Chumbawamba criticized the use of their song in a political speech by New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters. (The Rolling Stone) WHEN New Zealand’s Populist Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, stood to deliver a political speech in the city of Palmerston North in March, British punk band Chumbawamba’s iconic song “Tubthumping (I Get Knocked … Read more
Guadalupe Aguilar (Guadalajara, 69 years old) has lived for more than a decade in a fight against the clock. His son, José Luis Arana, disappeared in 2011 in the state of Jalisco, when he was 34 years old, and is now part of the long and discouraging list of more than 100,000 people not located … Read more
The Russian justice system this Tuesday sentenced veteran activist Oleg Orlov, leader of the human rights organization Memorial, to two and a half years in prison for an opinion column titled They wanted fascism and they had it. After hearing the ruling, law enforcement officers handcuffed Orlov, 70, and put him in a police van … Read more
As Theo Anthony argues in his documentaries Subject to Review y All light, Everywhere, Every image, fixed or moving, is open to the interpretation of those who contemplate it.. Or what is the same: images generate narratives. Like the human eye, the lens of a camera has virtues and defects, a frame that excludes what … Read more