In Verona for the Arena of Peace the gesture of two people who have both lost loved ones in the Gaza conflict. The pontiff told the weavers of dialogue in the Holy Land: ‘Ask world leaders to listen to your voice, so that agreements are born from reality and not from ideologies’. ‘The sin of political regimes that have ended in dictatorships is not to admit plurality: only a society where conflicts are addressed and dialogue takes place has a future’.
The mass food drive for Gaza was also a campaign to contest the growth of Christian Zionism in the country and deepen ties with the Palestinian struggle.
[Artwork by Vienno.]
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Brazilian landless workers, who live on settlemen
Writing to you are old comrades. We are members of the group that created the World Social Forum and helped to spread it around the world. We are reaching out
Letter sent to President Lula in the second week of March, signed by representatives of the eight Brazilian organisations that created the World Social