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February 2018

  • Honored to have supported the SOMALILAND marathon where girls got to run too, despite parents’ reluctance, due to fear that women runners could have their uterus fall off.

    by Mitko February 26, 2018
    February 26, 2018

    Luckily, no such thing happened. . I had similar obstacles when promoting cycling for girls in PAKISTAN. Parents would not allow their daughters to come, with fear they would lose …

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  • …when i was sick with malaria but still trying to play my role of ambassador to BURKINA FASO! 

    by Mitko February 26, 2018
    February 26, 2018

    Dragged my ill body to the studio and poured my heart to discuss the power of the people when united for change! And btw, viva Black History Month!!! Interview for …

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  • Feeling helpless in the face of Syria’s humanitarian crisis? Take action with our ally Molham Volunteering Team!

    by Mitko February 25, 2018
    February 25, 2018

    The Molham Volunteering Team is an all-volunteer relief organization helping Syrian refugees by providing a list of urgent cases and ways that you can help. One of their latest was …

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  • A matter of power

    by Mitko February 24, 2018
    February 24, 2018

    Apartheid was legal. Slavery was legal. Colonialism was legal. Legality is a matter of power, not justice! [Photo credit: Zulmaury Saavedra, Unsplash.com.]

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  • Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.

    by Mitko February 24, 2018
    February 24, 2018

    The march of human progress is strewn with dead animals. Even tens of thousands of years ago, our stone-age ancestors were already responsible for a series of ecological disasters. When the …

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  • Check out the latest class of smiling students at Sierra Leone’s Diamond Child School!

    by Mitko February 22, 2018
    February 22, 2018

    The Diamond Child School of Arts and Culture is an educational center in Freetown, Sierra Leone, that works with the area’s most vulnerable youth. Our foundation, the Cultures of Resistance Network, …

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  • The fantasy is that we can somehow transcend our horrible condition of being human through these shining black boxes. — Jaron Lanier

    by Mitko February 20, 2018
    February 20, 2018

    Tomorrow London screens part three of the retrospective at the Deptford Cinema!! Feature documentary Synthetic Pleasures was produced in 1995, but the exploration of how reality, technology, and culture intermix …

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  • Tragic news from SYRIA!

    by Mitko February 16, 2018
    February 16, 2018

    Just hours ago, at 9:10 pm in Idleb, the hospital run by our allies at Syria Relief and Development (SRD) in Hass, Idleb was completely destroyed by 5 aerial bombs. …

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  • MOROCCO

    by Mitko February 15, 2018
    February 15, 2018

    Due to the film we made about the MOROCCAN occupation of WESTERN SAHARA, most likely I will be deported, banned if I try to enter MOROCCO, but luckily we have …

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  • Happy Valentines! <3

    by Mitko February 14, 2018
    February 14, 2018

    Life is for deep kisses, strange adventures, midnight swim, and human rights!! أحب دمشق [Photo credit: Nick Fewings, Unsplash.com.]

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