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Season 8: Don't Call Me Resilient

As war rages in Sudan, community resistance groups sustain life
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As war rages in Sudan, community resistance groups sustain life

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

A different way to address student encampments

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

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A different way to address student encampments
In India, film and social media play recurring roles in politics

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

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Digging into the colonial roots of gardening

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

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A Black woman wearing denim, gloves and an apron, crouches down by a green and orange plant.
Starvation is a weapon of war: Gazans are paying the price

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation, and Husein Haveliwala, The Conversation

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Why students harmed by addictive social media need more than cellphone bans and surveillance

Why students harmed by addictive social media need more than cellphone bans and surveillance

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation, and Catherine Zhu, The Conversation

The chilling effects of trying to report on the Israel-Gaza war

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Dannielle Piper, The Conversation

The chilling effects of trying to report on the Israel-Gaza war
Indigenous media: From stereotypes to sovereignty

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Dannielle Piper, The Conversation, and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

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Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression
Asylum seekers from Gaza and Sudan face prejudiced policies and bureaucratic hurdles

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

Asylum seekers from Gaza and Sudan face prejudiced policies and bureaucratic hurdles

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Indigenous land defenders: Don’t Call Me Resilient

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Palestine was never a ‘land without a people’

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How to spark change within our unequal education system

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Will Smith’s Oscar slap reveals fault lines

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