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Demonisation and vilification of immigrants by the media
Brendan Montague is a second-generation immigrant whose family is from Ireland. He is the editor of The Ecologist. He spoke to The Prisma about how his working-class Irish background has informed his 30-year career as a journalist and how the media comes into direct and indirect contact with immigrant communities in the UK. Series “Journalists and migrants in the UK.
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Israel’s war on Palestine: Special Edition
In times of war and genocide, post-truth is imposed. Politicians, governments and mass media make it their main weapon. But the independent media goes against the tide, shows the facts and questions them. In this Special Edition on Palestine, The Prisma publishes the work of a number of independent media, mostly members of the Independent Media Association (IMA) who have covered the issue. We must not stop talking about Palestine.
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I don’t enjoy being here… trust me
A social stigma persists which views people in a situation of homelessness as social parasites or hopeless victims of addiction. Recognizing the human potential of marginalized people instead of seeing them as a criminal problem has been shown to be effective. But European decision-makers refuse to implement it.
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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.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
- 4 days agoThe UK premiere of an award-winning documentary is coming to London at the end of January. “Children of
- 4 days agoFor 25 years, La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival has connected London to the vibrant rhythms and
- 4 days agoWhen the First World War’s victorious powers divided up the Middle Eastern region and the plunder from the
- 4 days agoAbused and almost killed in Latin America by her ex-partner, she fled to Spain where she encountered racism.
- 4 days agoMultiple risks contribute to this: food insecurity, climate change, inequality, growing inequality, pandemics
Multiculture
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Gunshots that echo after the peace agreement
20/01/2025The UK premiere of an award-winning documentary is coming to London at the end of January. “Children of the Revolution” (Hijxs [...] -
Celebrating multicultural London through Latin music
20/01/2025For 25 years, La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival has connected London to the vibrant rhythms and stories of Latin America. [...] -
Palestine ground down: a story of ambition, betrayal and plunder
20/01/2025When the First World War’s victorious powers divided up the Middle Eastern region and the plunder from the Ottoman colonies, it led [...]
- Story of an immigrant abused and almost killed
- More poverty and conflict in the world’s future landscape
- Putting eurocentrism in the dustbin
World
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Palestine ground down: a story of ambition, betrayal and plunder
20/01/2025When the First World War’s victorious powers divided up the Middle Eastern region and the plunder from the Ottoman colonies, it [...] -
More poverty and conflict in the world’s future landscape
20/01/2025Multiple risks contribute to this: food insecurity, climate change, inequality, growing inequality, pandemics and other factors. [...] -
Why LGBTQIA+ people should support Queer Palestinians
23/12/2024I am a Queer Muslim, and it’s now been a year since I was attacked by a group of far-right thugs on Armistice Day 2023. [...]
- Parallels between the imprisonment of Gazans and Guantánamo
- If Palestine had been occupied by Russia
- From revolution to reconstruction: What lies ahead for Syria?
Culture
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Gunshots that echo after the peace agreement
20/01/2025The UK premiere of an award-winning documentary is coming to London at the end of January. “Children of the Revolution” [...] -
Celebrating multicultural London through Latin music
20/01/2025For 25 years, La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival has connected London to the vibrant rhythms and stories of Latin [...] -
Putting eurocentrism in the dustbin
20/01/2025The 1988 film, “They live”, tells the story of John Nada (read his name in Spanish) who finds a box full of sunglasses. [...]
- Seven reparations, one reckoning: Farah Saleh’s embodied call for justice in Palestine
- Naila and the uprising
- Unholy hell
Strugles
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Students arrested after pro-Palestine occupation at Attenborough Tower
23/12/2024The occupation followed a similar protest at the university’s engineering building the week before. Rhys Everquill / [...] -
In search of people and place
23/12/2024“I just want the Palestinian and Israeli people to live in peace.” Simon Collings from Renton grew up in the Vale, however [...] -
“Western journalists are cowards”: The Western abandonment of Palestine
23/12/2024Give Over hosted a panel discussion in London about Palestinian journalists left to die in the dark. Maryam Jameela /Now [...]
- No to the economic war against Cuba
- Family court collusion with violent fathers
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
Latin America
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The battle against insecurity is showing results in Mexico
20/01/2025Resolving insecurity takes time, and this is what is happening in the Central American country where the appropriate course is [...] -
Colombia succeeds in getting Cuba removed from terrorist list
20/01/2025Cuba’s exclusion from the list of countries alleged to be sponsors of terrorism is now seen in Colombia as a victory of its [...] -
Fear, hope and caution among the people of Syria
16/12/2024President Bashar Al-Assad overthrown, Syria now faces the challenge of forming a government of national unity to heal the wounds [...]
- A most controversial first year for Milei
- The UK and Colombia: dignity and the principle of reciprocity
- Protests because Bukele asked to restart mining
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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Gunshots that echo after the peace agreement
20/01/2025The UK premiere of an award-winning documentary is coming to London at the end of January. “Children of the Revolution” [...] -
Celebrating multicultural London through Latin music
20/01/2025For 25 years, La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival has connected London to the vibrant rhythms and stories of Latin [...] -
Palestine ground down: a story of ambition, betrayal and plunder
20/01/2025When the First World War’s victorious powers divided up the Middle Eastern region and the plunder from the Ottoman colonies, it [...]
- Story of an immigrant abused and almost killed
- More poverty and conflict in the world’s future landscape
- This is who we are: Welcome to Palestine
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
Sports
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Gunshots that echo after the peace agreement
20/01/2025The UK premiere of an award-winning documentary is coming to London at the end of January. “Children of the Revolution” [...] -
Celebrating multicultural London through Latin music
20/01/2025For 25 years, La Linea – The London Latin Music Festival has connected London to the vibrant rhythms and stories of Latin [...] -
Palestine ground down: a story of ambition, betrayal and plunder
20/01/2025When the First World War’s victorious powers divided up the Middle Eastern region and the plunder from the Ottoman colonies, it [...]
- Story of an immigrant abused and almost killed
- More poverty and conflict in the world’s future landscape
- Putting eurocentrism in the dustbin