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A PhD Student’s Resilience: Defying Signal Challenges for Online Learning
By Genevieve Balance Kupang Though International Women’s Month (March) has just come to a close, I would like to greet and celebrate the inspiring women who contribute, persevere, and achieve something for humanity every day! Here is to honoring and…
Chile “The working classes have dropped out”
by Franck Gaudichaud As head of state since March 2022, elected with the hope of reorienting his country on the path of progressivism, Chile’s young president Gabriel Boric (38) seems rather to have refocused his politics, unable to compete with…
EcoWaste Coalition Praises Litter-Free Shrines and Churches, Laments Littered Pilgrimage Sites
30 March 2024, Quezon City. The environmental watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition heaped praises on the laity and the clergy for keeping many religious shrines “litter-free or darn close” on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday while lamenting the unrestrained littering that…
AI Revolutionizes Research & Accreditation: IAREAD Webinar a Resounding Success
by Genevieve Balance Kupang The International Association of Research Ethics Across Disciplines, Inc. (IAREAD, Inc.) hosted an innovative webinar, “Application of AI for Research & Accreditation” on March 18th and 19th, 2024. This training workshop explored the transformative potential of…
Abolishing nuclear weapons, a brake on the climate crisis
Life on Earth faces two existential threats: the climate crisis and nuclear weapons. The two are intimately linked and mutually reinforcing, yet many are unaware of how serious the risk of nuclear war is and how abolishing nuclear weapons can…
Students Arrested at SUNY Campus During Pro-Palestine Day of Action Protest
The arrests of nine students during a March 26 protest at Stony Brook University (SBU) have prompted calls by SBU faculty for an investigation into why the arrests took place and how student dissent is policed on campus. By Susan…
Paper wet with tears: another anniversary of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty
The peace treaty was signed on 26 March 1979 by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, with the mediation of then-US president Jimmy Carter. Known at the time as the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, it was a…
A world without spirit
Many years ago, in the ruins of Sacsayhuaman in Peru’s Sacred Valley, I first encountered a way of looking at the world that I had never known before. Walking among the majestic Inca stones, a television crew from a European…
Request to Lula in defense of Indian journalist Prabir Purkayastha
Letter sent to President Lula in the second week of March, signed by representatives of the eight Brazilian organisations that created the World Social Forum in January 2001. The worldwide campaign in defence of Comrade Prabir’s freedom joins the campaign…
A massive march for memory, truth and justice, on the first 24 March of a denialist government
A crowd gathered in the Plaza de Mayo this Sunday to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, on the 48th anniversary of the coup d’état, on an unprecedented 24 March with a national government that, for…
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