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Published in: democraciaAbiertaSeparate but equal: the historical roots of the current US protests
The protests we see today in the United States, the anger, the toppling of statues that exalt the historical...
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Published in: 50.50With little food or money, we tried to get home after India’s lockdown
I knew I had to get my pregnant wife back to our village, but the journey was over 1,000 kilometres and we had to...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersCOVID-19 at the Brazil-Venezuela borders: the good, the bad and the ugly
How an already difficult situation for refugees in terms of integration and health can become an explosive...
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Published in: HomeWe need visions of a better world after COVID: share yours
Why educators and students are partnering with openDemocracy to launch a competition for photos, videos and texts in...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Disaster capitalism or the Green New Deal
We now learn that the mismanagement of containment is not a bug, but a feature of policy. This presents us with a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDemocracyWatch: Arundhati Roy warns of ‘genocidal climate’ in India
Indian Muslims are being labelled “corona-jihadis”.
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Published in: openMovementsFighting the good fight: Labour activism during COVID-19 in Indonesia
During the pandemic, Indonesia’s unions have found new ways to be heard without resorting to the streets.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightHow COVID-19 deflated the Austrian populist radical right
COVID-19 has fundamentally altered the logic of Austrian politics as refugees and the question of Islam in Austrian...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France is free to demonstrate again – well, nearly
“ The rally on the afternoon of Saturday 13 June was intended to proceed from La République to the Opéra… we were...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Re-looking and revaluing health, post-COVID in France
“We are confident that a significant majority thinks that the health service should be a properly-funded public one,...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCovid-19 crisis: normality was the problem
Once we transcend the sanitary crisis, we may see the reemergence of the social movements that were budding all over...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersRe-bordering Canada’s privately sponsored refugees during the pandemic
How will sponsored refugees face the challenges of COVID-19 in the face of physical distancing and re-bordering that...
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Published in: openMovementsCreating a hyperlocal infrastructure of care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups
COVID-19 mutual aid groups revolve around caring for neighbours as a hyperlocal infrastructure. This can have a...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionNow is not the time to sacrifice public health at the altar of ‘the economy’
The relationship between public health and economic health is symbiotic, not conflicting. Framing them as competing...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCovid-19 has already affected 93 different indigenous nations
There are now almost 7,000 cases of Covid-19 in the entire Amazon basin, totalling to 639 official deaths. Português Español
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Published in: Pandemic BordersVulnerable and unprotected in the US: it only takes political will
The temporary status of uncertainty and vulnerability in the face of COVID-19 is akin to what hundreds of thousands...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil and the COVID-19 disaster: the current dystopia must be overcome
The time has come to build utopias that are capable of overcoming Bolsonaro’s dystopia, which has been accentuated...
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Published in: 50.50While the world is busy with the virus, Israel is annexing the West Bank
Foreign volunteers are not allowed into Palestine and we have few donations, so it is very difficult to run my...
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Published in: oDRUkraine's surrogate mothers struggle under quarantine
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that Ukraine's international surrogacy industry desperately needs to change.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?France gives a little over George Floyd
“That excruciating eight and a half minute long video of George Floyd's slow, gasping passage from life to oblivion...