1oBLOGG - admespipp.blogspot.com: Home About Team Supporters What they say Donate Submit Contact Jobs Login or Register search Home openDemocracy About CanEuropeMakeIt? ArabAwakening openGlobalRights BeyondSlavery democraciaAbierta digitaLiberties oD-UK oDR oD 50.50 Transformation OurBeeb More Some thoughts on the psycho-geography of Europe’s free movement EVA HOFFMAN Eastern European migration takes place in a very different context than it once did. What drives people to leave, and what drives them back again? openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world How soft security matters in the referendum debate RITA HORDÓSY and MATT WOOD People fear the extreme and demand their governments be tough on security, but in truth our safety comes largely through control of the mundane. The EU excels at this. "Second star to the right and straight on till morning": leaving Europe for the imperial Never-Never Land DAVID MARQUAND Brexiteers believe in a myth of British exceptionalism. It's time they stopped telling themselves fairy tales. Cuba: through her eyes CYD BERNSTEIN What do Cuban women imagine for their country’s future? In the wake of recent reforms, Cyd Bernstein talks to four women leaders about feminism, culture and cultivating change. Cheap gasoline and CO2 in Venezuela ANDRÉS ROJAS JIMÉNEZ No other country in Latin America consumes more oil-based fuel per person than Venezuela. With petrol close to zero dollars, air polution is massive. Español Português The war on memory begins in Argentina ARTURO DESIMONE Coinciding with Obama's arrival to Buenos Aires, an operation of de-ideologization and forgetfulness is underway in Argentina. Español Supporting working children as political and economic agents JESSICA TAFT Peru’s movement of working children offers a visionary model for collaborative, caring communities where children are valued as full participants in economic, social, and political life. This week's guest editor Sternberg160px.jpg Claudia Sternberg is the guest editor for this week's theme: Brexit Divisions II: the mother of all migration debates Transit points ISISSyria The transience and persistence of the ‘jungle’ in Calais LEONIE ANSEMS DE VRIES The EU hotspot approach at Lampedusa GLENDA GARELLI and MARTINA TAZZIOLI Hotspot system as a new device of clandestinisation: view from Sicily ALESSANDRA SCIURBA Mediterranean migration crisis: transit points, enduring struggles LEONIE ANSEMS DE VRIES, GLENDA GARELLI and MARTINA TAZZIOLI More Brexit Chasms Paris "Second star to the right and straight on till morning": leaving Europe for the imperial Never-Never Land DAVID MARQUAND Blimey, it could be Brexit! ANTHONY BARNETT Talk Real London: "Exit Europe?" NICCOLÓ MILANESE, MARINA PRENTOULIS, FEDERICO CAMPAGNA, ULRIKE GUEROT and JAMES SCHNEIDER EU freedom of movement and Brexit SOFIA VASILOPOULOU Who speaks for Europe? The UK referendum as a pan-European affair ANDREW GLENCROSS A letter to my British friends: for Europe’s sake, please stay KALYPSO NICOLAÏDIS Women and the young are being left in the dark by the Brexit debate JOSIAH MORTIMER Winning the argument for staying in Europe ROLAND RUDD Why Britain will choose the safer option and Vote Leave MATTHEW ELLIOTT The problem of sovereignty in the EU referendum GERRY HASSAN Three reality checks for leavers and remainers RENAUD THILLAYE From London to Athens, Europe is an empty shell BARBARA SPINELLI More Thinking again about war war When soldiers speak out VRON WARE Why the west cannot defeat ISIS MAGED MANDOUR The vicious cycle of pitiless violence DAVID HELD In war ETIENNE BALIBAR On not bombing Syria PAUL ROGERS More Digital Liberties How to fight for digital human rights? Conscience in the datasphere STEPHEN HUMPHREYS The billionaire, big data and net neutrality: Facebook and democracy in India SAMIR DAYAL The robot economy may already have arrived FRANCESCA BRIA The hugging Prime Minister fails Zuckerberg L K SHARMA ‘First respect, then assess!’: anti-research assessment protest in Italian universities (#NoVQR) TIZIANA TERRANOVA Beyond powerlessness GEOFFROY DE LAGASNERIE Angola´s digital last frontier MANUEL NUNES RAMIRES SERRANO The UK's Investigatory Powers Bill report card: “Must try harder” MATTHEW RICE More No to TTIP The secretive EU-US trade deal explained TTIP and the right to protect personal data KENO FRANKE What we talk about when we talk about TTIP SAM LOWE The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP VIRGINIA LÓPEZ CALVO Lipstick on the TTIP pig GUS FAGAN More The making of an open and democratic Europe: reading Brexit