Tag Archives: politics

24/03/2016 education | generations conflict | human-rights | politics | society Feitosa-Santana

The New Conflict of Generations

Written by Joseph E. Stiglitz: “Something interesting has emerged in voting patterns on both sides of the Atlantic: young people are voting markedly differently from their elders. The big divide is not based so much on income, formal education or the gender of voters. This division. The lives of both the old and the young are […]

03/12/2015 #gotobaltimore | baltimore | cuba | education | human-rights | politics | Reduction of Criminal Age and Racism | society | teenage prison in the USA Feitosa-Santana

Go to Baltimore!

Go to Cuba! Wait a minute: Go to Baltimore! Go to Baltimore! by Pedro Abramovay About 40 minutes by train from the US capital and just over two hours from New York is the city of Baltimore, capital of the state of Maryland. I just left there after a very intense day visiting Open Society […]

20/10/2013 Bradley Manning Defense | Cinema | current-events | Daniel Domscheit-Berg | edward snowden | human-rights | Julian Assange | politics | society | technology | Whistleblower Future Feitosa-Santana

The Fifth Estate, the Movie

“It may be decades before we understand the full impact of WikiLeaks and how it’s revolutionized the spread of information. So this film won’t claim any long view authority on its subject, or attempt any final judgment. We want to explore the complexities and challenges of transparency in the information age and, we hope, enliven […]

21/09/2013 alexander siddig | Arab-Israeli War | Deir Yassin Massacre | Israel Palestine Conflit | israeli palestinian conflict | julian schnabel | middle-east | Miral Movie | politics | Yolanda El Karam Feitosa-Santana

Miral

Review by Grady Harp: “”It is refreshing to visit the Israeli/Palestinian conflict form a vantage too seldom shared in cinema. Director Julian Schnabel once again proves that he understands human responses in the face of political conflict. Rula Jebreal has adapted her own novel which in turn is a biography of her involvement in the history […]