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Green activism – as if our environment mattered
Q&A with Stroud’s intrepid environmental campaigner JOJO MEHTA of Mission LifeForce
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
Richard House [RH]: Can you tell us how you first got involved in environmental activism?
Jojo Mehta
Jojo Mehta [JJM]: I spent some years as an “armchair activist,” but in 2013 my daughter overheard me talking about fracking — and burst into floods of tears.
“Why do people want to poison the ground and the water, Mummy? Don’t they know they will get ill themselves? You have to call them and tell them to stop.”
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