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Tahrir Tweeting: A revolutionary force? »

On the 6 June 2010, Khaled Said was dragged from an internet cafe in Alexandria and beaten to death by Egyptian police. An anonymous Facebook group was set up to spread the news of Said's murder and was ‘liked’ by nearly 600,000 people. Man...

Wed 23 Feb 2011 by Kate Beioley | Read more »

People & Planet suit against Treasury gets its day in court »

RBS Headquarters

A campaign which began as a student movement at the University of Edinburgh has won the right to pursue HM Treasury through the courts, in an effort to prove that the government have breached guidelines on the spending of public money. In the first ca...

Sun 13 Sep 2009 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Boardroom banner waving: the new economic activism »

Burning Tree

At universities throughout the country, students are using their institutional mechanisms to enforce morally-led boycotts on companies such as Nestlé and to increase pressure on their universities to invest its money in a manner that is constr...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by James Russell | Read more »

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