through E.P. Thompson MARTIN SHAW 25 March 2016 There is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of the kind floated, typically unseriously, by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. The Easter Rising and the Soviet Union: an untold chapter in Ireland’s great rebellion BRENDAN MCGEEVER 25 March 2016 In a previously undocumented corner of history, research in old Soviet archives shows the extent of the USSR's interest in Ireland's Easter Rising. Refuge, and a home, in Vienna: a young Iraqi's story RALUCA BESLIU 24 March 2016 An Iraqi refugee tells us how he came to Vienna and managed to make a life for himself there against the odds. A case for demilitarizing the US military GREGORY D. FOSTER and TOM ENGELHARDT 24 March 2016 15 years after the global war on terror was launched, America faces a deeply embedded (remarkably unsuccessful) version of militarism, and a seldom recognized crisis in civil-military relations. It can’t happen here... can it? BOB DREYFUSS 24 March 2016 Try listing similarities and differences between the US today and Weimar Germany in the 1920s -30s. At this edgy moment, the similarities, of course, tend to jump out at you. Trumpian deportation fantasies and American realities TANYA GOLASH-BOZA 24 March 2016 How many presidents does it take to deport 11 million people? Seeking liberation, seeking comfort: women migrants in the UK CHÉ RAMSDEN 24 March 2016 The UK Home Office continues to indefinitely detain people who have committed no crime, including pregnant women. Asylum seekers and refugees lead solidarity groups in the movement to end detention. Cultural cooperation in a time of war: the view from Kyiv KSENIA TURKOVA 24 March 2016 GettyImages-464868204_0.jpg How the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has changed the face of cultural exchange. Русский Beyond the frontline: introducing a new series for oDR MIKHAIL KALUZHSKY 24 March 2016 3504871261_40f1ce7979_z.jpg Mainstream media focuses on the military and political conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Yet Russians and Ukrainians keep their ties. To ignore these connections is to trust our future to the politicians. Русский As the world ages, more must be done to protect the rights of older persons ROSA KORNFELD-MATTE 24 March 2016 The UN’s expert on the human rights of the elderly describes the key issues she is dealing with and how she hopes to build support to advance her important agenda. Español Syrian lives matter MARWA DAOUDY 24 March 2016 The suffering of Syrians is seen through four distorted lenses. But to find a sustainable political solution in Syria, we must move beyond clichés. The missing element in Egypt: a sense of belonging SARAH EL SHEIKH 23 March 2016 With decades of neoliberal policies, growing class divisions, and the demolition of public space, social belonging has vanished. The need to reclaim it has been a common factor in Egypt's mass mobilisations. عربي How ancient Jewish communities are reviving in Indonesia JOHN DUCKHAM 23 March 2016 Indonesia has the largest Muslim community in the world, but now, ancient Jewish communities wiped out in the Second World War are coming back to life. #FreeSavchenko NATALIA ANTONOVA, MAXIM EDWARDS, MIKHAIL KALUZHSKY, and THOMAS ROWLEY 23 March 2016 RIAN_02811358.LR_.ru_.jpg The sentence against Nadiya Savchenko is absurd. Where do we go from here? The battle over the Feminist Library: history and community vs profit BEULAH MAUD DEVANEY 23 March 2016 The Feminist Library in London is threatened with eviction. If forced to move, the next generation of feminists and activists will be left without tangible access to their own history. Syria continues to bleed while the Middle East closes its doors SUSAN M. AKRAM 23 March 2016 Host states impose greater restrictions on refugees’ rights at least partly because Western states aren’t fulfilling their responsibilities. