After a childhood of war tanks, brutality and protest, Miryam Ojeda was forced to flee her homeland in her early twenties. Despite living as an exile in the UK, she campaigns for peace and justice for Colombians every day. Elle McHale In the late 1970’s the city of […]
Multiculture
The fear of the black man
Spurred by the police killings of Black people in 2016, Roberto Minervini decides to make a film about Black America. By slowly absorbing their life in New Orleans, and by formally approaching the Black Panthers he builds a picture. As a film-maker, he calls himself a ‘politically charged citizen’. […]
Immigrants and activists: their struggle is internationalist
Carlos Cruz was a very young boy when his father was threatened with death and had to leave his country for the UK. Aware that the “plundering” of the global South by Northern countries is the cause of his migration and the violence in those countries, he decided to become […]
Diversity: tolerance is not enough
They will never be equality, because all humans are different; this is an idea that is generally accepted in today’s society. Mabel Encinas However, the consequences of this diversity, are seen in different values and through a variety of actions. In other words, there are differences of perception […]
Immigrants and activists: We must not be silent
Yonatan Mosquera was an activist in his home country, Colombia, from where he fled in his early twenties. Today, whilst receiving xenophobia from British police, he campaigns for Iraq, Cuba, Palestine, the working class but mainly Colombia. And he tries to educate new and future activists. Elle McHale […]
















