It is tempting to think that faith in a higher being leads naturally to a sense of righteousness as a precursor of cruelty. Watching Salvation Army welfare workers begrudgingly dole out food vouchers to women imported as mail-order brides and then dumped might lead one to make this connection. Observing Catholic family counsellors pressure women Continue Reading →
In the lead up to the French Presidential election, the French government has promised to destroy a rebellious community of 2000 activists that have squatted for eight years on the site of a proposed airport in Nantes. Known as ZAD, the Zone to Defend, the movement has inspired a range of protests against useless development Continue Reading →
Norway has just donated $10 million US dollars to the international campaign to provide family planning services for the world’s most vulnerable women in response to the US Republican Party’s global-gag-rule. The fund was started by the Netherlands and has commitments from Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Finland, Canada, and Cape Verde. The US gag-rule removes Continue Reading →
Seventy six protesters were arrested at the Cannon Ball protest camp at Standing Rock in Dakota last week and the camp was razed to the ground. The police and National Guard acted with the US Army Corp of Engineers under direct orders from President Trump to waive a review of environmental impacts and expedite the Continue Reading →
The final week of 2016 is an apt time to reflect on the role of religion. Fundamentalists fan the flames of religious hate from Aleppo to Ipswich. Borders snap shut, refugees languish in ghettos and First Nations people from West Papua and Western Australia to just West of the Mississippi at Standing Rock are tortured Continue Reading →
The Indonesian Government last week arrested more than 500 Papuans following mass protests across the nation opposing fifty fifth anniversary of Indonesian rule on Monday 19th December. Over half a million people are known to have been killed by the Indonesian government in those 55 years and thousands of activists remain in prison and enforced Continue Reading →