Ovi magazine; Tuesday March 8th, 2022 – International Women’s Day

 

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday March 8th, 2022 – International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for “liberty, equality, fraternity” marched on Versailles to demand women’s suffrage.

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The Ukraine War and the “Good” Refugee by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

In the history of accepting refugees, countries have shown more than an erratic streak. Universal human characteristics have often been overlooked in favour of the particular: race, cultural habits, religion. Even immigration nations, such as the United States and Australia, have had their xenophobic twists and turns on the issue of who to accept, be they victims of pogroms, war crimes, genocide, or famine.

The Russian attack on Ukraine has already produced refugees in the hundreds of thousands. By March 2, with the war one week old, 874,000 people were estimated to have left Ukraine. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that up to four million may leave, while the European Union adds a further three million to the figure.

This is already producing a growing capital of hypocrisy on the part of receiving states who have shown deep reluctance in accepting refugees of other backgrounds from other conflicts. Tellingly, some of these conflicts have also been the noxious fruit of campaigns or interventions waged by Western states.

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Solidly So #poem by Saloni Kaul

“All through life we’re riddled with extremes keen
Like towering highs and touching rock bottom
That render complicated thriving in between
If we take them to heart, like birthdays, eggs rotten.”

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Sceptic feathers #030 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamida

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Ovi magazine; Tuesday November 23rd, 2021

 

The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday November 23rd, 2021

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A Divided America by Dr. Habib Siddiqui

The Rittenhouse ‘not guilty’ verdict once again showed how divided America is today. Justice is not, or so it seems, color-blind in this land of Abraham Lincoln. The five felony counts against Kyle Rittenhouse stemmed from the 2020 shootings that left Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber dead, and seriously wounding Gaige Grosskreutz during chaotic protests against racial injustice in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Rittenhouse was 17 when he traveled to Kenosha from Illinois amid disturbances in the city and carried an AR-style semiautomatic rifle on the streets of Kenosha and opened fire on demonstrators after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, who is Black, in the back. Anthony Huber was shot in the chest trying to disarm Rittenhouse and stop his shooting spree.

In Kenosha, shouting matches flared on the courthouse steps between supporters of opposing sides, exemplifying a divided America. About 200 protesters in Portland, Oregon, broke windows and threw objects at police on Friday night as reaction poured in after the verdict was read.

Many experts argue that the verdict could have been different with a different jury and/or a different judge. All but one of the jurors were white.

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Firefly Dreams #poem by Bohdan Yuri

“Fireflies whisper dreams
In the forest without noise,
And the night birds swoop
From shadow stations.”

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Contract law for dummies by Joseph Gatt

Contract law tends to be the most frustrating subjects to study in law school. Often because professors teach it in complicated ways, use all sorts of jargon, and choose the most boring examples and case studies in the world.

So here’s the challenge: I’ll make contract law fun!

Contract law is in fact simple. It involves three things:

Parties (could be individuals or companies or organizations)

The environment it creates (that’s what a contract basically does, it creates an environment where the individuals or parties have obligations towards each other, the obligations could be to pay people, to sell things to people, to stop doing things to people, to help people and so on).

And, third thing, the jurisdiction (which government, which court system is the contract under? Is it under US law or French law? If so, which jurisdiction oversees the contract? Is it the local district court? The state court? The federal court? Specialized courts?).

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Ephemera 21#28 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas

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