A story of a tea-lady in Sudan, the injustice she has endured in the face of police brutality and repression.
In Israel/Palestine, former combatants are using the Theatre of the Oppressed to move towards an end to the occupation. Recently London theatre group Cardboard Citizens invited a former Israeli officer to share his experience of making theatre for peace.
Turkey’s most influential and widely respected civil society organisation, the Hizmet movement, is under continual attack by PM Erdoğan who accuses it of seeking to establish a “parallel state”. Such rhetoric and 'securitization' may destroy the democratic fabric of Turkish society.
Every conceivable attempt to mobilise all the extremes has been used to beef up recent French demos. With some success.
It is a good time to reflect on how the City of Culture in Derry, the cradle of political creativity in the 1960’s, reckoned and grappled with, rather than skirted over or denied, the recent past - as there was much pressure to do.
As New Orleans freezes over our Sunday Comics author reflects upon his personal, ambiguous relationship with ice
Mr. Kejriwal’s supporters now begin to question the legality of his conduct,his utterances about there being no real democracy in India, and about the futility of celebrating Republic Day.
The Kingdom of Thailand, and the wider region in which it stands, resembles a global political laboratory. It is a 21st-century testing ground, a place where the future of democracy is being decided, slowly but surely. So watch what happens there, carefully.
