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A revised and updated (December 2017) account of the second Italian Section of the Situationist International (members: Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Paolo Salvadori, Claudio Pavan and Eduardo Rothe) from its origins in the youth culture protests of the mid-1960s to its collapse during the state terror campaign of the 1970s, including discussions of the precursor journal S, the influence of the French situationists and May ‘68, the role played by the “organizational question”, the various public...

Threats to Peru’s uncontacted tribes prompt emergency appeal to Inter-American Commission February 2, 2021 The Watershed Mountains are home to a number of uncontacted peoples, and are just one of the areas still unprotected by the government. © Diego Perez An indigenous organization in Peru has appealed to the Americas’ top human rights body for urgent action to protect six uncontacted tribes’ territories. The emergency appeal comes in the face of renewed threats to the proposed Amazon...

Quantifying cultural tightness-looseness in Ecuador Phillip M. Jolly , Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing Affiliation School of Hospitality Management, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America ⨯ Feier Chen, Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Sch...

‘MAIN STREET, MANILA Escolta, 1898. The Treaty of Paris ending the Spanish-American War was signed on Dec. 10, 1898 seven months after Admiral George Dewey won the Battle of Manila Bay the preceding first of May. That was when journalist Margherita Arlina Hamm came our way. It took 30 days to reach Manila from New York by train to San Francisco and by boat to Manila and 35 days to return. Visas were issued by the Spanish Consul in Hong Kong, where travelers were cautioned against smugglin...