Russia’s Working Poor
“I hear the call to be a patriot from every radio, TV set, and kitchen appliance. What are you going on about, guys? I have been humiliated my entire life, paid crumbs for a difficult job.”
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People’s History
World events explained, unfiltered, by those who experienced them.
Heroism and Horror in the Mediterranean
There was nothing like “every man for himself” here. Even 5-year-old kids were helping any way they could. I don’t know how to explain it. The horrifying conditions in Libya have developed a strong sense of community among the people.
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From Saraqeb to Raqqa
The mood is that ISIS is so evil that anything is a justified response to it. People don’t know the history of Raqqa and what happened there over the last few years. They don’t know there are human beings living there.
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“You’re supposed to protect us!”
“She ran away from her husband, he was very violent. Then she got deported, because she didn’t go to her interview, because the social workers didn’t give her the letter in time. They treat us with negligence.”
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Chronicle of a Deportation
One deportee’s firsthand account of this traumatic and humiliating experience, in all its enraging detail.
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Saad on Samos
Samos Chronicles: Two poems and the testimony of a Syrian stranded on Samos for nearly a year
Refugees Seeking Freedom Get the Opposite
The plan of the Serbian government to evict the squats and move people to remote areas is happening in line with overall EU practices pushing people out of sight and detaining them in isolation with no possibility to organize.
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Life and Death, Love and Rage in the “Beautiful Prison”
We expect evictions of the remaining squats in the next weeks and months, and that the arrests, imprisonments, and deportations will keep going. But we are not ready to give up. We will stay here, we will keep fighting.
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Surviving the Siege
“Leonid Ilyich, no one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten. But it has so happened that I, a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, awarded the medal For the Defense of Leningrad, and my husband, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, have to huddle with our daughter in a sixteen-square-meter room on Lublin Alley.”
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