Utrecht

Every Sunday we turn ACU into a library!

Book-Café The Barricade is celebrating its first birthday! The one year mark is as good a time as any for self-reflection – we’ve chosen to use our birthday weekend to look back at our collection and ask some questions: Who is included? Who is missing? How can we challenge the ways in which our libraries, movements, and the stories we tell about their histories, prioritise certain knowledges over others? [node:read-more:link]

Western Sahara is considered by the UN as the last territory in Africa yet to
be decolonized. After more than 40 years of illegal occupation by Morocco
(with the complicity of USA and EU) the Sahrawies are divided by the “Wall
of Shame”. This wall is the longest in the world with 2,720 km, and is
surrounded by 40 million land mines. On one side of the wall 200.000
Sahrawies survive in refugees camps in the middle of the desert also called
the "The Devil's Garden", on the other side, the occupied territories the [node:read-more:link]

Het zal niemand zijn ontgaan dat ons internet- en telefoonverkeer gretig wordt afgeluisterd. Met name activisten zijn hiervoor een geliefd doelwit. Maar de online privacyschendingen gaan verder dan alleen aftappende inlichtengendiensten. Ook het grootkapitaal - google, facebook, u kent ze wel - weet ons driftig te volgen en vaak onopgemerkt te profileren. Gelukkig zijn de technieken die hierbij gebruikt worden vaak met enige kennis en de juiste tools redelijk te omzeilen. [node:read-more:link]