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SOS Humanity takes legal action against distant port policy of Italian authorities

The search and rescue organisations SOS Humanity, Mission Lifeline and Sea-Eye are taking legal action at the Civil Court in Rome against the Italian authorities’ systematic policy of assigning distant ports. The Italian authorities assigned Ravenna in northern Italy to…

Stop the war and impose peace

Reports of public debate and government acts insist on one key idea: to continue the war in Ukraine until the contenders are defeated or win. To this end, ever more powerful weapons must be sent to the war front. Amid…

Julian Assange, the elephant in the room at this year’s Journalism Festival in Perugia

The Australian journalist/editor is missing from the official program but activists will be distributing a pamphlet showing why his case touches everyone working in the media. They will also be handing out a flyer on the new Melzer book. By…

Politicians from around the world appeal to US Attorney General to drop Assange charges

On the four-year anniversary of Australian publisher Julian Assange’s remand imprisonment in London, Australian, US, UK and Brazilian politicians have appealed to the US Attorney General to drop the extradition and espionage charges against the WikiLeaks founder. An open letter…

Humanity and Hope: Desmond Tutu

Following interviews with Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva and Silo‘s speech in Punta de Vacas on May 4, 2004, we continue our series of short inspirational videos with the “message of hope for activists” launched by Desmond Tutu in Cape…

The 3rd World Forum on Human Rights ends with a declaration of support and a call for Julian Assange’s freedom

This happened during the closing of the meeting where a declaration was issued requesting the release of Australian journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the manifesto is headed by the signatures of President Alberto Fernandez and Vice President Cristina Fernandez…

Humanity and Hope: Silo

After the interviews with Vandana Shiva we continue our series of short inspirational videos on the theme of “Humanity and Hope” with an excerpt from a speech given by Silo in Punta de Vacas on May 4, 2004. Almost two…

Humanity and Hope: Vandana Shiva

Following the interview with Noam Chomsky, we continue our series of short inspirational videos on the theme of “Humanity and Hope” with an excerpt from an interview with Vandana Shiva conducted on March 8, 2021, by Pressenza’s Juana Perez, the…

Humanity and hope: Noam Chomsky

We open with an interview with Noam Chomsky by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now in 2020 a series of short videos of personalities who are different but united by a common feeling.  This project aims to offer food for thought…

Let Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Perform In Frankfurt, Germany

Petition launched by Katie Halper Link to sign the petition. We artists, musicians, writers, and other public figures and organizations are deeply disturbed by the recent efforts by German officials to discredit and silence musician Roger Waters. On February 24,…

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