Culture and Media

by: Robert Dela Peña and Genevieve Balance Kupang In alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 4: Quality Education, SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, and SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals) and the National Cultural Heritage Act…

  Yanis Varoufakis with a passionate speech about Julian Assange’s release and a scathing criticism of those who sought to keep him behind bars for the crime of ‘journalism’. Julian Assange is finally a free man. The WikiLeaks co-founder was…

For the fourth time this summer Bar Crawl Radio podcast is not at a bar.  But we are continuing to have conversations with neighbors doing positive work for their community.  We will be talking with a citizen journalists who works…

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign, the global media safety and rights body, expresses utter shock over the relentless murder of journalists in Pakistan, as the South Asian nation has lost its seventh scribe to assailants this year. Condemning the gunning down…

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims are flocking to Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Saturday to witness the culmination of the Hajj (pilgrimage). The Muslim faithful flock to Mount Arafat – where the Prophet of Islam, Hazrat Mohamad (peace…

Grenada, founded in 1973, first came across the stringed instrument by chance. The purchase of a cuatro in Russia was the beginning of a journey that led Grenada to the knowledge and use of this stringed instrument, a symbol of…

Geneva: Expressing utter dismay over the third media person to be killed in Pakistan within this month, the global media safety and rights body, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), urges the federal government in Islamabad to take serious note of the…

Australian actress Cate Blanchett – in Cannes for the out-of-competition film Rumours, which with a six-handed direction recounts between farce and demented horror the events of a G7 in which Cate Blanchett is a German chancellor and Rolando Ravello an…

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the killing of another journalist in Pakistan within a fortnight and demands a fair probe into the incident. Mehar Ashfaq Siyal was shot dead…

This is neither a coincidence nor a surprise. For almost two decades they have been trying to silence Telesur, and from the moment we announced our intention to give the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean their voice, to…