Left voices, unfiltered, unedited, Ungagged.
I took a walk through Glasgow’s Maryhill area earlier today. Storm Amy had brought down a few trees, some older than my grandads da’, and a few black bins and rubble were in places they shouldn’t be. And many of the flags- the ones the racists put up- the beautiful Inclusive saltires that had been […]
The drums of xenophobia beat ever louder, a monotonous, hollow rhythm designed to stir up the basest fears of the British public. The demagogues, with their stale rhetoric of “taking back control” and “stopping the boats,” paint a picture of a nation under siege, a land being overrun by a faceless, foreign horde. They speak […]
“We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile” Ariel Dorfman This is a story told to me by a remarkable student. She attends my Philosophy classes and the classes I teach. Gabriela Inostroza de Gatica is very Latin, the native blood of South America flows in her veins. She is […]