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Lies and Mendicity

By Demetra Kotouza 5 September 2006

The spectre of poverty has always been used by the powerful as a stick to goad those wishing to live without working. Here Demetra Kotouza explores th...

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Slumsploitation - The Favela on Film and TV

By Melanie Gilligan 5 September 2006

Brazil has long sold its sunny side to holiday makers, but since the blockbuster film City of God a flood of movies and TV shows have capitalised on t...

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Poems: Keep On Keepin' On

By Josaphat-Robert Large 5 September 2006

Text I In the morning’s mirror The day proceeds step by baby step     When the dust of the sun smudges the horizon In the ...

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Poem: Tourist

By Fé́lix Morriseau-Leroy 5 September 2006

Tourist, don't take my picture Don't take my picture, tourist I'm too ugly Too dirty Too skinny Don't take my picture, w...

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UK's Largest Free Wireless Network Goes Live in Norwich

By Mute 4 September 2006

Launched in July 2006, Norfolk Open Link is the largest community wireless broadband network in the UK and is apparently the only network in the ...

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The Corporate that Dare not Speak its Name

By Chris Cook 2 September 2006

There's only one thing worse than being wrong if you are a Civil Servant, and that is to be right by accident.That is what the UK's Departme...

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U.N.-Liberating Haiti

By Kevin Pina 1 September 2006

Since the deposition of Haiti’s elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004 the global media, ‘civil society’ and murderous UN ‘...

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The Conditions of Possibility: Tributes to Marina Vishmidt 1976-2024 (I)

By Mute Collective 6 June 2024

Marina Vishmidt, a much loved and deeply formative contributor for our magazine from its early years, tragically passed away at the end of April. The ...

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

This June and July the Mute magazine archive is being moved from its current home in a shipping container a hundred miles north of London to a new smaller space in Berlin.

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