In refusing the mask, Trump appears to be a tough, strong male | Image fromWall Street International.
10 April 2020 (Wall Street International)* — I would like to ask you to take a moment, perhaps at home, to stop and rethink some of your narratives.
Let us reflect on some of the social narratives we live by. These stories are usually partly true, and thus very resistant to change, but they can be misleading if they are out of date or encourage us to ignore essential other parts of the bigger picture.
13 April 2020 (RT)* — Senior religious leaders in Sweden have urged the government to provide relief for asylum seekers, sparking anger from native Swedes who claim the calls for Christian charity don’t seem to extend to the country’s own citizens.
Asking big questions and learning from our different experiences are the first steps to a better world beyond coronavirus.
People wait to get food at the Union Gospel Mission in Portland, Oregon, US, on 3 April 2020 | Alex Milan Tracy/SIPA USA/PA Images (Image posted here from openDemocracy’s article).
9 April 2020 (openDemocracy)* — Despite the theme of daily messages and memes we’re receiving, we are not “all in the same boat” – and this pandemic is proof.
Tripoli (IOM)* — More than 200,000 people have been displaced in the year since the conflict reignited in Libya according to new data compiled by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Migrants in a detention centre in Tripoli. Photo IOM/Safa Msehli
Tripoli accounts for approximately 150,000 of recorded new displacements, but people were also forced to leave their homes in other conflict-affected areas in the country, including Murzuq, Sirt and Abu Gurayn.
In this article I want to document a sample of the rapidly increasing evidence of how this coup is taking shape and to reiterate a strategy for defeating it.
The coup was designed to take immediate measures to ensure that fundamental rights and freedoms, only ‘won’ (in name at least) after many centuries of struggle, were stripped away from us and to do it in such a way that people would fearfully accept it.
