Tag: war
Insisting on Life and Freedom: Transnational Feminism Challenging the Culture of Killing
The time for women is now. Not as victims to be protected by the same systems that endanger them, but as the architects of a civilisation organised around care rather than conquest, interdependence and mutuality rather than domination, and justice rather than the management of injustice.
Iranian Journalist: We Need to Turn Grief Into Resistance
The situation in Iran feels like being trapped between two terrible options, knowing that neither the continuation of the current situation nor a war would offer any hope.
Between Gaza and Greece: A Life in Exile
Whatever is rebuilt from the ashes of Gaza’s cities and villages, paid for by the labour of Palestinians like Khalid, exiled from their home to make their own return possible, it will never be what was lost—it will be something new.
Memories Never Fade
Amel (in yellow pajamas) and Džemil before the war, ca. 1991. Photo courtesy of a private collection / Sniper Alley Photo Link copied! My friend […]
Our Fourteen Days on the Freedom Flotilla
The following is a chapter from a diary chronicling Conscience’s voyage with the humanitarian flotillas in October 2025. The diary will be published in its entirety next year.
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.