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Category Archives: Politics & Human Rights
Panic On The Streets of London
I see plumes of smoke rising from the distance as I stand on the balcony of my father’s apartment, located about ten minutes away by foot from Wood Green, the site where it all started four nights ago. London, this great burgeoning metropolis, this once shining beacon of world leadership, is in flames, and things [...]
A bridge of solidarity
By Katalina Präkelt
"We Build a Bridge of Solidarity" Photo by Tim Strasser
The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have not only shaken the Arab countries in North Africa, they have had an impact on the entire world – and they have surely ignited some action in Maastricht. On the theme ‘a bridge of solidarity‘, more [...]
Calcutta/Kolkata – A Personal Memoir
A typical afternoon scene for the old Calcutta
In the last week of December 2009, just as the whole of Europe froze over, like a migratory bird I headed out to warmer climes. Yet my destination, tropical as it is by location, was Calcutta (known officially now as Kolkata, a ‘reclaiming’ of pre-colonial city names), not [...]
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Tagged India, Photojournalism
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Activist Art Does Not Have a Home
Spending a four month, -30 degree winter with the street as a home is not something everyone can handle easily. After a couple of hours on the square Emilie Gamelin in central Montreal last November, for the event État d’urgence, my body was begging for warmth, although the thermometer only sank till -10. For four [...]
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Tagged Activism, Arts & Culture, North America
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Cracking down on kraakers – the end of Dutch squatting as we know it
I come from a city where culture and entertainment belong to those with a thick wallet. For the others, Milan has not much to offer, which pushes to seek for alternatives. The centri sociali, social centers, are the places where music, art, food and politics are collective and cheap if not free, mushrooms of resistance sprouting [...]
Tear Down the Walls
The issue of ‘migration’, in particular ‘immigration’ has been much at the forefront of European political polemic in recent years, attracting strong opinions on either side of the debate. Among the political discourse, particularly since the recent economic downturn, there has been a strong anti-immigration argument. Not here. When it comes to taking a stance [...]
Immigrants locked up and assaulted – how the UK becomes a cage
An insight into the UK’s discriminating immigration policies and its escalation
by Sara Heinrich
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Twenty years after people all over Europe went on the streets to demonstrate for their human right of freedom of movement and freedom to travel, the EU celebrates open borders for unlimited movement and freedom to travel for every EU-citizen. This much [...]
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Tagged Fortress Europe, Immigration, Politics & Human Rights
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Political crowdsourcing – let the masses fix global warming!
Copenhagen Accord to Jump on the Bandwagon of Irresponsibility
Putting nearly two-hundred negotiators at a table is unlikely to produce agreements that live up to everyone’s expectations. Accordingly, either bargains end in a clearer and stronger deal under the leadership of some actors, which however might not be supported and in the case of a treaty or declaration, not signed by others. Or negotiators [...]
Politics & Human Rights Workshop – Fostering Disintegration?
Fostering Disintegration?
“I am not a cultural relativist, in the sense that I believe that our culture is better than a retarded muslim culture”.
Embedded in this statement by Geert Wilders, we find a tendency towards radicalization of the political discourse in Netherlands. A general turn towards a right-wing, conservative political discourse has occurred [...]
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Tagged Launch Event, Politics & Human Rights
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