TAP Air Portugal pilots and cabin crew workers, represented by the National Civil Aviation Flight Personnel Union (SNPVAC), will go on strike on Thursday and Friday, December 8 and 9,. The action will result in a cancellation of 360 flights during the stoppage period. TAP usually flies around 300 flights a day. The TAP strike […]
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Travel Alert: TAP Air Portugal blasts off turbulent strike action – Portugal
Posted on 07 December 2022.
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Opinion | What next for Isabel dos Santos? – By Len Port
Posted on 06 December 2022.
The enigmatic Isabel dos Santos, arguably the most famous and infamous person in modern Portuguese history, has certainly had her ups and downs. Life for her now seems to be at an all time low and it is difficult to see what she can do about it. The incumbent government in her homeland, the former […]
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Honor: Jerusalem honors the legacy of Aristides de Sousa Mendes – Israel
Posted on 02 December 2022.
The city of Jerusalem dedicated a square in memory of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese diplomat who rescued thousands of Holocaust victims while stationed in Bordeaux, France, in 1940. Estimates suggest that Sousa Mendes saved 30,000 people during World War II, of whom 10,000 were Jewish, although an exact figure has not been established. […]
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Book | Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents| Edited by W. Anderson & R. Roque – Editor’s Note
Posted on 30 November 2022.
The volume Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism, editors Warwick Anderson & Ricardo Roque, offers modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally […]
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Peter Pereira: The wisdom of poetry and healing – Interview
Posted on 29 November 2022.
By Millicent Borges Accardi A Luso American with roots in Asia, physician and poet Peter Pereira is a primary care doctor located in Seattle, Washington, where he cares for an urban, underserved population of immigrants, refugees, housing project residents, and the elderly. The author of two poetry books, What’s Written on the Body (2007) and […]
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Community: Global Diaspora Network roadshow visits East Coast – Portugal
Posted on 26 November 2022.
The Global Diaspora Network [Rede Global da Diaspora] is in the United States, between November 28 and December 2, with events in New York, Newark, Providence, and Boston, bringing together more than 150 American entrepreneurs of Portuguese descent. The four cities will host the Portuguese roadshow representing the largest collaborative business platform visiting the Portuguese […]
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