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Turkey and Germany: Colonial Echoes in Immigrant Lives

Immigration · Miami

Turkey and Germany: Colonial Echoes in Immigrant Lives

Government agreements facilitate exploitation by business interests and provide a source of income to the country exporting its workers. Religion, racism and language problems are useful tools to stop migrants demanding their rights, with echoes of colonialism. Historical events in both countries can have unexpected impacts. (The Prisma memories) Photo from Fluctuating Images. Graham Douglas The story of the Turkish immigrant community in Ge…See the Story

Undocumented migrants in the UK: fears and nightmares

Immigration · United Kingdom

Undocumented migrants in the UK: fears and nightmares

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Immigrant and writer: Big cities are tough

Immigration · London

Immigrant and writer: Big cities are tough

In a collection of short stories, Peruvian writer Gunter Silva brings together the experiences of Latin American immigrants through the characters depicted in his tales, set in the British capital. Benjamin Serra Originally from Peru but having lived in London for years, Gunter Silva Passuni is a young author who has published a collection of short stories set in London. The protagonists are Latin American immigrants experiencing the kind o…Read Article

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A torturer sues his victim

The opening paragraph of “Searching for memory: Aluízio Palmar and the shadow of dictatorship in Brazil” brings the startling news that in 2019 Aluízio Palmar was sued by the retired army officer who had once tortured him. Sean Sheehan Aluízio was an armed militant opposed to Brazil’s dictatorship in the 1960s when he was captured and subjected for two years to torture by Lieutenant Ostrovski. After exile in Chile and Argentina, Aluízio retu…Brazil · Brazil Read Article

Candelario Obeso, the black poet

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Race means nothing and culture is a way of life

President of Basaira Elderly Centre in the London Borough of Lambeth, former Police Inspector in colonial East-Africa and a Social worker in post-colonial Britain, Mohammed Khan Lodhi asks “Why shouldn’t Muslims step into the twenty first century?”. Mohammed Khan Lodhi. Photo by Shanta Sultana. Shanta Sultana His eyes filled with sarcasm “Why throw stones at others when you live in glass houses?” he says with contempt, “I don’t call them ext…London, England · London Read Article

Coming to London was the right decision for him

Alejandro left Spain when he was eighteen to study law in London. He is now twenty one and reminisces how he grew as a person by stepping up to the challenges he faced, when he moved to an unknown country. (The Prisma memories) Gianluca Bausch He always had the dream to study and live in a different country. “I started learning English ever since I was a kid, like five, six years old, so I just fell in love with the language pretty much”, he…London, England · London Read Article

Latin Americans, a diverse array of nationalities and ethnicities

What is a Latino (Latin American), exactly? Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. seem alarmed suddenly by their inability to answer that question. Darrin Burgess All they know is that people of Latin American descent turned out in a tidal wave for 2020 year’s election. Their numbers accounted for the very narrow majorities that gave Georgia to Joe Biden and Florida to Trump. Both candidates had courted these voters more aggressively than an…United States · United States Read Article

The other struggle within the working-class: that of women

There are few people alive who have spent a lifetime as politically involved as she has. She is 91 years old, the founder of Wages for Housework Campaign, and has fought to end institutional racism and gender inequality. Her life is the epitome of a constant struggle for a new world based on international solidarity. (The Prisma memories) Juanjo Andres Cuervo Born in Brooklyn in 1930, she lived through the Great Depression, the Second World …New York State · New York Read Article

Politicians and human dignity

“Who are they?” Could it be the State, whose ambition it focused on subjecting its population to torture? Could it be the State, the system whose rationale is to suppress and rule the masses? Victor Ofosu Perhaps, it is the system drawn and shaped for preserving the financial significance of the elite. “Who are they”? Are they the police, the army, legally responsible providing the apparatus to rule humanity? Are they the individuals, accoun…United Kingdom · United Kingdom Read Article

Those who see and hear everything, guardians of the cities

The true need of creating a police body was due to with the appearance of the first national states and the rapid growth of cities and commerce.London, England · London Read Article