Tag: digital activism
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The People’s Conference for Palestine in Copenhagen: organising and repression in Europe
Hey Reader, I hope things are well in your world right now. I’ve been looking forward to writing up this post following my attendance at the People’s Conference for Palestine, organised by the IF (International Forum) Palestine, which took place across two days on December 7th and 8th earlier this month. The conference featured talks,…
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The Power of Pictures: (Palestinian) Photography as Visual Weapons – In an Age of Digital Disinformation
“Pictures are particularly powerful visual weapons (cf. Lilleker, Veneti and Jackson, 2019) against oppression and suffering as has been demonstrated in places like South Africa and Palestine.” “Google Arts and Culture posits that of all art mediums, photography is perhaps the greatest weapon against exposing and calling to order injustice.” – Karam & Mutsvairo, 2021,…
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Using interviews to conduct research: two views on social change
For this assignment I carried out two interviews of people ostensibly having different viewpoints on the issue of how social change and development can be implemented. My purpose was to identify and contrast those differences in approach towards the same issue. I thus decided to see how two individuals of different backgrounds, interests and experiences…
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Digital Activism: doing good or looking good?
And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time…. Hi there dear reader, hope you are doing well in these rather confusing and troubling times. In this post I want to delve a little deeper into the question of digital activism and whether it’s a case of doing good or just looking good, which…
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This Week in Sweden: The Forced Removal and Shutdown of The Last Pro-Palestinian Encampment in Europe
↓ “Dear all, With great sorrow, we must announce that after nearly 200 days of resistance at Gazaplatsen – Europe’s last tent camp – we have been forced to leave the site in our fight against the University of Gothenburg’s veto and the ongoing genocide.” – GU Students For Palestine Last week, on Thursday…
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Repression and Its Implications: A Threat to Democratic Freedoms
On November 1, the German parliament passed a new resolution targeting anti-Semitism. Amnesty International warns that its vague language enables the broad criminalization of criticism of Israel. This repression endangers freedoms such as speech, assembly, artistic expression, and academic liberty. The resolution could strip state funding from cultural or artistic projects labeled as “potentially antisemitic,”…
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Pro-Palestinian Activism in Sweden: The Last Remaining Encampment
↓ Hi gentle reader, Sam here, writing to you from Gothenburg, Sweden. It’s now thirteen months since the horrific events of October 7th launched this catastrophic, devastating new wave of genocide, ecocide, and ethnic cleansing committed by the Israeli government with support from their allies on the people of Palestine. And the end, or even…
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Pro-Palestinian activism in Austria: silencing and repression
It’s been over a year since October 7, 2023. Since then, Gaza has suffered from Israeli imposed massacres, bombings, forced displacement, gender-based violence, and starvation, following Hamas’ attack. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security classified these actions as genocidal as early as October 13, 2023, and the global pro-Palestinian movement has been…
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Digital Acivism and Palestine: A view from Copenhagen
Hey I’m Joel – I’ve been living in Copenhagen for the last 5 years working for a Danish tech company, but studying part-time for the MA in ComDev since 2023. I have a keen interest in the relationship between protest, digital activism and grassroots movements. I have previously worked as a languages teacher at a…
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Why digital activism
It has been slightly over a year since Israel invaded Gaza, destroying houses, infrastructure, and most importantly LIVES. Lives of innocent people; children, elderly and sick. An estimate published by Oxfam is that within this year the number of killed Palestinian women and children has been higher than the equivalent number of any other single…
