Fuad Alakbarov is an Azerbaijani-Scottish political activist and human rights defender. He is known mainly for human rights advocacy for refugees, anti-racism and anti-poverty campaigns.
Alakbarov is a columnist for the Mind Waves, a NHS-funded project which raises public awareness about mental health issues. He also covers refugee crisis, geopolitics and conflict worldwide for openDemocracy and Bella Caledonia. Alakbarov is an active participant of Stop the War Coalition and Unite Against Fascism. He is also a member of “Show the Racism Red Card”, “Refuweegee” and “Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees”. He is a well known for supporting recognition of the Khojaly Genocide.
Tommy Ball has been involved in progressive politics for over a decade. From Scottish National Party activist to Executive Committee member of the Scottish Socialist Party, he has pounded the streets and tenements of Glasgow and beyond delivering leaflets, speaking at pro-Independence events, and standing – generally unsuccessfully – for election in the Socialist interest. […]
Philip Richard (P. Ric., or “Prick”) Knobinson-Canute is a journalist best known for his weekly column, “Last Orders,” in the high end magazine, “Fox and Turf,” and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He became associated with the louche and bohemian atmosphere that existed in London’s Soho district, […]
Eileen Eddy is a Chinese American computer scientist, writer and activist originally from Fayetteville, North Carolina who came to Eastern Washington to go to high school and later university at Washington State where she received her degrees in Computer Science and English Rhetoric and Composition. Eileen has also written a conference Paper for the College […]