The New Black: Documentary Film Explores Divisions in African-American Community over LGBT Rights
We continue our coverage of gay marriage and equal rights with a new film that explores the divisions among African-Americans on the issue of marriage equality. Despite longstanding opposition from church leadership, the…
Dead Man Walking: Extended Interview with Sister Helen Prejean on Decades of Death Penalty Activism
Sister Helen Prejean is one of the world’s most well-known anti-death penalty activists. As a Catholic nun, she began her prison ministry more than 30 years ago. She is the author of the…
Is violence against women too common, too ordinary to qualify as interesting?
Back in February gender-based violence dominated media and public talk when South Africans declared themselves woken up, disgusted, outraged and horrified after the rape and murder of working class, black Anene Booysen and…
For Erdoğan, you are with him or against him: Tamer Söyler
“Kandils are the times for equality, unity and solidarity – Anti-capitalist Muslims,” this banner reads. Kandil refers to the celebration of one of the five Islamic holy nights. While Erdoğan was accusing the…
Can late Erdoğan learn from early Erdoğan?: Tamer Söyler
The 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, is said to have remarked: being President is like running a cemetery; you have got a lot of people under you and nobody is…
Dilma propõe 5 pactos; entre eles, plebiscito sobre Constituinte
Fonte: Redação Brasil do Fato. / 24 de junho de 2013. A presidenta Dilma Rousseff apresentou a proposta de convocação de um plebiscito popular para que os brasileiros decidam sobre a convocação de…
A Medical Ethics-free Zone? Guantánamo Doctors Urged to Stop Force-Feeding Hunger-Striking Prisoners
As the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo enters its 133rd day, a group of top U.S. doctors and public health specialists are calling on their colleagues in the military to boycott the mass…
Kamuzu Day and Malawi’s Festival of Forgetting
Kamuzu clearly loved Malawi as a country. He took advantage of generous development aid projects of the 1960s to mid 1970s that was aimed at helping develop former European colonies to fulfill his…
From Koodankulam, an open letter to the Indian media
Kafila, June 19, 2013. Press release issued by the PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT AGAINST NUCLEAR ENERGY (PMANE), based in Idinthakarai in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Dear friends, Greetings! Please allow us to bring the…
Interview with Amalia Ziv – queer, feminist and anti-occupation in Israel
It was through Amalia Ziv ‘s work that I came to know about ‘Kvisa Shchora’ (Black Laundry), an Israeli anti-Occupation queer group, which positions itself against both Israeli Zionist queer politics and the…
