Articles by: Heather Stroud

Fracking in UK: Response to Charles McAllister’s article published in the Yorkshire Post

Fracking in UK: Response to Charles McAllister’s article published in the Yorkshire Post

‘Why the country needs to back fracking and become energy independent – Charles McAllister With the right policy support from Government, Yorkshire, Lancashire and the East Midlands could become the UK’s energy powerhouse for decades.’   https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/why-the-country-needs-to-back-fracking-and-become-energy-independent-charles-mcallister-3871101 Charles McAllister is the director of policy, government and public affairs at United Kingdom Onshore Oil and Gas (UKOOG). Response from, Heather Stroud.[Read More…]

by — 14/10/2022 — Comments are Disabled — World
40 years on, after the 1982 massacre of Sabra Shatila, Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon

40 years on, after the 1982 massacre of Sabra Shatila, Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon

As Lebanon plunges into political chaos – banking corruption, power cuts and exploding prices, the Palestinian refugees, already marginalised without rights and unable to climb out of poverty, have fallen deeper into despair. Walking through the camps one sees tangles of bare electric cable, dripped on by corroded air conditioning units, hanging dangerously low in the narrow, dark passages that[Read More…]

by — 20/09/2022 — Comments are Disabled — Palestine
Open Letter to U.K Parliament on the Assassination of Qassem Soleimani

Open Letter to U.K Parliament on the Assassination of Qassem Soleimani

Open letter to Parliament with regard to the Hansard debate of 7th January 2020 Vol: 669, relating to the targeted assassination of Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani. Having read the Hansard Parliamentary discussion on the targeted assassination of Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, along with the Iraqi military commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and the other Iraqi military leaders, I am stunned by[Read More…]

by — 15/01/2020 — Comments are Disabled — World
Nahr al-Bared, north of Tripoli. It shows the bombing of 2007 and behind the new camp that has partially been rebuilt

An outside view from the Palestinian Camps of Lebanon

An outside view from the Palestinian Camps of Lebanon raises troubling questions: who and what is driving injustice and conflict. Every time I return from visiting Palestinian refugee camps dispersed throughout Lebanon, I’m haunted by the monumental suffering that has been systematically imposed on the twelve million Palestinians. There are between 5-6 million Palestinians in exile;, and 6 million under[Read More…]

by — 08/10/2019 — Comments are Disabled — Palestine
The Truth of Viva Palestina Convoy

The Truth of Viva Palestina Convoy

The smearing of George Galloway and widely reported false disinformation that there was no evidence to support the claim that Viva Palestina delivered aid, raises serious concerns, not just in this case, but far beyond. It is seriously disturbing how disinformation and lazy ‘cut and paste’ journalism has become common place within the mainstream media of the UK. One wonders[Read More…]

by — 16/06/2019 — Comments are Disabled — Palestine
Where is Hope? (A report from Nahr al-Bared Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon)

Where is Hope? (A report from Nahr al-Bared Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon)

Situated on a coastal location on the outskirts of Tripoli, with golden sands and an expansive view of the Mediterranean Sea, the Palestinian Refugee Camp of Nahr al-Bared could be a beautiful environment in which to raise a child… It isn’t. The sense of despair is as dark as I have known it during these past three years of visiting[Read More…]

by — 01/10/2018 — 1 comment — Palestine
Saving Jeremy Corbyn- Who are the real anti-Semitics here?

Saving Jeremy Corbyn- Who are the real anti-Semitics here?

It is appalling to be British and observe the circus of hysterical, ridiculous accusations being flung at Jeremy Corby by the Jewish Board of Deputies and their conservative and labour cohorts. I wonder if these self-righteous accusers have any perception of how we are viewed from afar by the more sane countries around the world. There is a simple question[Read More…]

by — 04/09/2018 — 3 comments — World
Media release by Heather Stroud before her trial at York Magistrates Court on 30th August for chaining herself to the gate at Third Energy Fracking Site at Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire, UK (30th January 2018).

Reclaiming Democracy

Media release by Heather Stroud before her trial at York Magistrates Court on 30th August for chaining herself to the gate at Third Energy Fracking Site at Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire, UK (30th January 2018). An earlier trial scheduled for 16th July was adjourned due to the Court copy of the defence ‘harms evidence documents’ , submitted in June, being[Read More…]

by — 19/08/2018 — 1 comment — Environmental Protection
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA STRIP - MAY 15: Palestinian refugee Mohamad Mahmoud Al-Arja, 80, from the Rafah refugee camp, holds up a key allegedly from his house in Beer AI-saba, now located in Israeli, during a rally May 15, 2007 the in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza strip. Palestinians are marking May 15, as Nakba Day or Catastrophe Day, as the 59th anniversary of the al-Nakba, the day the Israeli state was created in 1948. (Photo by Getty Images)

The Legacy of Balfour – 100 Years of Betrayal And Suffering : A report from the refugee camps of Lebanon

It is hard to reconcile how a government that sold out the civilian population of Palestine can celebrate the shameful letter Lord Balfour sent to Lord Rothschild. Although termed in language that presented itself as only offering a homeland to the Jewish people, with no discrimination to be brought against the indigenous Palestinian population, it is evident the agreement was[Read More…]

by — 26/09/2017 — 1 comment — Palestine