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2020: The year the media silenced our imminent collapse
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January 16, 2021 by Cláudia

My master’s dissertation in Human Ecology sought to understand how climate activism is represented to a general public and how …
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Category: climate change | Tags: activism, capitalism, climate, climate activism, climate change, climate crisis, climate justice, Covid-19, dissertation, economic crisis, media, pandemic, Portugal, quarantine
A crossroads: what’s going on and where do we go from here?
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June 27, 2020 by Cláudia

It’s been approximately six months since the covid-19 pandemic changed everything. I haven’t been able to write about these changes …
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Category: current issues | Tags: black lives matter, capitalism, climate change, climate crisis, coronavirus, Covid-19, economic crisis, police brutality, policies, Portugal, portuguese, public health, racism, social movement
Why should I care? – 5: Immigration (and refugees)
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July 27, 2017 by Cláudia

Right now, we are living scary times in which attitudes towards immigration have radicalised, nationalism is heightened and border control …
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Category: Why should I care? | Tags: catholicism, compassion, humanity, immigration, multiculturalism, nationalism, Portugal, racism, refugees, religion, syria, terrorism, tolerance, war, xenophobia
I am democratic so I forbid you from saying anything undemocratic.
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March 17, 2017 by Cláudia

Democracy is an ambivalent concept with unclear delimitations. Where do we draw the line? The answer is not obvious and …
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Category: better world | Tags: animal rights, brexit, democracy, environment, fascism, freedom, freedom of speech, human rights, humanity, marine le pen, politics, Portugal, trump, utopia
We don’t need any more reasons to be divided.
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January 2, 2017 by Cláudia

The world’s made of polarities right now. Religious/non religious. Muslim/Catholic. Man/Woman. East/West. With education, with littler (formal) education. Black/White/Asian/Mixed Race. …
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Category: better world, equality | Tags: Community, compassion, current issues, division, feelings, hatred, hope, humanity, pára-me de repente o pensamento, peace, Portugal, suddenly my thoughts halt, war
I love my country – but not in a nationalist or patriotic way.
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January 19, 2016 by Cláudia

I feel homesick when I am away for too long, I want the Government to make good choices and …
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Category: better world | Tags: army, emotions, equality, government, human rights, hunger games, immigration, murder, nationalism, patriotism, peace, Portugal, utopia, war
Wake up! – Money does not buy Humanity
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October 18, 2015 by Cláudia

In the 21st century, with progress and the wonders of new technology, our reality is sad. The propaganda shows us …
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Category: better world, current issues, wake up! | Tags: better world, change, conspiracy, consumerism, current issues, depression, dream, ecology, environment, facebook, go green, good, green, hapinness, health, help, human, humanity, isolation, mankind, money, nature, planet, plastic, plastic pollution, pollution, Portugal, reduce, save the world, shopping, Social media, society, story of stuff, stuff, utopia, wake up!, zero waste
Wake up!
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September 14, 2015 by Cláudia

We’re numb, surrounded by distractions that keep us from acting or thinking. We want entertainment. We look at our cell …
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Category: arguments, current issues, future, personal opinion, Portugal | Tags: absolute freedom, act, acting, alienation, arguments, broke, change, conformist, conspiracy, consumerism, convencional, current, current issues, debating, economic crisis, economy, enough is enough, environment, facebook, fsociety, future, generation, governers, green, happiness, health, hope, manipulations, money, numb, personal opinion, planet, poison, Portugal, react, sadness, society, storyofstuff, stuff, sustainability, theory, voting, wake up!
A reconsideration on what is “crazy” and what is “normal”
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June 15, 2015 by Cláudia

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4229308/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 This is a movie about those people, usually homeless, always inadequate, who are completely marginalized from our society. They …
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Category: mental illness, movie, review | Tags: alone, asylum, coexistence, conformism, conspiracy, controversy, conventional, crazy, current issues, depression, dream, equality, exclusion, homeless, illness, learn, loneliness, mental, mental illness, mental institution, nonconformist, normal, open your mind, pára-me de repente o pensamento, peace, poetry, Portugal, respect, revew, social isolation, society, standard, suddenly my thoughts halt, think, think outside the box, unconventional, utopia, wake up!, wisdom
Em frente da Brasserie da Avenida da Liberdade
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June 14, 2015 by Cláudia

Em frente da Brasserie da Avenida da Liberdade: Um come a sopa de cenouras ressequidas e alho francês. Escondido na …
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Category: Poetry, Portugal | Tags: compaixão, crise, crise social, desigualdade, melhor futuro, mendigo, poesia, poesia de intervenção, Portugal, português, sopa dos pobres, utopia

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Tag Archives: Portugal

2020: The year the media silenced our imminent collapse

Why should I care? – 5: Immigration (and refugees)

I am democratic so I forbid you from saying anything undemocratic.

We don’t need any more reasons to be divided.

I love my country – but not in a nationalist or patriotic way.

Wake up!

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