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The story of one woman and many others like her
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Ayşe[1] is a poor woman living in Ankara. Born in a rural area in Eastern Anatolia, she immigrated to the capital with her family when she was a child. She has only received a basic education as higher education was unthinkable for her poor rural family. She is an Alevi, […]
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TTIP is an important economic issue – How can we include NGO’s and citizens?
Written by Daniel Roth
Keynote by Glyn Moody on October 10’s Globalization and the Internet event Foto: Stuart Yeates CC-BY-SA The current Collaboratory Initiative ‘Globalization and the Internet’ is exploring new approaches this year. Instead of producing the traditional final report, we are publishing a magazine, in cooperation with newthinking, which includes a variety […]
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Roşia Montană – the symbol of a new social and political Romanian conscience
Written by Andreea Vasile
Romanian opponents of the grandiose mining scheme at Roşia Montană were delighted when a photo of American actor Woody Harrelson supporting their cause circulated for days on the Internet. Harelson is just one of the many people opposed to the project. But pressure on the Government is not yet enough […]
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Growth vs. Sustainability: not the most exciting match in Italy
Written by Angelo Boccato
If growth is a dead word in Italian political debate, as discussed in my previous article on Austerity for Growth?, it seems that political and social awareness In Italy is also very low when it comes to sustainability issues. The Green Party disappeared together with the Rainbow Left in […]
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Syria: So . . . What about the Kurds?
Written by Tom Tyler
In spite of the clear polarization of the Syrian Civil War, with Iranian- and Russian-backed Shiite authorities on one side and Western-backed Sunni rebels on the other, one group does not quite fit into this mess. Just who, precisely, are Syria’s Kurds, what are their aims, and what is to […]
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Port-au-Prince: a City of Oil and Water
Written by Monica Jeannormil
Port-au-Prince, the capital and largest city of Haiti, the Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic is a densely packed urban metropolis comprising mostly of people of African descent. PaP, as it is often referred to, is an oil and water mixture of people with […]
