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edenfenixblogs · 2 months

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I have told the one (1) real friend I have out here that I plan to move home because the antisemitic isolation has gotten so bad.

If I were a pettier person, I wouldn’t tell anyone else until I’m already closed on a house back home. And when they’re like “why are you moving?” I’d say “antisemitic isolation from most social groups.” And when they ask “Why didn’t you say anything?” I’d say, “Because you’re the ones who did the isolation.”

I won’t. Cuz that won’t actually solve anything. It’ll just make people who don’t think they’re antisemitic go “oh? Eden? Yeah that was super weird how she called us all antisemites and then left. She must’ve been a Zionist or something cuz I didn’t even say anything about Palestine to her.”

Like…I know. You didn’t say anything to me. You didn’t ask how I was doing. You certainly didn’t acknowledge Jewish pain in any way, beyond liking one (1) post a few months ago. Most of you muted me on here. Most of you don’t respond to unrelated information or posts in group chats about genuinely nonpolitical topics. None of you are ever “free” to hang out. You don’t support me when I’m sad. Fine, maybe that’s not what you do. That’s ok. My emotions aren’t your responsibility. You don’t offer distraction. You don’t offer an ear. You leave me on read when I see you online.

I see the statistics that seem to say “most people think their friends hate them but they actually really like you!”

But I don’t think this applies to Jews. Especially leftist Jews tbh. But I do wonder if the antisemites who hate their Jewish friends even KNOW that they hate their Jewish friends.

Like, I wonder what they’d say if they were asked “Do you dislike Eden?” Because I think they’d say no. I think they’d say that, maybe, I’m a little much right now. I’m a little too intense. Maybe they’d say they like me a lot but just want this all to die down before we hang out. Or maybe they’d say that they did used to like me but I’ve recently made them uncomfortable.

But that’s not friendship. When someone you care about enough to call a friend is literally an emotional wreck for months, regardless of the reason, and you have not at any point attempted to be there for them in any meaningful way (and I mean, at all. Hanging out once. Calling once. Asking how I’m doing once. Saying “antisemitism is bad” even once. Taking me up on my offer to discuss anything about current events if they have questions. Politely declining my offer to discuss current events because you find it all too stressful. Letting me know that you care about me as a person but the current crisis is too much for you to think about right now, so you’d rather not bring it up. Literally ANY of these actions and a million others that would take you hardly any effort at all.) then you clearly don’t think of me as a friend, actually. You do hate me, actually.

Because what kind of person does that to a friend. What kind of person abandons us like this? It’s like they might as well just say “we like you so much, but like…not when you talk about or experience life as a Jewish person.”

They might as well just say “she’s fine enough to be around. Too bad she’s a Jew.”

Or, maybe, being isolated from people for 5 months is really distorting my perspective and none of this is true or valid.

But I can’t help but feel…being isolated for 5 months is very much reinforcing my points.

I’m officially done trying to make plans with any “friends,” except the one person who ever replies to me.

I basically said “if anyone ever wants to hang out, let me know” and that’s the last I’ll say to basically any of them about making plans.

What’s the point? I don’t want to beg people to spend time with me.

That said, when I called one of my best friends back home to tell her I was moving back, I told her the isolation was really getting to me. I told her that I was feeling like maybe nobody ever really liked me all that much and that I’m hard to be around and that being Jewish at this time and experiencing pain publicly was just the final straw to them excluding me. Maybe I’m just fundamentally unlikable.

But she told me that was dumb and I’m dumb for saying it. And she’s seen me at my best and my worst.

Idk. This post is long and personal and weird but I’m trying to be vulnerable and document how I’m feeling during this time. I think maybe I’m prone to look back on this when this current I/P flare is over and think to myself, “maybe I was just making a big deal out of nothing.” I want to have a record of how I’m feeling. Because at this moment when I’m living through it, it feels cataclysmic.

Like..I’m not even concerned about any of my “friends” finding this cuz I’m pretty sure they’ve all muted me anyway.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #digital ghettoization #social isolation #life under stochastic threat #personal

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truths89 · 3 months

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Appropriation & Reparation, Mutations of Colonization

Appropriation is the enterprise of applying a sociological and economic framework of exploiting and, as it pertains to Hip-Hop and Black Culture, being an overseer of the production of art and culture of Black people, which is a global export, for whom Black People are mere pawns of a digital and cultural plantation. These Creators are house slaves of a ghettoized project of social engineering. Modern Hip-Hop, a more palatable enactment of minstrelsy, is comprised of Singers and Rappers who pick cotton and tobacco for the market of psychological enslavement.

