For the past 69 weeks, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) has been peacefully protesting Israel’s Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, near her Swiss Cottage residency for her incitement of genocide against Palestinians. However, on the night of 27 February, the police-imposed conditions to move the picket from Swiss Cottage to […]
Politics
Female genital mutilation or cutting, a dangerously widespread practice
A new report has collated evidence of female genital mutilation/ cutting (FGM/C) in 94 countries, revealing how this harmful practice exists in more communities than previously recognized and the number of girls and women affected or at risk exceeds earlier estimates. Equality Now* Efforts to end FGM/C remain […]
If Palestine dies, humanity dies…
At the beginning of February, in front of a very large audience, a talk given by renowned activist and academic Professor Ilan Pappé at the Colombian Consulate in London showed that solidarity with the Palestinian people continues to grow in different parts of the world, despite attempts and actions to […]
“Whatever the truth is, it’s better than a lie”
Rodrigo Vázquez has risked his life in Latin America and Gaza filming warzones and humanising people that the mainstream media has reduced to animals and terrorists. The director’s new feature-length Al Jazeera film in his native Argentina about a child that was disappeared during the dictatorship of 1986-73 comes out later this year.
STS: Activism in the age of the Public Order Act
The Prisma spoke exclusively to Shut The System (STS), a necessarily anonymous climate activist group formed in February 2024. They first made headlines by spraying red paint on insurance firm offices, forcing insurers to drop two major carbon-bomb projects in the UK and West Africa. “The new anti-protest legislation in the UK has definitely driven STS underground”, they say.
















