It’s hard to believe that Cressida Dick, the woman at the head of the London Metropolitan Police operation that killed Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent electrician, on the London tube in 2005 and terrified a whole lot of bystanders, is now running the police force. Whatever happened to holding power to account? The shooting […]
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In support of today’s One Day Without Us day of action in the UK, I’m posting my poetry on the subject throughout the day. With Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith, St Ives festival 2009 Yellowface I’m Yellowface Gonna eat your soul I’m Yellowface I’m Yellowface Gonna swallow you whole I’m Yellowface Make you
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I Am Rich and You Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese workers and their rich benefactors by Anna Chen In support of today’s One Day Without Us day of action in the UK, I’m posting my poetry on the subject throughout the day. I Am Rich and You Are Poor Lines on dead Chinese workers
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The cast of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Snow In Midsummer in rehearsal holding One Day Without Us placards. From left to right: Katie Leung, Andrew Koji, Lucy Sheen, Wendy Kweh, Andrew Leung, Jonathan Ragget, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, Daniel York, director Justin Audibert, Richard Rees, Kevin Shen. At the front in the red jacket is
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President Trump has told Theresa May that he will personally negotiate the trade deal with the UK. He has no commerce secretary yet. Many of us are wondering what could possibly go wrong? Estimates that the Trump chicken comes home to roost (in the Chinese year of the Fire Rooster, note) are set somewhere around
Anna Chen – 18 January 2017 East Asians, theatre practitioners, academics and friends protest against Yellowface casting in Howard Barker play, In the Depths of Dead Love, at the Print Room 19th January 2017 This Thursday (19th January) sees a peaceful protest of Chinese, East Asians, theatre practitioners, academics and friends at the Print Room
