Interception of migrants on the Moroccan/Spain border. (Photo: Beating Borders, 2014)"We are in Morocco Here, many Blacks have lost their lives Here, it's Boukhalef The Moroccans call us azzia They talk about us to scare their children And when they see us they flee Oh oh, it hurts us". Written by the Senegalese musician and…
“When I heard I was coming to Hungary again, I was afraid,” says Yusra Mardini. The 19-year-old Syrian refugee spent time living on the streets of Budapest two summers ago en route to Germany as she fled the war in her homeland. Her experience was so terrible that she never wanted to return. But her swimming…
Nariman El-Mofty AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Edward Said dedicated his career to the theorising of Orientalism and to proving a point: the grouping of everyone non-European into the devalued category of the ‘orient’ was simultaneously a cause and an effect of European aspirations to develop themselves as sole representatives of humanity. The question that arises…
Hospital in Cienfuegos, Cuba. AP Photo/Franklin Reyes. All rights reserved. In recent decades, progress in Latin American societies has been shifting the focus of public debate from the fight against authoritarian regimes, the lack of freedom and crises related to extreme poverty, exploitation and underdevelopment, towards the consolidation of democratic transitions, the conquest and defense…
Among the passengers crammed into the rattling white van traversing Lebanon’s northern edge were a pair of young Syrian refugees. As the van slowed to a stop at the first of several Army checkpoints along the route, the Syrians tensed, waiting to see if the soldier on duty would wave them through, as he had…
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. #YoSoy132 Aguascalientes, 7 July 2012. Photo courtesy of the author.Today we cannot imagine the world without the internet. 23 years ago we could not imagine a world with it, nor the social movements and rural indigenous movements…
Disney World may be an American institution, but with one-day adult tickets costing on average between $105 and $201 (depending on ticket and time of year), millions of American families are simply priced out of making the trip. However, one ingenious father didn’t let cost considerations keep his 2-year-old daughter from getting the theme park experience from…
Mikhail Gorbachev takes part on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, November 2014. Bernd von Jutrczenka/ Press Agency.All rights reserved.The year 2016 saw a string of shock political events, from the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency…
Last year millennials finally surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation in America. Now, as Generation Y ages, they’ve become more than one-third of the U.S. workforce. Soon they’ll be the bosses instead of the worker bees. However, when that day does occur, a new report says that millennial women don’t merely want leadership roles in a company, they…
Photographs of the victims are displayed at the Kafr Qassem Massacre Museum. Dylan Collins. All rights reserved.If your Palestinian neighbors and friends seem slightly on edge, please excuse them. The 29th of October brings back horrific memories to Palestinians everywhere, young and old. It was 60 years ago that a scene of cold-blooded murder fell…