“Under the figs”: Tunisian agricultural workers, heroines in the cinema

Atomos ultrafrios vestidos con luz para simular teoria fisica

Confidences, budding loves, disputes and rivalries… This first fiction feature film by Erige Sehiri, shot in full been in the underprivileged northwest of Tunisia. In her film, the Franco-Tunisian filmmaker wanted to show young rural Tunisian women “so modern and connected” in disadvantaged areas, able to create a space of freedom in a conservative environment. … Read more

Caribbean, land in resistance • Workers

Caribbean land in resistance • Workers

For the Nobel Prize winner for Literature Gabriel García Márquez, the Caribbean is the center of gravity of the incredible, of that “real marvelous” that distinguishes a region that, “in fact, extends (from the north) to the south of the United States United States, and south to Brazil. It is not an expansionist delusion, he … Read more

The Nobel Prize in Economics Richard Thaler points to migration as a safe conduct for pensions: “Either we have more babies, or we have to bring more workers”

This is how the red carpet of the MTV Video

The Nobel Prize in Economics Richard Thaler has pointed this Wednesday to migration as a safe conduct to maintain the pension system in the coming decades. “Either we have more babies, or we have to bring more workers,” he stated during a meeting with the media collected by Ical before participating in the inauguration of … Read more

Waste: we throw away big in Luxembourg | The border workers

Waste we throw away big in Luxembourg The border

A lot of waste produced and still too little recycling: Luxembourg still has a long way to go in recycling its waste. However, he is not the worst student in the Greater Region… ” The best waste is still that which we do not produce”. This adage, which sounds like a booster shot in Luxembourg, … Read more

The proletariat and its struggles: reels of iconic workers

1. Modern times Directed in 1936 by Charlie Chaplin, Modern times is his last film putting the character of Tramp to grips with an industrialized world of work. A time when the Great Depression raged like wildfire and exalted mass unemployment in the West. A silent film that nevertheless says so many things about relations … Read more

The first million minimum wage: an achievement of the workers

The first million minimum wage an achievement of the workers

This is a space for free and independent expression that exclusively reflects the views of the authors and does not compromise the thought or opinion of Las2Orillas. In the midst of the greatest social crisis derived from a neoliberal economic model, aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic and its appalling management by Duque’s bad government in … Read more

Qatar detained two Norwegian journalists who reported on the situation of workers before the World Cup

Qatar detained two Norwegian journalists who reported on the situation

NRK Sports Director Egil Sundvor greets Lokman Ghorbani and Halvor Ekeland after the return of the journalists from Qatar, where they were detained, at Gardermoen Airport in Oslo, Norway, on November 24, 2021. Hakon Mosvold Larsen / NTB / via REUTERS Two journalists from Norwegian state television were arrested and held without explanation for 30 … Read more