On Friday, January 20, 2023, a coalition of antinuclear groups will celebrate the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW or the Ban Treaty). The Treaty that entered into force two years ago established a...
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The New York Poor People’s Campaign: Fusion Power for All People
New York is the most unequal state in the nation and yet we know our government officials – those elected by us to represent us—ignore realities most New Yorkers are experiencing. And worse yet, they try to convince us that what we are experiencing, what our...
Czech Republic, Next president to be elected by ballot
The vote count for the first ballot for the direct election of the president of the Czech Republic, the third since 2013, has just been completed. As expected, none of the candidates reached the necessary threshold of 50% of the vote to win the first round. The two...
Face 2 Face with Eduardo Gonzalez-Cueva,
On this show, we speak with Eduardo Gonzalez-Cueva, about the current political and social situation in Peru after President, Pedro Castillo, was removed from office on Dec 7, 2022. Mr. Gonzalez-Cueva is a Peruvian sociologist. Human rights consultant and professor,...
A good omen! No more tears!
In the shattered and unhinged context in which we find ourselves living, reading Alessandra Bocchetti’s latest book Basta lacrime (VandA. editions, 2022) offers women and men, girls and boys-interested in reading the lesser-known side of the origins of the ongoing...
Nonviolence shines brightly in memory of Martin Luther King
History is not made by one man or one woman. But there are people whose determination accelerates its progress. On 15 January 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born into a Baptist family. Inspired by the example of Mahatma Gandhi and the ideas of civil disobedience of...
Political party business in the decline of “representative” Democracy
LATIN AMERICA SUSTAINING A DEMOCRACY WITHOUT A FIX From the premise of dreaming of a Latin America far removed from amateurism where solid leadership reigns, the Latin American and Caribbean region idealises, from civil society, a concrete direction that distances...
Anti-militarist activism Wednesday in the USA
On the eleventh anniversary of the reopening of the illegal prison and torture centre at Guantánamo Bay, a demonstration in Washington D.C. on Wednesday demanded that US President Joe Biden close the naval base on Cuban soil. Demonstrators outside the White House wore...
The ” Black Carnation”, a hero who saved thousands of lives during the Dictatorship
In times of the Chilean dictatorship, as in Nazi Germany, there were murders, tortures, betrayals, cowardice and all the evil one can imagine. But there was also solidarity, fraternity and extreme heroism. Perhaps it is always in times of catastrophe that these two...
Gabriela Mistral: ahead of her time
Last January 10th marked the 65th anniversary of Gabriela Mistral’s death. A person ahead of her time, her legacy remains fully valid today, even when the world has changed significantly. In addition to being an extraordinary poet who received the Nobel Prize for...
Ten years after the departure of Aaron Swartz, a great fighter for free knowledge
This January 13 marks the tenth anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s physical departure. A day that has been instituted in his honor as “Cyberactivism Day”. Wikipedia – another magnificent undertaking of free access to collective knowledge – informs us that Aaron, nicknamed...
The “Way in the Way” on its way to the Third World March
January 5, 2023. It was a wonderful morning of dialogue, reflection, confrontation in diversity and walking together to defend Peace and the beauty of Creation by walking some of the stages of the “Monks’ Way,” which from the center of Milan leads to the Via...