Josh White / 17 Jan 2022
The End of Protest
UK Liberties at Risk
London's Kill the Bill march began in the centre of Lincoln's Inn Fields. It was a cold Saturday morning but the crowd was lively. The usual suspects had turned out.(...)
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The Battleground / 08 Oct 2021
Music Opens Your Mind
Listening for the Future: The Charlie Bertsch Interview
In the 1960s, they called it consciousness-raising. The idea was that popular music is about social change.(...)
The Battleground / 09 Mar 2021
The George Floyd Echo
Zack Furness on America on Fire
American civil rights crises usually don't go global. National issues, in Europe their significance tends to be the monopoly of activists and academics, primarily, and leftist politicians.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 10 Feb 2021
Field Recording History
Al Zlogar’s America on Fire
America on Fire captures a time that simultaneously feels like a distant past and an endless present.(...)
Preethi Nallu / 02 Dec 2020
Black Lives Matter Reaches Norway
Globalising Anti-Racism
As the latest anti-racism chants fade from Norwegian media headlines, rights advocates in the Scandinavian country are exploring ways of continuing the discussions that started on social media and led to protests.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Aug 2020
Syria is Everywhere
Field Recording Rojava
"The Kurds are the Roma of the Middle East." I should have seen it coming. The statement, made by a reporter I worked with, was typical of his repertoire. Like many Europeans, they didn't immediately fit with his idea of the region.(...)
Spencer Sunshine / 05 Jun 2020
Blaming it on Antifa
Trump’s Crisis Scapegoats
The year 2020 has been filled with wild plot twists, from the Coronavirus pandemic to a national uprising against white supremacy in the United States. (...)
Joel Schalit / 21 Oct 2019
If Not Now, When?
The Crisis in Rojava
When was the last time that Washington backed the good guys? Barack Obama's support for Syria's Kurds was always a fraught proposition.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 23 Jul 2019
Democracy is Not Brexit
#March for Change
It was a grassroots gathering. Spread online and by word of mouth, in what felt like a whisper. And so assorted groups of normally quiet Remainers assembled in London to march on Parliament. (...)