Agnieszka (right) in the row of 'critics' in the foreground. Team Syntegrity 2017, Artchimboldi, Barcelona. For many years now I have been meeting activists in Poland and in Europe – people working in NGOs, social movements, informal environments and cultural institutions. Some are embedded in professional western NGOs that resemble corporations, some occupy theatres or…
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No, NFL Player Protests Are Not Harming Papa John’s Pizza
Papa John’s, a chain restaurant that makes arguably awful pizza yet still boasts over 5,000 locations worldwide, saw its stock price drop by 11% this week, wherein CEO and founder John “Papa John” Schnatter saw his net worth tumble by $70 million. (Do not weep for Schnatter; Forbes still pegs his personal balance sheet at…
The Israeli algorithm criminalizing Palestinians for online dissent
Graffiti on the separation wall in the West Bank, Palestine. Photo by Wall in Palestine. Flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.0) Some rights reserved.The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) arrest of West Bank human rights defender Issa Amro for a Facebook post last month is the latest in the the PA’s recent crackdown on online dissent among Palestinians. Yet…
The DACA Generation Has Their Stories Told In This Immigration Opera
THE GOOD NEWS: An old art form gets a new life that reflects the diversity of America today. While an elderly man rests his ailing body in bed, his son sits on a stool beside him holding a guitar in his hands. He begins to play. Above the plucked notes, the son’s voice rises, singing…
Nicaragua facing the horror of unbridled repression
Protests against state sponsored violence in Nicaragua. Source: Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved. The repression of Daniel Ortega’s government against students and the unarmed civilian population that keep on protesting in the streets has left so far more than 300 dead, and the number of wounded and missing is rising daily. The trend has not…
Seattle Mariners Catcher Details Eating Disorder In Powerful Short Documentary
Catcher Mike Marjama has been preparing for the 2018 Seattle Mariners home opener, but he also has been sharing his private struggle with an eating disorder in a new short documentary film that debuts on LeBron James’ and Maverick Carter’s “Uninterrupted.” In “Marj,” the 28-year-old Roseville, California, native walks through his journey and obsession with making it…
Mexico: great expectations
Image: Nueva Sociedad. All Rights Reserved. Five months after his overwhelming victory at the presidential elections, the "fourth transformation" announced by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is underway now that the leader from Tabasco has received the presidential sash in a ceremony carefully designed to reflect that historical moment. He presented a discourse full of…
Can A Simple Pen Help Doctors Diagnose Cancer?
Click:Journal DIY Set When cancer patients enter surgery, doctors often do not have a complete picture of where and how far tumors have spread. As a result, cancerous cells can be left behind despite surgeons’ best efforts to remove as much as they can. This leads to more surgeries, longer recovery times, and ultimately higher…
A Florida Billboard Calls The NRA A ‘Terrorist Organization’
THE GOOD NEWS: A political action committee ran by a former Bill Clinton staffer is taking the NRA to task with an aggressive billboard campaign. The Mad Dog PAC has erected a billboard in Pensacola, Florida, calling the NRA a “terrorist organization.” Claude Taylor, a former staffer in the Clinton White House, heads the committee…
Pro-Europe and anti-EU? Reviewing the far right’s view of Europe
President of Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen, and her Head of European Elections campaign Jordan Bardella, Nanterre, France, January 17, 2019. Liewig Christian/ Press Association. All rights reserved. The 2019 European elections are set to see an unprecedented number of far-right parties enter the European Parliament. These parties are for the most part rabidly anti-EU,…