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I worked as a Deliveroo rider and trust me, we all must support their strike

From Where I Stand — Deliveroo drivers aren’t just fighting for fair pay, they’re on the frontline of the against a complete erosion of wages and job security.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

The alternative parties keeping old working class venues alive

Partying to survive — London’s declining traditional venues are surviving by providing a home for threatened alternative nightlife, from live music to LGBTQ parties.

  • Alex King
  • Alex King

The lost street gangs of NYC’s Lower East Side

Unseen America — The uniformed street gangs who inspired cult classic The Warriors were violent pillars of community identity, before being swept away by gentrification and the commercialisation of the drug trade.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

The punk counsellor using his DIY ethic to promote mental health and wellbeing

Stability through punk — Peer counsellor and punk Craig Lewis suffered three decades of unnecessary medication and abuse at the hands of the psychiatric system. Today, he offers young punks struggling with mental health challenges an alternative path to recovery.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

Lessons on escapism from transformational artist Rolly Robinson

Radiate light every day — Makeup artist and master of transformation Rolly Robinson shares his inspiring outlook on life and upliftment in ‘More is More’, a beautiful short doc from director Alexis Boling.

  • Film
  • Alex King

10 ways Brexit could affect young people

Surviving a sinking UK — Britain’s split with the EU won’t be pretty. Huck gets to the bottom of the propaganda, myths and the deluge of questions nobody can answer yet, to look at how Brexit will affect you.

  • Activism
  • Alex King, Andrea Kurland and Max Gayler

The Beirut magazine keeping the flames of revolution alive

The Outpost — The defiant flames of the Arab Spring are still burning in Beirut, thanks to The Outpost: an independent magazine that believes change is always possible.

  • Culture
  • Alex King

Activists storm Australian embassy with boat to protest 'illegal' refugee policy

Close the camps — On World Refugee Day, activists storm the Australian embassy in London with a boat to symbolise the thousands of desperate refugees turned away from Australian shores.

  • Reportage
  • Alex King

The American military veterans fighting for the right to grow hemp

Meet the Growing Warriors — Dan Malloy’s Harvesting Liberty documentary profiles the soldiers-turned-farmers campaigning to reintroduce industrial hemp to America.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

Photographer documents man’s destruction of the natural world

Wild beasts reduced to ghosts in the city — Photographer Nick Brandt’s epic panoramas in Inherit The Dust highlight man’s destructive presence in places animals used to roam.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

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