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Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados at the Opening of the #COP27 World Leaders Summit

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, makes a speech at the Opening of the #COP27 World Leaders Summit of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) - full length version.

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Systems Change·29 August 2026

The End of Endless Growth: Should We Put the Brakes on Economic Expansion?

ON SOURCE: RADICAL WITH AMOL RAJAN Radio 4 , · 11 Jun 2026 , · 66 mins The End of Endless Growth: Should We Put the Brakes on Economic Expansion? (Kate Raworth) Radical LISTEN TO THE EPISODE What if growth wasn’t the main goal for economic

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Economics·23 June 2026

I am tired of watching powerful men destroy the rules-based international order

Abir Al Sahlani adressing the European Parliament: Abir Al-Sahlani is an Iraqi-born Swedish Member of the

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·5 June 2026

The Hope Forum 2026

Highlights from The Hope Forum 2026: Archipelagos of Hope. Video courtesy of ART 2030.

ART 2030 · 2 min read

Education·29 May 2026

Featured Voice: Francesca Albanese: We have a plan!

WIKIPEDIA: Francesca Paola Albanese (Italian: [franˈtʃeska ˈpaːola albaˈneːze, -eːse] ; born 30 March 1977) is an Italian legal scholar and expert on human rights . She has served as the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the…

INSTAGRAM · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·28 July 2026

Featured Story: Voices for Now for Tomorrow Edition Two

Among the voices: ’We can either continue on our current path, a treacherous ‘new normal’and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet.' Volker Turk, United…

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Arts & Culture·19 February 2026

Welcome the Stranger - Mayor Mamdani

Mayor Mamdani's speech at the NYC Interfaith Breakfast | Feb 6, 2026 This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our…

NYC MAYOR'S OFFICE · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·11 February 2026

Sir Ian McKellan recites Shakespeare on immigration

ON SOURCE: AMOL RAJAN INSTAGRAM Sir Ian McKellen quoting Shakespeare from 400 years ago, drawing a parallel with the inhumaity of our times, how the voices of division, along with their false promises, are becoming louder, scapegoating…

AMOL RAJAN INSTAGRAM · 2 min read

Climate·21 January 2026

We Don't Have Time at Davos: WEF Alternative Speech '26

Today a group of globally respected leaders, shaping the future of people, planet and prosperity, set out a bold alternative to President Donald Trump’s growth‑at‑all‑costs/America First vision of prosperity, which is grounded in…

WE DON'T HAVE TIME · 1 min read

Climate·19 January 2026

TORI TSUI - Resisting Billionaire Extractivism

Tori Tsui is an environmental campaigner, author and advisor from Hong Kong. She is a senior advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, campaigner for the Stop Rosebank coalition and works across a variety of initiatives within…

TORI TSUI · 1 min read

Climate·10 June 2026

Voices for Today Feature: Palestine Advocate Vanessa Redgrave

We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling…

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Arts & Culture·29 December 2025

Voices for now for tomorrow

By sharing progressive ideas and long-term thinking the aim of the Olive Network is to connect populations with positive change makers, rising above division to the empathy and vision of charities, the arts, science and humanities.

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Arts & Culture·7 July 2025

Historian William Dalrymple Speaks about Gaza

Best-selling Writer and Historian William Dalrymple speaks about Gaza and Palestine, and about Britain's historic responsibility for the situation there. His speech introduced 'A Golden String: William Blake in Words and Music ' which was…

SUSHEELA RAMAN · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·11 June 2025

Arundhati Roy on Writing in the Information Age

If i had any advice to give to people who want to write…please try and switch off…you don’t need all this information….you don’t need to know everything about everything, it’s unnatural…you need to know the earth, your neighbours, the…

SLU LIBRARIES YOUTUBE · 1 min read

Uncategorized·12 May 2025

Pope Leo urges release of imprisoned journalists in first news conference

Pope Leo has just finished his news conference in Vatican City, during which he emphasised the importance of careful communication 'in favour of peace'.

BBC · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·20 March 2025

Shadowily in different tongues

Resiliencia Tlacuache, 2019. © Naomi Rincón Gallardo. Photo: Claudia López Terroso.

E-FLUX · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·19 February 2025

Tilda Swinton - Berlin International Film Festival

We can head for the great independent state of Cinema and rest there, an unlimited realm, innately inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonisation, takeover, ownership... or the development of riviera properties.

BERLINALE · 1 min read

United Nations·31 December 2024

In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’

UN Photo/Loey Felipe Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the Summit of the Future high-level event at United Nations Headquarters in September 2024.

