Category Archives: General

Monday’s Featured artist: FAYE QUINN

Posted on November 10, 2015 by agogo22

Faye Quinn, Contact Light Eventually, humans will have to find a new way of life. Reset our everyday. Vital resources run low, the planet Earth is coming to its demise. As a race, we search desperately to find a different … Continue reading →

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The Chestnut Fair arrives in Portimão

Posted on November 10, 2015 by agogo22

It’s Chestnut Time again! The annual St Martin’s Fair has arrived at the Parque de Feiras e Exposições in Portimão and runs every day until the 15th November. The 11th of November in Portugal is the Dia da São Martinho – the … Continue reading →

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Brazil mine disaster a nightmare for BHP

Posted on November 10, 2015 by agogo22

Another BHP disaster on the scale of Ok Tedi in Papua New Guinea, which poured its tailings into the river rather than holding them in a dam, ruining large parts of PNG’s Western Province and the lives of 50,000 people… BHP Billiton … Continue reading →

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How Brazil And China Are Investing In Africa

Posted on November 10, 2015 by agogo22

After the economic slow-down, inflation and recession – and perhaps, some most pessimistic might say, the eminent down-fall of BRICS, all eyes turn to Africa as the new best thing regarding investments. Brazil and China have already been investing heavily … Continue reading →

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Autumn in Manchester. 

Posted on November 8, 2015 by agogo22

  

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Migrant solidarity in London and Manchester

Posted on November 7, 2015 by agogo22

Two activists, Ewa Barker and Kate Bradley, discuss their involvment in migrant solidarity in London and Manchester Ewa Barker initiated Manchester to Calais. Here she explains the dynamic within the movement in Manchester The response to our page on Facebook was … Continue reading →

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Gary Smith: Capturing the Life of Human Streets

Posted on November 7, 2015 by agogo22

I encountered the photographic work of Gary Smith Some years ago through our mutual interest in Favela Rocinha. Since then my life has been enriched consistently by the candor and humanity of the way he documents the lives of people. … Continue reading →

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Bringing Abortion into the Brazilian Public Debate: Legal Strategies for Anencephalic Pregnancy

Posted on November 6, 2015 by agogo22

Luís Roberto Barroso, “Bringing Abortion into the Brazilian Public Debate: Legal Strategies for Anencephalic Pregnancy,” Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies ed. Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014) pp 258-278, … Continue reading →

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Street Market

Posted on November 5, 2015 by agogo22

Originally posted on The Final Third:
The scene in the market looks like a painting, each vegetable and fruit washed clean and placed just so. Palettes of garlic cloves mix with an unending size and color of hot peppers swirled…

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1.4 million Brazilians sign zero deforestation bill

Posted on November 5, 2015 by agogo22

Campaigners deliver 1.4 million signatures supporting the zero deforestation bill to the Brazilian congress Photo © Marcos Oliveira/Agência Senado. For the past three years, Greenpeace Brazil has been collecting signatures in support of a bill to establish a zero deforestation … Continue reading →

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