On Sunday, collectives in various cities staged demonstrations on the occasion of the LGTBIQ + Pride on the day commemorating the revolt that on June 28, 1969 led to the LGTBIQ + mobilizations.

In some countries, the original Pride celebration date usually shifts to the first Saturday before or after June 28, although it can also be modified if it coincides with other relevant events (political elections, mass celebrations) or to commemorate other local ephemeris of transcendent events for the collective.

It is celebrated on that day to remember the Stonewall riots, a pub in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York in 1969. Those events marked the beginning of the homosexual liberation movement. The riots led to spontaneous and violent demonstrations in protest against the police raid on the early morning of that day at the 'Stonewall Inn' pub. It was the first time that the LGBT community fought against a system that persecuted homosexuals with the approval of political power.

A year later, on June 28, 1970, the first gay pride marches took place in New York City and Los Angeles, commemorating the first anniversary of the riots. Over time, other cities organized similar marches. Today pride manifestations are held around the world annually towards the end of June, to remember the Stonewall riots.

The basic notion of "LGBT pride" is that no person should be ashamed of what they are, regardless of their biological sex, sexual-affective orientation, sexual identity, or gender role. It arises as a political response to different mechanisms that the traditionalist system uses against those who "deviate" from heteronormativity: shame, exclusion and physical attacks that can lead to the death of the victim.

From a linguistic point of view, the term "pride" designates' the self-love or esteem that each person has of himself as worthy of respect or consideration. This definition conveys the idea of an intrinsic dignity that every human being possesses and that it should not be affected by their behavior or their sexual orientation.


By Fernando Iturria

​Racism is at the base of migration policies through which the EU systematically avoids sea rescue of human beings trying to reach Europe through Italy, Malta, Spain or Greece, leaving countless people to drown or be returned to civil war, arbitrary detention and torture.

The Mediterranean is one of the deadliest routes taken by asylum seekers today, and one of the places where violations of rights at sea are more evident than ever. In 2019 more than seven hundred people lost their lives at sea, while some fifteen thousand arrived in Europe
Europe fears migration and considers it - without any evidence and without taking into account the use of cheap labor - a true "threat" to the continent, producing a real compulsion to protect borders. Instead of supporting a humanitarian response to the crisis, the Union approved last December a budget of 10 billion euros for the Frontex agency. The same agency that watches the boats in the Mediterranean with sophisticated aircraft, without any rescue capacity - or intention.

The European obsession and ineptitude with its border is not only pushing members of the Union to find illegal and unofficial solutions, such as the Maltese trawler flotilla, but it is also costing the EU a fortune, which could be used rather to receive with dignity to people fleeing from wars, misery and persecution.

The authorities present themselves as persistent defenders of universal and fundamental human rights, but they authorize practices of true institutional racism against human beings on the other side of their borders, turned into deadly ditches.


By Fernando Iturria

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The black Panther Party was a black socialist and revolutionary organisation that was active in USA between 1966 and 1982. Also it had a section in Algeria between 1969 and 1972.

In the beginning, in October of 1966, its principal activity was doing civil patrols with weapons to oversee police behaviour and to controlee the police brutality against Afro-Americans in Oakland, California. In this moment J.Edgar Hoover was managing FBI and he declared against panther’s party that they were a big security trouble for the country”. He oversaw a security program called COINTELPRO, through tactics, sometimes illegals, of surveillancing, infiltration and police harassment. Also we should know that allegedly, the FBI killed party’s members as Fred Hapton, the leader in Chicago.

The government persecution caused a party quickly increase because of arresting and killing of their members. Black community and democratic parties started to give support it because they saw Black Panther Party like a strong party what would defend the opposite of racial segregation and military service. However, between 1972 and 1980 the support began to decrease. This happened for decrease of support citizen, reports about drug traffic and extortion.   
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Many relevant people have affirmed that the party was the most influent back organisation to became equal rights between blacks and whites during 60’s and other people describe the party like “criminal party”. What is right? We don’t know but each one has to think, read and watch to form his or her own idea. But we are seeing in USA protests that it wants to give international view about the racial troubles. 

