Action & info

Action, and further reading on Palestine.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
A woman crosses the Qalandiya check point, the biggest in the occupied West Bank, in 2014.Photo: Roger Garfield/Alamy

From accord to apartheid

A new far-right Israeli government’s meddling with the supreme court has Jewish citizens up in arms. But the shredded freedoms of the Palestinian people under Israel’s thumb are still off the table. Zoe Holman looks at how the so-called ‘peace process’ has allowed Israel to deepen its colonial project and regime of control over Palestinian lives.

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Elder Taharakau Stewart (in the middle with cane), is joined by other Māori people during a ceremony in Berlin, Germany on 29 April 2019. The event marked the handing back of the remains of ancestors which had been held as part of Charité – Berlin University of Medicine’s former anthropology collections.Photo: Jörg Carstensen/DPA/Alamy

‘They are my ancestors’

For centuries, museums have held human remains as artefacts – including those sold, looted and smuggled out of colonized countries. Hana Pera Aoake explains how New Zealand/Aotearoa has become a world-leader in repatriation. What can be learned from the Indigenous-led programme driving the push to bring ancestors home?

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Celebrations ahead of travelling to the annual 18-day transgender festival in Koovagam, Tamil Nadu, India on 22 April 2013.Photo: Arun Sankar K/AP Photo/Alamy

The trans revolution

In a time of toxic ‘culture wars’, it may be hard to see the liberating potential of transgender rights for us all. But this piece from 2015, by Vanessa Baird, did just that – while taking a pop at the tyranny of the binary.

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San Matías Chilazoa resident Alejandrino Pérez shows off a little bull he had made from mud at one of the village reservoirs.Photo: Noel Rojo

Hope in the water

After 17 years, Zapotec Indigenous communities in Mexico finally gain control over their water sources, reports Magdalena Rojo.

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Rapper Hichkas is surrounded by people wearing photos of victims of the regime, as he speaks at a protest to commemorate ‘Bloody November’ in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 19 November 2022.Photo: Sopa Images Limited/Alamy

‘I am not going to stay quiet’

Rap is a genre intertwined with politics, but the political courage of Iran’s rappers takes some beating, Lorraine Mallinder finds.

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Nicola Sturgeon has been a central figure in Scottish politics since devolution in 1999. As First Minister since 2014, she has offered an image of stability in contrast to Westminster chaos. Here she is pictured on the campaign trail during the 2015 UK general election, in which the SNP wiped out Scottish Labour and won all but three seats north of the border.Photo: Andrew Wilson/Alamy

Tough love

As Scotland bids farewell to first minister Nicola Sturgeon, Conrad Landin looks at the state of the democracy she leaves behind.

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The Colour of Madness

The Colour of Madness

Husna Ara speaks to Dr Samara Linton about The Colour of Madness, her co-edited anthology that brings to life the varied experiences of alienation for migrants and people of colour in the UK.

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Full speed ahead: Khawaja sira people celebrate the passing of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in Lahore on 29 December 2018. The bill allows people to declare their gender – male, female or third gender (non-binary) – without expensive and painstaking medical transition.Photo: KM Chaudary/AP Photo/Alamy

Chosen family

Tooba Syed on how Pakistan’s gender non-conforming community are fighting renewed attacks on their age old existence and customs – through queer kinship.

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A 101 in lovelessness

Success coaches, pick-up artists, men’s rights activists. Popular influencers are preying on men and boys’ emotional isolation. Daisy Schofield reports on how we might intervene.

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Throwback cinema: Mumbai movie-goers embrace an open-air film screening on 5 November 2021, following Covid-19 restrictions over indoor gatherings.Photo: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters/Alamy

Keeping up with the Khans

From rank and file unionist heroes to industrialist lone wolves, Bollywood storytellers and ‘content creators’ have shifted to write out India’s collective spirit. Ishika Saxena questions what this means for how the country’s citizens can be brought together.

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Illustration: Andy K using Shutterstock

Remote solidarity

Work from home policies aren’t going anywhere. So, with many workers in the UK feeling the strain of isolation, now is the time to ramp up trade union organizing, writes Eve Livingston.

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Action & info

Action & info

Initiatives, action, and further reading on loneliness.

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Rush hour – Workers scurry speedily to their next destination. Since the 1970s, Singapore and Guangzhou, China have seen the highest increase in pedestrian walking speeds. Calls for effiency in mobility can often come back to bite us with reduced social empathy and ableist attitudes.Photo: Estherpoon/Shutterstock

The connection recession

Loneliness and social isolation have become chronic issues across the world. We must resist attempts to close down meaningful human interaction, writes Husna Ara.

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The tagline of Iran’s recent pro-women’s movement is translated from a Kurdish slogan which neatly captures the ideology of the region’s feminist politics. Here a mural displays the Kurdish original.Photo: Herzi Pinki/Creative Commons

The science of women

Around the world, people are chanting ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ in solidarity with the women’s uprising in Iran – dubbing it the ‘first feminist revolution in the world’. Not so, argues Rahila Gupta, as she examines its precursor: a Kurdish feminist revolution in Rojava.

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Illustration: Andy K

Control alt delete

In India, a Hindu supremacist government is intent on erasing the country’s Islamic history. Tarushi Aswani reports.

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The denial syndrome

Faced with monumental change, we all tend to convince ourselves that our lives will continue unscathed. In the first of our new series, with picks from the New Internationalist archive, we go back to 1990 when Anuradha Vittachi explained why, in the case of climate change, denial – that basic human trait – could bring about our downfall.

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From Raqs Media Collective’s ‘Three Shadows’,  exhibited as part of their exhibition ‘The Laughter of Tears’ at Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2021.Photo: Raqs Media Collective

Present assignation

Art does not simply reflect the world – but frames and shapes our future. A meditation by the Raqs Media Collective.

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Illustration: Andy K using images from Shutterstock

What would your grandchild say?

Wales is pioneering a law supposed to ensure that public organizations protect future generations, as well as the living. Rebecca Wilks explores the results so far.

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Following an uprising in the early 1990s, a status of ‘frozen conflict’ in Southern Mexico allowed communities to develop democratic practices through ongoing organization and political education. Here, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation’s Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, known as Subcommandante Marcos or Delegate Zero, meets with community activists in the Emiliana de Zubeldia auditorium in October 2006.Photo: Luis Gutierrez/NortePhoto.com/Alamy

Decision time

Nick Dowson looks to the future of democracy – and considers how we can make it our own.

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A world to win March, 2023
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