Anna Chen – 6 October 2021, Racism No Cold War kindly invited me to speak at their online event on 6th October but sound problems rendered my contribution pretty unlistenable — apologies. I am posting the text of my speech here and will try to re-record soon it along with a poem. A PERMANENT RESERVOIR […]
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James McMurtry performs We Can’t Make It Here Anymore James McMurtry recorded this video in 2007 and the message is becoming increasingly apt for our modern times as the superpower implodes and America rips itself apart. This is the state of the richest country on Earth after the oligarchy bled it dry. What they did
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Channel 4 Dispatches “Covid Leak”: politicising a pandemic
2 September 2021: Open letter of complaint to C4 Dispatches for “Covid Leak”. Politicising Covid-19 gave cover to the UK government’s mishandling of the pandemic and cost lives. All the while, Boris Johnson’s government was letting “the bodies pile high”.
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No Cold War Online launch, 16th June 2021: Return of the Opium Wars Text of Anna Chen’s speech: Opium Wars 2 Tonight, I’m going to discuss the current build-up in hostility towards China in the context of the Opium Wars of the 19th century and the propaganda war leading us there once again. At the
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After a year of increasing anti-Asian violence encouraged by unscrupulous politicians and media, we took another lurch to the dark side when eight people were killed in the Atlanta shootings (16th March 2021), six of them Asian women. Elsewhere, Asian people are being regularly maimed and murdered.
STANDING UP TO SINOPHOBIA: From Fu Manchu to Bat Soup Online event hosted by The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU) 6th April 2021 Contribution by Anna Chen HOW RACISM HAS ITS ROOTS IN POLITICS So here we are in April 2021 as America’s anti-Chinese pogrom goes full blown. We’re seeing almost daily attacks on Asian
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