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Singer-songwriter/Producer Chris Wells: Planting Peace and Opening a Heart that’s Peaceful, Fearless and Free

Meet Chris Wells…a songwriter, actor, teacher, and Siloist based in New York City. Since the early 90s, he has been part of the Humanist Movement, an all-volunteer international movement launched by Silo, working for deep social and personal change through…

A Celebration of Art and Advocacy: Sorsogon City Gears Up for Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photo Walk 2024

Sorsogon City, Philippines—Scott Kelby announces the official date of his Annual Worldwide Photo Walk, the world’s largest Photo Walk, set to take place on October 5, 2024, in thousands of cities across the globe. In Sorsogon City, the Kurit-Lagting Art…

PEC Appreciates Prof Yunus for Reflecting on a Media Commission

Geneva: After putting numerous troubles for professional media persons in Bangladesh with brutal laws in the background of relentless socio-political turmoil in the last few decades, the current interim government in Dhaka, headed by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, starts…

Update about Julian Assange and our campaign for his pardon

The article highlights the need for a pardon to unwind the dangerous precedent set by Julian’s conviction and enable him to move forward with his life. “To gain his freedom back, he had to agree to become a convicted criminal.…

Culture as a weapon of peace

In the current context marked by senseless wars that inflict suffering and destruction on innocent populations, the need to break the silence through art has emerged. This need gave rise to the idea of a musical documentary that chronicles the…

Captured Catastrophe: Preserving Hiroshima’s Atomic Bomb Visual Legacy

The Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing consists of 1,532 photographs and two films recorded in Hiroshima between August 6 and the end of December 1945 by citizens directly affected by the atomic bombing, as well as by photographers from…

Crossover

  On wordless wings, she soars, she flies. Bold and loud, vibrant with life. A phoenix from fire, she alights. She carries bright dreams and hopes.   To the east, she hovers, she looks and lingers. Over temples and mosques,…

Harris OR Trump? Report from Mexico & Scotland

BCR podcast traveled to Mexico and Scotland in August and asked what citizens of the world were feeling about the U.S. Presidential election. Nearly everyone I met was aware of the election and had significant and personal feelings about “Americans”…

Pakistan Loses 10th Journalist to Assailants This Year, PEC Expresses Serious Concern

Geneva: Pakistan has slowly turned into a graveyard of working journalists as the South Asian nation loses another journalist, the tenth victim this year to date, to assailants. Local media reports confirm that senior journalist Nisar Lehri was shot dead…

Holding the Press and White House Accountable: Solomon’s Afterword on the Gaza War

In Norman Solomon’s new Afterword in the paperback edition of his book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, the author excoriates the White House for arming a genocide with assistance from a negligent…

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