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History is not made by one man or one woman. But there are people whose determination accelerates its progress. On 15 January 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born into a Baptist family. Inspired by the example of Mahatma Gandhi…

In the shattered and unhinged context in which we find ourselves living, reading Alessandra Bocchetti’s latest book Basta lacrime (VandA. editions, 2022) offers women and men, girls and boys-interested in reading the lesser-known side of the origins of the ongoing…

Efforts by governments and cities across the nation to defund the public library indicate a misunderstanding of the essential role that libraries play. By April M. Short The public sector in the U.S. has been shrinking rapidly since the 1990s…

January 5, 2023. It was a wonderful morning of dialogue, reflection, confrontation in diversity and walking together to defend Peace and the beauty of Creation by walking some of the stages of the “Monks’ Way,” which from the center of…

This January 13 marks the tenth anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s physical departure. A day that has been instituted in his honor as “Cyberactivism Day”. Wikipedia – another magnificent undertaking of free access to collective knowledge – informs us that Aaron,…

Last January 10th marked the 65th anniversary of Gabriela Mistral’s death. A person ahead of her time, her legacy remains fully valid today, even when the world has changed significantly. In addition to being an extraordinary poet who received the…

In times of the Chilean dictatorship, as in Nazi Germany, there were murders, tortures, betrayals, cowardice and all the evil one can imagine. But there was also solidarity, fraternity and extreme heroism. Perhaps it is always in times of catastrophe…

On the eleventh anniversary of the reopening of the illegal prison and torture centre at Guantánamo Bay, a demonstration in Washington D.C. on Wednesday demanded that US President Joe Biden close the naval base on Cuban soil. Demonstrators outside the…

The cholera case reported by the district hospital in Malawi’s southern region on 3 March 2022 was the first of the 2021-2022 season, and a warning of what was to come: the worst cholera outbreak recorded in the African country…

All the key players in the current conflict spent years kidding themselves, and peace will only come when they accept reality By Sergey Poletaev The Russian military offensive in Ukraine has set in motion a chain of events that has…