SIYE DLAMINI

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Siye Dlamini grew up in the beautiful Kingdom of Eswatini and at 20 years old moved to the USA to pursue a Bachelor's degree. She graduated with an honors degree in Political Science. Storytelling is a big part of Siye’s identity. She always says that she grew up in theatre, and throughout her life, she has used it for her storytelling. Siye is currently exploring a career in digital content production, which she is finding to be an extension of her passion for storytelling. Siye has experience in video and audio content production, branding, and marketing.

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Interweaving with Filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin: Bringing Haiti’s Maternal Health Crisis to Light
Interweaving with Filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin: Bringing Haiti’s Maternal Health Crisis to Light

Haiti faces immense challenges, including political instability, gang violence, and barriers to healthcare, especially for expectant mothers. These issues are vividly portrayed in N'AP Boule, a short film featuring a young couple navigating protests and dangerous streets in a bid to reach a hospital before the birth of their first child. In this interview, filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin shares the inspiration behind N'AP Boule and her mission to shed light on the maternal health crisis in Haiti. The film’s powerful message aims to move viewers to support Haitians’ struggles and push for change.

Great Salt Lake and the Uinta Basin: An Intertwined History
Great Salt Lake and the Uinta Basin: An Intertwined History

I live in Salt Lake City, which lies between the Wasatch Mountains and Great Salt Lake, on the ancestral lands of the Ute, Goshute, and Shoshone peoples. My ancestors are Mormon settlers who colonized the Salt Lake Valley in the 1800s. Like many here, I became concerned in the last few years about the drying of Great Salt Lake.

Trump, Europe, and Military Spending
Trump, Europe, and Military Spending

It is clear that Donald Trump's broad victory in the US elections will have – and already has, in fact – important economic, social and political consequences, both in the United States and on a global scale. And, of course, it also affects Europe.

Activism for Palestine in Trinidad & Tobago: A Form of Kinship in Resistance
Activism for Palestine in Trinidad & Tobago: A Form of Kinship in Resistance

During this year’s annual Carnival festival in Trinidad and Tobago’s capital city of Port of Spain, a Moko Jumbi – a traditional stilt walker and spirit dancer – paraded the streets representing Palestine and demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In Trinbagonian culture, the Moko Jumbie represents a spirit walking over and protecting the souls of all those who were massacred and lost during the transatlantic slave trade. This year, its mission was extended to solidarity with the Palestinian people.

Echoes & Algorithms: AI’s Impact on Grassroots Journalism
Echoes & Algorithms: AI’s Impact on Grassroots Journalism

The rise of AI in journalism comes at a time when traditional media outlets are grappling with dwindling resources, financial instability, and a crisis of public trust. For grassroots journalism, which has historically operated outside these institutional frameworks, the integration of AI presents distinctive opportunities and challenges. As AI becomes more prevalent in content creation, information sourcing, and analysis, we must ask: How does AI influence the identity of grassroots journalism, and what impact does this have on its mission of amplifying marginalized voices?

Interweaving with James J. Coughlin: The Roots of Racial Segregation in Buffalo, NY
Interweaving with James J. Coughlin: The Roots of Racial Segregation in Buffalo, NY

Steve Peraza speaks with James J. Coughlin, a public historian and author of the 2023 zine, City of Distant Neighbors: The Proliferation and Entrenchment of Residential Segregation in Buffalo, New York (1934 to 1961).

Weave News Announces Non-Profit Partnership With Media Freedom Foundation
Weave News Announces Non-Profit Partnership With Media Freedom Foundation

Weave News is announcing a new fiscal sponsorship agreement with the Media Freedom Foundation (MFF), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that supports independent media projects. 

A Historic Win for NYC Climate Activists Shows the Impact of Direct Action
A Historic Win for NYC Climate Activists Shows the Impact of Direct Action

In a historic statement on October 22, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced support for a plan to divest the city’s pension funds from downstream and midstream fossil fuel infrastructure. Paired with previous divestments in upstream infrastructure and public holdings in fossil fuels, this plan would make NYC the first major U.S. city to fully divest major public pension funds from fossil fuel infrastructure. Lander has been showered with praise for this decision. But where is the praise for the activists who helped make it happen through direct action?

How Many Drops in a Tidal Wave? Tribal Members and Allies Carry Water 31 Miles in Response to Proposed Copperwood Mine
How Many Drops in a Tidal Wave? Tribal Members and Allies Carry Water 31 Miles in Response to Proposed Copperwood Mine

At 7:00 a.m. on September 14, 2024, dozens of people in colorful skirts and dress pants begin gathering around a small brick duplex at the Michigan/Wisconsin state line in the westernmost Upper Peninsula, just down the road from a series of budget strip clubs and adult video stores. This may seem like a strange place for a Native American ceremony, but not so: just beneath the bridge flows the Montreal River, and anywhere with Nibi is sacred.

