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French-Spanish singer Manu Chao has announced a new album, ‘Viva Tu’, due in September, 17 years after his last studio album. The 63-year-old singer-musician announced the comeback LP on his website, a month after posting a first single, also entitled ‘Viva Tu’. Yesterday (Wednesday 26 June), he released a second track, ‘Sao Paulo Motoboy’, a hymn to the Brazilian megalopolis' motorcycle delivery drivers "who risk their lives every day on two wheels in the great metropolis". The upcoming new album is said to be “inspired by his travels and people’s daily lives,” with songs in Spanish, French, ...
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Best known among European audiences for her 2012 ‘Punk Prayer’ in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, artist and co-founder of activist collective Pussy Riot Nadya Tolokonnikova opened ‘Rage’ at the OK Linz Museum in Austria on Friday. For her debut solo museum show, Tolokonnikova – whose art has previously landed her in prison and the label of “foreign agent” by the Russian government – brings an engaging, and in equal measure shocking and sobering, mix of sculptures, installations, video and live performances to the contemporary art centre. Curated by Michaela Seiser and Julia Staudach, Ra...
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Already 2024 is a record-shattering year for the climate as May set a new global temperature record for the 12th month in a row. “The next 18 months are critical in the fight to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5C,” according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. There are less than six months until UN climate conference COP29. But the European Parliamentary elections earlier this month saw a lurch to the far right and a rejection of green-leaning parties and policies, leaving climate-concerned citizens without an official voice. In response, climate groups have embraced their dem...
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This act aimed to protest alleged animal cruelty on RSPCA-approved farms. The painting by artist Jonathon Yeo, unveiled last month, was undamaged due to a protective plastic sheet.
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The trial of Ilaria Salis continued on Friday in Budapest. The 39-year-old activist is accused of deliberately travelling to Budapest to attack neo-Nazis after being arrested in February 2023 following a counter-demonstration for a rally by far-right extremists. During the court session, neither the victims of the masked attackers nor the present witnesses could identify her as the perpetrator. The case has made headlines in Italy after Salis previously appeared in court with handcuffs and her feet chained. Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has made several official complaints on behalf ...
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Activists from the anonymous collective Brandalism have replaced more than 200 adverts around the UK without permission with satirical posters protesting what it says is Shell’s “lethal legacy”. They are calling for sports organisations, shareholders, local authorities and advertising agencies to reject money from Shell and other fossil fuel companies. This guerrilla protest action comes just days before shareholders are due to meet for the oil company’s AGM on 21 May. Brandalism says its stunt “takes aim at Shell’s political lobbying and the oil major's use of marketing strategies to maintain...
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Two Just Stop Oil protesters in their 80s have broken the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library in London. Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, an 85-year-old retired biology teacher, entered the British Library and used a hammer and chisel to crack the enclosure around the Magna Carta - the ‘Great Charter’ that is an essential foundation for the contemporary powers of the UK Parliament. The pair glued their hands together holding a sign that read “The government is breaking the law” and could be heard saying “Is the government above the law?” They are demanding that the ...
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Four conservationists convicted of espionage in Iran have been released after six years in jail. They were arrested in 2018 after being accused of spying while working to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah. Their conviction in 2019 was condemned around the world by conservationists, scientists and human rights organisations. The group, which worked with the nonprofit Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF), includes Niloufar Bayani - an Iranian wildlife researcher and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) consultant - and environmental activists Houman Jowkar, Taher Ghadirian and Sepideh Kashan...
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Legendary poet, writer, actor and campaigner Benjamin Zephanian will be immortalised in a vibrant mural celebrating his life and work this weekend. The artwork will be unveiled in a ceremony at Handsworth Park – the area of Birmingham where Zephaniah was born and raised – on 14 April. The mural was commissioned by Black Heritage Walks Network (BHWN), who describe the artwork as a celebration of Zephaniah as “The People’s Champion”. Artist Bunny Bread, founder of the Create Not Destroy collective and best known for his graffiti art, finished the work in March. “Benjamin really stood for the peo...
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I was nine years old when I learned of Kurt Cobain’s death. At that time, all I knew about Cobain was Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ being played on repeat on MTV, and the striking image of a naked baby swimming for a dollar on the 'Nevermind' poster taped to my neighbour’s bedroom wall. I always looked up to my neighbours, siblings who are respectively three and five years older than me – an age gap which was a huge deal for a younger me with little to no cool factor to speak of. They were my cool factor, the gatekeepers to know-how I lacked. Both brothers frequently took me under their ...
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