MiddleGround Journal

By Daniel Quinlan I couldn’t believe it when I read that Bangkok was sinking by as much as 1-2 cm a year. At first I assumed it was a misprint and they must have meant millimeters but the same figure appeared in other stories. Later I pitched it to an editor and did a...

By J.M Giordano  I grew up in a lower middle class, white neighborhood and only attended community college. I saw Trump coming a mile away. What I didn't see coming was the sheer will of an almost unstoppable resistance to him and the racist and brutal policies that...

Currently in India, farmers have marched on capital cities in force to protest the introduction of new laws that will tip the scales of the nation’s agricultural industry, against small small farmers, in favour of massive corporations that promise to absorb the...

Regeneration should be a part of all our lives. We live and work in a certain way but eventually most things lose their momentum and should be either changed or ended. At SafeGround, we have faced regeneration many times since...

Like many countries in South and Central America, peace is often fluctuating in and out of reach. Nicaragua is one such country; no stranger to revolution and uprising. For forty-three years, from 1936 to 1979, the country was ruled by the Somoza family....

By Iva Zimova A woman waves a red and white flag, adopted by the Belarusian opposition, from the window of an apartment block high above massed crowds of demonstrators who have come onto the streets to voice their opposition to the 2020 presidential election result,...

By Kasun Ubayasiri and Rwango Kadafi APRIL, 2020: At the onset of Africa’s COVID outbreak, residents of the Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest in the world, live in fear of infection as they struggle to access the most basic protections like soap and clean...

Shale Thompson walks back towards the Deebing Creek camp “If this goes there's nothing else left.” Stepping through the gate onto the old Deebing Creek mission site, I'm met with an overwhelming sense of peace. The bushland remains untouched, the wildlife flourishing...

A Changa shepard leads her flock out of camp for the dayA mountain range of the Himalaya in the Indian state of Ladakh The Tibetan Plateau is often referred to as the roof of the world. One can’t quite grasp the accuracy of this name until they see the snow-capped...