Trieste’s Humanitarian Crisis: At the Crossroads of Migration
Trieste’s Humanitarian Crisis: At the Crossroads of Migration

It’s a hot summer night in Trieste, Italy. The air is still, with not a breeze stirring as the city slumbers. But in the shadows of its central piazza, there’s no rest. Underneath the trees of Piazza Libertà, where weary people on the move gather, volunteers from local humanitarian organizations arrive with supplies in hand. Their mission tonight, like many others, is simple but crucial: offer a moment of solace in the midst of chaos.

NYS Child Care and Governor Hochul at the Democratic National Convention
NYS Child Care and Governor Hochul at the Democratic National Convention

On August 19, 2024, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul delivered a spirited speech in support of the presidential hopeful Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Quite surprisingly, Governor Hochul raised the specter of runaway child care costs as a common issue facing middle class Americans, which, in turn, raised questions about what the governor of New York will do to lower these costs here in the Empire State.

Vibe Garden at Fitz: A 21st-Century US Salon in Buffalo, NY
Vibe Garden at Fitz: A 21st-Century US Salon in Buffalo, NY

On Sunday, August 5, 2024, Fitz Books and Waffles in Buffalo hosted the Vintage and Vinyl Pop Up, where community members enjoyed free music from local DJs and connected with a wide range of vendors selling vintage clothing and vinyl records.

Flowers of Buffalo: A Postscript
Flowers of Buffalo: A Postscript

It’s August now, and all the flower fans who visited Buffalo’s 30th annual Garden Walk Buffalo festivities are somewhere enjoying the hundreds of pictures they undoubtedly took walking in neighborhoods like mine. I live in the Bryant neighborhood, where the founders of Garden Walk live on the appropriately named “Garden Walk Way.”

Feminist Reimagining in Pakistan: From NGOs to Emancipation
Feminist Reimagining in Pakistan: From NGOs to Emancipation

The Aurat March’s expressions of solidarity, and the deliberate centering of womxn who are left most vulnerable in the current system, has led to a radical reimagining of what third world feminist politics can look like and what it can, and should, lead to: emancipation.

Bookstore Block Party Advances Progressive Politics in Buffalo, NY
Bookstore Block Party Advances Progressive Politics in Buffalo, NY

On Sunday, July 28, 2024, Burning Books bookstore hosted their third annual community block party at 420 Connecticut Street on the West Side of Buffalo, NY, raising awareness for local social justice campaigns and providing family recreation for West Side residents. Over 100 Buffalo residents braved the scorching 90-degree late July heat to enjoy the various attractions, including a giant bouncy house obstacle course, dunk tank, and community tables and booths hosted by progressive community organizations like PUSH-Buffalo, Democratic Socialists of America, and Urban Roots.

In Search of Safety: A Family’s Journey Through Gaza
In Search of Safety: A Family’s Journey Through Gaza

My family’s journey through war-ravaged Gaza started last October, the very day after our Gaza City home was bombed — with us inside — killing my oldest cousin, Mohammed. We knew we had to move. Leaflets fell from the sky, urging us to flee southwest. So began a journey that took us through the Jabaliya refugee camp, Deir Al-Balah, Khan Younis, Al-Nusirat, Al-Qarara, and Rafah. Each stop marked a milestone in a trip punctuated by evacuation orders and displacements. I’ve lost count of the number of times we were told to move, but it’s at least a dozen.

Interweaving with Song Lee: Child Care as Public Good and “Radical Joy”
Interweaving with Song Lee: Child Care as Public Good and “Radical Joy”

One of the great joys of being an academic is watching people go from beginner to trailblazer in a field of study. As a writer for Weave News, not only do I get to watch emerging rock stars like Ms. Song Lee ‘do their thing’, but I get to share their voices with the world. In this Interweaving conversation, I am pleased to introduce you to Ms. Song Lee, High Road Fellow and Child Care Community Advocate.

Toward a Permanent Workforce Compensation Fund: Notes on Key Sources
Toward a Permanent Workforce Compensation Fund: Notes on Key Sources

Journalists are credited with writing the first draft of history. As a professionally trained historian and budding journalist, I take pride in documenting people, places, things, events and ideas. Just as honorable, to me, is highlighting the primary sources that will help students of the moment and students of the past understand the complexities of right now. Primary sources are data for historians – they are artifacts produced in the time period one is studying that bear direct relation to the topic under investigation.

