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Amy Hall is a freelance journalist based in Brighton and a columnist for openDemocracyUK, writing about the environment, democracy, corporate power and the British state in the wake of Brexit. She is a member of Shoal Collective, a newly-formed cooperative of independent writers and researchers writing for social justice and a world beyond capitalism.

Articles by Amy Hall

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Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

DSEI: A supermarket for state surveillance and border wars

Amy Hall and Sara Woods 6 September 2017

As borders are increasingly militarised and their operation privatised, migration, more than ever before, is also an anti-militarist struggle.

London is cloaking environmental racism in respectability – but Zambian villagers are fighting back

Amy Hall 3 August 2017

Zambian villagers await a landmark judgement that could help hold British companies to account for their actions abroad.

The Tory–DUP deal could be a disaster for the environment

Amy Hall 28 June 2017

Though more than 50% of voters went for left-wing parties, what they have ended up with is a government even more regressive than the last – especially on climate change.

Why won't the government take air pollution seriously? It's killing thousands

Amy Hall 1 June 2017

40,000 people die per year because of outdoor air pollution in the UK, yet the government’s draft plan released in May 2017 to improve air quality is not enough. What is at stake?