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There is no such thing as 'healthy', 'normal' or 'sick'

HEALTH: From patient associations and wheelchair train blockades to queer protests and artistic projects, this book shows how people in Britain have resisted the power of diagnosis.
Maria Fernanda Arellanes Arellanes -

A kind of creative primal cry

USA: What does it mean to be an American? Who are they, how did they get to where they are today, where have they left cultural traces? Here we see the voices of the civil rights movement that inspired the hippies in the 70s, the champions of gay rights and feminists for several generations.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

What does a radically tender society need?

Hat: Turkish-German Seyda Kurt is concerned with hatred that produces tenderness. Hate is often rooted in racism, misogyny, xenophobia and prejudice.
Pinar Ciftci -

MODERN TIMES's seven tips for a good propagandist

ADVERTISING:Learning the art of "lying masterfully" is important for all propagandists
John Y. Jones -

Blacklisted workers were denied a job

CONTROL: Unthinkable bureaucrats, sneaky employer organizations and a corrupt police monitor and blacklist "troubled" or suspicious workers systematically.
Carmen Gray -

Unrestrained apartheid

Palestine voucher: Israel was quick to portray the Palestinians as carriers of the virus and as a health threat. Today, Gaza's crisis is both territorial, demographic, political – and biological.
Nadia Othman -

Worthy and unworthy lives

SIMILARITY: In The Force of Nonviolence, Judith Butler writes that systematic discrimination is the main cause of all violence.
Pinar Ciftci -

The despair is stronger than hoped

OPTIMISM: By taking positive ideas more seriously, we can give them the same attention that toxic ideologies receive today.
Nicholas Agar -

Brexit: The price of dishonesty

CHALLENGES OF EUROPE: The Brexit chaos seems to culminate in the British leaving the EU – now that the election of Boris Johnson has been postponed. Brexit is the price the British have to pay for not having had an honest discussion about immigration, multiculturalism and the British Empire. But are Britain's problems unique?
gary@nytid.com -

When your country is against you

BLACK PANTS: Robert Minervini's new documentary portrays civil rightsless people in New Orleans and their struggle to survive in a country that has apparently failed them.
velinraconte@googlemail.com -

Who will own the stories?

POWER: Whose Story Is This? encourages each of us to change the world by changing what story we choose to tell and who it belongs to.
Pinar Ciftci -

Fascinating about fascism

iDEOLOGY: Do we know enough about fascism to understand it?
Andrew P. Kroglund -

The earth accounts for the politics of capitalism

URBANIZATION: The Hottest August holds up a mirror that reveals the underlying anxiety of modern survival strategy.
Carmen Gray -

Action against racism!

RACISM: The terrorist attack on the al-Noor mosque in Bærum is another confirmation that organized racism and Muslim hatred encourage and lead to fascist acts of terrorism. We have learned absolutely nothing from 22. July 2011?
dag@nytid.com -

The Ritualization of Racism

DRUG POLICE: In Colombia, the use of violence by both drug cartels and authorities has become somewhat ritualistic.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

The anti-Nazi who took the world by storm

MATCH: After his death, Stieg Larsson became world famous for the crime trilogy about Lisbeth Salander, but his life was first and foremost marked by a tireless struggle to map and uncover the growing movement of neo-Nazism and fascism.
Nina Trige Andersen -
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