Fifty years ago, 9 November 1965 at 5 a.m., Roger LaPorte set himself on fire in front of the UN building in New York City to protest against the American involvement in the Vietnam war. Margutte wants to celebrate his…
Speak Out Against the War
The rooms of Chronos
Launching the Migration Memory Memorial
ANTONIA SUTZKEVER (researched and edited by) The Migration Memory Memorial website https://migrationmemorymemorial.com presents the archive of a radical Jewish family. Spanning almost one hundred years from 1890 to 1989, it includes a diary, letters and photographs. These documents reveal the…
Crumbs of Truth (in a story set in Calabria)
FRANCES FAHY The procession of events and people that we term History is, in theory, a defined time, winding steadily away from us back to an unidentified, misty curiosity known as Prehistory. How difficult it is to grasp this ‘defined’…
A Second Letter to the World (in the time of pandemic, courage and hope)
At this dramatic moment in time, when many people are losing their lives; the most vulnerable are suffering great hardships and the whole of humanity is forced to make painful sacrifices; a group of international poets (who are also human…
A Letter to the World
A group of poets have written a message to the powerful of the Earth: give our planet back a future and hope to the generations to come. We will continue to ask institutions all over the world to start a…
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Preamble Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and…
Call To Action For a United Europe
5 Million Europeans Raise Their Voices Together: Against Nationalism For a United Europe on Saturday 13.10.2018 We want a Europe of freedom and peace. Instead, nationalism is gaining sway. Intolerance is spreading. The voice of hate is growing louder, violence…