Dany Díaz Mejía writing in his village, Nueva Esperanza, Honduras Two weeks before the November 30, 2025 elections took place in Honduras, I traveled to Washington, DC for the largest Catholic social justice gathering in the U.S. I had been invited by the Ignatian Solidarity Network to give a talk about how . . .
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Photo by Hossein Zohrevand.“Attack on Gandhi Hospital,” (#15) courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. What is unfolding across West Asia is a colonial project that, if allowed to continue, will ultimately pave the way for a Greater Israel and end any prospects for Palestinian freedom. In October 2003, the recently assassinated Ali Khamenei declared . . .
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Amna (left) and Alaa (right). Note: This is the second of two Public Affairs posts by twin sisters in Gaza, Alaa and Amna Dmeida. The first, by Amna Dmeida, Gaza in the New Year: Countdown to Death, Not Celebration, was published on February 13th. Today we bring you Alaa Dmeida’s powerful memories . . .
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Rubble in Gaza, taken by Farah Rebhy. Our next two public affairs posts, for today and on February 27th, are written by twin sisters in Gaza, Amna and Alaa Dmeida. As Israel’s ongoing genocide continues to sever Palestinian kinship with unfathomable cruelty, Palestinian writers continue to share their stories with heartbreaking courage. . . .
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Taring Padi’s merchandise corner at Hallenbad Ost, Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany, Summer 2022. On the last day of the preview week at Documenta 15 a woman approached our lapak. The stall where we sold emblems, t-shirts, pins, zines and woodcut prints was tucked away in a remote corner of Hallenbad Ost, an . . .
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Reproduced with permission of Kenar Embroidery. During the genocide of Gaza beginning in 2023, the destruction extended beyond lives, land, and buildings into art, culture, heritage and memory. One day, I saw a picture of a Tatreez piece lying above the rubble, it was a stitched map of Palestine. The red threads . . .
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Stockholm anti-racist demonstration, 1994. Photo Credit Tidskriftsföreningen Offensiv, courtesy of WikiMedia Commons After the Stockholm Socialist Forum ends, we walk to a restaurant. I was in a panel talking about the presidential election in Chile, where my father is from, and the possibility of a win for left wing candidate Jeanette Jara . . .
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Photo from Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis, DC Public Library, 1969. In October, U.S. National Park Service employees reinstalled a statue of Confederate military officer Albert Pike at the corner of Third and D Streets NW in Washington, DC’s Judiciary Square. Pike died in 1891 and Congress approved the statue’s initial . . .
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At 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday November 25th, my husband Peter gets an alert that ICE is attempting a house raid nearby. We jump in the car. Several blocks from the address, we encounter Saint Paul police, flashers on, barring all roads. Saint Paul officially has a separation ordinance that prohibits police from . . .
Read MoreWhen the first ceasefire of the year was first announced, on January 19th, 2025, at around 10:00 a.m., celebrations broke out all over Gaza. For those who had remained steadfast in the north, the truce meant the killing had finally stopped, and those who had been displaced to the south were celebrating . . .
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