Ocean Conservancy commits to working with GAIA Network to address damages done to impacted communities. September 14, 2022 – Today, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) in the Asia Pacific and its member organizations have concluded the first step...
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Defining Normal in Gaza
In the first week of August, Israel launched another military attack on Gaza Strip that lasted for 3 days. The attack then ended when both parties agreed on a ceasefire, and life started “going back to normal”. Nevertheless, that raises the question, what does it mean...
World Citizens and the Overview Effect
This week we release a new video of our channel “Good ideas you may not know about“: This time we tell the story of Garry Davis and his World Citizen initiative. It is a very curious story of a World War II airman who, regretting having caused the death of civilians,...
High-end ignorance
Much has been made of the story of the kick to culture that a Minister of Culture, Esperanza Aguirre, let loose in the form of a slap in the face, when, speaking on a radio programme, cultural, of course, about Saramago, she thought she was talking about a woman she...
A brief analysis of the categorical triumph of Rejection
Having believed exactly the opposite of what the election result showed, I thought that it would be the “I approve” that would be around 60%, I want to reflect on this error of assessment of the current moment. This result of the plebiscite shows me that I was not...
High-end ignorance
Much has been made of the story of the kick to culture that a Minister of Culture, Esperanza Aguirre, let loose in the form of a slap in the face, when, speaking on a radio programme, cultural, of course, about Saramago, she thought she was talking about a woman she...
A brief analysis of the categorical triumph of Rejection
Having believed exactly the opposite of what the election result showed, I thought that it would be the “I approve” that would be around 60%, I want to reflect on this error of assessment of the current moment. This result of the plebiscite shows me that I was not...
What’s needed for peace in Palestine and Lebanon?
On September 13 th , Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) hosted a webinar under the title “Palestine and Lebanon: What is to be done?”. Speakers from WILPF’s Sections in Palestine, Lebanon, Norway, and the US discussed the situation in...
The triumph of the indignados: The multiple factors behind the defeat of Apruebo in Chile
As Napoleon Bonaparte said in 1807 in the framework of the Peace of Tilsit “Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan”, so the post-election reaction after the crushing victory of the Rejectionist option needs to be removed from the dusty books of universal...
Crimea, the peninsula of discord
In the 1970s, long before perestroika, the Soviet dissident writer Vasily Aksyonov wrote the most famous of his novels, “The Crimean Island”. It is a historical fiction, where Crimea was transformed from a peninsula to an island. In the Russian civil war of the early...
Eco Groups launch Photo Exhibit and Zero Waste Bazaar at Eastwood City
Quezon City, Philippines – Following #PlasticFreeJuly at Uptown Mall and to demonstrate to people that a life free from unnecessary plastic and disposable material is still possible, Plastic-Free Pilipinas (PFP) collaborators:Ecowaste Coalition, Greenpeace...
Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex (Part 1)
Out on the Town Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex Years before the Weimar Republic’s well-chronicled freedoms, the 1904 non-fiction study Berlin’s Third Sex depicted an astonishingly diverse subculture of sexual outlaws in the German capital. James J. Conway...