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January 2022

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"Peace does not just mean to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice."

Interview with

Tawakkol Karman

2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and

human rights activist.

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Ways to support women and girls in Afghanistan

What has unfolded in Afghanistan is heartbreaking.

Women and young girls are especially vulnerable during this current urgent moment.

If you’re looking for ways to help, here are some organizations doing important and vital work in Afghanistan. We hope you’ll show your support however you can.

"If not us, who? If not now, when?"

John F. Kennedy

The Beauty and Power of Art

Saving Lives

Take Action has initiated an art auction to fight hunger in unison with the prominent

Tajan Auction House in Paris, hosting the event.

The 2022 Autumn auction will have a collection of art pieces donated by students, emerging talent and renowned artists. Funds raised through the auction will be donated to the

World Food Programme.

The World Food Programme is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations. It is the world's largest humanitarian organization, the largest one focused on hunger and food security, and the largest provider of school meals.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict."

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Where's the Love - Blacked Eyed Peas

The Cannabis

Referendum in Italy

by Tancredi Simone Teresi

One of the members of the city council of Palermo, Fabio Teresi, Presidente di circoscrizione di Palermo, Sicily , has met with Tancredi Simone Teresi, PPE student at the University of York to discuss in an interview, the impacts of the cannabis referendum on the city of Palermo and its possible consequences on the Mafia. Read more

None Dare Call It ''Fascism.'' WhyNot?

by Mark Green

While Republicans routinely call Democrats “Marxists,” it’s been taboo for Democrats and the American mainstream media to brand Trump and his followers “fascists.” Read more

How Democracies Die

by Stealth

by Matt Qvortrup, DPhil (Oxon)

A demagogue according to the trusted American dictionary

Merriam-Webster, is someone who makes“use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power”. The American politician who egged on the mob to storm the US Congress was a demagogue. That is not opinion. That is fact!

Politics

Mória: the ongoing crisis

by Maria Kounelaki

Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Politics

Armed drones and the right to life

by Nadia Bamoshmoosh

Politics

The Missing

by Ram Kumar Bhandari

Politics

Journalism in Crisis

by Dr. Nadia Al-Sakkaf

Politics, Economy

Unsustainable Inequality

by Sebastiano Nerozz

Martin Luther King Jr.: His life in pictures

A Baptist minister, King led the civil rights movement by peacefully pursuing a vision of racial justice. He was assassinated in 1968.

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to an overflow crowd during a meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. During the civil rights movement, King directly confronted and exposed the ills of racism, and led a movement that pressured the American government to end legalized segregation. He spent the last year of his life condemning what he called the "triple evils" of racism, poverty and war.

King, accompanied by the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, center, is booked in Montgomery on Feb. 23, 1956. The civil rights leaders were arrested on charges of leading a bus boycott in the city.

King's wife, Coretta, welcomes him after he leaves court in Montgomery on March 22, 1956. King was found guilty of conspiracy to boycott city buses as part of a desegregation campaign, but a judge suspended his $500 fine pending appeal.

King delivers a sermon on May 13, 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama.

King speaks at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom on the National Mall in Washington on May 17, 1957.

King at his home in Montgomery, Alabama in May 1956.

King and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, were among the first to ride the bus after the Supreme Court's integration order went into effect on Dec. 21, 1956. Both were active in the boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama.

A makeup artist puts a powder on King before a taping of NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington on Aug. 13, 1957.

Dr. W.G. Anderson, center, and King sing farewell after they were released from jail in Albany, Georgia, on Aug. 31, 1962. They were among 75 people, mostly clergymen, arrested for holding a prayer vigil in front of City Hall to protest segregation.

King and his wife, Coretta, sit with three of their children in their Atlanta home, on March 17, 1963. From left: Martin Luther King III, 5, Dexter Scott, 2, and Yolanda Denise, 7.

King waves from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.

Crowds fill the Lincoln Memorial for King's "I Have a Dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963.

Leaders of the March on Washington stand with Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill., pointing, during a visit to the Capitol on Aug. 28, 1963. From left: Whitney Young, National Urban League; King, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Roy Wilkins, NAACP, behind King; Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers president; Dirksen and John Lewis, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

King, in 1964.

King rides in the back of a police car as he is returned to jail in St. Augustine, Florida., after testifying before a grand jury investigating racial unrest in the city on June 12, 1964.

King wipes away sweat during a news conference where he announced future plans for the integration move in St. Augustine, Florida, on June 17, 1964. "It's hotter in more ways than one in St. Augustine," he said.

President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pen to King after signing the landmark Civil Rights Act in the White House on July 2, 1964. The bill outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

King speaks with a family on their porch as he campaigns to get African-Americans to register to vote and support his Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. King arrived on July 21, 1964, in Greenwood for the beginning of a five-day tour of Mississippi towns.

King and his wife, Coretta, arrive at the University of Oslo Festival Hall on Dec. 11, 1964 to deliver his acceptance address after winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

King leads a group of ministers to a courthouse during a voter registration drive in Selma, Alabama, on Feb. 15, 1965.

King leads a procession during the funeral for Jimmy Lee Jackson in Marion, Alabama, on March 1, 1965. In November 2010, a former Alabama state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in the shooting of Jackson during a civil rights demonstration.

Registrar Carl Golson shakes a finger at King during meeting at the courthouse in Hayneyville, Alabama, on March 1, 1965. King inquired about voter registration procedures but Golson told him that if he was not a prospective voter in Lowndes county, "It's none of your business." King visited two nearby counties after leading a voter registration drive in Selma.

King joins hands with other African American leaders singing "We Shall Overcome" at a church rally in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 1965.

Civil rights demonstrators march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River in Selma on March 21, 1965. The march is credited with helping build momentum for passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

King leads a group at the start of the march to Montgomery to press for voter registration rights for African Americans, on March 21, 1965.

The Resurgence of Camp Trash

“Camp trash” might sound harsh as a descriptor for any form of media. In truth, there’s nothing wrong with either campiness or trashiness. The problem is that the former is difficult to define and can come undone depending on the creator’s intent. The latter, on the other hand, can feel forced and gratuitous if not deployed with the right amount of panache.

by Kor O'Connell

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Not for individual endorsement.

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