Guyana, a small and sparsely populated South American country, saw its future shift dramatically in 2015 with the discovery of massive oil reserves. To understand the impact of this find, it's essential to examine the country’s history, economy, and political landscape.
Finding love is portrayed as the end all be all goal in movies. However, that is not the case in real life. This article looks at the spectrum of love on screens and how finding love is portrayed.
A confrontation of the pervasive societal norms that enable harassment, violence, and the objectification of women in their every day lives. It's time we challenge men to take accountability and foster a more equitable future for all.
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Is farming salmon really a better alternative to fishing salmon in the wild? You might think that it would be better to farm salmon rather than fish them in the wild and have an impact on the species. But the issue is, that this method is not intended to replace traditional ocean-based farms, but rather to supplement them, meaning both facilities are operating at the same time. By adding the infrastructure and energy needs of land-based systems on the top of already ocean-based farms, this dual strategy increases environmental pressure rather than lessening the industry’s overall impact.
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.
The choice to study abroad has had a similar significance for me than for those who take a gap year: a moment to figure myself out as a person. Yearning for change at the end of high school, I felt the need to start over. I wanted to see myself from a different angle - away from the established codes of my home culture, away from any constraints of who to be or how to act. So I took a naked step into unknown territory.
A year on from the horrific terror attacks on October the 7th and with tens of thousands of civilians dead, peace and the possibility of justice in Palestine feel impossible in light of the harrowing day-to-day experiences of Palestinians and Israelis. Nevertheless, it is worth considering what fate awaits the people between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea beyond a ceasefire. Where the status quo is clearly unworkable, how can we build peace and manifest justice? What systems of governance can be built to provide justice and peace for the future? Are there examples that we can learn from in order not to repeat historical mistakes?
“Two intellectuals, sitting on their duffs won’t get as far as a brute who walks — Michel Audiard.
Before you get offended, let’s be clear: it’s not just you — it's all of us. We all have those moments where we do something so mind-numbingly dumb that we can’t believe that we are functioning adults.
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.
