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Dystopian dramas to watch now The Handmaid’s Tale is over

By Cognitive Space on 14/08/2018

The Handmaid’s Tale The Emmy Award winning (the first for a streaming service) The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the most important TV dramas since The Wire. It has just finished it second season Based on the 1985 novel by Margret Atwood of the same name. The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian drama set in […]

Responsibility of musicians in bringing about social change

By Cognitive Space on 09/02/2017

Music pervades every part of society, it breaks boundaries, backgrounds and brings them together. It transcends language and is an industry so important to our lives that it’s worth more than the pharmaceutical industry. Music has the power to be weld as a tool to bring people together and to educate What role can […]

Hands Up Don’t Shoot – Justice for Michael Brown protest at the US Embassy London 27/08/14 (video)

By Cognitive Space on 09/09/2014

On Wednesday 27th August Stand Up To Racism organised a protest named Hands Up! Don’t Shoot! outside the US embassy in London in solidarity Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager was fatally killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on the 9th August. The killing has sparked underlying racial tensions in not only […]

Coltan – Conflict Minerals & The Congo

By Cognitive Space on 28/04/2012

Did you know the contents of your pockets is fueling a war that has lead to the death of over 5 million people? On my way home from an open bar party last December I tipsily stumbled down the escalator of Oxford Circus tube and witnessed a train full of Congolese protesters who were trying […]