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Aydasara Ortega articles

Aydasara Ortega writes for Democracy Chronicles from New York. She is an educator, papermaker and writer. Also take a look at her Blogspot website for more of her work.

Remember to Remember

By Aydasara Ortega - June 7, 2016 Leave a Comment

Remember to Remember

The amount of information coming from all directions makes it possible to confuse reality with the simulacra created by the media. This blurring goes unnoticed by the media consumer.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Journalism and Free Speech

We Can Have a Say in This Story

By Aydasara Ortega - May 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

This Story

We ought to devote time to partake on talking about issues inside and outside our personal interests and viewpoints; being open to molding and transforming our research methods and resisting submissive and conformist postures

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Education

On May Day and Meaningful Work

By Aydasara Ortega - May 1, 2016 Leave a Comment

On May Day and Meaningful Work

In the 1860’s, working people mobilized speaking loud and clear in favor of an 8-hour work day without a cut in pay – claimed by the working people themselves without the support or consent of the employers.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Democracy Protests, Election History, Socialism and Labor

This Social Context

By Aydasara Ortega - April 22, 2016 Leave a Comment

This Social Context

What if we speak up in favor of education? What if we freely nurture the skills that will allow us all to see how each person’s individual troubles and the larger economic and political context are pieced together?

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Education

Redefining Words

By Aydasara Ortega - April 9, 2016 Leave a Comment

Redefining Words

Historical research continues to show that physical variations in the human species do not have any meaning apart from the social one we humans put on them.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-American Voting Rights, Election History, Racism and Prejudice, Worldwide

The Influences Undertaken

By Aydasara Ortega - March 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

Influences Undertaken

When the self-righteousness with which we allow ourselves to be carried along crowns the influences undertaken, let’s remember that “air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.”

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Education, Journalism and Free Speech

And So, We Have to Shift Narratives

By Aydasara Ortega - March 12, 2016 1 Comment

Shift Narratives

Change is a societal norm. Yet many factors can boost, suspend, or thwart it. For instance, change in our democratic system can be confined by our dogmas, the media we are imposed by, the media we expose ourselves to, or persons with partisan authority and assets.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Journalism and Free Speech

Politics of Education: El Ritual de lo Habitual

By Aydasara Ortega - February 29, 2016 1 Comment

El Ritual de lo Habitual

As we listen and analyze the proposals of all candidates, we should consider questions like the following: What causes inequality in education? In society? What are the consequences?

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Education, Racism and Prejudice, Socialism and Labor, Worldwide

The Playful Journey of Literacy

By Aydasara Ortega - January 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

Playful Journey of Literacy

With the acknowledgement of the importance of literacy come the challenges of educating diverse individuals – among them ourselves. Interestingly, educating society as a whole about diversity is still to this day part of the challenges.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Education, Worldwide

On Democratizing Knowledge

By Aydasara Ortega - January 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Democratizing Knowledge

Libraries and the internet play a key role in democratizing knowledge by providing open access of all kinds of information to the masses. We all want to see the whole picture. When we look at – let’s say – a paper collage, we relish becoming lost in that other realm.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Education, Political Artwork

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Would A Peace Prize To Greta Have Caused A Political Crisis?

By Mats Sederholm

On December 10, the Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded, and many have wanted Greta Thunberg to be the recipient. But would the world’s leaders really have been able to take in Greta’s message?

I Can’t Breathe, And Neither Can You

By Jack Jones

Captains and lieutenants have the duty to keep the peace but often see this as a carte blanche to “get rid of the riff-raff”. That’s what happened on that fateful day.

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Reconciliation will be crucial to the success of elections in Somalia in 2021

By Abdiweli Hassan

Despite great optimism, insecurity and a fractious political space mean reconciliation will be crucial to the success of elections in Somalia in 2021.

Returning Citizens Await Legal Rulings in Florida Voting Rights Case

By Steve Schneider

Attorneys for 17 Florida residents argue they can register to vote after they finish their prison sentence, and complete parole or probation. Not so, says the Republican governor.

When A House Is Not a Home

By Jack Jones

For both the Palestinians and Kurds, violence continues to happen in their houses. These wars being fought because of old grievances.

After a Month of Countrywide Protest, The Iraqi Prime Minister Resigns

By Thomas Manning

Iraqi protesters have now made sacrifices in large numbers to voice their dissent against the government and they still refuse to back down.

“The Kurds Were not in Normandy”: Distortion and Genocide in the Middle East

By Jack Jones

That Kurds were not in Normandy is a shameful distortion of truth. We abandoned our Kurdish allies for dubious motives, now they are facing genocide.

Finish Off Brexit And Stop Embarrassing The Democracy

By Mats Sederholm

It is 3½ years since Britons voted for an exit and still, the British Parliament has not been able to deliver what the voters decided.

Ready to Impeach

By Jack Jones

The day that Donald Trump installed Stephen Miller as Senior Advisor for Policy in his administration, we should have been prepared for impeachment.

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