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What’s Happening newsletter #10
Real Media and Phoenix Media Co-op have teamed up to release a regular newsletter. We collectively seek to provide bold, accurate, accessible journalism which is unashamedly internationalist and subversive. At the centre of this is […]
DSEI protest Day 3: Military vehicles occupied
Resistance against the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair gathered momentum today, as people tried to block military equipment from being taken into the arms fair. The theme of the day was demilitarising […]
DSEI protest Day 2: Solidarity with Afghanistan
Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) protests continued yesterday with a full day of action at the ExCeL Centre in London in a show of solidarity with Afghanistan. Phoenix Media Co-operative joined activists on the […]
DSEI protest Day 1: #StopArmingIsrael day of action
Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) protests kicked off yesterday with a day of action against the arming of Israel at the ExCeL Centre in London. Phoenix Media Co-operative joined activists on the ground for […]
TimeToRise #1
TimeToRise is Phoenix Media Co-op’s regular newsletter about what’s new in the struggle for a better world, from the UK and beyond. Climate Crisis The first edition of TimeToRise comes in the same week as […]
The Solstice gathering at Stonehenge wasn’t about ignoring Covid guidelines
A crowd gathered at Stonehenge on the morning of 21 June against the advice of site manager English Heritage. Many media outlets framed it as an ignorance of Covid-19 guidelines. But those on the ground […]
A brief history of international resistance to the G7
The G7 summit has attracted protests for decades. In 1991, for example, activist Bruno Manser used the event to highlight rainforest destruction in Sarawak, Borneo. But the rise of the anti-globalisation movement during the late […]
It’s G7 summit leaders who’ll cause huge disruption for Cornish communities, not protesters
Between 11 and 13 June, the UK will host the G7 global summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall. Since the announcement of the venue, Resist G7 (RG7), a coalition of local, national, and international groups, has […]
‘El estallido social’ – 18 months of Chile’s social insurrection in words and pictures
The people of Chile have been rising up in protest at their country’s inequality and right-wing leadership for 18 months. Phoenix Media Co-op is proud to feature a selection of images by photographer Daniel Espinoza […]
May Day, May Day, May Day! Moves to Kill the Bill grow louder and stronger.
Calls have gone out around the UK for the latest Kill the Bill (KTB) demonstrations on Saturday 1 May. This is also a longstanding international day of solidarity for unions and workers. So around the […]
The stories of oppression, murder and activism behind this viral Indian song
A slickly-produced song from the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has reached more than 140 million views on YouTube in just over a month since its release. Phoenix Media Co-op unearths the untold stories […]
‘One of the most brutal things I’ve ever seen.’ Eyewitness accounts of police violence in Bristol.
On 23 March, people peacefully gathered on College Green in Bristol in the latest #KillTheBill protest. This ended in what protesters called “brutal” violence when riot police using police dogs and horses moved in on […]
Establishment and press reaction to the events in Bristol are a brief lesson in counterinsurgency
Photos and videos of Bristol’s ‘Kill the Bill’ demo caused immediate waves in both news and social media. The city erupted into street confrontations between police and the public, with spectacular images of a burning […]