Thereby, I ask, are reparations analogous to a corporation’s calculated and anticipated liability for neglecting ethical commerce to ensure a desired profit margin? Is a payout integrated into the cost-risk analysis as a calculated net loss from the intended interests on the gross revenue? Similar to cancer, can the host ever be healthy if we do not halt the replication of sick cells? Suppose the necrotizing fasciitis of white supremacy and its mail-order bride, capitalism, are unable to cease the act of eating flesh by way of pillage, gentrification, imminent domain, school zoning, currency devaluation, multinational coups, prison industrial complex, and medical apartheid. Would that indicate that reparations are a performative kumbayah psyop? Is this an asymmetrical war with killer bars and banging beats?

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Indigenization is the neutralization of ancestral origin and cultural sovereignty, which facilitates the coaptation by hegemonic society and the sterilization of indigeneity. Culture becomes a buffet with no cook or farmer, but we all eat. Who knows the recipe, and have we been poisoned? The commodity without sovereignty sounds like chattel slavery. But in the 21st century, we call that neoliberalism; everything is up for grabs because legal ownership would imply a recognizable personhood. Akin to the patents of the enslaved, the property of my property is the enslavers.

How do we then decolonize and reconcile when our lineage is copyrighted? We become the pirates of our heritage and pay the plagiarizer for wisdom bestowed by our antecedent.

White supremacy will not provide the tools to dismantle its reign, but it will play court, and the delusion of justice will become theatre to arraign. Don’t we all love to watch a good sport?

Are we shuffling the caste system while asking Massa if he’s okay with the alterations in his transnational colonies? If and when he cosigns, is that a decoration or renovation because it most certainly is not an eviction or demolition?

From trafficking humans, like stolen artifacts, who are extracted for the amassment of hoarded wealth, to cultural trafficking to amass even more wealth to hoard, it is apparent that this is a disguised mutation.

Appropriation is passive-aggressive and more cultured than outright colonization. There is no need for an annexation; we drink tea flavored in liberation. Subsumption, although insidious, develops a hybridization that obfuscates with conflation and glorifies artificial amalgamation.

#truths89 #poetry #zisa aziza #negressofsaturn #trollingtheivorytower #columbia university

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beyondthecourts · 4 years

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WGST 320: Week 4 Discussion Post

#1. Is there a split between society’s dismissive tone toward black technofuturist enthusiasm, and the reality that black activists and businesspeople were able to utilize the internet to meet their calculated goals?

Yes: there most certainly is a split, as documented in Anna Everett’s “The Revolution Will Be Digitized.” The early editorials and news features written about the rising numbers of black engagement online were riddled with biases and microaggressions that “ghettoized” and trivialized the movement, instead of crediting an otherized group for their strides in keeping up with the arising technology. Black businessowners, like Raven Rutherford and her pie shop, were met with undue scrutiny from journalists covering her story. The narrative that the black community was a few decades late to the technological advances severely undercuts the reality that the black community is just as resourceful and intelligent as the white community. In praising these individuals’ feats, there is an air of arrogance – one that helped actualized the “digital divide.”

#2. How does being “unmarked by race” tie into the digital divide?

R. Benjamin asserts that there is a power to plainness, so having a name like “Taylor” instead of “Tyrone” will paint a completely different picture of an individual’s upbringing, goals, personality, etc. While these factors are all wildly exaggerated through racial stereotypes, this discrimination is no longer interpersonal, because technology helps reinforce these assumptions. When your personal identifiers fall in line with the white standard, you avoid the drawbacks of the “New Jim Code.” While antebellum laws dictating segregation have been done away with, a similar for of covert discrimination exists in the employment of new technology. While computer programming codes are facially neutral, studies show how these algorithms play a large role in limiting employment, housing, education, and healthcare opportunities for people of color - before they can even land an interview.

#3. So much of academia relies on the internet. How can educational institutions and the students who attend them circumvent the “technological redlining” that occurs online?

The importance of the internet has been especially highlighted by COVID-19; it does not take elaborate research to recognize how vital search engines are for students in the 21st century. However, the results of casual Google Searches are indeed, more indicative of an “advertising company, not a reliable information company” (Noble). Simply put, the results of search engines help perpetuate harmful stereotypes, that will inevitably set us back as a progressive society. We must think of the Internet as the most impactful social experiment of our lifetime; while our lives are so attached to this phenomenon, we cannot forget how new it is. Now that we are seeing the racist, classist, and sexist themes that underscore technology, students should be more wary about using academic databases for information. It might be time to start consider the benefits of “old school” learning: reading from peer reviewed journals and data, talking to actual professors and experts in the field… there must be something to be said about the wickedness of technology, when the top executives that work in Silicon Valley enforce “no phone contracts” in their private homes.

