♀︎💪Today we celebrate 110 years International Women*s Day, the day where we make ourselves heard and seen for women*s rights! We look back on some of the women and events of the women’s movement.On March 19th in 1911, the first international women’s day was held in...
Tomorrow is international women*s day! ♀︎💪Join your local protest/strike/actions! If you can’t take part in the march there are other ways you can join the protests:– Join an online strike/protest!– Slow down your work if it’s not possible to completely withdraw from...
Immaterial labour, "the labor that produces the informational and cultural content of the commodity", [1] is highly topical, as a rising majority of people spend most of their time before screens and the lines between work and leisure are hard to separate. In addition...
'Intellectual Proletarians' by Emma Goldman from 1914 is rather timely, as more people are affected by "the changes taking place in workers’ labor processes […], where the skills involved in direct labor are increasingly skills involving cybernetics and computer...
We're all aware how precarious the work situations in the creative field are. Are we?Architects, as part of this sector, are trained to work endless hours, unpaid overtime and to see their work more as calling than a job.The texts in the book "The Architect as...
A 6% drop in global emissions is projected for 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis.⚡️2020 shows us just how much we would have to change our system, our economy, our lifestyle, our society, our politics, to comply with the 1.5°C global warming."To meet the 1.5°C – or even...
What could Time after Capitalism look like? 💭 "Most of us don’t know what it would feel like to waste time without the nagging feeling that we should be doing something else. What if we were free to find out?" Miya Tokumitsu,It’s time to (re)discuss how we could...
⚡️Why is the difference between 1.5° and 2°C global average temperature rise important?The global temperature has already increased by approximately 1.0°C and is likely to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate.There is a big...
📢 This weekend, thousands of protests were held around the world on 'Global Climate Action Day' to demand urgent action to tackle the climate crisis. 📢 It’s either capitalism or the climate."Capitalism is now changing the world very literally, altering the planet’s...
What is the Paris Agreement? What does the IPCC do?What measures are being taken by governments against climate change?The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed in 1988 and currently consists of 195 governments and thousands of scientists working...
Figure: Prevalence of perceived racial discrimination in access to housing in 5 years before the survey, by country (%) (2018)(EU-MIDIS II) by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s (FRA) Key findings:"One in five respondents of African descent (21 %) felt racially...
Unequal access to housing — Being Black in the EUPart 1: The percentage of black people living in deprived housing in the EU in comparison to the general population. Due to systematic discrimination in housing policy, communities of colour often live in poor housing...
The term house poor or housing poor (derived from the term working poor) describes a person who spends a disproportionally large amount of their monthly income on housing expenses. Accordingly, the expenses for housing should not exceed 30% of a person's income....