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on the future of refugee protection. العربية NHS cuts - are we in it together? CAROLINE MOLLOY 23 March 2016 Downing Street was accused by another former minister of “massaging” NHS cuts figures this week – just as locally NHS bosses propose more sweeping cuts that are beginning to look like the worst ‘reorganisation’ yet. Unsettling times for a settled population? Polish perspectives on Brexit ANNE WHITE 23 March 2016 Poles have lived, worked, and settled in the UK for 12 years now. It's no longer so easy for them to pick up and leave. Honeypot Britain: do EU nationals come to the UK for benefits? CATHERINE BARNARD and AMY LUDLOW 23 March 2016 The image of the benefits-scrounging migrant is potent, but there is no evidence that this is widespread. Migrants come to work and make lives, not to get a free ride. Punish the weak: one woman’s experience of UK health and welfare REBECCA OMONIRA-OYEKANMI 23 March 2016 What does the extraordinary story of Emma Golledge tell us about the British state’s values and competence? The human beings that UK government ‘forgot’ REBECCA OMONIRA-OYEKANMI 23 March 2016 As David Cameron’s panicked government puts on a compassionate face, we meet people harmed by punitive policies. Rethinking “eastern European racism” MAXIM EDWARDS 22 March 2016 Eastern Europeans are accused of a “compassion deficit” towards refugees. Is this really the case, and how can the transition from socialism explain their attitudes? Exit Europe: situating the UK referendum in a wider European context NICCOLÓ MILANESE 22 March 2016 There are a few glimmers of real debate shining through in the UK referendum discussion. But this is not going to settle 'once and for all’ the UK’s relationship with the EU. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last » Highlights What kind of hope is a promise? An interview with Carlos Delclós What does a Bogotá urban waste recycler teach us about conquering democratic rights? democraciaAbierta PreviousNext What is oD? openDemocracy is a digital commons - a pluralist, high quality online space free and open to all - covering world affairs, ideas and culture. More... Join openDemocracy on Facebook Follow openDemocracy on Twitter Receive the openDemocracy email Subscribe Donate to openDemocracy Most Popular Cuba: through her eyes CYD BERNSTEIN Zombie politics: Europe, Turkey and the disposable human KEREM OKTEM NHS cuts - are we in it together? CAROLINE MOLLOY Our fragmenting Europe and DiEM's response DIEM25 There is no refugee crisis in Europe ALBENA AZMANOVA openDemocracy on Twitter Brexit Divisions Brexit-banner-final-620px@x2.png Migration has emerged as certainly the most challenging preoccupation for both the In and Out campaigns on British EU membership. In our second week of discussion, we offer some facts and figures, but also explore the other aspects of the debate at least as likely to sway the vote in this referendum. Find out more... How do parliaments shape democracy? WFD logo The Westminster Foundation for Democracy wants to contribute to public knowledge on effective democracy-strengthening as well as widen the discussion on what works best in parliamentary strengthening programs. Join the conversation! #TheHaystack hstack We are working with Scenes of Reason to produce an exclusive documentary on the use of surveillance in the UK and the Investigatory Powers Bill. Now we need your help: help fund the project here→ openGlobalRights: The future of refugee protection What new approaches to meet a growing crisis? A global solution to a global refugee crisis→ by James C. Hathaway Putting on the pressure: domestic constituencies and refugee policy→ by Emily Arnold-Fernandez The duty to rescue: a new paradigm for refugee protection→ by Jean-François Durieux Political realities challenge refugee reform→ by Bill Frelick The struggle for sans-papiers human rights → by Upendra Baxi A new web-documentary from Platform wtl This is the story of those who share their lives with the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline. Find out more here→ Opening up social movements openMovements banneropenMovements banner After the world's largest mining disaster: what impacts? Who is affected? CRISTIANA LOSEKANN Belated tourists of a postponed-revolution PETER WATERMAN Ankara’s war on peace ZEYNEP GAMBETTI “We are here!”: a new wave of anti-sectarian mobilizations in Lebanon ALEXANDRA KASSIR More People flow: migration and Europe The existing European approach to migration does not match reality or recognise the evolving complexity of human mobility. In our People Flow pamphlet of 2003, openDemocracy and Demos proposed a model that does. Now we recall the debate. Read on→ OurBeebbanner 100 thinkers including Philip Pullman, Brian Eno, Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan put forward their visions of a future BBC. Vote for your favourite and submit your idea→ Pick of the web The momentum story: how the Bernie Sanders crowd can still win Roving correspondents Jim Sleeper: On elites vs. Trump voters Excerpt from Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild A Central European perspective on DiEM25 An algorithmically-generated scatter-plot of the musical genre space

