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Blessing or problem? How the non-relevance of Latin America has two sides

Federico Rojas de Galarreta is a 39-year-old Political Sciences teacher in Institute of International Affairs in the University of Chile speaks about social inequalities within Latin America and how the difficulty of speaking of the whole continent as one. What…

Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex (Part 1)

Out on the Town Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway introduces a foundational text…

Eco Groups launch Photo Exhibit and Zero Waste Bazaar at Eastwood City

Quezon City, Philippines – Following #PlasticFreeJuly at Uptown Mall and to demonstrate to people that a life free from unnecessary plastic and disposable material is still possible,  Plastic-Free Pilipinas (PFP) collaborators:Ecowaste Coalition, Greenpeace Philippines, No Burn Pilipinas, Mother Earth Foundation…

Crimea, the peninsula of discord

In the 1970s, long before perestroika, the Soviet dissident writer Vasily Aksyonov wrote the most famous of his novels, “The Crimean Island”. It is a historical fiction, where Crimea was transformed from a peninsula to an island. In the Russian…

The triumph of the indignados: The multiple factors behind the defeat of Apruebo in Chile

As Napoleon Bonaparte said in 1807 in the framework of the Peace of Tilsit “Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan”, so the post-election reaction after the crushing victory of the Rejectionist option needs to be removed from…

Argentina: Humanists reaffirm the need for a strong commitment to Nonviolence

In a communiqué entitled “Nonviolence, an urgent commitment”, the Humanist Movement of Cordoba welcomed the initiative of the League of Governors to “make visible the need to install Peace and Nonviolence as guiding principles of life in common in Argentinean…

9/11: Channels of Peace: Lost Sons

There are more judgments from experts and pundits than there are cable channels with the rolling witness of deception and destruction in Ukraine. On a recent broadcast, an expert in geopolitics referred to military troops under authoritarian mindset as, “used,…

Save Julian Assange, Join The Wikileaks Revolution. Event in Manchester, UK

The 24 hour marathon for Julian Assange on October 15 is approaching, and as you can see from the map on the site, initiatives are multiplying. Activists and groups of all kinds are working to organize different events according to…

Public invitation to assassinate

The context of misunderstandings in Argentinian society makes it necessary to pay close attention to hate speech in general, and particularly those that were directed specifically against the vice-president of the nation, Cristina Fernández. Many people in politics and journalism…

The Enchantment of Spelunking and Discovering Life’s Symphony in Tagbon Cave

by Genevieve Balance-Kupang Greetings of a meaningful Season of Creation 2022! This is the second series of Grupo Kalinangan Inc.’s (GKI’s) cultural mapping undertaking in Milagros. In case you missed the first article, here is the link: https://www.pressenza.com/2022/09/geo-tagging-and-cultural-mapping-scoping-and-negotiation-phase-in-guinluthangan-milagros-masbate/. “Listen to the…

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