Korea’s sexual minority movement fights to change Korean society. For now, the Queer Culture Festival and Parade exist as a holiday from everyday Korean society. My friend recalls, “The day I look most forward to each year is the parade. I am getting emotional just thinking about it. It’s so satisfying following the floats while screaming at the top of my lungs in public. I can scream myself to the world.”
Read MoreFor many years, the International Strategy Center has been building solidarity by visiting sites of struggle and informing the world about them. This year, we are starting the Uncovering Alternatives…
Read MoreChile has been a country of abuse and inequality. Without the guarantee of basic social rights by the state, we have become one of the poorest countries of the Organization for Economic..
Read MoreThe Haitian people’s history tells a story of steadfast struggle, solidarity and abolition. In 2015 and 2016, hundreds of thousands of Haitians organized massive protests chanting “Nou Pap Obeyi” meaning…
Read MoreThe Korean war would not have occurred and continued for nearly 70 years were it not for U.S. intervention. As was the fate of many Third World countries, the Korean War was less a civil war like…
Read MoreWhat happens now after the people successfully deposed one president and elected another one? What happens after people put down their candles and return to daily life? Or rather, since the future is…
Read MoreI’m 68 and anxious – and given what’s happening to the climate, we should all be alarmed. My contemporaries and I will likely only be around for another 20 or 30 years and therefore won’t see…
Read More“We want to live peacefully like right now. We don’t want the current North-South tension. North Korea shoots missiles. South Korea installs Thaad. We want them to figure this out through dialogue.
Read MoreOn April 15 of 2017, the day before the third year of the Sewol tragedy, I embarked upon “The bus of remembrance and resolution.” After three years, the Sewol had finally been recovered.
Read MoreThis month, Hungary had the largest public demonstration in 25 years, the culmination of resistance against undemocratic laws passed by the center-right government.
Read MoreAs the U.S. military, under the direction of Donald Trump, begins to take a more aggressive posture around the world (Syria, Afghanistan, growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula) it is forcing…
Read MoreIn the 20th century, feminism took place in the United States and Europe as a political fight to recognize the civil rights of women in those countries. Nonetheless, the women…
Read MoreMar. 10, the president is brought down. Two weeks later, the Sewol ferry is brought up. Thus the stage is set for the final scene of a struggle started on Apr. 16 of 2014 when the extraordinary was inflicted…
Read MoreMarch 5 marked the 4th year anniversary of the passing of President Hugo Chavez — spark of the Bolivarian Revolution. The Venezuelan government held several events in this occasion and and set…
Read MorePresident Hugo Frias Chavez passed away on Mar. 5 of 2013. To commemorate the fourth year of his death, ceremonies, forums and events were held from Mar. 4 to the 15. They began at the Mountain Barracks that served as headquarters for his foiled military insurrection carried out on Feb. 1992 and triggered by the government’s brutal repression of the Caracazo insurrection three years before.
Read MoreThe left-wing anti-austerity party Podemos is planning to hold its second country-wide citizens’ assembly (Vistalegre II) on February 11th-12th to decide the political direction, organizational…
Read MoreA torso with a top revealing a full bust is printed on a mirror. The female target is supposed to reflect herself in the mirror and thus “try out” the full breasted torso. Whispers and thoughts surround…
Read MoreMar.10 at 9 am, people were gathered in front of the Constitutional Court to await the Court’s ruling. Two hours before the verdict would be read, those gathered were chanting “The Constitutional Court…
Read MoreAlasita means “buy me” in the language of the Aymara, the biggest indigenous tribe in Bolivia. Alasita was originally celebrated by farmers to pray to Ekeko. They would give him miniature presents to wish for plentiful crops in the year ahead.
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