Clive Stafford Smith is a human-rights lawyer who has spent twenty-five years focusing on the issues of race and the death penalty in the United States. In 1993 he established the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center, a non-profit law office. He has represented more than 200 people on death row, and several of the detainees held by the United States in GuantÌÁnamo Bay, Cuba.
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
Read Anthony Barnett's lecture for the Raymond Williams Society and his foreword to the new edition of The Long Revolution:
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