Since thousands of years, humans have desired to improve their health or their physic aspect. Old civilizations as persians, greeks or egyptians show in their art different manifestations of an idealized view of human body, using parts of animals. It meant that humans had god properties. So, the “xenotransplantation” it’s found inside of human mind since centuries ago.
This primitive concept of transplantation appears in many ancient cultures through kings, gods or heroes forms this one aim, to stick out the virtues of these beings. Probably the oldest and most famous example was Ganesha, Hindu god of wisdom.
Over the years, Christian thought picks up the myths and transform it on miracles. During the Middle Age scientific began to investigate and in 1597 Gaspar de Tagliacocci publishes a surgical treaty about nasal transplant technique. The big step forward was during the first fifteen years of XX century when Carrer discovered vascular sature. Since then scientific have discovered the way to transplant kidneys, thyroid, parathyroid, hearts and more to this day.
But to understand the importance of this part of the medicine we have to know personal stories that it explains us why we should do donations and what mean for people that need a heart, leg or anything to carry on her or his live or simply can live.
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Caitlin and her new liver
Since the moment that Caitlin born, her parents knew that something was wrong. Caitlin born with heavy problems in her liver. was subjected to many surgeries and she was close to die. But we shouldn’t lose hope and Caitlin decided to add her name to waiting list and two days after her parents received a call. Unfortunately, his angel died a couple of days ago but he would save Caitlin.
Caitlin’s family keep a photography of Jeff in Caitlin’s room with a candle next to window.
 
Ernest saved five lives with 61 years
He always wanted to be organ donor and He has decided to do it. When Ernest died suddenly with 61 years, his family knew what have to do. It was a difficult moment, Bernice said, “but I'm very proud of him for making this decision. With his donation, he could save five lives. He did something wonderful”.
 
A tragedy that It can be a benediction for many people
Tribhawan and Jasmin's son was an accident and unfortunately he suffered fatal injuries in his head. The nurse, who took care of Anand during his hospital stay, encouraged them to be organ donor and it happened. They accepted to donate the heart, both kidneys, liver and pancreas. They take advantage of each moment to report people about the benefits of being donor and how they can save lives when the death knocks on our door.

​The sound and music always have been joined to humans and obviously with emotions. Thousand years ago the first humans used sounds and music like a survival and communication tool.
In “The Origin of Species”, Darwin suggest that “music sounds have established one of the most important bases to languages’s develop”. One of the reason that confirm the presence of music in our lives it’s that music help us to relaxing, feelings, release tension and memories.
During our youth and old age music marks our life. We can see its influence on babies when they sleep better by listening to their mother or children when they jump, dance and move while listening to rhythmic music.
Music give us good feelings and sweeten our lives. Try to listen to soundtrack of your favourite film, a good guitar solo, a wonderful voice. Surely music is able to awake our deepest feelings.
There had had multiples scientific studies that have showed music’s effects in humans, also animals and plants. And it has found a lot of new things like we are going to talk next paragraph.

Several studies did in the past have found that music affects the brain´s chemical because nice music does that we released dopamine, a neurohormone that it is released in the hypothalamus and related with pleasure. However, it has other benefits during learning process, behavior, physical activity, sleep, attention or humor.
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When you listen to music
Your brain is active in different areas. A study did by Florida’s University suggest that music actives more parts than anything human stimuli. Over time, listening to music can improve learning new lenguages, creativity and happiness. In addition, music has corrective effects to calm anxiety, speed healing, increase optimism, and ease pain.

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​Crises, wars, disasters and epidemics have been accelerators of changes in human activities such as work. In many countries, employees use virtual platforms to hold meetings, carry out trainings, inform and follow the progress of tasks with their colleagues and bosses. The telework solutions that are being taken in the face of this health crisis can create a window of opportunity for its adoption in a more generalized way. However, it is not possible for all companies and all employees to work this way. The situation in education is also changing in this regard, but it is not always accessible to everyone.

Here, in the organization of Praxis, we have also had to reinvent ourselves and work from home. We stopped doing many other activities in the office and with refugees but we were able to continue working online. We continue promoting the Unesco's international days, writing articles, sharing music, recording podcasts, videos and the Spanish lessons with some Greek students, classes and activitites that are very succesfull. At the beginning it was different and complicated because we had to mentalise to work in a different way. To change the way to do the things. In my case, it was hard because I´m used and I like to work close to the people. Now we have to try to feel close in the virtual life.

Challenges involve adjustments during the transition stage that can cause major communication, trust, and results problems. The new generations of employees (digital natives) have extensive digital skills, as they tend to learn and adopt new technologies without too much effort. If the traditional leader wants to evolve into a remote leader, he will have to reconvert in many aspects, at least with respect to the new digital media and channels of interaction.

COVID-19 will pass in a while, but the experience generated with virtual team telework, organized with good management and collaboration practices, with the incorporation of 5G which is under debate yet, will mark a new era in labor relations and tasks for companies to join this evolution.


By Fernando Iturria

One year ago I was in my sofa and I decided to watch a film. I looked for and looked for and I found a film about a little boy that he had a deformation in his face. I thought it could be interested me the story behind the boy. The film is called “Wonder” and it is a beautiful story of how children can open their minds as well as support and build a relationship based on respect for people that is totally different from you.

