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Labor Day Protest: Filipino Workers call for urgent and significant wage increase

Amid the celebration of Labor Day around the world on May 1st, Trade Unions in the Philippines took the opportunity to march to improve their working conditions and salaries. Different Labor groups affiliated with the All Philippine Trade Union including…

“AG-Yaman:” In Gratitude to the Founding Associate of GINHAWA Guru-Giya Leah Tolentino on Her 60th Birthday Part 2

by Genevieve Balance Kupang   “Teaching others is best done with subtlety, explaining in such a way  that the mind opens because the heart has understood.”  -Dadi Janki Here is the continuation of “AG-Yaman” (Thank You): Celebrating a milestone of…

Fiji hosts international conference “Celebrating the life of the Girmitiyas”.

Girmitiyas” are all people whose ancestry dates back to the Indian system of forced labour contracts (1834-1921). There are an estimated 12-15 million descendants worldwide, although there are no confirmed figures. The Indian indenture system was a system of servitude…

The Pinochet tsunami

Although in their electoral evaluations, political parties tend to ignore their defeats and always express their squeamishness about the winners, this time in Chile no one failed to appreciate the resounding triumph of the Republican Party and the right-wing as…

Tanzania: Art inspires young people to act against climate crisis

In the bustling city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a passionate group of young leaders are driving change through their innovative NGO. Their approach is simple but effective. They use the power of storytelling through animations, comics and radio stories…

New federal electricity council in Canada must advise on a fossil fuel – free grid – David Suzuki Foundation

The Canada Electricity Advisory Council launched last week is an important step toward clean electricity in Canada, but only if it can advise on how to move away from fossil fuels. The council will have a one-year mandate to offer…

Presentations of the Nonviolent Journalism Book in the U.S.

During the last few days, Pressenza presented its new book on Nonviolent Journalism in the United States. This book aims to reflect the first twelve years of collective effort run by volunteers from the fields of journalism and communication. Talk…

Unesco awards prize to imprisoned Iranian journalists

Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi and Narges Mohammadi have been awarded the Unesco/Guillermo Cano 2023 World Press Freedom Prize for their work. All three are imprisoned in their country, and World Press Freedom Day calls for their release (Unesco…

María Victoria Feres Haddad and her exhibition “UNA”.

My women are all of us… inevitably broken, broken, dismantled, recomposed, reinvented, graceful and with wings, many wings. Some are powerful, clear, strong and joyful. Others, a little sad and tired… they give their all. And in this giving their…

Veronica Lynn, Cuba’s biggest acting face

We often want to escape reality or inhabit other bodies in order to live sublime experiences, and it is towards these sensations that the performance of Cuban actress Verónica Lynn leads us when she abandons her skin to become art.…

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