sexta-feira, 25 de março de 2016

Home About Team Supporters What they say Donate Submit Contact Jobs Login or Register search Home openDemocracy About CanEuropeMakeIt? ArabAwakening openGlobalRights BeyondSlavery democraciaAbierta digitaLiberties oD-UK oDR oD 50.50 Transformation OurBeeb More Some thoughts on the psycho-geography of Europe’s free movement EVA HOFFMAN Eastern European migration takes place in a very different context than it once did. What drives people to leave, and what drives them back again? openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world How soft security matters in the referendum debate RITA HORDÓSY and MATT WOOD People fear the extreme and demand their governments be tough on security, but in truth our safety comes largely through control of the mundane. The EU excels at this. "Second star to the right and straight on till morning": leaving Europe for the imperial Never-Never Land DAVID MARQUAND Brexiteers believe in a myth of British exceptionalism. It's time they stopped telling themselves fairy tales. Cuba: through her eyes CYD BERNSTEIN What do Cuban women imagine for their country’s future? In the wake of recent reforms, Cyd Bernstein talks to four women leaders about feminism, culture and cultivating change. Cheap gasoline and CO2 in Venezuela ANDRÉS ROJAS JIMÉNEZ No other country in Latin America consumes more oil-based fuel per person than Venezuela. With petrol close to zero dollars, air polution is massive. Español Português The war on memory begins in Argentina ARTURO DESIMONE Coinciding with Obama's arrival to Buenos Aires, an operation of de-ideologization and forgetfulness is underway in Argentina. Español Supporting working children as political and economic agents JESSICA TAFT Peru’s movement of working children offers a visionary model for collaborative, caring communities where children are valued as full participants in economic, social, and political life. This week's guest editor Sternberg160px.jpg Claudia Sternberg is the guest editor for this week's theme: Brexit Divisions II: the mother of all migration debates Transit points ISISSyria The transience and persistence of the ‘jungle’ in Calais LEONIE ANSEMS DE VRIES The EU hotspot approach at Lampedusa GLENDA GARELLI and MARTINA TAZZIOLI Hotspot system as a new device of clandestinisation: view from Sicily ALESSANDRA SCIURBA Mediterranean migration crisis: transit points, enduring struggles LEONIE ANSEMS DE VRIES, GLENDA GARELLI and MARTINA TAZZIOLI More Brexit Chasms Paris "Second star to the right and straight on till morning": leaving Europe for the imperial Never-Never Land DAVID MARQUAND Blimey, it could be Brexit! ANTHONY BARNETT Talk Real London: "Exit Europe?" NICCOLÓ MILANESE, MARINA PRENTOULIS, FEDERICO CAMPAGNA, ULRIKE GUEROT and JAMES SCHNEIDER EU freedom of movement and Brexit SOFIA VASILOPOULOU Who speaks for Europe? The UK referendum as a pan-European affair ANDREW GLENCROSS A letter to my British friends: for Europe’s sake, please stay KALYPSO NICOLAÏDIS Women and the young are being left in the dark by the Brexit debate JOSIAH MORTIMER Winning the argument for staying in Europe ROLAND RUDD Why Britain will choose the safer option and Vote Leave MATTHEW ELLIOTT The problem of sovereignty in the EU referendum GERRY HASSAN Three reality checks for leavers and remainers RENAUD THILLAYE From London to Athens, Europe is an empty shell BARBARA SPINELLI More Thinking again about war war When soldiers speak out VRON WARE Why the west cannot defeat ISIS MAGED MANDOUR The vicious cycle of pitiless violence DAVID HELD In war ETIENNE BALIBAR On not bombing Syria PAUL ROGERS More Digital Liberties How to fight for digital human rights? Conscience in the datasphere STEPHEN HUMPHREYS The billionaire, big data and net neutrality: Facebook and democracy in India SAMIR DAYAL The robot economy may already have arrived FRANCESCA BRIA The hugging Prime Minister fails Zuckerberg L K SHARMA ‘First respect, then assess!’: anti-research assessment protest in Italian universities (#NoVQR) TIZIANA TERRANOVA Beyond powerlessness GEOFFROY DE LAGASNERIE Angola´s digital last frontier MANUEL NUNES RAMIRES SERRANO The UK's Investigatory Powers Bill report card: “Must try harder” MATTHEW RICE More No to TTIP The secretive EU-US trade deal explained TTIP and the right to protect personal data KENO FRANKE What we talk about when we talk about TTIP SAM LOWE The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP VIRGINIA LÓPEZ CALVO Lipstick on the TTIP pig GUS FAGAN More The making of an open and democratic Europe: reading Brexit