Well, I'm going to talk about this film because I like to explain you about this syndrome called “Treacher Collins” has an International day, more specifically 28 May. I'm sure that you have never heard this syndrome because It is not famous as Down Syndrome or Asperger Syndrome but I would like to talk about this.

First of all, you should know that Treacher Collins Syndrome is a cranioencephalic malformation and incurable that affect two of 100,000 births. It is caused by a genetic mutation of Chromosome 5 that it is the responsible of build our face. And it’s important to add that it’s affect as men as woman for equal. People that suffer this symptom births without one or both ears, sunken cheekbones, mandible doesn’t grow, they have narrow pharynx and in many occasions with opened palate. Moreover, they can present ocular, additive, digestive or respiratory troubles.
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They have enough troubles during their life and we have to do a reflection. We must help them to integrate and developed their social skills and avoid prejudice for their appearance because they have the same capacity as you to work, doing sport, going supermarket, having a beer whatever they want. And like the film with the support of the family and friends they can leave of their own bubble and find out more beyond of fearing and frustration to be physically different.

There is a page (fragmentsofextinction.org) where you can listen to the last tropical forests on the planet. This is an acoustic art project that explores the ecoacoustic complexity of the few equatorial forests that are still intact. The team of this non-profit organization travels through various ecosystems of the world capturing its most tangible characteristics: sounds. Unique sounds of recorded forests before they lose their biodiversity, threatened ecosystems in danger of extinction.

As they say: "If we take into account that the latest predictions by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) indicate that half of the planet's species will have become extinct by the end of this century (most of them never will be discovered by science), we understand that it is urgent to record sound samples of these diverse and unique, as well as fragile, ecosystems: “organized soundscapes”; snippets of sounds from the original nature."

The recordings have been carried out in three representative areas of primary tropical forest, in the Amazon, Africa and Borneo. The reason these forests have been chosen is because the equatorial forest biome integrates the most complex ecosystems on Earth. They are also the most fragile ecosystems, where the extinction rate is higher.

The decision to record their sounds is based on the fact that the acoustic setting of these ecosystems is practically unknown, despite the fact that the eco-acoustic surprisingly reveals the order and balance of these forests. Sound is the great underestimated element in the natural dynamics of ecosystems. These sounds made art, can help to raise awareness about the sixth mass extinction that we live this century. Until this, no similar project existed, and in a few decades these recordings will constitute important fragments of an irreversibly degraded acoustic heritage.

If you have never been in a tropical forest, you cannot even imagine what it is to be in the middle of the jungle at night listening to an infinite number of sounds at once, coming from unknown places ... unable to identify the animal that emits it. It is a sound that surrounds you and that makes you part of something much greater than you, of a stage that you do not know how far it extends and in which you feel insignificant and lost.


​By Fernando Iturria

Alda Lara (Angola)
She is a cultural reference in Angola and her poems show the fight for the independences of her country. Alda complaint in her texts the poor labor situation that angolans lived in colonial age. She stands out for her politic influence against portuguese.
 
And after of all
Im the same
Free and slender
Aternal daugther of the rebellion
I won. Mother Africa!
 
Viola Allo (Cameroon)
She belongs to the new generation of African poetess. Her poems talk about the African exile and spreading to United States. One of the most important poems is "Leave Bamenda" and it reflect the homesickness for her land and her African roots.
 
But, where is the gate keeper?
I’m dragging the flow of Africans,
people whose old stories and limbs weaken as
they emerge from Africa’s pierced belly.
 
Sitawa Wafula (Kenia)
She is one of the others young poetess whose personal experience as survivor of a rape she found on poetry a way to share and express her feelings. Also, Sitawa is an activist that looks for giving visibility a big trouble as mental health in Africa through her organization "My mind, my funk". One of her most popular poems is “A little more”.
 
She cries, but she doesn’t want and not look like that she is going to finish
But she has to be serene
She needs having a clearer head
Waiting that the day finishes.
 
 
Noemia De Sousa (Mozambique)
Noemia is considered as one bigger African poetess. Her poetic production had a big influence in whole generation of writers and poets. In her lines we can find the exaltation of the mainland, African values, protest and complaints.

You hit and threat me
Now I up my head
And I screamed: "Stop it!" You condemn me to the eternal darkness
Now my African soul is lighting
And I find out the cheat and I screamed, hundreds of times
Screamed: Stop It!
 
Ijeoma Umebinyou (Nigeria)
Umebinyou is a woman that challenges the word. She defends women reproduction rights and the role of women in policy. She is considered a feminist who looks for with her poetry to move the soul of readers.
 
So, here you are,
Too foreign for home and
Too foreign for here
Never enough for both of us