The New Internationalist | 
#LitsyLoveBingo Since most of my LitsyLove Friends are international, this one was easy
I have two written today ready to go. @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @TieDyeDude @Read4life @julieclair
The latest edition of New Internationalist magazine, #540, has global land rights as its Big Story.
One of the general articles is about the Ukrainian government's attacks on unions, which prior to and since the Russian invasion, have led to widespread strikes in protest of Zelensky's legislative attempts to undermine worker's rights. The British government's UK Aid Agency has supported the anti-union crackdown, which perhaps partly explains ⬇️
"At Ivangorod on Russia's border with Estonia, several years ago, I was unceremoniously booted off a train and frogmarched down the tracks."
I thought I'd add another #FirstLineFridays as my other one was a bit boring! This is from New Internationalist #539, "Whose Railway is it Anyway?" ????
@ShyBookOwl
The latest issue of New internationalist, #539, focuses on railways, how they can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, their potential to ease cross-border travel, and their role in anti-capitalism, all relevant as a wave of strikes, including rail workers, sweeps the UK as the cost of living crises deepens and our government is ripping itself apart. Other stories include a cartoon history of Thomas Paine, and Palestinian skateboard resistance.
"Big Oil has had decades to do the right thing - it can't, and it won't." - New Internationalist #537, "Beyond Big Oil"
"Scary Monsters and Super-Creeps
Keep me running,
Running scared" - David Bowie
When reading and listening align ??
#BooksandBowie
This issue's cover of New Internationalist Magazine #537 is striking: "Silhouetted against a gas flare, a woman sets tapioca out to dry, in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. Warri is a port city and an oil hub."
The Big Story is How We Stop Big Oil.
Other features include The Perils of Child Sponsorship; Is Ethical Tax Avoidance Possible? (I'm guessing, no); Dispatch from Kyiv, and; Turkey's LGBTQI+ community.
Lots of articles for #ReadingAfrica2022
"When we find market solutions to problems caused by the market economy, these solutions merely create new market problems that will require new market solutions."
This article from NI #536 has introduced me to the term "buycott", if not the practice. The idea of buying ethically as a means of fostering a "more just" economy is appealing, but still sits in a capitalist system. What ya gonna do? Hopefully, some ideas by the end of the article.
The January '22 edition of New Internationalist focused on the discrimination against & oppression of Romani people, timely considering the current (or has the news cycle already moved on?) furore regarding Jimmy Carr's "joke" about the Porajmos, the Nazi genocide of Roma people during the Holocaust.
The March '22 edition focuses on the prison abolition movement & what justice might look like in a world without police & an incarceration state.
"This edition's Big Story inspects how workers the world over are being squeezed. There is no shortage of ideas that envisage a future where we reorganize society in such a way that work becomes at most a part-time adjunct in a world of shared plenty. We look at some of those. But in the short-term, the changes are age-old - struggles for greater autonomy, dignity and fairness".
"10 Steps to End World Hunger:
No. 3: There are now 2,700 billionaires in the world with a combined wealth of $13 trillion. The International Monetary Fund puts the annual financing gap for the Sustainable Development Goals (including No 2, Zero Hunger) at $300-$400 billion. So, just tax and distribute wealth fairly."
- New Internationalist Magazine #533
