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On a Sunday in El Cajon, California, a city to the southeast of San Diego, Osama Abdulazeez, 14, from Baghdad, Iraq, kicks around a soccer ball with a group of fellow students. They call it “Street Soccer Sundays,” a relaxed, casual game. As members of a school soccer program, they save the regimented drills for …
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Demo against labour law in Paris, April 9, 2016. Wikicommons/Jules78120. Some rights reserved.Dear Yanis, We decided to write you this letter after following closely the launch of DiEM 25 in Rome on 23 March. The missive aims to discuss a series of issues regarding your initiative that we found unconvincing by offering a well-intentioned criticism …
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There were plenty of things to find distasteful about President Donald Trump’s Black History Month address (among them the fact that he used it as an opportunity to boast about his election victory), but none more disconcerting than his apparent unfamiliarity with the work of Frederick Douglass. In his incoherent speech, Trump made these remarks about …
Activities at Yaabad School, just outside of Shatila camp. Copyright: Seenaryo, August 2015“These boys had shot up like grass all along the streets of the deserted villages, where the bombing never stopped… Everywhere overflowed with them, as if they had all been suddenly abandoned and had never been anyone’s children. They were the children of …
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Team colors are an important part of sports fandom, but for color-blind sports fans those colors can be a challenge. Teams be difficult to distinguish (as was the case with the green-red “Color Rush” Thursday NFL matchup two years ago) and balls—from orange field hockey balls to white golf balls—can disappear in the green grass. …
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Flickr/Palestine Solidarity Project. Some rights reserved.On 24th November 2015 the US secretary of state John Kerry expressed his solidarity with his Israeli hosts when he remarked, “Clearly, no people anywhere should live with daily violence, with attacks on the streets, with knives, with scissors, cars.” It is just a pity that he did not add …
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On Thursday, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed to reporters that the U.S. military had dropped a GBU-43 bomb on an area of eastern Afghanistan. The GBU-43 bomb is often referred to in the military by its nickname “MOAB,” or “mother of all bombs.” MOAB actually stands for massive ordinance air blast, according to The Guardian, and is …
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The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. Hrant Dink..Adalet ( justice!). Demotix/J Kojak. All right reserved. The question in the title has been posed over and over again in the nine years since the day when Hrant Dink was shot dead in Istanbul, in …
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Last Friday afternoon, my Iranian grandmother was anesthetized in a white operating room, in a hospital in America, where a doctor removed the uterus that had housed my mother 62 years ago. At about the same time, our new president announced the United States would no longer be a home for millions of people like …
IS fighters in Raqqa with captured weapons, Jan 2014. AP Photo/Militant Website. All rights reserved.Raqqa, 4 February 2016 Thank you for your letter and all the news from Baghdad. I am glad to know that your sister has recovered from her injuries, especially as medicines are in such short supply. I hear that the collapse …
