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EuroMarches 2015 – day 7 – Barcelona-Andorra-Toulouse

On this day another bus joined the March. In Seo de Urgel EuroMarches delivered a letter to the Archbishop, Co-Prince of Andorra, a meeting was then held with the unions, who were in their election day and, finally, there was…

Nato’s bombs fall like confetti, not containing conflict but spreading it

Syria, Isis, Iraq … there are no easy solutions. But killing innocent civilians in Afghanistan and elsewhere draws more people into insurgencies By George Monbiot for The Guardian ‘The strike may have resulted in collateral damage to a nearby medical…

Solar powered flat-pack emergency shelters from IKEA

IKEA Unveils Solar-Powered Flat Pack Shelters for Easily Deployable Emergency Housing – writes Lori Zimmer for Inhabitat. “IKEA has just turned its flat pack sensibilities from the urban apartment to the global village by unveiling a comfortable, solar-powered shelter that…

Japan – Philippines: Bridge for Peace

Writer and Green Pioneer Konomi Kikuchi writes from Patagonia: Congratulations! Bridges to Peace was covered by NHK world. This organization was founded by our friend, Naoko Jin in order to build a bridge for peace by delivering messages from Japanese…

Ada Colau shows her support for EuroMarchas

Ada Colau, Mayor of Barcelona, received the marchers at the city council and give her support to the EuroMarches. Coming from Zaragoza, EuroMarches arrived at Tortosa at lunchtime on the 5th of October. Representatives from the social movements in Bajo…

Men Start to Make Women’s Struggles Their Own in Argentina

By Fabiana Frayssinet BUENOS AIRES, Sep 30 2015 (IPS) – The meeting was about gender equality, but for once there were more men than women. It marked a watershed in the struggle in Argentina to make the commitment to equality…

Uzbek Elena Urlaeva, drugged, beaten and detained by police

Dear people, Drugged, beaten and detained by police — this was the fate of activist Elena Urlaeva who dared to document state-sponsored forced labour in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan this May.1 In Uzbekistan, the whole country suffers at the…

Maiti Nepal: fighting against girl trafficking

Maiti Nepal Fighting Girl Trafficking, an Interview with Flora Gurung By Milena Rampoldi, ProMosaik e.V. An important interview with Mrs. Flora Gurung on tour in Germany with the girls of the association Maiti Nepal. Flora is also the director of…

International Day of Nonviolence celebrated around the world

This year’s international Day of Nonviolence witnessed a whole host of activities around the world. Among the activities held on the annual October 2nd included: In Nakpanduri, a conflict area that experiences curfews in the northern region of Ghana, there…

EuroMarches rejects NATO military exercises

During the reception of EuroMarches in Plaza Cibeles with a musical spectacle put on by Solfónica (an orchestra of 50 young musicians and 130 popular actors) there was a dominant cry: “Another Europe is possible!” under the emblematic banner on…

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