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Memory is selective, but firm in many ways. The image comes from television: families weeping in the doorways of international lounges because a son, daughter, mother, father or husband and wife had to leave and find a real income in Europe, mainly in Spain and Italy. The relatives wouldn’t see […]

Abstract: Most bolivian migrants in Sao Paulo working in sweatshops don’t know that there are binational agreements that make working legally in Brazil quite easy. However, this information is not out there where unemployed and desperate people contact the recruiters that prepare the transportation of workers all the way to […]

Abstract: To see globalization only taking into account its economic dimension is simplistic and reductionist. If there is something to be held accountable for exploitation and inequality is neoliberalism. Yet, neoliberalism uses globalization as a tool to spread competitiveness, labor flexibility, free trade, free markets and privatization, and the outcome […]

Manila needs to optimize urban design, one that uses sustainable development as a tool to address the needs of the people.  In this city that was once torn by wars, there should be space for in-city relocation and revitalized waterways. There should be space for better life.

“People need hope, people need loving  People need trust from a fellow man  People need love to make a good living  People need faith in a helping hand…” So sang Abba a few decades back. Sadly, hope, trust, love and faith are all in short supply. Well, so are jobs, […]

Social media have amplified the power of pictures, and with this the need to ponder the meaning of such pictures. Do they allow for deeper understanding, or rather mis-inform us? A voyage through Susan Sontag, the Gaza War and Facebook.