For those of you who haven’t seen this yet: Below you’ll find the video of IFLRY’s 2016 spring general assembly in Istanbul. The video was recorded and edited by Mustafa Aslan of our Turkish member organisation 3H movement.
Demessifying some Universities in India – Soumitra Subinaya
Indian residential colleges/universities provide food to the hostel students in the mess system. Many such universities of national character, including institutes of law, technology, management and so on, have messes that run on rent-seeking, free-riding and collective/singular coercion forcing surrender…
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Tesla 3 Isn’t Just A Great Car, It’s A Great Example – Jerry Mooney
A phenomenon was unveiled last week. Tesla’s Model 3 was introduced to the world with great excitement, but the car wasn’t the phenomenon, the obvious demand for a quality, affordable electric car was. Before consumers even got a glimpse at…
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Speaking up in the streets of Istanbul – Alvise Pérez
With Dutch journalist Ebru Umar, who was released from arrest by the Turkish authorities yesterday, still being denied her right to leave the country, we decided to subtitle this video by Alvise Pérez. Alvise was attending IFLRY’s General Assembly Istanbul,…
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Introducing the new IFLRY Bureau – Pauline Kastermans
Dear liberal friends, First of all, thank you for your support! As newly elected IFLRY president, I am happy to introduce to you the other newly-elected members of the bureau: General Secretary Tone Bjørndal, from our member organisation Young Liberals…
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Britain’s Leave EU Campaign is wrong: we’re all in this together – Ab Brightman
My homeland of Great Britain has a curious cultural mentality. At any one time we believe ourselves to be of utmost importance to the rest of the world, yet also view the rest of the world as isolated from the…
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Guido Westerwelle: an obituary of a great liberal – Laura Schieritz
Liberal Germany is mourning. On the 18th March 2016, it lost not only a former vice-chancellor, but also a remarkable person and politician: Guido Westerwelle. Especially for members of the Junge Liberale (Young Liberals) – the youth organization of the…
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Innocence Lost in Syria – Ahmad Al Rachwani
Fares and Hamada, two little boys that have so much in common. They share the innocence of every child. They just want to play on a playground with their friends, go to school, learn new things, explore and be happy.…
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How a Small Car Wash Shop Made Brazil Collapse – João Victor Guedes Neto
Before reading this blog post, I recommend spending two minutes at this link from the New York Times. It is a brief description of the corruption scandals in which all the Brazilian presidential line of succession is involved. A list…
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The End of Objectivity in Turkish Media
Over the last years, Turkish media has been repressed and manipulated by the government. A number of events have made this clear: In 2013, when the Gezi Park protests took place. The only tool the opposition could use to get…