Mois : juillet 2016

Aftermath of Munich shooting offers important lesson on the politics of fear

Published on rabble.ca, byY DAVID J. CLIMENHAGA, July 24, 2016.

The person I know best in Munich described the mood in the Bavarian city Friday as « surreal, » so it seems fitting the Tweet from the Munich Police that night notifying the world the crisis sparked by a mass shooting at a fast-food restaurant was finally over had the surreal quality of found poetry … // Continuer la lecture de « Aftermath of Munich shooting offers important lesson on the politics of fear »

Pedagogy of the Oppressor

Published on ZNet (first on The Dawn) by Andrés Lund, July 23, 2016.

In education, in life, in the public sphere, dialogue is an essential factor for civilization. It is also a way to become subjects, to become who we are, and thus, to overcome oppression. The best dialogue is the kind that is egalitarian and seeks after the common good: this is the sort of dialogue that should exist within the community of the oppressed to shape a feasible Utopia that we need to change lives and transform the world. Continuer la lecture de « Pedagogy of the Oppressor »

Europe in despair

… the European project is imploding – Published on Al-Ahram, by Manal Lotfi from London, July 21, 2016.

Events are moving forward at a dramatic pace and while at first glance they may seem like a series of isolated tragedies they are not. French-Tunisian Mohamed Bouhlel, who photographed himself smiling amid children and their families in Nice hours before he ran over hundreds of people in an explosives-laden truck; a Turkish soldier attempts to hide under an armoured vehicle while another Turk kicks him and a second whips him with a belt following the failed coup attempt in Turkey; a Polish waiter who works at a Soho restaurant sits shaking after Brits vote to leave the EU, an Afghan refugee attacking passengers on a train in southern Germany with an axe — all of these are related, facets of interconnected crises that feed one another … // Continuer la lecture de « Europe in despair »