Peace & Change publishes scholarship on the achievement of a peaceful, just & humane society. Pub'd by the Peace History Society w/IPRA and @WileyCulture.
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Protest rallies against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have been held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two Japanese cities that suffered atomic bomb attacks during World War Two.
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[1/7] Desmond Tutu contributed the essay “God’s Dream” for our Waging Peace series: a masterpiece of ethical and theological thinking. Over the next few days we'll be posting quotes from this essay to share with you. Feel free to read the full essay here: buff.ly/3pwBycG
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.@POTUS has become the first US president to issue a statement formally describing the 1915 massacre of Armenians as a #genocide bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana… @BBCNews #Armenia
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In order to hold up claims of "terra nullius," colonial histories of Australia describe the continent and its Indigenous peoples as "isolated" before Europeans arrived. But they were, for centuries, part of the vibrant trepang trade.
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🆕 @SIPRIorg data – Top 10 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2020 (in $ b.):
1🇺🇸USA 778
2🇨🇳China 252
3🇮🇳India 72.9
4🇷🇺Russia 61.7
5🇬🇧UK 59.2
6🇸🇦Saudi Arabia 57.5
7🇩🇪Germany 52.8
8🇫🇷France 52.7
9🇯🇵Japan 49.1
10🇰🇷South Korea 45.7
📰⏩ bit.ly/3virWCd
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"Peace Data recruited journalists... didn't mention any connection to the Russian government, but called for 'writers for the following topics: anti-war, corruption, abuse of power, human rights violations, and such like.'" nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/r… via @nbcnews
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Some of the content published on the PeaceData site was "created by real people who appear to have contributed to PeaceData as freelancers" per @TwitterSafety
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So what were these fake “editors” editing? The PeaceData website posted in English and Arabic.
From mid-December, it republished other people’s articles in English.
From about mid-March, it began running its own articles.
From April, it published in Arabic too.
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#NBAstrike reminds us of the 1967 Cleveland Summit where Black athletes came together in solidarity with Muhammad Ali's anti-war activism.
Muhammad Ali sacrificed his entire boxing career and went to prison to protest the Vietnam War. #BlackAugust
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Kenyan communities are suing the UK over colonial-era land grabbing that forced them out of their homes and farmland - leaving many in poverty.
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Howard Cruse’s comics are a crucial chronicle of the Jim Crow South and the early years of the AIDS epidemic. slate.trib.al/XXeFwZw
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While challenging sexist and colonial narratives deeply rooted in the region, a feminist and nonbinary collective is creating a safe space to put themselves on the international map as photojournalists. trib.al/jYG085d
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A beloved @Creighton Jesuit
#OTD in 1967, the death of #Jesuit Father John Markoe, who dedicated his life to fighting racial injustice. ow.ly/89oZ50AIld9
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The dark side of a $100bn industry where enslaved children work in cocoa fields for the chocolate we all love to eat.
▶️ Watch Chocolate's Heart of Darkness: Child Labour in Ivory Coast 👉 aje.io/6mxrt
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Perspective: Black women are the victims of police violence, too wapo.st/3g1wBBq
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A newlywed couple who were among the first to be charged with the serious crime of rioting in connection with the protests in Hong Kong were found not guilty on Friday. A teenager was also acquitted. nyti.ms/32VD3q0
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Body of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, civil rights icon, crosses landmark Selma bridge as remembrances continue ti.me/2P1yaDi
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Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force buff.ly/2OXyt2a