? Or are they just loud-mouthed wankers with too much time on their hands? Marieke Hardy spills her embarrassing activism secrets.
Why are women writing about their bra colour on Facebook?
Female Facebook users all over the world have been telling the world about the colour of their bras — and no one knows why. Is it to raise breast cancer awareness? Or just plain pointless?
Hazelwood protest included ‘ordinary people’, not just guys in wombat suits
Yesterday’s protest at Hazelwood power station was billed as a day of “community protest and non-violent mass civil disobedience”. Yet despite the small numbers, what was remarkable was the ‘ordinariness’ of the crowd, writes Ian McHugh.
Politics has failed — time for civil disobedience
The protesters who expect to be arrested this weekend in the campaign to close down Hazelwood power station may break the law, but they have justice on their side.
Tomorrow, when the climate war began
Climate change will kill us all, writes The Guardian’s James Lovelock — that is, unless we can find a ‘climate Churchill’ to lead us through an imminent climate war. Lord Kitchener must be feeling kinda left out.
