Category Archives: General

by Jorge Rivero González (Image from http://www.universetoday.com) When you see images of the Earth taken from space, you can appreciate the blue oceans, mountain chains or green forests but no borders separating countries. This is something we like to stress…

Originally posted on Brazil Portal:
TeleSUR, 8/23/2014 Hundreds of people demonstrated on Friday in several cities of Brazil about the high and increasing rates of violent death recorded in the country´s Afro-descendent population The protesters peacefully blocked the main avenue…

Originally posted on Brazil Portal:
Empire State Tribune, 8/25/2014 Five students at the Santa Catarina State University in Brazil submitted a project to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition subjects that functions as a pattern recognition system in a dashboard camera to…

Originally posted on Stories from The Journey…:
? During our visit to Brazil, we carried a currency called ‘real’ (/reɪˈɑːl/; Brazilian Portuguese: [ʁeˈaw]; pl. reais) for use during our travels. To convert these funds from USD (which we were advised has…

Originally posted on lipstick socialist:
Watch… Two Days, One Night (Cornerhouse)..another brilliant film from Belgian brothers; the Dardennes. Sandra has just returned to work after being ill with depression only to find that the management have asked the staff to…

Originally posted on gobydirector:
Directed by Sophie Fiennes (sister of Ralph and Joseph) and written by and starring Slavoj Zizek (who is like a modern day Sigmund Freud). This incredibly insightful and fascinating documentary explains how different ideologies are incorporated…

Originally posted on interactionsperformance:
Continued from Post #1 (written by Dani Abulhawa) Images of women’s breasts, presented in a sexualised context within mainstream newspapers and advertisements have, for decades presented women primarily as objects of masculine desire. The No More…