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30 November 2025

Stories for Peace

A project by Elijah Astute and the children of Nakivale, with Luca Luigi Ashieri and Catherin J Pascal Dunk The Stories for Peace project aims to give a voice to the children and youth who have fled war and are living in the Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda. This will be done through the publication…

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12 November 2025

Liberation through Direct Action: An Interview with Emma-Louise Battante

when i think of direct action, i always think in terms of how direct the effect is to preserve life

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6 May 2025

Peace in Ubuntu, by Elijah Astute

Please read this important, consciousness-raising work shared on my other blog, Wordflowerpoetry.com. Elijah Astute is a writer, interpreter, activist and permaculturist from DRC in East Africa, currently residing in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda.

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2 May 2025

Drilling down into ‘luxury’

We’re taught to be good little consumers … but what does luxury really mean, for you? Content shared from Lauren Avo.

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28 April 2025

One beautiful way to do revolution [a reblog]

Flowers, not guns claimed the streets back for the people in Lisbon, 25 April 1974. A reblogged article by Diniz Borges.

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16 April 2025

How Eastern Congo Became the World’s Deadliest Conflict Zone

The Congolese people deserve better than to be collateral damage in a war for resources. An article by Elijah Astute.

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28 September 2024

Awakening from the machine of history: a manifesto

We find ourselves in an age of immense contradiction. On one hand, we possess the capacity to reflect, to imagine, to transcend the immediate demands of survival. On the other, we remain trapped in patterns of behaviour that drive societies toward conflict, exploitation, and collapse.

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31 August 2024

Ten things I know for certain

What are ten things you know for certain, without any shadow of a doubt? The exercise may be harder than you think.

class, climate crisis, environment, patriarchy, peace, politics

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27 August 2024

Wisdom from 1940: Charlie Chaplin’s only speech

I’m sharing this post from my poetry blog as it has deep relevance here.

peace, politics, war

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