Brian K. Murphy
murphyslog.bsky.social
Brian K. Murphy
@murphyslog.bsky.social
Looking at life slantwise
Lifelong activist and internationalist, organiser, educator, and writer. And a dad, and a grandpa.
Twenty Years of Courage and Struggle is the remarkable story of the shack dwellers movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), covering two decades of organising in the shanty towns of South Africa:
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October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Ortega's government is pursuing opponents beyond the country's borders, critics say. Nicaraguan opposition figure, Roberto Samcam, was shot inside his house in San Jose on June 19, the third killing of a Nicaraguan political exile in Costa Rica since 2023.
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October 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
To mark two years of Israel’s genocidal war, Gaza’s health ministry on Tuesday released an infographic with details on Palestinians killed and wounded in Gaza, including:
October 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New Yorker Cartoon of the day, by Adam Douglas Thompson
September 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
August 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
April 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
April 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has chosen +972 Magazine, an independent, nonprofit news organization run by a binational team of Palestinian and Israeli journalists, for this year’s Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.
www.972mag.com/wp-content/t...
April 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The Future is Now: If Canada is to have a constructive role in this Brave New World, we will have to be much more honest in owning up to our own dark role in creating it.
murphyslog.ca/2025/03/31/t...
April 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Claudia Sheinbaum's history lesson. (Alredo Estrella/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
January 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
December 11, 2024 at 1:51 PM