Nos lo venden como dinamización cultural, pero el BBK Live es mucho más que música: subvenciones públicas para una empresa privada, precariedad laboral sistemática, blanqueo institucional y hegemonía cultural del capital. Bajo los focos del festival se esconde el...
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Kneecap y Bob Vylan logran lo que el punk no pudo: aterrorizar a los medios británicos
Hasta ahora, que unos veinteañeros punkis dijeran un puñado de tacos se consideraba un escándalo, pero no un motivo para cambiar todo el modus operandi de una de las cadenas de televisión más importantes y prestigiosas del mundo.Temas: Radical Magazine, Opinión,...
Telling our own stories: An interview with Jen Deerinwater
Empowerment comes from fighting marginalisation and discrimination on multiple fronts, says Jen Deerinwater The post Telling our own stories: An interview with Jen Deerinwater appeared first on Red Pepper.
Does Bukele the Strongman Show Weakness When Imprisoning Critics?
Photograph Source: Casa Presidencial – CC0 – Public Domain Despite President Nayib Bukele’s persistent hype, it’s a dangerous time in El Salvador. The significant democratic spaces carved out by the Chapultepec Peace Accords of 1992 continue to diminish, as Bukele’s...
Social Medicine and Genocide / La Medicina Social y el Genocidio
Shortly after the right-wing, ethnosupremacist government in power in Israel initiated its genocidal assault on Palestinian people of Gaza, Social Medicine/Medicina Social registered its opposition. The November 2023 issue of Social Medicine/Medicina Social included...
Proxy War: US Regime Change in the Russian Federation
Stepan Bandera torchlight procession 2020, Kyiv. Photograph Source: A1 – Public Domain – CC0 In previous essays in the real free press (the US mainstream media is currently ranked 57th in press freedom by Reporters Without Borders), I discussed the sabotage operations...
Britain Quits the ‘Free World’
Photo by Avery Evans Cambridge, UK— The United Kingdom just leapfrogged the US to become the leading country in the so-called “Free World” to abandon its much-touted tradition of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, along with the right to protest. The move to...
The Fanatic’s Gaze: Louis Theroux and the West Bank Settlers
Photograph Source: Claire Boxall – Public Domain He has made it his bread and butter for years: finding society’s kooky representatives, the marginal, the crazed and the touched. But what makes Louis Theroux’s The Settlers troubling is its examination of a seemingly...
The Criminalization and Resistance of Brown People in El Norte
Photograph Source: Becker1999 – CC BY 2.0 As a U.S.-born citizen of Mexican origin, as the saying goes, I constantly feel like a “foreigner in my own land.” During these dark times, when brown people—my people—are being targeted, kidnapped and imprisoned by ICE...
Coroner finds Zachary Rolfe, who killed Kumanjayi Walker, racist
A coroner has found Zachary Rolfe, who shot Kumanjayi Walker three times but was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter three years ago, was racist and made 32 recommendations. Kerry Smith reports.
L’Ucraina cerca nuovi soldati nelle carceri
Per trovare persone da arruolare nelle sue unità d’assalto, decimate da tre anni di guerra, l’esercito ucraino sta reclutando i detenuti nelle prigioni del paese. Il video. Leggi
Independent Political Action Under Trump
Image by Manny Becerra. A far-right President was elected in 2024 despite a strong majority of Americans supporting progressive economic and social policies. How can we begin to cohere this progressive majority into a winning political force under the Trump...