by Sandra Kasunić “The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters Together we will stand There is power in a Union.” These are the lyrics to Billy Bragg’s powerful song “There Is Power In A Union.” But they furthermore…

by Valentina Longo, Sangre Fucsia This article is part of a two-post series on collaboration, community media and activism in Spain. Read part one here. When Territorio Doméstico Met Sangre Fucsia We want a fuchsia world and we are building it with Territorio Doméstico. The organization, established in 2006, is formed by mostly migrant and some…

by Valentina Longo, Sangre Fucsia This article is part of a two-post series on collaboration, community media and activism in Spain. Read part two here. This article is based on my experience as a podcaster in a feminist collective, Sangre Fucsia. The project was started by a group of women…

By John Masuku The African public and private media have covered the war between Russia and Ukraine with extreme caution due to long-time allegiances, its impact on global diplomacy and its global economic impact. The aftermath of the Cold War and its global polarization have clearly influenced the reporting. Many…

by Matt Broomfield In the first article in this series, I looked at some of the challenges facing the Rojava Information Center in reaching the outside world — and how we tried to overcome both Western indifference and orientalism on the one hand; and Turkish state propaganda and institutional legitimacy…

by Matt Broomfield When my colleagues and I founded the Rojava Information Center (RIC) in December 2018, Donald Trump had just announced the abortive US pull-out from the Kurdish-led autonomous region of North and East Syria (NES), and a fresh Turkish assault against the region seemed imminent. …

By Zsuzsa Detrekői There are signs that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have been preparing for the war for a while, online and offline. Hints about a Russian-run alternative of the internet were made by him already in 2014. The first news about Russia’s possible disconnection from the global internet…

By Zsuzsa Detrekői This article was first published by the Internet Policy Review. Find it here. Since the early days of online news portals at the end of the 20th century, online content publishing was a three-sided market from an economic perspective. Content providers (mainly online newspapers) wrote the content…

By “Silenced by Lawsuits,” the anti-SLAPP research group at CMDS Political sentiments are increasingly turning against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP). SLAPPs, in a nutshell, are an abuse of statutory law, or a legal process to stifle critical speech. This use of legal means to stifle freedom of expression…