Category: POLITICS
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Immigration Under Trump in the Reelection Era
In his second administration, Donald Trump has made a variety of efforts to dramatically reshape immigration in the United States. Here’s a breakdown of Trump’s major immigration moves since reelection. Birthright Citizenship The 14th Amendment states that anyone born within the United States is automatically granted citizenship. On his first…
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Namibia’s Genocide Remembrance Day
Namibia held its first Genocide Remembrance Day on May 28, 2025 to commemorate the genocide of the Nama and Herero people by German colonisers during the early 20th century. This is the first time that an official memorial has been held in spite of Namibia having been an independent democracy…
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A Genocide in the Shadows: Can the Wounds of the Shia Ever Heal?
Featured Image: AFP, South China Morning Post . . . The blood of Shia Muslims has stained the streets of places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, and beyond for far too long and yet the world continues to feign ignorance and remains silent. Massacred in buses, bombed in mosques, slaughtered in marketplaces,…
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Identity/Representation Isn’t Everything — Here’s the Real Reason Why Kamala Harris Lost the 2024 Presidential Election
Photo Credit: Emily Elconin / Bloomberg via Getty Images (found on Vox News website) Kamala Harris’s victory as the first South Asian, Black, and female vice president was hailed as a historic moment, signaling a new era of progress for women and minorities in American politics. But as the…
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Standing Vigil
When I wrote my last piece for Reclamation Magazine in November last year, I had just been to a protest march in Cape Town. I was actively collecting what I called “pebbles of hope”, hoping that our shared humanity would bring an end to the merciless killing of thousands of…
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Showing Up with Joy
There’s a story I’ve seen on Instagram recently about a man who staged a lone protest outside the White House with a candle during the Vietnam War, and, when he was challenged about whether he thought his little protest would really make any difference, he replied that he wasn’t coming…
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On Gaza
Featured Image: Ash Hayes . . . It’s October 15, and in just seven days, more than two thousand Palestinians have been killed. Many more are injured. Entire families have been erased from a city. Israel has ordered an evacuation of Gaza, as hospitals struggle to treat the wounded, the…
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Banning Books, Silencing Voices
Featured Illustration: Jane Mount . . . I have been watching the escalating trend of banning books in the USA with a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach. It’s a bit like reliving a nightmare, since the banning of books was an apartheid staple. Having travelled through…
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Alchemy of Solitude director Viktoria I.V. King on the plurality of justice
“Do you want to ask questions or do you want to live?” International-award-winning film director, screenwriter, and producer Viktoria I.V. King poses this question throughout her newest upcoming film, Alchemy of Solitude, which she describes as an “autopsy of an activist”. Set in an alternate reality, where activists-turned-assassins are trying…