While the movement has unleashed a tidal wave of discontent and anger throughout France, it also has the potential to re-invent French politics as a participatory process, putting ordinary citizens back in control.
Argentina is experiencing an explosion of reports of sexual violence against women and children. “Thanks to the fact that someone broke the silence, I can now talk about what happened,” said actress Thelma Fardín.
Muffling the voices of civil society rarely works over long periods of time, and the anti-Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, now penetrating the very heart of US government, is bound to eventually resurrect a nationwide conversation. Is protecting Israeli Apartheid more important to Americans than preserving the fundamental nature of their own democracy?
“Activism and imagination at Europe’s external borders is much more radical than in Western Europe,” said Dominique Willaert, artistic leader of the social-artistic movement Victoria Deluxe.
The war in Yemen is horrific and ought to be ended immediately. It makes eminent good sense to give both our hands and all the energies we can possibly summon to end the war in Yemen and vow the abolition of all war.
This year's conference in Katowice, Poland, has kicked off. Here is a look at the issues up for debate, obstacles to negotiations and where all this leaves the majority world.
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