Stories from Palestine: I am thrilled to be one of those stories — Nadia’s Jerusalem

Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives amplify perspectives and experiences of Palestinians exercising their own constructive agency. In Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience, Marda Dunsky presents a vivid overview of contemporary Palestinian society in…

Stories from Palestine: I am thrilled to be one of those stories — Nadia’s Jerusalem

[Editorial] Worries of a writer

You are already a writer, perhaps not yet published but you are a writer. You can select your genre, construct a list of potential publishers and begin submitting to them one at a time – give them two weeks to respond and then move to the next. Your work may not be accepted the first time around because it is not what the editor needs at that moment. So when his/her time comes up again resubmit and the timing might be right. You write because you have to; so don’t stop – just get organized in submitting your work.

A Moonchild's Blog

As a soon to be nineteen-year-old writer (7th of March for those who are interested), right now my future terrifies me. I am a university student studying English and Creative writing, and to be honest I hate my course. Who would have thought a writer would hate an English course!! “It’s perfectly suited for you”. Hmm.. Yes, although that is true, but something in my gut is telling me not to continue the course and be a further £20,000 in debt after. Its inexplainable….

Perhaps one of the reasons may be the ongoing pandemic. Yes, it’s not ideal in the slightest. The Open University in the U.K charges around £6,000 per year for online learning, which is what everyone is currently doing for £9,000. But having a degree is what everyone should do right? It’s what everyone needs to succeed in life and become successful.

To an extent, yes that…

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Hungary’s leading independent radio station loses broadcast licence

sad day for democracy…

’s leading independent radio station Klubradio lost an appeal Tuesday to keep its broadcasting licence after the country’s #media regulator said it had infringed administrative rules, raising new press concerns in the #EU member state.

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Myanmar coup: Protesters resume rallies despite army crackdown

Crowds demonstrating against the military takeover in #Myanmar again defied a ban on protests Wednesday, even after security forces ratcheted up the use of force against them and raided the headquarters of the political party of ousted leader Aung San Suu #Kyi.

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La Nature est le Vrai Joyau !

Cannibal gold … Our elders did not know about money … Money does not protect us … it does not create our joy. For whites, it’s different. These whites are earth eaters covered in epidemic fumes.

Barbara Crane Navarro

La forêt tropicale, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

« l’or cannibale … Nos aînés ne connaissaient pas l’argent… L’argent ne nous protège pas… il ne crée pas notre joie. Pour les Blancs, c’est différent. Ces blancs sont des mangeurs de terre couverts de fumées épidémiques. Ils pensent qu’ils sont tout-puissants, mais leur pensée est pleine de ténèbres. » – du porte-parole et chaman Yanomami Davi Kopenawa, La chute du ciel

«Cette bague Cartier si spéciale» – montage photo: série «Pas de Cartier» – Barbara Crane Navarro – avec bague Cartier «LOVE» dégoulinant de sang symbolique, publicité pour Cartier, destruction minière d’or photo: João Laet

« Nous avons fait du tort, corrompu et ruiné… Nous sommes coupables, nous avons trahi… Nous avons volé, nous avons calomnié… Nous avons perverti et égaré… Nous avons été faux… Nous nous sommes coupés de la vérité, et la réalité existe pour nous divertir. Nous…

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Myanmar Forces Raid Ruling Party Headquarters, Woman Shot in Anti-Coup Protests

Myanmar security forces raided the headquarters of deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party on Tuesday, a party official said, as nationwide demonstrations against the military takeover turned bloody when police fired on a large crowd in the capital, wounding two protesters.

In a nighttime raid as anti-coup protests in Myanmar’s major cities entered their second week, military and police broke into the National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters in Yangon and a nearby regional office, said Kyaw Wunna, a member of the NLD’s research team.

“Tonight around 9 p.m., a staffer who was monitoring the security cameras informed us that the police and soldiers got into our headquarters office and the regional office at the same time,” he told RFA. He said office CCTV footage showed police and army troops blocking surrounding streets as they broke in.

“Even if they wanted to search our offices, they could have done it during daytime when officials are present,” said Kyaw Wunna. “They are committing one lawless act after another.”

Earlier on Tuesday, protesters demanding the reinstatement of deposed Aung San Suu Kyi and her elected government defied a curfew and assembly ban imposed Monday and turned out for the fourth day of demonstrations following a mass protest rallies across the nation of 54 million people over the weekend.

Police used water cannons, tear gas, and rubber bullets to disperse the tens of thousands of mostly peaceful protesters in the capital Naypyidaw and Mandalay, the second largest city, injuring at least five demonstrators in the capital, sources said. Protesters responded by throwing rocks and other projectiles.

In Naypyidaw, a 20-year-old female protester was shot in the head and another person was hit in the chest after police fired about 60 shots into a crowd of demonstrators during a tussle over a police officer who had joined the protests, said a protester who heard the shots.

The woman, Mya Thwait Thwait Khine, “is now being treated in the special intensive care unit,” said a doctor at a 1,000-bed hospital in the capital who declined to be identified for security reasons.

“The injury is life-threatening. Her brain is not functioning due to the bullet wound,” he said, adding that the bullet was lodged in her head and that it would be extremely difficult to remove.

“Our medical analysis of the wound indicates that the shot was fired from very far away, but penetrated through her [motorbike] helmet and skull, so we believe it was a real bullet,” the doctor said. “Rubber bullets cannot inflict this kind of injury. The head CT scan also indicated that the bullet lodged in the brain was metal and not rubber.”

Naypyidaw’s military hospital earlier pressured the civilian hospital to transfer the injured protesters, but staff declined, he said.

First known bloodshed

Tuesday’s shooting, the first known bloodshed since the military takeover, followed a confrontation at a rally of as many as 100,000 protesters, including students and government workers, at the Thabyegon roundabout in Naypyidaw, where a young police officer climbed onto a building and called on fellow officers and all other government employees to join the civil disobedience movement.

“I want my fellow police officers to abandon their fears and stand by the side of the people,” the officer said. “They cannot use violence against us.”

“It is also important to get the support of the judicial sector and the General Administration Department,” he said. “Without them, our fight for democracy cannot be successful. We need to carry on these protests day after day until power is handed back to the people. The administrative machinery must come to a stop.”

Three police officers in Magway and one in Tanintharyi region joined protests there, with the latter officer arrested, sources said.

After a week of silence following the Feb. 1 putsch during which Aung San Suu Kyi and scores of officials were arrested, the junta on Monday issued curfew decrees, and coup leaders, Senior General Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing appeared on state television to repeat the election fraud claims the army has used to justify the military takeover.

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a watchdog group, said that as of Monday, 170 people had been detained in relation to the military coup, with only 18 released. Most are politicians, it said.

Reported by Nayrein Kyaw and RFA’s Myanmar Service. Translated by Kyaw Min Htun and Khin Maung Nyane. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin.