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From the newsroom to the cinema: An alternative source of immigrant news
Legacy media is not offering anything new: intellectual regression, increased privatisation, reduced grant funding, and less editorial freedom. Abla Kandalaft, a Lebanese journalist, and founder of Mydylarama, picked up on this and took action. Her work in film curation is changing the way British cinema audiences connect with immigrant narratives.
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Using journalism to change the immigrant narrative
The Prisma begins a new series called “Journalists and immigrants in the UK”, to explore what it’s like to work and own a media outlet in a country that is not your own. Juliana Da Penha is our first interviewee. She is the founder of Migrant Women Press and has experienced the shadow of stigmatisation of migrants.
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A Latino immigrant dedicated to empowering migrants
Arriving in the United Kingdom 35 years ago from Colombia, Carlos Corredor, delves into his experience of migrating to what he referred to as “the new world” and the inner frustration endured in adjusting to the array of cultural differences. He is the director of a health service for Latin Americans and devotes his time to helping the diaspora .
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Third-generation diaspora: to be or not to be
In comparison to their grandparents and parents who may not have felt completely at home in Britain, accepted that they were different, and in some cases even expected to be discriminated against, third generation migrants are more likely to stand up to racism, push for equality and fight against discrimination.
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The Koguis want no more wars and no more ecocide
They say that besides giving material life so that the world can wake up each day, in their spiritual testament Siana Mung and Siukukui gave responsibility to the Older Brothers to advise the Younger Brothers so as not to make wars, kill people nor clear the forest. But Younger Brothers never listen to them.
United Kingdom & Current affairs
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- 5 days agoInterviews with Palestinians aiding grassroots resistance to occupation. Palestinians have a history of
- 5 days agoShe travelled from the Middle East when she was fifteen. She’s now twenty-eight, and has lived under the
Multiculture
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Multiculturalism: a social process and a political weapon
06/05/2024Immigrants did not cause the economic crisis, they spend most of their time trying to survive, in some cases after being forced [...] -
A transient shadow in London’s underside
06/05/2024She travelled from the Middle East when she was fifteen. She’s now twenty-eight, and has lived under the immigration radar in [...] -
An Iranian immigrant’s journey to atheism and secularism
06/05/2024Choosing atheism as an Iranian diaspora journalist, I’ve embarked on an intellectual, liberating journey. It’s not [...]
- From the newsroom to the cinema: An alternative source of immigrant news
- Jacobo Belilty: revealing the invisible Latino community in the UK
- Using journalism to change the immigrant narrative
Latin America
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Hate rallies in ‘dreams of peace’
29/04/2024After the demonstrations against Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, on 6 March this year, I noted in a column that three [...] -
In Central America “El Niño” hinders access to food
29/04/2024In the Central American region, due to the effects of this climatic phenomenon, some 4’092,000 people may need assistance, [...] -
Fujimori, back on the political stage?
29/04/2024The betting of the power factors could lean towards the former Peruvian president, despite the fact that he is the object of [...]
- In the labyrinth of a very one-of-a-kind Congress
- Poverty and inequality affect Latin American women
- Child starvation, one of Guatemala’s ugly faces
Culture
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Fashion for everyone
06/05/2024Milan, the capital of European fashion, is the city where Daniele Tamagni was born in 1975. “Style is life”, a celebration of [...] -
A political utopia
22/04/2024“The State and revolution” was written by Lenin in 1917, after events in February had overthrown the Tsar but before October [...] -
A photographic memory of Palestine before the Nakba
15/04/2024The Nakba, the dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians by Israelis in 1948, in the words of Mohammed El-Kurd “breathes down [...]
- The resurgence of Central American cinema
- Antigone’s monstrous protest
- Celebrating 30 years of Viva! Latin American cinema
Workers
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Immigrants at sea (2): Developing internationalist trade unionism
29/01/2024It is about organising wherever there are migrant, precarious, low-paid or marginalised workers willing to unite. It is about [...] -
A decade for immigrant and vulnerable workers
22/01/2024Grassroots, independent, bilingual and defending the rights of workers in precarious employment, especially migrants and those [...] -
Immigrants at sea in a precarious labour market (1)
22/01/2024In London there are workers of more than 100 nationalities, including native Britons, in precarious conditions. Migrants are [...]
- When big trade unions abandon their precarious workers
- Immigrant workers: racism and work harassment
- Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
United Kingdom
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Beyond the religion: Atheism in Iran’s society and its diaspora
06/05/2024The rise of atheism in Iran post-Islamic Revolution is multifaceted, influenced by historical, social, cultural, and political [...] -
Multiculturalism: a social process and a political weapon
06/05/2024Immigrants did not cause the economic crisis, they spend most of their time trying to survive, in some cases after being forced [...] -
In London, a form of resistance and survival
06/05/2024In the English-speaking world they are known as ‘squatters’, in Spain ‘okupas’, and in certain Latin American countries [...]
- Grassroots resistance in Palestine
- A transient shadow in London’s underside
- Jacobo Belilty: revealing the invisible Latino community in the UK
Lifestyle
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Networks of love and hate, especially hate!
26/06/2023Violence motivated by hate speech towards vulnerable groups is rampant on social media, despite the rejection of many people. A [...] -
Re-founding Honduras to re-found education
05/09/2022A United Nations study on education in Honduras, published last June, reveals that since March 2020, some 310,000 students have [...] -
Home learning: classroom revolution
09/11/2020Home learning emerged in the midst of the fight against COVID-19 to ensure that teaching could continue in the Dominican [...]
- The virus cannot kill education
- Children and the internet: what Coronavirus changed
- Latin-American youth: a life marked by violence
Strugles
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No to the economic war against Cuba
25/03/2024On 15 March 2024, supporters of RATB protested outside the offices of London resident and DCD Rights’ Head of IT Mickael Behn [...] -
Family court collusion with violent fathers
11/09/2023There are devastating impacts of family court orders on mothers and children who had fled domestic violence and/or child abuse. [...] -
Between repression and revolt, France renews ‘the Marseillaise’
31/03/2023The streets of Paris have become the scene of police repression, attacks on the press and popular resistance. Reports of police [...]
- “Stronger as one”, against the climate crisis
- A crash course to conflict
- Disabled people to protest over deaths and neglect in the NHS
World
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Beyond the religion: Atheism in Iran’s society and its diaspora
06/05/2024The rise of atheism in Iran post-Islamic Revolution is multifaceted, influenced by historical, social, cultural, and political [...] -
Grassroots resistance in Palestine
06/05/2024Interviews with Palestinians aiding grassroots resistance to occupation. Palestinians have a history of grassroots organising to [...] -
Peace: between local wars and a third world war
29/04/2024There are armed conflicts in different parts of the world that have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, genocides, millions of [...]
- Women, the main victims in places of conflict
- Poverty and inequality affect Latin American women
- Neoliberalism, racism and xenophobia vs. immigration
Sports
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Maradona, a universal Latin American
30/11/2020Of Diego Maradona, many things can be said. A restless and therefore multifaceted man, he was not just a football player and [...]