The majority of those children live in Tower Hamlets, where 42% of the population survives on 10 pounds a day per person. Such poverty is adjacent to the economic prosperity of neighborhoods such as Kensington. . Olga Briasco In the United Kingdom there are 3.6 million children living in […]
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Camden: global and different
Thousands of people come along to the market in search of items that will take them away from the standard norms. And in their search, they are shrouded in Camden’s cosmopolitan countenance that defines it. Olga Briasco Different from places such as Big Ben or Buckingham Palace, Camden […]
Beatriz Angarita: “I have not been able to acquire a taste for London”
At 26 years old, she has lived half of her life outside of Colombia. With her mother she emigrated to Valencia and later on, with her partner, to London. She was born in Pereira, but only spent her childhood and part of her adolescence there. This routine was interrupted when […]
Sylvia McAdam: Canada and a devastated indigenous land
The recent passing of laws allowing exploitation of indigenous territories is causing irreparable damages to communities, communities who ask for respect for their sovereignty and their essencially life-giving natural resources. Benjamin Serra Sylvia is a direct descendant of one of the leaders who signed the Numbered Treaties between indigenous peoples […]
Cultivating + biodiversity = agricultural wealth
On the 9th of February, a talk with the thinker and philosopher Vandana Shiva and environmental activist Satish Kumar, will attempt to establish the keys to avoid large companies’ control over agricultural production on small farms in Africa. Economic growth, understood by politicians and big corporations, is limited to the […]