#4. How does intersectionality fit into the digital world?

This week’s readings highlighted a few unique relationships between Black women and the internet. In general, search results are highly gendered; pornographic themes emerge from innocent keywords like “black girls” (Noble), and historically “black” sounding names are flagged by computer algorithms as “unpleasant,” or disfavored (R, Benjamin). While ethnic minorities using their given names may all tell a story, they are especially damaging when applied to black women. The overlapping identities of individuals are no longer invisible on the internet, and any competitive edge previously awarded for being online is now arguably gone. It seems as though the trajectory of the digital age is targeting the most marginalized people in society, and unfortunately, government regulations are a few steps behind the game.

Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology abolitionist: Tools for the new Jim code. Medford, MA: Polity Press.

Everett, A. (2002). The relationship revolution will be digitized: Afrocentricity and the digital public sphere. Social Text, 20(71), 125-146. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-20-2_71-125

Noble, S. (2018). Algorithms of expression: How search engines reinforce racism. New York, NY: New York University Press.

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christinexx · 4 years

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Week 4: Blog Post Due 9/16

1. How has the white-dominated society in America affect technology?

It caused the assumption that the Internet is a world for white men. The concept of black technophobia also stems from this. Black people have been around on the Internet since the late 90s but their presence was neglected. Until later when they were making a huge noticeable impact on the Web, black people were then talked about with a sense of “...condescension, ghettoization, trivialization, and a general air of dismissiveness” (Everett, 2002). The Internet is used to channel racism and has more consequences when it is posted online as compared if it were published on a newspaper in a local town because nearly anything on the Web has the potential to be seen by the entire world.

2. How do our own names trigger social coding?

Names are part of our self-identity. Not many people realize it, but your name can be used by everyone to make judgments of what kind of person you are and the background you might have. This becomes a problem when this type of thinking is used in real life situations to discriminate against certain groups of people. It has been found that people in America who have white sounding names have more job opportunities than those with different or “uncommon” names (Benjamin, 2019). Stereotypes based on which ethnicity our name sounds like cling onto us and we are weighed to how easy we can be dealt with by how “white” we sound.

3. Why is it not correct to assume the Internet is neutral?

When we go online, it might seem that we are invisible because we have the ability to communicate with others without meeting face-to-face. By doing this, people can’t make judgements as quick as they would in real life by looking at what skin color, ethnicity, or gender you are. This “invisibility” can be used to easily interpret the Internet as a bias-free zone. Another example that would feed into that assumption would be that the Internet is neutral because it is made up by codes on computers, therefore having no feelings or bias towards anything. However, people forget that computers did not create themselves. Everything on a computer was designed by a human as well even algorithms on the Internet. In the reading, Noble talks about how Google has been caught beforehand to have set their algorithm to be racist towards minorities. In 2015, Google got in trouble for their insensitive algorithm because black people showed up in the “ape” section of Google Images (Noble, 2018). This can be dismissed as their “lack of control” over the system but makes us question if it really was an accident or if it was discreetly done on purpose.

4. Why does Noble mention the term “redlining” in the reading?

Redlining is a practice where real estate agents and banks would show non-white families where to live in, which were typically within areas where the neighborhoods would be divided by race (Noble, 2018). Minorities would also be charged more in comparison to white people. Noble talks about redlining because they were making a connection between that and the “algorithmic oppression” that is currently happening. Algorithmic oppression is the new way in which non-white people will continue to keep struggling as the world undergoes technological advances.

Sources:

Benjamin, R. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. (2019). Polity.

Everett, A. (2002). The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Afrocentricity and the Digital Public Sphere. Social Text, 20, 125 - 146.

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York University Press.

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pierreism · 5 years

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Eva Heyman died in Auschwitz on October 17th 1944 at the tender age of 13. This week, to mark Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, a bold new experiment for the social media age re-imagines her side of the story through first-person Instagram posts, letting viewers experience the last few months of her life as if in real-time.

The multi-million dollar production, which includes extras dressed in Nazi regalia riding armoured tanks, is the brainchild of Mati and Maya Kochavi. Presented through the lens of a smartphone (and delivered initially with the kind of convivial narration you’d expect from a typical 13 year-old), each unfolding episode allows us to witness the slow-motion atrocity with a renewed and uncanny sense immediacy. To see clips of her frightening ghettoization amidst the usual glossy plastic detritus that populates the Instagram feed is jarring to say the least — which I guess is the point. The digital space is an area defined by disruption. In appropriating phone cameras and citizen journalism; by hacking into our obsessive need to look to the future to instead show us the past, eva.stories disrupts our attention — and our comfort — for a cause worth paying mind to.

