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Sorsogon City, Philippines—In celebration of the National Arts Month, various teachers from Abuyog National High School, together with artists from Kurit-Lagting Art Collective and Concerned Artists of the Philippines Bicol Chapter (CAP Bicol), will be holding a film...

My Cognitive Dissonance As some of you may know, over the past year I’ve written a series of articles about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia that contain a different perspective than the one the mainstream Western media has been presenting. Although I have...

Activists working with sea-rescue charities in Italy should not be criminalized, a UN independent human rights expert said on Thursday [9 February 2023], ahead of a trial against crew members from several non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Preliminary criminal...

Antiwar and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear weapons don’t have the public’s best interest at heart. By Steve Taylor Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length. A video of...

The Middle East region has been faced with unprecedented earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria and could be felt in other parts of the region. Two shocking earthquakes hit the South of Turkey, affected Aleppo in Syria, and were followed by numerous aftershocks that...

On 3 January, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced that she had lifted the ban on political rallies imposed in 2016 by her predecessor, John Pombe Magufuli, with the main aim of cracking down on political dissent. The president’s announcement came on the...

The global chessboard of geopolitics and the interests of the world’s economic power is making us more and more prone to a world war if we do not avoid it. On such a chessboard, political leaders instead of uniting to try to establish peace between warring nations,...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022;  a violation of the UN Charter and international law that calls for immediate justice. Therefore on this anniversary, after months of shared actions for peace,  Europe for Peace calls for mobilizations in...

Machala is a coastal city in the south of Ecuador, where an unusual educational event began today: “Pedagogical Encounter on the Road to a humanising school management and pedagogical practice”. Uncommon, not only because of its title, but also because of its hopeful...

Anybody who closely follows global warming knows that the Arctic has been clobbered 2-3 times beyond the impact on the planet. And knowledgeable sources also know that what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. After all, for millennia Arctic ice...

A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years (not to go back any further and include the deaths suffered by Europe during religious wars and the deaths...

We interviewed the new Press and Cultural Attaché of the Chilean Embassy in the United States, Fernando García Naddaf, activist of Acción Humanista, teacher, Pressenza collaborator and great friend. Pressenza: Tell us Fernando about your new appointment? Fernando...