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I am here… Do you see me?
A unique experiment during the Covid crisis challenged the uncaring view of people in a situation of homelessness as scroungers and showed what can be done when people come together in a situation of trust, where their individual stories are respected. Wealthy countries have the means to solve social problems but are reluctant to fund projects that work.
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Under a blue sun: How images can hide ethnic cleansing
Lawfare and alternative facts are used to change the landscape. A Palestinian special effects man worked on his own family’s land, expropriated by the Israeli military and then rented to Hollywood film producers. Boycotts of Israeli companies need to make careful choices to avoid furthering the aims of their opponents.
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Right-wing Soldier Monika and the trans dream maiden
Many young people find right-wing politics ‘cool’ today and marginal people caught between different digital bubbles find a new obstacle to being themselves. Making a film was a way to look into the personal and political story of someone changing their gender identity. It was a ‘cinema therapy’ for Monika and had a deep impact on everyone involved.
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Lesia Diak: The pity of war
Very few people want to be documented, especially when it comes to the larger social traumas of the separation of Ukrainian soldiers from their loved ones. It is not an anti-war film, – Ukraine has no choice but to resist – but it refuses to turn away from the effects of war on families at home.
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One man against the rest: The story of Orlando Pérez
Brushes with the media elite in Latin America, a battle against a smear campaign, and a quick chat with Gabriel García Márquez at the Casa de las Américas awards in Cuba: Orlando Pérez has had a colourful career in journalism. The only reporter in Ecuador to publish all the WikiLeaks cables, he exposed powerful people who have been after him ever since.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 3 days agoFor years, they have been having to compromise their identity—choosing to either stay deeply closeted or
- 3 days agoAt 26 years old, she has lived half of her life outside of Colombia. With her mother she emigrated to
- 3 days agoFor years they have put all their efforts into supporting their family. Today, at their age, they
- 3 days agoLove and lost, spirits of the past, awakening the childhood of civilisation, cultural exchange with the
- 3 days agoSix hundred and fifty coffee producers benefit from fair trade through the Equal Exchange in Nicaragua, which
Multiculture
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Challenging homophobic interpretations of Islam
02/12/2024For years, they have been having to compromise their identity—choosing to either stay deeply closeted or cast off their [...] -
Working in London, thinking about Latin America
02/12/2024At 26 years old, she has lived half of her life outside of Colombia. With her mother she emigrated to Valencia and later on, with [...] -
Elderly migrants: when family home turns into jail
02/12/2024For years they have put all their efforts into supporting their family. Today, at their age, they don’t want public [...]
- Art and exile: Understanding differences is about peace
- Modern society and multiculturalism
- Colombian immigrant now a bastion for ethnic minorities
Latin America
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Coffee producer and women’s rights campaigner
02/12/2024Six hundred and fifty coffee producers benefit from fair trade through the Equal Exchange in Nicaragua, which has formed a group [...] -
Colombia’s new ban on child marriage welcomed
25/11/2024Colombia has become the latest country to prohibit child marriage without exceptions, after the Senate passed the legislation on [...] -
Wiwa indigenous people visit the UK
25/11/2024Members of this indigenous population will speak at the Parliament on 26 November. The event will also see the launch of [...]
- Women and abortion in El Salvador: either death or prison
- Victims of police violence and racism on the rise
- Brazil, an ageing society
Culture
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Migrant habitats
02/12/2024Migrants move, leaving behind their familiar habitat and facing the task of finding a new one. For migrants, a new home can be a [...] -
I am here… Do you see me?
02/12/2024A unique experiment during the Covid crisis challenged the uncaring view of people in a situation of homelessness as scroungers [...] -
The tiger in high heels: gender wars and political image-making
25/11/2024Following the therapeutic benefits from making the film, Monika discovers that the outside world is riddled with double [...]
- The cadence of wisdom
- Under a blue sun: How images can hide ethnic cleansing
- Dad’s Lullaby: community and consumerism
Workers
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Immigrants at sea (2): Developing internationalist trade unionism
29/01/2024It is about organising wherever there are migrant, precarious, low-paid or marginalised workers willing to unite. It is about [...] -
A decade for immigrant and vulnerable workers
22/01/2024Grassroots, independent, bilingual and defending the rights of workers in precarious employment, especially migrants and those [...] -
Immigrants at sea in a precarious labour market (1)
22/01/2024In London there are workers of more than 100 nationalities, including native Britons, in precarious conditions. Migrants are [...]
- When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
- Immigrant workers: racism and work harassment
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
United Kingdom
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Challenging homophobic interpretations of Islam
02/12/2024For years, they have been having to compromise their identity—choosing to either stay deeply closeted or cast off their [...] -
Working in London, thinking about Latin America
02/12/2024At 26 years old, she has lived half of her life outside of Colombia. With her mother she emigrated to Valencia and later on, with [...] -
Elderly migrants: when family home turns into jail
02/12/2024For years they have put all their efforts into supporting their family. Today, at their age, they don’t want public [...]
- Art and exile: Understanding differences is about peace
- Coffee producer and women’s rights campaigner
- The tiger in high heels: gender wars and political image-making
Lifestyle
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Networks of love and hate, especially hate!
26/06/2023Violence motivated by hate speech towards vulnerable groups is rampant on social media, despite the rejection of many people. A [...] -
Re-founding Honduras to re-found education
05/09/2022A United Nations study on education in Honduras, published last June, reveals that since March 2020, some 310,000 students have [...] -
Home learning: classroom revolution
09/11/2020Home learning emerged in the midst of the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that teaching could continue in the Dominican [...]
- The virus cannot kill education
- Children and the internet: what Coronavirus changed
- Latin-American youth: a life marked by violence
Strugles
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No to the economic war against Cuba
25/03/2024On 15 March 2024, supporters of RATB protested outside the offices of London resident and DCD Rights’ Head of IT Mickael Behn [...] -
Family court collusion with violent fathers
11/09/2023There are devastating impacts of family court orders on mothers and children who had fled domestic violence and/or child abuse. [...] -
Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
31/03/2023The streets of Paris have become the scene of police repression, attacks on the press and popular resistance. Reports of police [...]
- “Stronger as one”, against the climate crisis
- A crash course to conflict
- Disabled people to protest over deaths and neglect in the NHS
World
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Under a blue sun: How images can hide ethnic cleansing
25/11/2024Lawfare and alternative facts are used to change the landscape. A Palestinian special effects man worked on his own family’s [...] -
Dad’s Lullaby: community and consumerism
18/11/2024The fighting in Ukraine has greatly intensified since the film was made in 2019. Communal sharing is essential for families to [...] -
Cuba’s uncertainties in times of Trump
18/11/2024The Republican magnate’s victory has an impact on global geopolitics, all the more so as it happened after one of the most [...]
- Trump, a legitimate but immoral and xenophobic victory
- Israel and the special intent to commit genocide
- Genocide, but also a war on women
Sports
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Challenging homophobic interpretations of Islam
02/12/2024For years, they have been having to compromise their identity—choosing to either stay deeply closeted or cast off their [...] -
Working in London, thinking about Latin America
02/12/2024At 26 years old, she has lived half of her life outside of Colombia. With her mother she emigrated to Valencia and later on, with [...] -
Elderly migrants: when family home turns into jail
02/12/2024For years they have put all their efforts into supporting their family. Today, at their age, they don’t want public [...]
- Art and exile: Understanding differences is about peace
- Coffee producer and women’s rights campaigner
- Migrant habitats