UN NEWS · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·12 December 2024

Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies

ON SOURCE: E-FLUX June 14–October 12, 2025 Galleri F 15 Albyalléen 60 1519 Moss Norway gallerif15.no momentum.no MOMENTUM, one of the most anticipated events in the Nordic art scene, returns for its 13th edition under the theme…

E-FLUX · 5 min read

Climate·3 September 2024

The children behind South Korea’s landmark climate win

Jeah Han holds a file containing her closing argument outside South Korea’s constitutional court in Seoul in May 2024. The climate campaigner says she has felt the direct impacts of the climate crisis. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP/Getty…

THE GUARDIAN · 4 min read

Climate·1 May 2024

World Press Freedom Day 2024 - IPS Video

Inter Press Service ( IPS ) is a global news agency headquartered in Rome , Italy. Its main focus is news and analysis about social, political, civil, and economic subjects as it relates to the Global South , civil society and…

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·15 March 2024

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter

Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey filled with unforeseen opportunities and challenges.…

ON Network · 5 min read

Climate·6 November 2023

The New Humanitarian

The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News) was founded by the United Nations in 1995, in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, out of the conviction that objective on-the-ground reporting of humanitarian crises could help mitigate or even…

ON Network · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·3 November 2023

A Convening of Civic Poets

Curators: Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of Sharjah Art Foundation & Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga, director of KADIST Paris

ON Network · 2 min read

Climate·14 April 2026

Featured Voice: This is the Speech the World Needed - Barbados PM Mia Mottley

Open on original site ↗ Greenpeace posted on Instagram: Incredible speech from the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley calling for action on climate change THIS IS THE SPEECH THE WORLD NEEDED SOURCE: GREENPEACE

ON Network · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·12 May 2025

Featured Story: 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

A new book inviting artists to re-think the climate emergency

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·26 December 2025

Five young women activists to watch - a moderator's take

British activists Ella Meek and Amy Meek, founders of 'Kids Against Plastic', address last year’s Young Activists Summit at the UN in Geneva. (KEYSTONE / Salvatore Di Nolfi)

ON Network · 3 min read

Arts & Culture·8 March 2021

Wise women: 6 ancient female philosophers you should know about

Michel Corneille the Younger: Aspasia surrounded by Greek philosophers. Wikimedia Commons

ON Network · 5 min read

Arts & Culture·28 January 2021

Reading the waves: who’s making sense of narrative change?

What’s the role of narratives and how do we update them once they’ve become obsolete? Anna Simpson discusses the process of shifting narratives in follow up to 2020, the agents and power dynamics implicated, and the role of futures as a…

ON Network · 8 min read

Uncategorized·27 December 2018

William Kentridge slams European leaders for being greedy and selfish

William Kentridge, Photo: Marc Shoul; courtesy of Berliner Festspiele

ON Network · 2 min read

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados at the Opening of the #COP27 World Leaders Summit

Stories in this directory

The End of Endless Growth: Should We Put the Brakes on Economic Expansion?

I am tired of watching powerful men destroy the rules-based international order

The Hope Forum 2026

Featured Voice: Francesca Albanese: We have a plan!

Featured Story: Voices for Now for Tomorrow Edition Two

Welcome the Stranger - Mayor Mamdani

Sir Ian McKellan recites Shakespeare on immigration

We Don&#x27;t Have Time at Davos: WEF Alternative Speech &#x27;26

TORI TSUI - Resisting Billionaire Extractivism

Voices for Today Feature: Palestine Advocate Vanessa Redgrave

Voices for now for tomorrow

Historian William Dalrymple Speaks about Gaza

Arundhati Roy on Writing in the Information Age

Pope Leo urges release of imprisoned journalists in first news conference

Shadowily in different tongues

Tilda Swinton - Berlin International Film Festival

In New Year’s Message, Guterres urges countries to drastically slash emissions and ‘exit this road to ruin’

Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies

The children behind South Korea’s landmark climate win

World Press Freedom Day 2024 - IPS Video

Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter

The New Humanitarian

A Convening of Civic Poets

Featured Voice: This is the Speech the World Needed - Barbados PM Mia Mottley

Featured Story: 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth

Five young women activists to watch - a moderator&#x27;s take

Wise women: 6 ancient female philosophers you should know about

Reading the waves: who’s making sense of narrative change?

William Kentridge slams European leaders for being greedy and selfish

We Don't Have Time at Davos: WEF Alternative Speech '26

Five young women activists to watch - a moderator's take