Letters of Fire, Fiction, Poetry, Photography, Film — voices and formats that are raw, immediate, emotive, and imaginative in their ways of truth-telling.
AntiNote: Freelance photographer Alexander Belenkiy posted these photographs* on his livejournal this month, after a trip to Sochi. This is the ghost town he encountered there, only six months after the 2014 Winter Olympics. Alexander points out in his own commentary that the Olympic Village is not completely abandoned; indeed he took care to include […]
Photo Essay: Sochi, the $50 Billion ‘Ghost Town’ Read More »
Documentary: In Greece and other European countries, economic elites have been supporting fascist parties in order to enforce a radical neoliberal agenda in the crisis.
Fascism Inc: Greece and the Rise of the Extreme Right in Europe Read More »
In Belarus, a vibrant artistic and cultural life finds its way past censorship, totalitarian control, and general apathy to produce little gems like this film.
Written in remembrance of the children who, for all of our striving for freedom and justice, for all our craving for respect for our existence, have been murdered by the police and the military, by officers and presidents.
Sunset, Sunrise: Threnody for Child Victims of State Violence Read More »
Die Küsten des Mittelmeers stehen in Flammen. Nichts wird jemals wieder so sein wie früher.
“Dérives” (translates into Drifts) has set itself the goal to set some records straight concerning police violence and media excesses that have marked the “Maple Spring”. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iZdAdczrGk] From 1990 to 2010 the Student Movements were subject to over 1000 arrests. In the first six month of 2012 alone, more than 3000 students were arrested.
Dérives – the Student Revolt in Canada Read More »
Over seven million people from Iran have had to leave their country and seek refuge in signatory countries to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many of them are unknown activists whose names will only become known if they are killed or sentenced to long prison terms.
Iranian Refugees Begin Hunger Strike Read More »
Photographs taken over two days in Kyiv, 22 and 23 January 2014, by citizen photographer Ilya Varlamov.
Photo Essay: Clashes in Kiev Read More »
