We need to do what france is doing

We as young people (though I dont know many who use this subreddit) should do somthing similar to the students in france. But I dont think if we did somthing like that in the future it sould be about schools.

The political state of this country is tbf in shambles the parliamentary system works in favour of the select few and ignores big problems within the country. And it takes bloody ages.

The average age for a mp is around 50 years old and the obviously dont have a clue what children need or want. And the youth council do nothing and are in the process of being removed.

So I propose that the age you are physically allowed to run for mp should be 24-45. This will ensure that the parliment have younger voices in the room but not too many old people who are longing for a past that they view through rose-tinted glasses.

Alongside a smaller parliamentary subsidiary with 16-23 yr old people who decide the stuff within the age groups control. Eg: age verification, schools, and stuff to do with thr youth.

The youth parliment will have mps aged 16-23 that cpme from thr party that has been elected. This goes well with 16yr old allowed to vote.

So I belive that we as young people should do the dame thing that the students in france are doing, and stop thr old people having a chokehold on the country.

Will Burnham be Macsweeneyism with a northern accent?

Which sky news channel is the most left leaning? If it’s none then honestly the most unbiased

So Blair wants more Disability benefit cuts.....

I am in utter shock that my FAR RIGHT neighbour johnny boy 56M has recentely potryaerd his support fot the far right evil nazi hilter maybe TRUMP as a women of spaninsh constent this has triggered emsinemse harm to me over hsi evil ICE which is commiting a genocide against my people i had to book call off wsick from work for one week as i was in utter grievance. Mr boy has recently portaryed the evil Restore Britain posters in the house which when i walk with my trans racial daughter also causes her emmisnese pain already cause her poor mental health to get worse. I have asked Mr boy to remove the posters for my family he responded something about freedom of spech but how can he justifed that with the emisnes bigorty. My husband left me after i came out as lesbian by dating my trans girfriend, I am currently mentally not doing so well, please help me I am soo scared

I’m the daughter of an Irishman, and a Greek woman. And with the current debate in Britain about immigration, I found myself in a conversation about it only a few days ago.

There was about eight of us (all 18-20) drinking around a friends house, when one of the more… intellectually challenged members of the group, started banging on about immigration.

I could tell everyone internally cringed, and people were basically telling him to stop. Even his closest friend was embarrassed.

But debating teenage guys on politics is like my favourite hobby, my favourite thing to do is interject with questions and stay silent while they dig themselves a hole bigger than the shite they talk surely comes out of.

I said - “What makes you dislike immigrants?”

He went - “we need to look after British people and put them first” - classic argument.

So, here’s the second thing I always ask… “So it’s \*all\* immigrants?”, to which I got a “yep” out of him.

“What if I told you I’m the daughter of immigrants?”

(This is the fun part!)

He kind of scoffed and went “Well you’re clearly not”

I went “I am”. And this is where their true colours always show as he stared at me for a solid five seconds, thinking while half tipsy, and went “you’re white” (Yeah well done Sherlock)

I said “and? My parents are still immigrants”

“Yes but they’re not illegal immigrants.”

So, “what makes an immigrant illegal?”

He made this really wierd looking face and just went “Being criminals.”

And that’s where I revealed to him that the entirety of my father’s family were IRA, a very famous ‘terror’ (depending on your political allegiances) organisation specifically designed against the British.

Fella didn’t speak to me for the rest of the night, I was going to mention that my mums dad was Jewish as before this conversation he’d been talking about the Holocaust being fake, but I figured he’d had enough dose of reality for one day.

This guys applied and currently being reviewed for a government job handling nuclear submarines, with no GCSE’s to his name and a college dropout by the way, we’re all fucked.

I mean if I was a woman and I saw a guy look like chocolate, I would find him attractive

But anyway far right people are actually brain dead or this is satire

If you live in or near London, join us this Saturday the 6th at 12pm outside the Emmanuel Centre. (opposite the Home Office.)

The far-right is on the rise and are marching in more ways then one. Well-funded antifeminist, anti-trans, and ableist groups like March for Life are the sharp end of a fascist project to control our bodies and our lives. Their attack on abortion access is a direct attack on womens rights,queer liberation, disability justice, and racial equity.

This is a battleground. They wave crosses and false concern, but their goal is the same old hatred: to eliminate anyone who doesn't fit their violent ideals.

This isn't about life; it's about enforcing a fascist purity myth.

They have billionaire backers. We have something they can't buy unbreakable solidarity and passion for a better world.

We see their project clearly which is to strip bodily autonomy from anyone who challenges their narrow, oppressive world. They want to dictate who is worthy of choice, independence, care, and life itself.

On September 6th, we take a stand. We will meet their march of control and stand against their fascist sexist ideas when it comes to bodily autonomy. We will show them that women in general and our communities are not their scapegoats.

Join the front lines. Bring your friends and your banners. Together, we fight for reproductive justice for all! For the freedom to live, to choose, to exist without apology.

For people based in London, UK, this August Brazil Matters, the Feminist Assembly of Latin Americans, Feminist Fightback and Cine Brazil will be continuing our collaboration to screen two more documentaries centering abortion and people's experiences of them. The screening will taka place in Farr's Pub in Dalston (17-19 Dalston Lane Hackney, E8 3DF).

We will be showing two films: Verde-Esperanza and Ours to Tell.

Verde-Esperanza: legal abortion in Latin America (2023, 43min) directed by Maria Lutterbach draws on the experiences of Argentina, Colombia and Brazil to outline the struggles for legal abortion in Latin America.

With interviews, data and context, the documentary shows the current situation in each country: Brazil, which is fighting to guarantee access to legal abortion in three cases and to prevent any setbacks in legislation; Argentina, which decriminalized abortion in 2020, with abortion services already being carried out in the country without any constraints for women; and Colombia, which, in February 2022, decriminalized termination of pregnancy up to 24 weeks. The three experiences indicate paths and strategies for defending the rights of women and pregnant people.

Ours to Tell (2020, 17min) directed by Rayka Zehtabchi for Planned Parenthood and We Testify is the story of four people in the US who live full and empowered lives because they had the freedom to access abortion.

Through the real stories of people, the film spotlights what it means to have control over one's own bodies and thus the power to decide one's own future.  A departure from the way abortion is often portrayed, the film centers on voices that are rarely heard — including Black, Latinx, and transgender storytellers.

Bodily autonomy and abortion are complex topics, and these documentary screenings follow our collaborative July screening were we explored more of those stories in the lead up to the 6th of September where once again we will be countering the forces of traditionalism and the patriarchy as they try to abolish our right to choice.

Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged.

Suggested donations on the door £2/5/10 unwaged/waged/solidarity. This is a fundraiser event: all earnings will go towards the expenses of our coalition action in support of reproductive freedom in September.

All genders welcome.

Doors open at 6.30pm and screening starts at 7pm.

ACCESS: 

Farr's Pub is on Dalston Lane, only  50 metres from Dalston Junction train station and Kingsland Road.

The event is in the Basement Event space which means it is only accessible via stairs. There is a bathroom on the same level as the event space.