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Freedom Moves Forward… health and life move backwards!

“If health and education are treated unequally for the inhabitants of a country, the revolution implies free education and health for all … It seems to us that proceeding in the opposite way will not lead to the creation of…

Reading Trudy Richards co-author of ‘ambrosia’ Poetic Recipes/ Part II

My niece came for a visit in early June. Every morning, I prepared my bag for our tourist sightseeing in New York City: my refillable bottle of water, two masks, hand sanitizer, a cellphone charger, and Ambrosia: Poetic Recipes. The…

An Open Secret: When the infliction of Pain was State Policy in Chile

By Maxine Lowy “Surely you exaggerate. How can it be that bad?” 1 In response to Chilean judges’ ostensible disbelief that torture had become routine after September 11, 1973, the day that has left the nation scarred 50 years later,…

Agroecology in Palestine: a story of nonviolent resistance in Burin

“The land is dignity and we fight for our dignity,” says Ghassan, 33 years old, graduated in English Philology, farmer by choice in Burin, 12 kilometers south of Nablus, the largest agricultural area in the region and one of the…

[Poetry] CHILE, 50 YEARS IN CHAINS

Do you remember when tenderness nested in our hearts? Do you remember the times when we marveled at the garden full of fireflies, that flowing river, the warm sand on our feet and the flower of a thousand petals? Do…

6th Harmony Peace Pilgrimage In Pune, India to Walk to Ten Religious Sites

A Harmony Peace Pilgrimage across various places of worship in the Pune Camp area will be held as part of an ongoing series of Harmony Peace Pilgrimages, as part of celebrations in preparation for ‘The International Day of World Peace’…

Third Malón of La Paz and the political power of women in Abya Yala

September 5th is International Indigenous Women’s Day, established in 1983, during the II Meeting of Organisations and Movements of America in Tiahuanacu, vindicating in the figure of Bartolina Sisa the struggle of indigenous women against all types of oppression. Bartolina…

Marina di Carrara, Open Arms: this is the captain speaking to you!

I’m in Marina di Carrara these summer days and I take the opportunity to try and meet the crew of the Open Arms, which is stopped in port by the decision of our government. Overcoming some difficulties and after an…

Montero de Burgos, creator of the concept of “humanist enterprise”, would be 99 years old today

The researcher and humanist engineer José Luis Montero de Burgos came and went from this vital plane on the same calendar date, 7 September. In addition to innovating in the field of his speciality, forestry, he worked as a professor…

“Australia, take the lead in liberating Julian Assange” chant activists on Australian Embassy Day held last weekend.

And six Oz parliamentarians set off to Washington to do just that. It took off like wildfire. Last August 12th, a Julian Assange activist in Wellington (NZ) tweeted a call to stage sit-ins outside Australian embassies worldwide on or around…

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