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Once in a while, life provides us with the kind of dramatic moral dilemma that even the most imaginative ethics textbook writer couldn’t think up. My community — the University of Florida and the city of Gainesville — faced a dangerous and complicated series of dilemmas as a result of a visit from white supremacist …
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Mass shooting leaves 14 dead in San Bernardino, California, December 2, 2015. Demotix/Eric Rosenwald. All right reserved. In the three years since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary and the subsequent failure to reform the hollow gun laws of the United States, we have been forced to bear witness to mass shootings at more schools, …
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Click:polyether defoamer Amid a swarm of controversy and boycotts of the social media service over allegations regarding the company’s handling of user data, Facebook is reeling from the recent leak of a memo from a high-ranking exec. The memo is seen by many as a clear sign that Facebook knew and ignored the high stakes …
The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. The author's photographs. All rights reserved.Mbak Gunarti, one of the women leaders of the peasant struggle of Kendeng came back last month to Indonesia, in the island of Java where she lives among her Samin people, after …
The Jacksonville Jaguars will host their first playoff game at home since 1999, and the team is using this rare event to partake in an act of generosity. According to an announcement posted on the Jaguars’ website, 1,000 tickets will be dispersed to refugees in Florida. Puerto Ricans who fled the island in the wake …
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A road in Hargeisa. Photo: Hala Alkarib.Since 9/11, western countries have increasingly invested in programmes to prevent transnational violent extremism. These include serious militarised measures but also “softer” civic interventions under the banner of ‘countering violent extremism’ (CVE). An example is funding social development programmes, implemented by civil society, with the aim of engaging and …
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Sports have the magical power of bringing people together across party lines, borders, and socioeconomic barriers. Throughout history, the neutral setting of an athletic field has helped change people’s hearts, as well as the course of history. In 1995, President Nelson Mandela embraced South Africa’s national rugby team, Springbok, ahead of the World Cup, helping to …
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Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, June 15, 2012. AA/ABACA/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Seven years after the Arab uprisings, the political and socio-economic conditions in many Arab countries remain dire, if not more disastrous. In Tunisia, the cradle of that popular revolt, impoverished youth, facing tremendous austerity measures, issue desperate calls like “Employ us or kill …
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The Cleveland baseball team will be dumping Chief Wahoo — the racist caricature that’s festooned team caps, uniforms, and merchandise in various forms since 1947 — from the players’ on-field gear. That doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of Wahoo. Fans will still be able to purchase official Wahoo-embossed items. According to the Associated Press, …
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Bullets on the ground in Mosul, Iraq, 01 June 2017. Picture by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All right reserved. I arrived in Baghdad in November 2013. It was part of my doctoral research on the afterlives of the Iraqi Baʿth state’s al-Anfāl genocide (1987-1991). I wanted to record how the Iraqi federal government shows …
