Liverpool protest (Photo: Right to Remain) Last Tuesday, during Refugee Week, the annual UK-wide event which celebrates the stories and resilience of refugees, some 500 Eritreans from across the UK assembled in the dock city of Liverpool to demand justice, freedom and sanctuary. Eritreans currently make up the single largest nationality of people seeking asylum…
It should go without saying that you don’t mess with a 79-year-old grandma. That’s just not cool But in the case of Elsie Hay Cook, you could also be setting yourself up for some serious clap back. The retired schoolteacher from Texas has been knitting “pussy hats” for protesters heading to Washington, DC for Donald…
Refugees in Omonia Square. Chris Jones & Sofiane Ait Chalalet. All Rights Reserved.Bilal is in his mid thirties. He is a refugee from a village close to Hebron in the West Bank. When we met him he had been in Greece for 3 weeks and in Athens for a few days. We met in Omonia…
1953, when Eisenhower and Nixon supported Iran's first nuclear reactor. Wikicommons/Abbie Rowe. Some rights reserved.US President Eisenhower was carried away by the prospect of the widespread international use of peaceful nuclear energy and, in December 1953, proclaimed an international programme called Atoms for Peace with two major declared objectives: encouraging as many countries as possible…
The International Olympic Committee has expanded the power of World Anti-Doping Agency, making it a central authority in the “fight against cheating.” WADA defines doping as the use of prohibited substances and methods designed to enhance athletic performance. But are prohibited substances defined only by their chemical makeup? Not according to West African athletes, many of whom…
The Russian state has tightened its grip on contemporary arts and culture in recent years – most notably via the June 2013 law that criminalises acts which ‘offend’ Orthodox believers. The hooliganism charges and subsequent court case brought against Pussy Riot in August 2013 exposed the extent of state intervention even further. Last month, a…
Oh boy. What are racists going to do with their future money? First, there was the historically awesome news that Harriett Tubman would be replacing Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill. I suppose then at least the conspiratorial gold standard folks could at least pin their hopes on some old fashioned golden…
It’s a sunny winter morning when I meet with Ben Gucciardi outside the Soccer Without Borders office at Oakland International High School, in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. The school is decorated with colorful murals, and the courtyards feature flowering fruit trees. It’s the time of rebirth, with spring just around the corner. And somehow, that seems like the…
Blood-red: the material network that is IS is not best understood by parsing its religious discourse. Flickr / Karl-Ludwig Poggemann. Some rights reserved. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Yet it is not so much history that repeats itself this time around, as Karl Marx wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of…
Photo by Aitor Sáez. All rights reserved. This article was originally published for ¡PACIFISTA! Colombia’s Tumaco region has the country’s highest number of coca plantations: 16,920 hectares according to official figures. But according to Rear Admiral Carlos Serrano, commander of the Fuerza de Tarea Poseidón (a drug-trafficking task force), the number of hectares could reach…