POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Jun 1, 2018

Police spies: awareness campaign launched

The public inquiry’s Chair ‘is making the inquiry more secretive and is granting the police anonymity in secret hearings’. From 31 May to 18 June 2018, Police Spies Out of Lives and Lush will be hosting a national campaign to raise awareness of the ongoing undercover policing scandal, where officers infiltrated the lives, homes and hearts and beds of activists. Lush UK shops, social channels and uk.lush.com will be supporting the already active #spycops conversation and aims...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Apr 24, 2018

Feminist book fortnight: two weeks in June

Bookshops around the country will be highlighting the diversity of feminist books. In celebration of Vote 100, the hundredth anniversary of (some) women in the UK getting the vote, a group of radical and independent bookshops is launching Feminist Book Fortnight, a celebration of feminist books. There has been an explosion of new feminist publishing in the last two to three years. Books by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laura Bates, Mary Beard, Laurie Penny, Rebecca Solnit, 404Ink, and many others...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Featured ON Aug 7, 2017

Nuclear bomb ban: time to sign the treaty

History was made in 2017 when nuclear weapons were banned under international law. On 7 July 122 governments adopted a new treaty at the United Nations making the possession of these horrific weapons of mass destruction illegal, as were other related activities such as testing, using, developing, or assisting with nuclear weapons – which includes among other things financing or planning to use such weapons. The treaty also includes provisions for assisting victims of nuclear weapons use...