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Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Glue guns, not handguns

By Annabelle Linders On February 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida experienced a school shooting, leaving 17 students and staff dead. In response to this tragedy, 28 survivors founded March for Our Lives (abbreviated as MFOL), a non-profit dedicated to preventing gun violence in the United States, with a focus... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Fictional characters and their symbology as a powerful tool for activist expressions

By Mariya Mubeen Protests and activism are always about a cause, or a change. It involves imagining the world as a better place, even if the... More

By Mariya Mubeen Protests and activism are always about a cause, or a change. It involves imagining the world as a better place, even if the ‘better’ changes from protest to protest. At the end of the day, protests represent a group of people coming together to change something and usually this involves... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Why a hashtag isn’t enough for a feminist revolution: The “Ni Una Menos” movement

By Oriana Santana Macias “The killing of women because they are women” is a recurrent phrase that has captivated the focus of Latin... More

By Oriana Santana Macias “The killing of women because they are women” is a recurrent phrase that has captivated the focus of Latin American feminist activism. The region includes 5 of the 12 countries with the highest rate of femicide in the world. According to The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] I Paid a Bribe: How a crowdsourcing digital campaign took on corruption

Jami E McElrea India is one of the fastest growing economies, yet corruption is rampant. More than 50% of Indians have bribed government... More

Jami E McElrea India is one of the fastest growing economies, yet corruption is rampant. More than 50% of Indians have bribed government officials in 2019. In 2010 transparency international ranked India 87th out of 178 countries. Corruption has a huge economic and social cost in India and has created a system of... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] Issue 6: Current activism and alternative media

Introduction by Ghadah Alrasheed With the outbreak of COVID-19, life feels surreal and strange as our sheltered world has been overbalanced. The ensuing circumstances, however, have also... More

Introduction by Ghadah Alrasheed With the outbreak of COVID-19, life feels surreal and strange as our sheltered world has been overbalanced. The ensuing circumstances, however, have also thrown into sharp relief social inequality, inefficient governance and racial disparity as we have seen clearly who had been the most impacted by COVID-19 . The... More