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Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

80 years of displacement and suppression

May 18, 2022 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

This year, May 18 commemorates 78 years since almost 200,000 Crimean Tatars were torn from their beds in the middle of the night and forced into cattle wagons. The Crimean Tartars, a Sunni Muslim Turkic ethnic group, have lived in Crimea since the Middle Ages. In 1944, accused by Joseph ...

Crimean Tatars Are Still Waiting for Justice

History

The Blast

An excerpt from a new novel about the radical Left in 1916 San Francisco

May 18, 2022 • by Joseph Matthews

Adding to the cannery women’s travails was their invisibility to—the willful blindness of—the city’s traditional labor unions. The women had no specific skills, the labor leaders would say when pressed, and did not fit any particular craft or trade union, so their requests to the central labor council for some ...

Europe & Central Asia

The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland

The struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion

May 17, 2022 • by Tomasz Kitlinski

This text is thus a tribute to the struggle of a culture of hospitality against various forms of exclusion and to the people who have participated in it, now and in the past. Socially and culturally, the case of Lublin, with its many traditions and many contradictory policies, shows how ...

The Powers and Limits of Hospitality: Lublin, Poland

Activism

Breaking Through for LGBTQI Rights

Movements fighting homophobia and transphobia in Venezuela offer an example of organizing that successfully joins forces across ideological and partisan lines

May 16, 2022 • by Daniel Fermín, Richelle Briceño and Yendri Velásquez

We have to understand that the ones who are in these spaces are the ones who can create change, be it positive or negative....

Activism

Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

The March in DC was one of the Largest

May 16, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly 20,000 people rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. for abortion rights. It was one of five hundred rallies of varying sizes around the country. Covid has discouraged travel, so people protest at home, which makes numbers harder to add up. Before the march, there was a rally on the ...

Bans Off Our Bodies All Over the Country

Europe & Central Asia

How the Russian Public Sees Events in Ukraine Today

A conversation with Maria Matskevich: “People think it’s a peacekeeping operation”

May 13, 2022 • by Anastasia Shteinert and Maria Matskevich

People who give interviews and speak about a catastrophe in Russia project something into the future, and do not describe what is happening right now. The situation is very different in different cities and even different institutions. In Saint Petersburg and Moscow, you have more freedom than, for example, in ...

How the Russian Public Sees Events in Ukraine Today

Europe & Central Asia

The Justice Train from Bucha

The establishment of a new special criminal tribunal becomes plausible

May 10, 2022 • by Victor Tsilonis

So what will happen in the end in the field of international criminal law after the end of the war in Ukraine? The train of justice will reach The Hague’s central railway station and the truth will shine for centuries to come. The final question is whether these serious legal ...

Politics

Maine Took on Big Box Stores, and Won

A blow to the “dark store theory” scam is a win for taxpayers

May 9, 2022 • by Pat Garofalo

Big retailers have launched an effort to promulgate dark store theory because they have the time and resources for a long fight that pays off in the long term, unlike the communities that are seeing property tax revenues plummet in the here and now....

Activism

Young Women Rally for Abortion outside Supreme Court

A photo essay

May 9, 2022 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly a hundred young women gathered outside the Supreme Court on May 6 to rally for abortion rights. This was one of several pro-choice demonstrations during the first week of May. In abortion demonstrations last fall, young women were mostly on the pro-life side. Those on the pro-choice side were ...

Young Women Rally for Abortion outside Supreme Court

Politics

Of Fish and People

On the inevitable sinking of the “Russian World”

May 4, 2022 • by Ihar Babkou

Belarusian and Ukrainian intellectuals have been applying postcolonial theory to Russia since the 1990s. But they have largely been ignored in the West. Now it is time to listen to those voices from the ‘borderlands.’...

Activism

Water Belongs to the People, Not Corporations

Protecting our water is a sacred commitment to all life on earth

April 19, 2022 • by Simona Perry

Is water sacred? In the Roman Catholic tradition, it is through a rite of minor-exorcism: prayers that both breaks the influence of evil and sin in a person's life and sanctifies water as “holy.” In this ancient rite, a priest blesses the living “creature of water” to cast out devils, put sickness to flight, ...

Water Belongs to the People, Not Corporations

Europe & Central Asia

Echoes of War Reach New York

Among those affected are people with both Ukrainian and Russian roots

April 13, 2022 • by Anastasia Shteinert

It is believed that people adapt to everything. I am already fine with New York’s enormous rent prices, loud sirens, and small talks. But I’m not sure I will ever be able to adapt to this monstrous war. ...