Student Reporter: Hritam Mukherjee University: a student of Bachelor in Mass Communication and Videography in St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata There is no denying that we live in a world which is completely immersed in an entity called the internet. From buying clothes, to visiting places, all of our personal choices…
Category: World
Green Capitalism: A Feasible Future?
Student Reporter: Hritam Mukherjee University: a student of Bachelor in Mass Communication and Videography in St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata “…You only speak of a green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular.” – Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old environmental activist, stated this while she addressed a meeting…
Latin American countries struggle with Covid19 has yet to reach the peak
In Chile curfews and quarantines imposed as part of measures against the pandemic have largely calmed months of social protests against the conservative government of President Sebastian Pinera. The riots started in October 2019 in response to a raise in the Santiago Metro’s subway fare, the increased cost of living,…
May 5, a day to honor missing indigenous women and girls
Red dresses hanging on birch trees to honor Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Image from Huffington Post. The missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) epidemic is an issue currently affecting Indigenous people in Canada and the United States, including the First Nations, Inuit, Métis (FNIM), and Native American…
A large amount of farm products are being wasted everyday in Corona crisis. What else can be done?
Maryam Parvaz In a report published in 2016, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 815 million people of the 7.6 billion people in the world, or one in ten, are suffering from chronic undernourishment. In this report the number of children under 5 who are suffering from chronic…
29 April webinar: States of Control – the dark side of pandemic politics by Transnational Institute
In our next Wednesday webinar at 4pm (CET) on 29 April, we will turn our lens on the state. In response to an unprecedented global health emergency, many states are rolling out measures from deploying armies and drones to control public space, to expanding digital control through facial recognition technology…
How people react to the news of political leaders getting corona?
When the news came about Boris Johnson tested positive with Corona virus a range of reactions of people happened in social media. Some people appeared to be very happy, making jokes around the situation. One or two week before testing positive, Boris Johnson made a statement saying that their is…
Is social distancing a privilege?
It is impossible for workers in Iran, NYC and London to practice social distancing as seen in the below video. The idea of social distancing is confined to privilege people. And they are the one who are advocating it during the corona pandemic, as they have no idea of how…
Is lockdown the magic solution to Covid 19?
Shailendra Rai, Resilience Advisor, VSO Myanmar Many countries have heavily restricted people’s movement, including Malaysia and Indonesia, while parts of Europe and India have declared lockdown. China placed intensive and authoritarian movement restrictions on Wuhan as early as mid-January and dramatically reduced the growth of cases. Singapore and Hong Kong…
Turkish government murdered dissent singer Helin Bölek
Last night Helin Bölek a singer in Turkey died after 288 days of hunger strike. Helin Bölek and her friend İbrahim Gökçek had three demands from government: an end to censorship of the band, an end to police raids on the Idil cultural centre used by the band in Istanbul,…
The Illusion of LGBTQ+ Privilege
Why does the mainstream media portray only rich, creative, white-collared people as LGBTQ? Are the LGBTQ+ restricted to a certain class? (Source: Popsugar, 2017) In my second year of Degree College, in a paper on culture studies, we were told to read an article, titled, “Can the Subaltern be Gay?”…
NAM : Aligning ourselves in the direction of progress
Globalization is often described as a process whereby the world becomes a smaller place. The notion of space expands tremendously while time can no longer be thought in the singular. There emerges the exciting possibility to exchange both ideas and goods and services across greater distances. These exchanges supposedly foster…
Digital Spectacles: Tampon of Dams & Wars
“ek samay tha jab jahan highway banta tha wahan sehar banne lage, aur ab wo smay aa gaya hai, jahan optical fibre rahega wahan shehar banenge” | There was a time when city were built where roads passed, now today the time has come where, it will come up where the…
Pokemon Go : The organized desire
Alfie Bown Co-editor of Hong Kong review of Books, Published first on Roarmag.org In 2010, Google started up a subsidiary, Niantic Inc. Google starts up a lot of companies each year and acquires many more. Google’s acquisition of every start-up and endless development of subsidiary companies with different names is…
You can win : New Age Buddhism
Akshat Jain There is a rise of a certain kind of philosophy that has been called New Age Buddhism. From the perspective of political economy, it is the commercialization of Buddhism. Buddhism is being sold in self-help books, in products (that increase our well-being) produced in conditions that aren’t bad…
Alan Badiou : How to change the world? – Happiness against Satisfaction
Alan Badioau (Nexus Conference ‘How to Change the World?’ Keynote lecture Alain Badiou, part 2, 2 December 2012, Amsterdam) How can you change the world? By becoming a subjective part of the consequences of a local event. At the different level. To fall in love can be change in the world. But…
Wasted : The Mars in Me
Should we have to live with the waste that we generate or should we be able to hide it somewhere? Have we not become nomads on a global scale, a society which can only be understood through the social psychology of a nomadic community?
Las Patronas, Seeds of Hope
Las Patronas are located in the village La Patrona, in the town of Amatlán de los Reyes (Veracruz). This image depicts the Virgin of Guadalupe who is a model for them.
Glass Steagall Act : Banks too big to fail, Bankers too big to jail
It divided the banks into two groups: the commercial banks, that take your deposits, ordinary people, supposed to give money to small businesses to help grow the economy; and then the investment banks, taking money from rich people, investing it in more speculative activities.
TPP: TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
Imagine a corporation suing a government, saying that they have right to kill and you cannot regulate my product. And if you do then you have to pay me not to kill you.
The President 2016: Democrat, Bernie Sanders !!
A 74 year old grandfather is attracting thousands of Students, Workers and Women.
We should not be in country where there should be bank to big to fail and bankers too big to jail.
Students on the Road: #OccupyUGC #FeesMustFall #MillionStudentMarch
The issue of tuition fees and university education seems to go on and on, with new concerns or proposals being brought to the public’s attention on a regular basis. This last couple of months saw the latest in a series of student protests regarding higher education, with thousands of students taking to the streets , be it in India or South Africa, or United States of America, or London, to sum up across the globe, to express their opposition not only to higher fees but also to the so-called ‘privatisation’ of universities.
La Quimera : Squatted social centres, an open door to a new society
Their status may be illegal, but their intention is legitimate.
A big banner which hangs over the main door of a huge building announces that we have come to Squatted Social Centre La Quimera.
Landfill protests in Beirut
A widely used symbol of protests in the city of Beirut has been the altered flag of Lebanon with a trash bag taking place of the iconic cedar tree. Though, the citizens confess that it is generating negative publicity but they want to do anything and everything to raise awareness among fellow citizens and instil consciousness among the already paralysed polity of the country.