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Is love real?
In a cafe, In Al-Khalil, five teenage girls approached me, an older white woman, and asked lots of questions. Is love real? was their last question. I was leaving and there wasn’t time to say much. But I thought about it afterwards. Is love real? she asked,speaking for the five bright eyed girls,shy but eager […]
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What’s happening on the border right now?
What’s happening on the border right now? The quick and easy answer is, “Not much.” Border Patrol is not deporting people through the port here in Douglas/Agua Prieta. That means no one is stopping at the Centro de Recursos para Migrantes for water or information, and there are no travelers wearing hooded sweatshirts and carrying […]
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Weaving hope and resistance in Iraqi Kurdistan
A few weeks ago, Rebaz Suleiman Sallih was killed. Rebaz was a shepherd who lived near the border where Iraqi Kurdistan meets Iran. He and his brother Bewar had gone to bring in their flock, which was grazing on a plateau next to the border. Iranian soldiers opened fire on them. Bewar escaped, but Rebaz […]
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Where safety lies, humanity blossoms
Europe today lives in a state of profound contradiction. At the latest World Cup, it celebrated the vibrant, dazzling triumphs of youth born in the soil of sanctuary. And yet it erects increasingly cold, bureaucratic mechanisms designed to ensure that those seeking sanctuary now never take root. This divide raises a fundamental question about how […]
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Possibility in community
Before the Covid-19 pandemic forced us all to stay indoors in March 2020, the island of Lesvos already felt locked down. For thousands of people, it was a prison island. Migrants were trapped: unable to leave the island, cut off from mainland Greece and prevented from continuing their journeys. We used to describe the place […]
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Solidarity with those living in Lesvos CCAC
An open letter from Senegalese and Gambian residents of the Lesvos Closed Controlled Access Centre is the latest chapter in over a decade of migrant resistance against Greek migration policy on the Aegean islands.
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