Tag: war
How to Break a Digital Siege: Gaza’s Web Tree Project as a Model for Resistance
A simple technology deployed under drone surveillance offers lessons for besieged communities everywhere.
Breaking a Siege
In Bihać, Bosnia, a city once under siege, artist Adnan Dupanović created the mural Empathy on a building still bearing shrapnel scars from the war. […]
The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan’s Neglected War
Kaya, Maban, South Sudan. A red piece of cloth acts as a wall to a makeshift cafe set up opposite a WFP cash distribution centre […]
Breaking the Chain: The Growing Demand for No Harbour For Genocide
On November 12, 2023, protesters formed a jetski blockade at Port Botany, Sydney, forcing Israeli shipping giant ZIM to abandon its planned docking in solidarity […]
Downwinders: The Forgotten Stories of America’s First Atomic Bomb
Half a million people lived within a 150-mile radius of Trinity nuclear testing site in 1945. Only 15% of the plutonium in the bomb fissioned, while the remaining radioactive fallout blew downwind into surrounding communities and seeped into the soil.
The Earth Under Siege
The year 2025 must be the year we reject militarism, but not only with our tax money and feet on the ground at protests. We must also fight against the mentality we are asked to accept
The Shock of Victory
The biggest problem facing direct action movements is that we don’t know how to handle victory. This might seem an odd thing to say because of a lot of us haven’t been feeling particularly victorious of late.
Reflections on War
Visual composition: Turning Point. Original photo: Public Domain (Simone Weil, photographer unknown) Link copied! War is once more a problem on the order of the […]
Between Headlines and History
This year, perhaps more than our first year online, has tested our commitment to slow news journalism and in-depth reporting. We have resisted asking the question that drives the breaking news: what happened today that everyone should know?
‘In Your Light, Shall We See Light’ – A Voice from Columbia University
Columbia, in and of itself, wasn’t ever my home. After all, home only persists in people. Those students, the ones arrested, the ones Khalil praised, and Khalil himself—they are my Columbia.