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Palestine Action ban ruling set for Supreme Court appeal

Final stand — Founder Huda Ammori has won permission to challenge the Court of Appeal’s verdict, which upheld the group’s proscription as a ‘terror organisation’.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

Queer resistance & sun-soaked solidarity at the world’s largest trans pride march

Our Future, Our Fight — Over the weekend, over 150,000 people marched at the London Trans+ Pride, with the parade ending at Trafalgar Square for the first time in history.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop
© Sara Bennett

Tender portraits of women serving life sentences in America

Looking Inside — While working as a public defender attorney in New York State, Sara Bennett found dilapidated prisons and forgotten people. Her new photobook harnesses the power of images and shines a humanising light on those imprisoned for serious crimes and their reintegration into society, while asking questions of the USA’s incarceration system.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

Activists replace Union Jacks with ‘Tax The Rich’ flags in Farage’s Clacton

Take Back Power — It comes after the Reform UK leader resigned as an MP and triggered a by-election in the constituency, following scrutiny over a £5 million donation that he had not declared.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop
Boys with bonfire
Tish Murtha © Ella Murtha

Tish Murtha’s searing documentation of broken Britain

Vandalism on a Grand Scale — Capturing youth unemployment and poverty in north-east England during the ’80s, the photographer never lived to see her work published. A new photobook by British Culture Archive brings her eye-opening work to light.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

Ra’ed Khan and the tireless work of Road to Freedom

Hurriyah — Having been providing frontline aid and support to refugees for over a decade, a new book featuring poetry by Omar Mooro traces the story of the NGO. In this chapter extract, founder and music executive Ra’ed Khan explains its origins.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

‘Baking Street’: Activists rename Tube stations in heatwave protest

‘Heatwave, sponsored by Shell’ — The protest comes as the UK recorded the hottest day in June ever recorded at 36.7C.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

An intimate window into New York’s ’70s lesbian scene

We Others — An exhibition at The Photographer’s Gallery combines Donna Gottschalk’s unearthed photographs of LGBTQ+ activists and friends, along with Hélène Gianneccini’s written histories.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

The Pope has declared holy war on AI

The New Butlerian Jihad — In his first encyclical letter, Pope Leo XIV addressed the increasing pervasiveness of artificial intelligence as a threat to the already fragile structures of society. Newsletter columnist Emma Garland makes sense of it all.

  • Activism
  • Emma Garland

On the frontlines of Britain’s ’80s protest movements

Protest and Equality — Against a backdrop of Thatcherism, hospital closures and global conflict, photographer Sarah Saunders was a documentarian of the long decade’s effects on society, as well as the communities actively resisting it.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

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