Sustainable Food Systems and Animal Rights in War-Torn North Kivu, DRC
Sustainable Food Systems and Animal Rights in War-Torn North Kivu, DRC

The province of North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is home to a vibrant tapestry of mountain rain forests and savannas, woven together by the rivers that feed Lake Edwards and Lake Kivu. It is also a region that is torn apart by war. The interests of neighboring countries and international economic forces have fueled the violence that has displaced more than 2.8 million people and is devastating the local ecosystems. Amidst the ongoing chaos, however, water and earth guardians continue to work to create a better future for their communities and their more-than-human neighbors. One of these brave humans is Justin Lumoo Paluku, who works with the Initiative pour le Progrès et la Protection de l'Environnement (IPPE), or the Initiative for Environmental Progress and Protection.

Third Annual Child Care Community Celebration Rocks the Boat in Buffalo
Third Annual Child Care Community Celebration Rocks the Boat in Buffalo

At 6pm on July 18, 2024, Western New York Child Care Action Team (WNYCCAT) hosted a community celebration for the child care industry’s rank and file. WYNCCAT is an activist organization whose mission is “to educate, investigate, plan, strategize, advocate and provide swift actions that lead to productive, long term, results and solutions that positively impact the child care community across all modalities.”

Arbol de Fuego (Tree of Fire)
Arbol de Fuego (Tree of Fire)

Suffocated by the accumulated heat of the day, the night became long. The smell of smoke woke us up. At that moment we thought that some neighbor was burning garbage. We soon realized that the smell was different. It smelled more like burnt wood.

The Danger of the Far Right Occupying Brussels
The Danger of the Far Right Occupying Brussels

In his latest analysis of the European political and economic scene, Fernando Luengo argues that the ascent of the far right in the run-up to the 2024 European parliamentary elections cannot be separated from the ongoing problem of rising inequality and the fundamental influence of private capital in the public sector.

Life is Already Serious: A Report from the Madrid Student Encampment
Life is Already Serious: A Report from the Madrid Student Encampment

John Collins and Derek Sherrange report from Madrid, Spain, where students are turning up the heat on universities that remain complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Interweaving with Jorge Ramos Tolosa: Spain’s First Student Encampment for Palestine
Interweaving with Jorge Ramos Tolosa: Spain’s First Student Encampment for Palestine

To learn more about the first encampment in Valencia, I reached out to Dr. Jorge Ramos Tolosa, who teaches contemporary history at UV. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, he is a longtime activist with BDS Valencia and the Red Solidaria contra la Ocupación de Palestina (RESCOP), a network of Spanish organizations working in solidarity with Palestine.

A Response to Forced Assimilation in the Hadzabe Tribe
A Response to Forced Assimilation in the Hadzabe Tribe

My name is Fousani Hamidou, and I am a senior at St Lawrence University (Canton, NY, USA), majoring in Global Studies with a minor in African Studies. Last semester, I studied abroad in Kenya and had the opportunity to travel to Arusha, Tanzania, as a part of my program. We lived for a week alongside the Hadzabe tribe, one of the last surviving hunter-gathering tribes in the country. Throughout the week, we hunted hyraxes and made arrows with the Hadzabe men, and we gathered tubas (a tree root) and made beads with the Hadza women. On the last night, we all gathered with members of the tribe on a large rock by the camp to discuss their lifestyle, the Tanzanian government, education, and forced assimilation.

War, War, and War
War, War, and War

In his latest column, economist Fernando Luengo writes ot the warlike climate that is growing in Europe and how it directly shapes a range of problems facing people across the continent and beyond.

This Europe, No
This Europe, No

From June 6-9, elections for the European Parliament, the only genuinely democratic institution in the community’s institutional framework - its members are directly chosen by the citizenry, whereas the rest are intergovernmental in nature - will be held. It is a good moment to think about the challenges facing the European Union (EU) and, I would say, the entire planet.

Humans, Not Numbers: Gaza’s Agony Through the Eyes of a Palestinian in Denmark
Humans, Not Numbers: Gaza’s Agony Through the Eyes of a Palestinian in Denmark

'We have two options now: dying or dying.'

This was a text message that Salahaldin (Salah) Eleyan received from his brother from Northern Gaza, Palestine.

Boycott en el Barrio: Spanish Protesters Reject Israeli Propaganda Efforts
Boycott en el Barrio: Spanish Protesters Reject Israeli Propaganda Efforts

On an ordinary Wednesday morning in the calm, well-to-do Chamberi district of Madrid, a group of about 150 Spaniards stood on the street corner opposite a large cultural center, with riot police watching on intently, and chanted:

“Murderers! Murderers! Shame! Shame!”

The People of Buffalo Remember Those Lost in the Buffalo Blizzard of 2022
The People of Buffalo Remember Those Lost in the Buffalo Blizzard of 2022
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