The Platforms in Our Pockets Are Part of the War Machine: A Conversation with Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Big Tech runs the same code that sells ads and surveils dissidents and it must be dismantled like arms manufacturers, ...
Tag: Activism
At School, No One Is a Foreigner: Italy’s Right Turns Student Protests into a Racial Panic
Words can create imagined communities, and turn a political classification into what looks like a natural description of reality
Sacrifice Zone: How Europe’s Hunt for Non-Russian Oil Poisons Kazakhstan’s Caspian Coast
In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced ...
Foreword: Plural Archives, Cultural Practices, and Political Imaginaries in Syria and Lebanon
Preserving memory while opening new avenues for critical reflection, by documenting threatened archives, analysing artistic practices, tracing transformations in urban ...
Punk, BDS, and Manga: How Palestinian Resistance Connected Japan’s Fragmented Movements
Japanese BDS campaigns forced companies to cut weapons ties with Israel. Palestinian solidarity now connects punk, feminist, anti-nuclear, and anti-colonial ...
The Joke That Isn’t: Inside Egypt’s “Hahaha Jihad” Against LGBTQ+ People
Threats, tracked locations, coordinated pile-ons: this is what it costs to be visibly queer online in Egypt
From Nepal, to Indonesia, and the Philippines: The Children of Remittance Take to the Streets
The recent uprisings across the Asia-Pacific region carry a quieter thread: protesters raised by absent, migrant-worker parents are refusing to ...
The Cockroach Revolt: How India’s Youth Uprising Is Cracking Modi’s Electoral Autocracy
Behind the marches is a jobs crisis crushing the young, an exam industry built on suicides, and billionaires thriving as ...
The Disposable Ones: How Albania’s Land-Grabbing State Bred the Flamingo Revolution
Long before Kushner's resort, Rama's Albania was already clearing land of the people who lived on it: pyramid schemes, hydropower ...
Edible Empire: How Our Food Supply Chains are Destroying the Planet
Cargill and Unilever run today's empires. From Almería's plastic greenhouses to Western Sahara's occupied phosphate mines, a new podcast maps ...
Giving Italy a Sound It Has No Category For: An Interview with Palestinian-Italian Singer TÄRA
TÄRA's debut EP Zefiro dropped on Nakba Day. She calls her genre Arab&B, making music for Italy's unrepresented, and she's ...
Citizens Against the State: How Albania Answered Its Government’s Embrace of Israel
The Albanian government embraced Israel through the genocide. Its citizens refused and across deep divides, Palestine became the cause that ...
To Question Memory is to Question Power: The Narrative of Violence is Shaking up Political Life in Kosovo
An exhibition cancelled, a historian's devices seized, a war-crimes verdict looming over The Hague. Kosovo edges toward peace but has ...
A Convenient Villain: How Blaming Kushner for Albania’s Protests Stops at Edi Rama’s Gate – A Response to Lea Ypi’s Article in The Guardian
Kushner didn't open Albania's coastline to capital. He walked through a door that Rama built, decorated, and defended as Renaissance
“These Camps Were Built for our Parents”: Albanian Activists Resist Italy’s Offshore Detention Experiment
Albania has handed over its land to Italian-run migrant detention. For a nation of displaced people, activists say this is ...
Deforestation, Data Gaps, and Small Farmers: Mapping the True Costs of Mexico’s Palm Oil
As plantations push into forests and reserves, this investigation of Mexico’s palm oil boom—spanning supermarket shelves, satellite maps, and rural ...
From Hakawati to Hashtags: Making History Public in the Arab World
From coffeehouse storytellers to digital archives, communities across the Arab world have long shaped and shared history in public, challenging ...
Online and Offline Violence are Two Sides of the Same Coin for LGBTQI+ in Egypt
In Egypt, LGBTQI+ people face escalating abuse where online harassment, state complicity, and social hostility intersect, turning digital attacks into ...
The Story of Açık Radio and the Sound of Dissent in Turkey
A cornerstone of Turkey’s independent media since 1995, Açık Radyo lost its FM license in 2024 but continues to fight ...
Whistleblowing as a Shield: Protecting the Voices That Keep AI Safe
From OpenAI to Google, insiders who warn about unsafe AI face retaliation, not protection, revealing a dangerous gap between technological ...
Inside Europe’s Largest Neo-Nazi Gathering: The Quiet Normalisation of Fascism
Each February, the Day of Honour in Budapest—a neo-Nazi commemoration—exposes how fascist mythmaking, transnational networks, and uneven policing are becoming ...
Gabès Is Suffocating: Breathing Under Phosphate, Protest, and Green Colonialism
For decades, toxic industry has poisoned Gabès’ air and sea. Today, residents claim the right to breathe—rising against phosphate pollution, ...
Between Hiroshima and Tokyo: Palestine is a Mirror
In Japan, Palestine solidarity movements may be smaller than in the West, but they are very active, and Gaza becomes ...
Capitalism, War, and the Violence of Digital Platforms: A Conversation with Geert Lovink
A critical reflection on platform brutality, exhausted imaginaries, and the uneasy search for collective exits from digital dependency.
Breaking the Code of Silence: Workers Rights and Systemic Change in Tech – A Conversation with Ifeoma Ozoma
On retaliation, weak protections, and why defending tech workers’ rights is essential to confronting surveillance, militarisation, and corporate complicity in ...
Palestine on Berlin’s Walls: Street Art, Censorship, and the Politics of Solidarity in Germany
From erased graffiti to banned symbols, Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian street art exposes how aesthetics become acts of resistance, memory, ...
Legally Speaking: Inside Germany’s Trials Against Palestine Solidarity
From Rosa Luxemburg’s century-old defense against militarism to Berlin’s student trials on Palestine, Germany’s judiciary still insists it is “handling ...
We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Rest: Repression and Resistance from Berlin to New York
Facing arrests, bans, and brutal crackdowns, organizers in Berlin and New York persist in their fight for Palestine, exposing the ...
Bombs, Scapegoats and Care: Iran in the Shadow of War
Israel’s surprise assault sparked a brutal war that allowed Iran’s regime to pose as the nation’s protector. Yet beneath the ...
The Women Not Liberated by Bombs
From Palestine to Iraq, from Lebanon to Syria and Afghanistan, seven women recount how foreign powers promised liberation—only to deliver ...
