If you’ve been following Ungagged for a while, you’re well aware of the UN condemned atrocities happening at the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota. Or regular contributer Ruth Hopkins has spoken to Ungagged from North Dakota in several of our podcasts (which you can find here and here), and you can read our […]
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Argh, it’s the first Saturday in December! time for a mad dash round the shops, overheating in the queue and freezing outside, longing to get home and put the kettle on. Spare a thought today for one who can’t go home for a cuppa in the warm. Being homeless at any time is no fun, […]
Mara Leverkuhn Articles
A slice of Class cake NEOLIBERALISM’S TOTALITARIAN COMING OUT IN WINTER HEIST ON ALL OUR FREEDOMS “FAKE NEWS” -propaganda churned by the Bernays school, owns your mind Romanian Protests – Disturbance-in-the-deep-force in the Deep Force?
A Slice of Class Cake
Birmingham last week. Been out to dinner with “respectable” professor of economy. Talking about social historical philosophical and economic issues spanning all human history. Lavish restaurant. Endless courses and fucking pompous cocktails with half a mango in them, exotic erotic names and little umbrellas. This is rococo France all over again. Champagne, candles and prostration […]
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Todays task in our activist advent calendar is to write to your MP or MSP to tell Israel to have courage and leave occupied Bethlehem and the Palestine West Bank. For extra credit, you can also write to the Israeli embassy in London. You can find your MPs contact details here and details of the Israeli […]
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It’s the first day of advent, and we are making this festive season the kindest yet! Today’s task – have a look at your MP or MSP’s voting record here. How welcoming are they to refugees? We don’t want to be the stingy innkeepers turning away vulnerable people. We are not full. There is room at the […]
Bisexuality, from a bisexual
Bisexuality is not a point on a spectrum that has heterosexuality on one end and homosexuality at the other. It’s more like the flip-side of a coin with monosexuality on its reverse. Monosexuality includes both of those other sexual orientations, heterosexuality and homosexuality, that in truth have more in common with each other than […]
Liberty
And now, as we all anticipated The Eton/Oxford frat-boys Pass through the historic heraldic gates And line up to be ennobled by the figure-headed head of state -She’ll raise the blade As they bow their brylcreemed heads For services rendered Rendered, surrendered, put out to tender Tenderised and privatised A job well done, stealthily accomplished […]
Mara Leverkuhn
Far away in Oriental Europe, there was a castle and in that castle I was born. Confiscated by the communists at gun point, left to rot and turned into “social housing”. Hello, Romania. The glory of the event was unmatched by the land, as a black and white reality welcomed me–a tyranny that feared not […]
Victoria Långstrump
Victoria Långstrump is a Karelian folk singer-songwriter. Born in born October 1988, Victoria started write her songs at early age, when she was 14. Her music is inspired by Russian North, beat generation ideas and awareness of lost time. Every day, after she finishes working in flower shop, she comes home, takes her guitar and […]