Marion Bowman was director of One World Media until August 2012, before joining openDemocracy 50.50 as a Commissioning Editor. Marion was a presenter, producer and commissioner of current affairs programmes for Channel 4 and ITV, and worked for the BBC as a producer and as Managing Editor, Entertainment. She was Deputy Director of Programmes with the Independent Television. Marion has written for numerous publications including The Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer and New Statesman.
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Published in: 50.50Security is not just CCTV: valuing ourselves is securityIt feels as if the entire world has been given over to the most perverse notions of 'safety' that are really about...
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Published in: 50.50Creating peace: a manifesto for the 21st century
How does an international women’s organisation with a hundred year history put Mahatma Gandhi’s famous call to...
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Published in: 50.50Violence is not inevitable: It is a choice
In 1915 a thousand women met in the Hague to demand an end to war. A thousand women are doing so again this week. It...
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Published in: 50.50Scrapping Trident: the holistic approach
This is a key moment in the long history of nuclear disarmament in the UK, and Nicola Sturgeon's tactics place...
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Published in: 50.50Bringing the radicalism of Seneca Falls into the 21st centuryA century and a half after the Declaration of Sentiments and Rights, President Obama’s nod to Seneca Falls, Selma...
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Published in: 50.50The bleak mid-winter of the Coalition - let's see some heat
As huge swathes of Britain are beggared and left bewildered by the upheavals and moralising that we have already...