Culture and Media

As brazen as the next expected act, the secretary general of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) was red-tagged in a recently aired program via Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI). Ronalyn Olea, NUJP secretary general and managing…

a photo essay by Edward M. Gerlock   There is no description but an attempt to see what participants see. There was a time when I was asked to teach at the major seminary (Maryhill) and it bothered me that…

The 24 hour Marathon for Julian Assange scheduled for 15 October is only a few days away and the response from activists, film-makers, musicians, poets, painters, journalists and political leaders is enthusiastic. A clear sign that many people around the…

Fear of the unknown is the pillar on which fanaticism is built. The enormous advances in technology have brought us good things and not so good things. The difficulty of having access to the details of the workings and intricacies…

We publish here the interview with Simón Maturana, Chilean storyteller who at 87 years old is soon to publish the novel, Promesa Bajo los Magnolios, and the book of short stories, Aventuras de Ayer, Para Nacer Hoy. Yesterday, To Be…

Melbourne SOS Stand up 4 Assange – Human Chain of Assange supporters stretching from Princes Bridge at Flinders St Station to the Arts Centre, along the Yarra River, back across Evan Walker pedestrian bridge Southbank and circling back to Princes Bridge. Julian Assange’s father and…

Some of the illustrators who have donated their works for the exhibition ‘5 out of 10,000’. “Rare diseases can be lived with and, if research helps, cured or mitigated”, this is the slogan that has prompted some thirty illustrators –…

The French choir PASàPAZ has performed in Madrid (Casa de Vacas del Retiro) and in the Toledo Park of Study and Reflection, in two concerts that have taken place on the occasion of the celebration of the Day of Nonviolence.…

Chris Hedges’ latest book, The Greatest Evil Is War, is a terrific title and even better text. It doesn’t actually argue a case for war being a greater evil than other evils, but it sure does present evidence that war…

“Apariciones” is the title of the new film by Peruvian independent filmmaker Mario Pozzi-Escot, whose narrative revolves around the figure of St. Martin de Porres confronted with a chaotic and decadent Lima, where, in order to survive, every man must…