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US investigative journalist, Ian Urbina: “The thing that has affected me the most is the extent of the violence in the fishing industry and its normalisation”
11 June 2024
Labour
US investigative journalist, Ian Urbina: “The thing that has affected me the most is the extent of the violence in the fishing industry and its normalisation”
“The invisibility of a space that occupies two-thirds of the planet and has more than 50 million people working in it, with so little governmental and journalistic attention, is surprising.”Read the full article
Jean Bonald G. Fatal, Jacques Belzin: “You can't eradicate the problem of armed gangs in Haiti with weapons alone. Our young people need jobs”
19 April 2024
Politics & economy
Jean Bonald G. Fatal, Jacques Belzin: “You can’t eradicate the problem of armed gangs in Haiti with weapons alone. Our young people need jobs”
How do Haitian trade unions view the current crisis, the Presidential Council and the actions of the international community? What is their view of the multinational security force requested by Ariel Henry, authorised by the UN in October 2023 [...]Read the full article
Malian master puppeteer, Yaya Coulibali: “Puppetry is the sum of the collective human imaginary”
15 March 2024
Culture
Malian master puppeteer, Yaya Coulibali: “Puppetry is the sum of the collective human imaginary”
“We need to be able to promote unity in diversity. We puppeteers have always experienced difficulties with religions, and with power in general, because we speak the truth. And now we are the target of the jihadists, who consider the [...]Read the full article
Filmmaker Gilles Perret: “If you're going to film workers and the work they do, you have to have a love and understanding for both”
22 February 2024
Culture
Filmmaker Gilles Perret: “If you’re going to film workers and the work they do, you have to have a love and understanding for both”
“Workers, their work and their rights became the central theme of Perret’s work, both documentary and fiction.”Read the full article
Enrico Somaglia of EFFAT: “What some call red tape is for us, a red line”
9 February 2024
Labour
Enrico Somaglia of EFFAT: “What some call red tape is for us, a red line”
“It’s very easy to address all your frustrations to the EU and Brussels bureaucrats. But as a trade union representing agricultural workers, we defend the Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy. We believe they can help us make the sector more [...]Read the full article
Katsuji Okada, home builder in Japan: “Kawara roofs have endured for centuries, but now they are disappearing”
12 January 2024
Culture
Katsuji Okada, home builder in Japan: “Kawara roofs have endured for centuries, but now they are disappearing”
Katsuji Okada has spent a lifetime laying millions of kawara tiles. We spoke with him to learn about the details of this ancestral craft, part of an indigenous architecture that is now on the verge of [...]Read the full article
Malawian demographer Eliya Zulu: “Africa's youthful population could drive the continent's socio-economic transformation”
6 November 2023
Development
Malawian demographer Eliya Zulu: “Africa’s youthful population could drive the continent’s socio-economic transformation”
“The question is: can the world ignore Africa? The fact that other regions don’t have youthful populations means that Africa has an opportunity to actually help address labour shortages elsewhere and the rest of the world will have Africa’s young [...]Read the full article
Verónica Gago, essayist: “Inflation is driving what is happening and pulverising everything else”
16 October 2023
Politics & economy
Verónica Gago, essayist: “Inflation is driving what is happening and pulverising everything else”
The success of the far right in Argentina “cannot be separated from a critical political and economic situation [with galloping inflation] that makes you feel like your income is losing value from one minute to the next. It’s a daily battle [...]Read the full article
European Roma Rights Centre director, Ðorđe Jovanović: Open Society's decision to scale back operations in Europe “means that hundreds of small organisations will probably die”
5 October 2023
Human rights
European Roma Rights Centre director, Ðorđe Jovanović: Open Society’s decision to scale back operations in Europe “means that hundreds of small organisations will probably die”
“The whole idea of strategic litigation is not just important from the perspective of winning victories. It is also important from the perspective of our experience in Europe being written into official records of state [...]Read the full article
Indigenous trade unionists from around the world call for more inclusion and solidarity: “We are not just there to sing the songs and do the opening prayer”
9 August 2023
Human rights
Indigenous trade unionists from around the world call for more inclusion and solidarity: “We are not just there to sing the songs and do the opening prayer”
Indigenous peoples are often among the workers most discriminated against and in the most precarious jobs, but they have an ally in the trade union movement to help defend their rights and improve their social and working conditions. Māori, Sami [...]Read the full article
Aída Ponce del Castillo, researcher: “CEOs like Sam Altman of OpenAI can negotiate with a state as if they themselves were a state. What are the consequences for democratic governance?”
17 July 2023
Labour
Aída Ponce del Castillo, researcher: “CEOs like Sam Altman of OpenAI can negotiate with a state as if they themselves were a state. What are the consequences for democratic governance?”
“Neither self-regulation nor ethical guidelines work when it comes to labour. Only laws do.”Read the full article
Helena Silvestre: “Occupation enables us to take part in the birth of a neighbourhood and think about new ways of living together”
10 July 2023
Politics & economy
Helena Silvestre: “Occupation enables us to take part in the birth of a neighbourhood and think about new ways of living together”
“Maybe it’s not the right to the city that we need. […] the city represents a form of accumulation that feeds on the extraction of everything around it: the favelas, the occupations and the countryside.”Read the full article
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