Politics & Governance

We are on October 5th, 2024 when a huge march for Palestine took place in Santiago de Chile. Protesters gathered to call out the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric for his continued ties with Israel. Their aim: to get Boric to cut all ties with Israel. The protest, organized by the association Accion x Palestina, started at 11 a.m. in front of the cultural center Gabriella and gathered around 3000 people. The march was accompanied by pacifist songs, indigenous traditional musics, and slogans to support the Arab state. Other South American countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela also have shown their support to Palestine, by hosting big protests in their capitals. In fact, the biggest diaspora of Palestinian people can be found in South-America., Especially in Chile, where about 450,000 to 500,000 people of Palestinian descent reside

In the far south of Madagascar, on the outskirts of a remote and fragmented region, global warming is becoming increasingly present in the daily lives of an exhausted and impoverished population. A forgotten or misunderstood crisis, it is a clear and powerful symbol of Western imperialism: the exploitation of land and people, as well as obsession with capital and wealth, implies multiple outcomes. This phenomenon is not unique: the peoples of the South often reap the fruits of Western exploitation - and in recent years, the climatic consequences have unjustly multiplied.

For nearly a decade, one devastating conflict has quietly slipped into the shadows: the ongoing war in Yemen. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), this war has caused no more than a quarter of a million deaths, and has led the country into what the UN describes as the “world’s worst human crisis”. There is an urgent need to highteen awareness on this war especially in the media landscape in order to be more aware of the catastrophic consequences this war has on the Yemenite population.

By blaming someone for our weight we just reduce the number of people that may help us carry it. Some politicians try to make us point fingers, but there lies a lonely ocean of suspicion between a pointed finger and a helping hand, and in that ocean the only wind filing up our sails are loud words trying to convince that we are moving, even though we remain stuck.