Apart from privacy, the Safe City Malta project raises a number of issues that must be addressed by the Maltese authorities: Who will be storing the data? What will be done with the data? Who will be monitoring the data?
‘Deserving’ vs ‘Undeserving’: Refugees vs Economic Migrants
Suffering seems to be an obligatory justification to enter Europe. In a fairer and more balanced system, economic migrants would have not had to take a perilous journey just to find work. But if trauma is the expectation, they get traumatised, too.
On Regretting Motherhood
The perfect, romanticised version of motherhood—the ‘motherhood myth’—needs to be dismantled. Women who are childless by choice are controversial, but women who regret motherhood…? This is the ultimate taboo.
People Before Profit: Inħobbu l-Gżira Stands Up for the Wellbeing of the Community
The newly established pressure group Inħobbu l-Gżira believes that the amended Manoel Island masterplan still needs to change.
Regardless of Season, Playing Ping-Pong with People’s Lives is Unacceptable!
When we focus our arguments on the bad weather and on the Christmas season, we downplay the significance and severity of the actual issue, which then fades from the fore of public debates.
Valletta and Our Common Good: City Lounge vs Residents’ Resistance A Series about the City and Good Neighbourliness
For well over a year, City Lounge has abused our common good in order to increase their own commercial activity. However, citizens have not become used to the realization that one of our fellows is abusing the common good for their own enrichment.
10 Proposals for a Fairer, Greener Malta
Here are a few suggestions on how we can make Malta a fairer and greener place. The list below is, by no means, exhaustive, but could be just enough to lead to a deeper transformation of our society.
