_Section
Financial institutions drop the bomb from their investment portfolio
53 financial institutions prohibit or limit investments in nuclear weapon producers, shows Don’t Bank on the Bomb, a report published today by Dutch peace organization PAX. This is a 150% increase compared to last year’s report. The increase illustrates the…
Local languages vital for China’s resilience
HK Magazine reporter Adrienne Chum penned an article titled: So You Think You Know Cantonese? in the October 14 issue this year, which tells of translator and etymologist Dr. Chapman Chen’s book, A Comprehensive Dictionary of Orthodox Cantonese Characters and Phrases.…
Run This Way: students run 4,000 km for refugee protection
Canada will take 25,000 Syrian refugees In recent months, International Humanist Network members were shocked by the scale of the refugee crisis and by the slow answer of governments to provide assistance to refugees. According to the UNHCR (UN Refugee…
The manipulation of public opinion and the whitewashing of Golden Dawn in Greece
The trial of Golden Dawn (GD) continues with revelations that should: a) make institutions such as the Greek Police provide a series of explanations; b) make the political elite condemn fascism and Nazism every 10 minutes; and c) make the…
Spanish Government challenges Catalonia’s independence
Madrid, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) The Spanish government has lodged today an appeal to the Constitutional Court against Catalonia’s parliament separatism resolution, which seeks to declare a Catalonian Republic by 2017. The document to break away from Spain was approved…
Portugal rejoices as anti-austerity left coalition forms to oust right wing
Socialists, Communists, and Left Bloc unite in ‘unprecedented’ coalition to end years of punishing cuts by Lauren McCauley, staff writer for Common Dreams In a surprising development for Europe’s anti-austerity movement, Portugal’s three reigning leftist parties on Tuesday formed an…
Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime – The Economist
The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival, writes Dr. Cesar Chelala. A grave crime under…
Re-imagine Democracy – Towards a Citizen’s Convention on the Constitution
Jointly called by Assemblies for Democracy and Occupy Democracy at the Runnymede Festival for Democracy on the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. Saturday, 14 November 2015 from 10:45 to 16:30 Waterloo Action Centre Baylis Road, SE1 7AA with John…
Case report: a debilitating case of austeritis in a 67 year-old institution
By Ben Bouquet 28 October 2015, for OpenDemocracy: Our NHS [UK’s National Health Service] The NHS is under attack from its own malfunctioning defence systems misguided by ideological pathogens. We need to change the treatment. I would like to bring…
Myanmar’s opposition NLD confident of victory
The National League for Democracy’s hopes of a decisive victory look to be coming true and increases its hopes of sweeping the party into power, ending decades of military dominance, as Myanmar’s election commission continues to release results coming in…
Book catalogue
Training in Nonviolent Journalism
Documentary Catalogue
Every Sunday
