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- A century of sugar and tears
Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
- Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
- Finding Home in the Bain Co-op: Dagmar Baur's Journey from Poland to Toronto
Baur, Dagmar
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
Dagmar Baur wrote this autobiography for Heritage Toronto.
- Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
- In Memoriam: Bobby Lee, Black Panther
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Hy Thurman remembers Bobby Lee.
- Kashmiris launch calendar to remember disappeared loves ones
At least 8,000 people have disappeared since 1989 according to human rights groups, leaving relatives in no-man's land
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Women whose husbands were disappeared have spent decades wondering what happened to them and fighting for justice. They and a group representing families of disappeared persons have published a calendar commemerating 12 victims.
- Memory as paying business
Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
- One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In South Sudan, where a vicious civil war has been raging, no government office or nongovernmental organization has kept a tally of the names of those killed by government forces, rebels, and other armed groups. But in a country in which automatic weapons are more plentiful than civil rights, and local journalists are regularly under assault, a tiny civil society group is trying to step into the breach by naming all of the names. It began on the first anniversary of the civil war's outbreak, when a small group of volunteers unveiled a list of 568 names of the people - from toddlers to centenarians - killed in the war to that point. Naming the Ones We Lost was a first step in what the organizers knew would be a long journey to grapple with the immense loss of South Sudanese life over the previous year. Today, the project goes by a slightly different name, Remembering the Ones We Lost, and has a radically expanded mission with a recently launched website [http://rememberingoneswelost.com/main]. The goal of the website is nothing short of remarkable - it aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan since 1955.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- South Sudan: Volunteers Gather Names of South Sudan's Uncounted War Dead
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The names of 5,000 victims of violence appear in the "Remembering the Ones We Lost" project, a memorial to people who have died in seven decades of conflict.The project invites witnesses to submit details of killings or disappearances through an online form or by text message, the information is then collated by volunteers.
- South Sudan: Remembering the Ones We Lost
Resource Type: Website
Remembering The Ones We Lost is a public memorial that aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan. This unified and public recognition of individual lives being lost through violence is accomplished through the collective efforts of individuals, communities and institutions to name victims. This initiative hopes to bring attention to the shared suffering, give additional meaning to cries for peace and be a tool for understanding and reconciliation amongst South Sudanese individuals and communities.
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