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John Bird: ‘I know what it's like to be prejudiced, drunk, imprisoned’

In front | INTERVIEW
'Unless you've been told to shut up and listen, you're never going anywhere. That's why so many people can't offer leadership' (Photo: Nabeelah Shabbir)

As ‘The Big Issue’ street magazine for the homeless turns seventeen this September, its co-founder and social entrepreneur, 62, on racist London-Irish upbringings, crime, Paris 1968 and poverty in Britain

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 18/08/08

FEATURE
Radek refuses to go on Palacký Square to express his opinion (Photo: ©KK)

Prague ‘Hyde Park’: dead speakers society

The Czech capital is banishing a young Brit’s project from the city centre after the first Speaker’s Corner in Europe outside of the UK became a hotspot for extremists

by Katharina Kloss // 29/04/08

PORTRAIT

Euthanasia: Noel Martin wants to die

The British citizen of Jamaican origin, has been a paraplegic ever since he was attacked by a band of neo-Nazis. In 2007, he made headline news in Germany and is still fighting to be able to decide the date of his death

by Isaac Risco Rodríguez // 21/03/08

FEATURE

The future is death metal-inspired art in Kosovo

Contemporary art is just one bright face of the Kosovo prism, from which the works of the likes of 29-year-old visual artist Artan Balaj refract

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 18/03/08

FOCUS
The third 'Sorry Day' held in London, after the official 26 May 'Sorry Day' in Australia

Australia: ‘Sorry’ for the Indigenous

13 February. Big screens, daytrips to Canberra, and a historical ‘apology’ by the new Labor government, to the 13, 000 Indigenous children taken from their Aboriginal parents after British colonisation

by Nabeelah Shabbir // 12/02/08

INTERVIEW

Didier Awadi: 'Artists too often have big egos'

The Senegalese hip hop pioneer, 38, invites his fellow rappers to speak out and campaign for a harmonious continent with his latest album 'Presidents of Africa'. Plus an exclusive video interview from Dakar

by Alexandre Polack // 25/01/08

FEATURE
Student from Chad (Photo: DM)

'I am a skinhead from Moscow'

Russian magistrates, politicians and media are concealing more and more racist attacks on foreigners

by Dennis Maschmann // 31/08/07

INTERVIEW
Two immigrants of north African origin at Paris' Place Concorde, after right-wing candidate Sarkozy won the May 2007 presidential elections(Photo: Charles Fred/ Flickr)

'France does not look at itself'

The latest right-wing French government has appointed three top politicans with immigrant backgrounds. But the nation’s political personnel still accounts less and less for the products of immigration, says Karim Zéribi, former advisor to French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement

by Max Disbeaux et Markus F. Gläser // 04/07/07

Sandra Camps (Photo: SC)

Sandra Camps: Barcelona's journalist as Africa's social worker

Her reports on dwarfism and the mass tide of immigrants to the Canaries are gracing German screens - the Catalan journalist gives a voice to those without

by Fernando Navarro Sordo // 05/03/07

INTERVIEW
Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, committed to Africa (Albert Padros)

The state in Africa

Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, a researcher at the Centre for African studies in Paris, speaks about corruption in subsaharan Africa and a state imported from Europe

by Albert Padrós // 31/07/06

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