through E.P. Thompson MARTIN SHAW 25 March 2016 There is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of the kind floated, typically unseriously, by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. The Easter Rising and the Soviet Union: an untold chapter in Ireland’s great rebellion BRENDAN MCGEEVER 25 March 2016 In a previously undocumented corner of history, research in old Soviet archives shows the extent of the USSR's interest in Ireland's Easter Rising. Refuge, and a home, in Vienna: a young Iraqi's story RALUCA BESLIU 24 March 2016 An Iraqi refugee tells us how he came to Vienna and managed to make a life for himself there against the odds. A case for demilitarizing the US military GREGORY D. FOSTER and TOM ENGELHARDT 24 March 2016 15 years after the global war on terror was launched, America faces a deeply embedded (remarkably unsuccessful) version of militarism, and a seldom recognized crisis in civil-military relations. It can’t happen here... can it? BOB DREYFUSS 24 March 2016 Try listing similarities and differences between the US today and Weimar Germany in the 1920s -30s. At this edgy moment, the similarities, of course, tend to jump out at you. Trumpian deportation fantasies and American realities TANYA GOLASH-BOZA 24 March 2016 How many presidents does it take to deport 11 million people? Seeking liberation, seeking comfort: women migrants in the UK CHÉ RAMSDEN 24 March 2016 The UK Home Office continues to indefinitely detain people who have committed no crime, including pregnant women. Asylum seekers and refugees lead solidarity groups in the movement to end detention. Cultural cooperation in a time of war: the view from Kyiv KSENIA TURKOVA 24 March 2016 GettyImages-464868204_0.jpg How the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has changed the face of cultural exchange. Русский Beyond the frontline: introducing a new series for oDR MIKHAIL KALUZHSKY 24 March 2016 3504871261_40f1ce7979_z.jpg Mainstream media focuses on the military and political conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Yet Russians and Ukrainians keep their ties. To ignore these connections is to trust our future to the politicians. Русский As the world ages, more must be done to protect the rights of older persons ROSA KORNFELD-MATTE 24 March 2016 The UN’s expert on the human rights of the elderly describes the key issues she is dealing with and how she hopes to build support to advance her important agenda. Español Syrian lives matter MARWA DAOUDY 24 March 2016 The suffering of Syrians is seen through four distorted lenses. But to find a sustainable political solution in Syria, we must move beyond clichés. The missing element in Egypt: a sense of belonging SARAH EL SHEIKH 23 March 2016 With decades of neoliberal policies, growing class divisions, and the demolition of public space, social belonging has vanished. The need to reclaim it has been a common factor in Egypt's mass mobilisations. عربي How ancient Jewish communities are reviving in Indonesia JOHN DUCKHAM 23 March 2016 Indonesia has the largest Muslim community in the world, but now, ancient Jewish communities wiped out in the Second World War are coming back to life. #FreeSavchenko NATALIA ANTONOVA, MAXIM EDWARDS, MIKHAIL KALUZHSKY, and THOMAS ROWLEY 23 March 2016 RIAN_02811358.LR_.ru_.jpg The sentence against Nadiya Savchenko is absurd. Where do we go from here? The battle over the Feminist Library: history and community vs profit BEULAH MAUD DEVANEY 23 March 2016 The Feminist Library in London is threatened with eviction. If forced to move, the next generation of feminists and activists will be left without tangible access to their own history. Syria continues to bleed while the Middle East closes its doors SUSAN M. AKRAM 23 March 2016 Host states impose greater restrictions on refugees’ rights at least partly because Western states aren’t fulfilling their responsibilities. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on the future of refugee protection. العربية NHS cuts - are we in it together? CAROLINE MOLLOY 23 March 2016 Downing Street was accused by another former minister of “massaging” NHS cuts figures this week – just as locally NHS bosses propose more sweeping cuts that are beginning to look like the worst ‘reorganisation’ yet. Unsettling times for a settled population? Polish perspectives on Brexit ANNE WHITE 23 March 2016 Poles have lived, worked, and settled in the UK for 12 years now. It's no longer so easy for them to pick up and leave. Honeypot Britain: do EU nationals come to the UK for benefits? CATHERINE BARNARD and AMY LUDLOW 23 March 2016 The image of the benefits-scrounging migrant is potent, but there is no evidence that this is widespread. Migrants come to work and make lives, not to get a free ride. Punish the weak: one woman’s experience of UK health and welfare REBECCA OMONIRA-OYEKANMI 23 March 2016 What does the extraordinary story of Emma Golledge tell us about the British state’s values and competence? The human beings that UK government ‘forgot’ REBECCA OMONIRA-OYEKANMI 23 March 2016 As David Cameron’s panicked government puts on a compassionate face, we meet people harmed by punitive policies. Rethinking “eastern European racism” MAXIM EDWARDS 22 March 2016 Eastern Europeans are accused of a “compassion deficit” towards refugees. Is this really the case, and how can the transition from socialism explain their attitudes? Exit Europe: situating the UK referendum in a wider European context NICCOLÓ MILANESE 22 March 2016 There are a few glimmers of real debate shining through in the UK referendum discussion. But this is not going to settle 'once and for all’ the UK’s relationship with the EU. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last » Highlights What kind of hope is a promise? An interview with Carlos Delclós What does a Bogotá urban waste recycler teach us about conquering democratic rights? democraciaAbierta PreviousNext What is oD? openDemocracy is a digital commons - a pluralist, high quality online space free and open to all - covering world affairs, ideas and culture. More... Join openDemocracy on Facebook Follow openDemocracy on Twitter Receive the openDemocracy email Subscribe Donate to openDemocracy Most Popular Cuba: through her eyes CYD BERNSTEIN Zombie politics: Europe, Turkey and the disposable human KEREM OKTEM NHS cuts - are we in it together? CAROLINE MOLLOY Our fragmenting Europe and DiEM's response DIEM25 There is no refugee crisis in Europe ALBENA AZMANOVA openDemocracy on Twitter Brexit Divisions Brexit-banner-final-620px@x2.png Migration has emerged as certainly the most challenging preoccupation for both the In and Out campaigns on British EU membership. In our second week of discussion, we offer some facts and figures, but also explore the other aspects of the debate at least as likely to sway the vote in this referendum. Find out more... How do parliaments shape democracy? WFD logo The Westminster Foundation for Democracy wants to contribute to public knowledge on effective democracy-strengthening as well as widen the discussion on what works best in parliamentary strengthening programs. Join the conversation! #TheHaystack hstack We are working with Scenes of Reason to produce an exclusive documentary on the use of surveillance in the UK and the Investigatory Powers Bill. Now we need your help: help fund the project here→ openGlobalRights: The future of refugee protection What new approaches to meet a growing crisis? A global solution to a global refugee crisis→ by James C. Hathaway Putting on the pressure: domestic constituencies and refugee policy→ by Emily Arnold-Fernandez The duty to rescue: a new paradigm for refugee protection→ by Jean-François Durieux Political realities challenge refugee reform→ by Bill Frelick The struggle for sans-papiers human rights → by Upendra Baxi A new web-documentary from Platform wtl This is the story of those who share their lives with the Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline. Find out more here→ Opening up social movements openMovements banneropenMovements banner After the world's largest mining disaster: what impacts? Who is affected? CRISTIANA LOSEKANN Belated tourists of a postponed-revolution PETER WATERMAN Ankara’s war on peace ZEYNEP GAMBETTI “We are here!”: a new wave of anti-sectarian mobilizations in Lebanon ALEXANDRA KASSIR More People flow: migration and Europe The existing European approach to migration does not match reality or recognise the evolving complexity of human mobility. In our People Flow pamphlet of 2003, openDemocracy and Demos proposed a model that does. Now we recall the debate. Read on→ OurBeebbanner 100 thinkers including Philip Pullman, Brian Eno, Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan put forward their visions of a future BBC. Vote for your favourite and submit your idea→ Pick of the web The momentum story: how the Bernie Sanders crowd can still win Roving correspondents Jim Sleeper: On elites vs. Trump voters Excerpt from Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild A Central European perspective on DiEM25 An algorithmically-generated scatter-plot of the musical genre space

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Some thoughts on the psycho-geography of Europe’s free movement

Eastern European migration takes place in a very different context than it once did. What drives people to leave, and what drives them back again?

openDemocracy.net - free thinking for the world

How soft security matters in the referendum debate

RITA HORDÓSY and MATT WOOD

People fear the extreme and demand their governments be tough on security, but in truth our safety comes largely through control of the mundane. The EU excels at this.

"Second star to the right and straight on till morning": leaving Europe for the imperial Never-Never Land

DAVID MARQUAND

Brexiteers believe in a myth of British exceptionalism. It's time they stopped telling themselves fairy tales.

Cuba: through her eyes

CYD BERNSTEIN

What do Cuban women imagine for their country’s future? In the wake of recent reforms, Cyd Bernstein talks to four women leaders about feminism, culture and cultivating change.

Cheap gasoline and CO2 in Venezuela

ANDRÉS ROJAS JIMÉNEZ

No other country in Latin America consumes more oil-based fuel per person than Venezuela. With petrol close to zero dollars, air polution is massive. Español Português

The war on memory begins in Argentina

ARTURO DESIMONE

Coinciding with Obama's arrival to Buenos Aires, an operation of de-ideologization and forgetfulness is underway in Argentina. Español

Supporting working children as political and economic agents

JESSICA TAFT

Peru’s movement of working children offers a visionary model for collaborative, caring communities where children are valued as full participants in economic, social, and political life.

This week's guest editor

Claudia Sternberg is the guest editor for this week's theme: Brexit Divisions II: the mother of all migration debates

Transit points

How to fight for digital human rights?

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

The making of an open and democratic Europe: reading Brexit through E.P. Thompson

MARTIN SHAW 25 March 2016

There is no room for Britain’s turning away from Europe to a fantasy mid-Atlantic or neo-Commonwealth position of the kind floated, typically unseriously, by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

The Easter Rising and the Soviet Union: an untold chapter in Ireland’s great rebellion

BRENDAN MCGEEVER 25 March 2016

In a previously undocumented corner of history, research in old Soviet archives shows the extent of the USSR's interest in Ireland's Easter Rising.

Refuge, and a home, in Vienna: a young Iraqi's story

RALUCA BESLIU 24 March 2016

An Iraqi refugee tells us how he came to Vienna and managed to make a life for himself there against the odds.

A case for demilitarizing the US military

GREGORY D. FOSTER and TOM ENGELHARDT 24 March 2016

15 years after the global war on terror was launched, America faces a deeply embedded (remarkably unsuccessful) version of militarism, and a seldom recognized crisis in civil-military relations.

It can’t happen here... can it?

BOB DREYFUSS 24 March 2016

Try listing similarities and differences between the US today and Weimar Germany in the 1920s -30s. At this edgy moment, the similarities, of course, tend to jump out at you.

