A political refugee from Colombia, who lives and works in London, has a physical disability that is forcing him on a wheelchair, and his depressed immunity system is forcing him to follow an even stricter security protocol during this current pandemic. Nathan Raia While I sit at my […]
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The Covid condition
I have a sore throat. I want to cough, but coughing could mean I have the virus. So, superstitiously, I stop myself. I figure that, if I really had it, then I wouldn’t be able to hold back. Steve Latham This is the crazy condition we’re in. Thinkers used […]
Ana’s experience as a volunteer teacher
Ana Paula Pinto, 55, is a Portuguese education volunteer, born in Mozambique. Paula first volunteered 20 years ago, and last year lent her expertise to the Student Participation Initiative project in Myanmar, where she was one of two international volunteers, working alongside two national and twenty-nine youth volunteers. […]
Time for cacerolazos against Trump
This unstable fool of a president has drawn headlines more and more for his attacks on the press and recently on the World Health Organisation (WHO), but now he has actually stopped the US contribution for a 60-90-day review period. Graham Douglas And in the same article it […]
Disinformation and lies escalate fear in Bolivia
The information that characterises the official Bolivian discourse is contradictory, false, perhaps hidden, even in the context of Covid-19, to the point of becoming an infodemic. Claudia Espinoza This deepens the anguish of a society in a permanent state of “emergency” since the coup d’état carried out on […]