On September 1st, Tsuru for Solidarity organized the first-ever Liberation Obon outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington. (Obon is a Japanese Buddhist festival to welcome back the spirits of our Ancestors each summer season who return to…

Commemorating the Monsoon Revolution by the students who deposed Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina, the Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus made a scornful remark. He told Delhi to shut Hasina’s mouth while living in exile in India. In an interview with…

The president drew criticism for rejecting the candidate put up by the left-of-center coalition that won the most seats in parliamentary elections. By Edward Carver French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday named the right-wing politician Michel Barnier as prime minister, prompting outrage…

BCR podcast traveled to Mexico and Scotland in August and asked what citizens of the world were feeling about the U.S. Presidential election. Nearly everyone I met was aware of the election and had significant and personal feelings about “Americans”…

Columbia University law professor Katherine Franke last appeared on Democracy Now! in January to discuss an attack on Columbia’s campus targeting pro-Palestinian student activists with a foul-smelling liquid that led to multiple hospitalizations. Following her interview, Franke now faces termination after two…

At the initiative of the Parc La Belle Idée Commission (France, Paris region), twenty-five people, all members of the commissions of European Parks for Study and Reflection, met at Bassevelle from August 30 to September 01. These Parks of Study…

The Associated Press reports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to actually aim their weapons and fire at Russian soldiers. By Nicolas J. S Davies “Some people don’t want to…

The Berlin couple-dancing scene is an integral part of Berlin’s nightlife. Thursdays and Sundays at Berlin’s Soda Club (located at Kulturbrauerei), where you can dance pairwise on 5 different floors (Kizomba, Salsa Cubana, Mambo, Bachata, Zouk), are quite simply an…

Geneva: Pakistan has slowly turned into a graveyard of working journalists as the South Asian nation loses another journalist, the tenth victim this year to date, to assailants. Local media reports confirm that senior journalist Nisar Lehri was shot dead…

by Geri Matthew “Choi” Carretero  Bukidnon, Philippines — The Subnational Close-Out event for the Sexual Health and Empowerment (SHE) project was held on September 3, 2024, at the Kekehyu Business Hotel in Valencia City, Bukidnon. This event, titled “Pasidungog 2024,”…