Trumpian deportation fantasies and American realities

TANYA GOLASH-BOZA 24 March 2016

How many presidents does it take to deport 11 million people?

Seeking liberation, seeking comfort: women migrants in the UK

CHÉ RAMSDEN 24 March 2016

The UK Home Office continues to indefinitely detain people who have committed no crime, including pregnant women. Asylum seekers and refugees lead solidarity groups in the movement to end detention.

Cultural cooperation in a time of war: the view from Kyiv

KSENIA TURKOVA 24 March 2016

How the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has changed the face of cultural exchange. Русский

Beyond the frontline: introducing a new series for oDR

MIKHAIL KALUZHSKY 24 March 2016

Mainstream media focuses on the military and political conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Yet Russians and Ukrainians keep their ties. To ignore these connections is to trust our future to the politicians. Русский

As the world ages, more must be done to protect the rights of older persons

ROSA KORNFELD-MATTE 24 March 2016

The UN’s expert on the human rights of the elderly describes the key issues she is dealing with and how she hopes to build support to advance her important agenda. Español

Syrian lives matter

MARWA DAOUDY 24 March 2016

The suffering of Syrians is seen through four distorted lenses. But to find a sustainable political solution in Syria, we must move beyond clichés.

The missing element in Egypt: a sense of belonging

SARAH EL SHEIKH 23 March 2016

With decades of neoliberal policies, growing class divisions, and the demolition of public space, social belonging has vanished. The need to reclaim it has been a common factor in Egypt's mass mobilisations. عربي

How ancient Jewish communities are reviving in Indonesia

JOHN DUCKHAM 23 March 2016

Indonesia has the largest Muslim community in the world, but now, ancient Jewish communities wiped out in the Second World War are coming back to life.

#FreeSavchenko

NATALIA ANTONOVA, MAXIM EDWARDS, MIKHAIL KALUZHSKY, andTHOMAS ROWLEY 23 March 2016

The sentence against Nadiya Savchenko is absurd. Where do we go from here?

The battle over the Feminist Library: history and community vs profit

BEULAH MAUD DEVANEY 23 March 2016

The Feminist Library in London is threatened with eviction. If forced to move, the next generation of feminists and activists will be left without tangible access to their own history.

Syria continues to bleed while the Middle East closes its doors

SUSAN M. AKRAM 23 March 2016

Host states impose greater restrictions on refugees’ rights at least partly because Western states aren’t fulfilling their responsibilities. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on the future of refugee protection. العربية

NHS cuts - are we in it together?

CAROLINE MOLLOY 23 March 2016

Downing Street was accused by another former minister of “massaging” NHS cuts figures this week – just as locally NHS bosses propose more sweeping cuts that are beginning to look like the worst ‘reorganisation’ yet.

Unsettling times for a settled population? Polish perspectives on Brexit

ANNE WHITE 23 March 2016

Poles have lived, worked, and settled in the UK for 12 years now. It's no longer so easy for them to pick up and leave.

Honeypot Britain: do EU nationals come to the UK for benefits?

CATHERINE BARNARD and AMY LUDLOW 23 March 2016

The image of the benefits-scrounging migrant is potent, but there is no evidence that this is widespread. Migrants come to work and make lives, not to get a free ride.

Punish the weak: one woman’s experience of UK health and welfare

REBECCA OMONIRA-OYEKANMI 23 March 2016

What does the extraordinary story of Emma Golledge tell us about the British state’s values and competence?

The human beings that UK government ‘forgot’

REBECCA OMONIRA-OYEKANMI 23 March 2016

As David Cameron’s panicked government puts on a compassionate face, we meet people harmed by punitive policies.

Rethinking “eastern European racism”

MAXIM EDWARDS 22 March 2016

Eastern Europeans are accused of a “compassion deficit” towards refugees. Is this really the case, and how can the transition from socialism explain their attitudes?

Exit Europe: situating the UK referendum in a wider European context

NICCOLÓ MILANESE 22 March 2016

There are a few glimmers of real debate shining through in the UK referendum discussion. But this is not going to settle 'once and for all’ the UK’s relationship with the EU.

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