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On Saturday, February 10, at 1pm solidarity demonstration with refuser Tal Mitnick outside military prison

Mesarvot Network and Yesh Gvul will hold a solidarity demonstration with Israeli conscientious objector Tal Mitnick, who has spent more than 40 days in military prison for refusing to enlist in the Israeli army and take part in the war…

Berlin’s favorite demo for more humanity and tolerance starts for the 8th time

With lots of music and interesting actors, Zug der Liebe e.V. (Train of Love, registered association) will start a large-scale demonstration march through the city of Berlin on August 26 at 1 p.m. at Mauerpark. The motto: More love for…

Ukrainian pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko sentenced to house arrest until October 11 from 10pm to 6am the next day

August 15 [2023], a judge in Kiev found Yurii Sheliazhenko “guilty” of having fought against the war and sentenced him. Yurii Sheliazhenko is a Gandhian pacifist and university researcher. For a year he had been spied on by the Ukrainian…

Solidarity in action: Patricia Non and the Community Pantry movement in the Philippines

Amidst the grim state of the pandemic in the Philippines last April 2021 came a ray of shining light in the form of Ana Patricia Non who started one of the most powerful movements of volunteerism in the country. At…

The traces of memory

By Hugo Behm Rosas* FRATERNITY IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF THE DICTATORSHIP From the foreword by Miguel Lawner: This is a song of fraternity over hatred. There are not many books written about the experiences suffered by tens of thousands…

Human Rights Expert Urges Italy to Stop Criminalizing Activists Saving Migrant Lives at Sea

Activists working with sea-rescue charities in Italy should not be criminalized, a UN independent human rights expert said on Thursday [9 February 2023], ahead of a trial against crew members from several non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Preliminary criminal proceedings opened last…

Workers in the UK take to the streets in largest day of industrial action in a decade

On the 1st of February 2023, the UK came the closest it has come in a generation to a general strike as workers from across a wide range of sectors including education and transport walked out in protest regarding poor…

Africa, a history to rediscover. 20 – What if Ubuntu saved humanity?

According to ancient Kamite (African) philosophies, man must by his actions maintain the balance of the cosmos in all senses. This balance is observed in nature, in the sky, but especially in the body in its astral, mental and physical…

Spiderman 3.0 and the new sensibility to our changing time !

The Z factor! I was pleasantly surprised by the last Spiderman movie, “No way Home”. In general, Marvel movies are filled with scenes of violence where evil and good struggle endlessly. The narrative is always almost the same, the heroes…

Jeremy Corbyn: “We must learn the lessons of a two-decade war in Afghanistan”

In his Facebook page Jeremy Corbyn expresses solidarity with the Afghan people and calls for a quick response to the refugee emergency in the region. “All our thoughts today should be with the Afghan people who have endured decades of…

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