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Five peace activists were arrested today as CODEPINK and other organizations disrupted the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing titled “UNRWA Exposed: Examining the Agency’s Mission and Failures.” The protest aimed to draw attention to the urgent need for humanitarian aid…

January 22nd, 2024 A vigil outside the U.S. UN Mission across from the United Nations with members of Peace Action NY, Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free World, Pax Christi NY, The Catholic Worker, Veterans For Peace, PSR, and ICAN…

In Haifa today, hundreds of Jewish and Arab protesters demonstrated against the war and for a political solution. The protest was allowed after an appeal to the Supreme Court, after the Israeli police, managed by Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, tried to…

With more farmers today than at almost any point in history, humanity’s future will likely be agrarian. We must imagine that world into being. By Chris Smaje Let me start this journey with my feet on my farm. When people…

On 8 January, one year after the coup attempt by supporters of former president Bolsonaro, social movements demonstrate in front of the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), in defence of democracy. Photos by Paulo Pinto/ Agência Brasil

On 6 January 2024, in Pikine, Senegal, the sixth Humanist Forum was successfully held, attracting the participation of 180 guests distributed in 10 work groups, each focusing on a specific theme. The forum, promoted by Energie pour le droits de…

After a 3 year hiatus, Pressenza in New York organized its annual Get-Together on Saturday, January 6 at the office of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. This event was part of the campaign to collect funds during January. For the first time…

Piazza Santo Stefano, 4 pm on January 1st, on the occasion of the 57th World Day of Peace, called by the community of Sant’Egidio, at least 200 people arrive, a good part of them immigrants. They remember the violence in…

A group of activists from Antimilitaristes-MOC València paint pink and climb on a tank in protest against the militarisation of the Expojove children’s fair in Valencia. Antimilitarist activists dressed as clowns have painted the army tank at the Expojove children’s…

With the presence of his son Pablo, his brother Jorge, his partner Astrid, Inés and several other people related to his family, friends, comrades in struggle, militants of various forces of the left, people from the world of culture, humanism,…