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An anthem for peace and justice from Israeli and Palestinian youth

“Human beings are hardwired to trust one another more when we sing together,” says Micah Hendler, founder of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus, a music and dialogue project that brings young Palestinian and Israeli individuals together through song. Hendler and executive…

Workers working without heating

Job insecurity in Chile It is not enough to cover the daily bread. When we talk about job insecurity, we are talking about unfair working conditions, low or insufficient salaries, low training that leads to higher accident rates, lack of…

The Vicious Cycle of Hate and Violence

Violence goes around in a circle and then leaves that circle to form another circle. In this way, these circles rotate and expand on all sides. Those who sow hate or lead from hate unconsciously understand and continue to sow…

Imahika Art presents: ES IST WAS ES IST: Art as Sites of Inquiry and Acceptance

ES IST WAS ES IST is a group exhibition curated by Lester Amacio, who believes abstraction is poetry. It opened on August 10 and will run until August 25 25, 2024. This thought-provoking collection of artworks invites viewers to engage and…

EcoWaste Coalition Marks 5th Year of BPA Ban in Baby Feeding Bottles

Pushes for a Wider Ban on BPA in Food Contact Materials 10 August 2024, Quezon City.  To mark the fifth anniversary of a progressive policy banning bisphenol A (BPA), a known endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC), in baby feeding bottles and sippy…

5 Journalists Killed in Bangladesh Turmoil, PEC Demands Fair Probes in Each Case

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses shock and serious concern over the fact that a number of working journalists were killed in the recent past across Bangladesh. This as the south Asian nation…

Acción Humanista: Public statement on the political situation in Venezuela

Faced with the delicate situation that the Venezuelan people are experiencing today, as Acción Humanista we join the calls of the international community and of governments, parties and sectors of the left and progressives of various countries that raise the…

Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda: ceasefire comes into effect

The conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reached a crucial point with the recent ceasefire agreement between the DRC and Rwanda. This agreement is the result of the second ministerial meeting on the security and peace situation…

Some Reflections on Amadeus, Forty Years Later

The IFC Center in New York’s Greenwich Village is currently showing a newly restored version of Miloš Forman’s Amadeus (1984) in commemoration of the film’s 40th anniversary. This re-release of Forman’s masterpiece is a cause for celebration not least of…

“Highway Zero” Interview with Billy Lawrence

“Highway Zero” is the first novel I read while walking. My doctors, my niece, and my legs have been urging me to move more due to excessive sedentism, which worsened after the pandemic. So, when I got Billy’s book on…

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