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The radicality of nonviolence

In struggles, the radicality of violence is often contrasted with the softness of nonviolence. So how is nonviolence radical? Transcript of the video In reality, violence is not radical because it does not act on the causes of the conflict.…

From the Manhattan Project to the Bronx Project: The toxic legacy of the nuclear age

Recent alarming reports state that the UK is prepared to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium ammunition in the ongoing slaughter in Ukraine. These lethally toxic carcinogens are known to cause illness and death, not only for the victims of war…

From International Interests to Human Rights Abuses: Understanding Balochistan’s Struggle for Freedom

Baloch Nation is struggling for their freedom and striving for an independent Balochistan, free from Pakistan’s control. Balochistan was an independent country in 1947 but it was occupied by Pakistan on 27 March 1948, now Baloch are struggling to regain…

Spring of Nonviolence. The Pope’s prayer, Lennon’s utopia

The Pope entrusted his intentions to the World Prayer Network. One intention per month, throughout the year. April is the month dedicated to prayer “For a Culture of Nonviolence.” In all Catholic churches, during Masses, the following will be prayed:…

Let’s take Peace into our own hands

As a contribution to the European campaign for peace and nonviolence “Let us take peace into our own hands”, 4 international activists met in Cologne on 2nd of April  at the memorial of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Park. In a poetic way…

Learning to ask, the challenge of AI

Talking today with a grandmother who has observed education for the last 60 years, first as a pupil, then as a mother and now as a grandmother, she was telling me that what remains unchanged is the definition of a…

Let’s free nature from the domination of finance. Petition on change.org

The value of life is not money or power. The petition promoted by Elena Mazzoni is directed to Italian President Sergio Mattarella Over the past three decades, money (finance) and power (war) have increased their dominance over life, thanks in…

BRICS would create “fundamentally new” common currency, says a senior Russian official

” Neither the euro nor the dollar is backed by anything, and our countries can do what the Bretton Woods system destroyed,” the deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma said. The BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China and…

Let’s extinguish War and ignite Peace

The Chilean humanist militancy makes a common cause with the clamour of European civil society and its call for a nonviolent demonstration against war on 2 April 2023. We have been denouncing the political leadership of the first world powers…

Humanising functional rediscrimination

Most people are typical, they have a typical behaviour and some have a different behaviour which makes them atypical. Atypical because they feel, think and act differently from the majority. On the National Autism and Asperger Awareness Day, which is…

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