Watch her story in its entirety on the eva.stories Instagram. Or if you don’t have an account it’s currently viewable here: storiesig.com/?username=eva.stories

#Eva Heyman #eva.stories

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writer59january13 · 2 years

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Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...

Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

I admit to own a passion

for the Civil War in general, and the life and death of the sixteenth president in particular

between a hard spot of whiskey

and draughts of arrack;

nonetheless (without doubt), this Yankee

would be fain to travel back

to Antebellum America

amidst the urban din and clack

where smelting earsplitting,

choking industrialization

a deaf fin hit drawback, and where dark shadows cast an eternal

edge of night twilight zone pallor

tubby somewhat exact

from mighty robber barons,

who tolerated no flack (nope not even Roberta)

despite the bleeding nose against grindstone

inhumanity bearing down hard

with very little giveback

viz zit head as greenback

yes...no matter the noxious

crash course urbanization (and attendant ghettoization)

breeding a lung wrenching tuberculosis hack,

this twenty first century middle aged

married man (an average Monterey Jack ass), whose sought after

claim to fame penchant

modestly admits to whiz knack

crafting literary concoctions with no lack of ideas, where one arose

strong as an oncoming mack

truck (this vibrant fascination

with the American Civil War

(even before Ken Burns popularized

calamitous event) in non black

and white (digitally remastered technicolor)

exemplified, enumerated, and emphasized how a minor dispute got way off,track

whereat stately commander in chief did pack

a punch analogous sans, barreling forth

like unstoppable quarterback

despite his six foot four inch

gangly physique cull rack

tried his darnedest,

(or substitute unprintable epithet)

yet a coterie of anti war subjects

figuratively and literally up in arms

wanted nothing less to sack

the sixteenth president,

whose aged fifty seven year old countenance one month after

Ides of March death didst dance during the low key celebration sans,

internecine bloodbath Grants'

and Lees' armistice

one hundred and fifty seven years ago;

the peace treaty signed

(April 9th, 1865) at Appomattox,

an irrevocable agony did blow

when that fateful, mournful,

somber night at Ford's Theater

the grim reaper didst appear

(like Jim) crow king

ably linkedin with Reconstruction

after one shot rang out blasting,

where crimson tide didst flow

drowning American history

at that juncture grow

wing no less painless today, which hoo veer ring agony didst smite

incomprehensible cleft mow

wing down unfinished ambition, which no

one other than Abraham Lincoln could sow the racial rift, that slavery trucked in tow generations shackled with compounded woe

that fateful April 15, 1865 at approximately 10:20 p.m

one hundred plus fifty seven years; it's been

long since deceased taking deadly gunshot punctuated deadly din, whence fifteen plus decades passed sans conspirator tried to get even at Ford’s theater – forever eviscerating thin lipped grin

of the sixteenth president - still his unrealized promising dreams with in

Reconstruction paradigm presses historians to speculate what kin ship his unrealized post-bellum blueprint

while he sat in his booth, attended a performance of the comedy

Our American Cousin that night when a bullet entered below

the president's left ear,

bored diagonally through his brain

and stopped behind his right …

wrought him slumped over,

now tis 7 score + 17 years witnessed assassination of Abraham Lincoln team of rivals mastermind, re: the American Civil War wreck con struck shin yet…his positive affects find him honored with outsize depictions and a con tin

hue wing legacy sustained, whereby hearts and minds he posthumously did win.

Said enigmatic man shrouded and idolized with beatific, democratic essence fantastic, honorific, pacific aura, dogma, and persona with meager off fence

to generations of United States citizens – enthralled ladies and gents

whose reverberations and ramifications

of humane karma lives on – hence

begotten progeny enjoying freedoms perchance ensconced with rapt innocence or those inured with sensibility and sense can bequeath pride without prejudice whether living in splendour or in tents toward Illinois railroad log splitter, whose humble roots forged steely covenants.

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cryptnus-blog · 6 years

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if Crypto “Remains” Illegal, Adoption Will be Difficult

New Post has been published on https://cryptnus.com/2018/10/if-crypto-remains-illegal-adoption-will-be-difficult/

if Crypto “Remains” Illegal, Adoption Will be Difficult

At Bloomberg Ideas, an event that features leading experts in various industries, George Mason University economics professor Tyler Cowen stated that if crypto remains illegal, adoption will be difficult to achieve.

“If crypto stays illegal, it will be ghettoized, and that will make it harder for it to spread ultimately.”

However, in major markets including the US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, and the UK, the usage and trading of cryptocurrencies are legal, with sufficient regulatory frameworks in place to protect investors in the global digital asset exchange market.

Already Regulated

According to Cowen, regulation around cryptocurrencies as an emerging asset class has to be solidified further to attract more investors into the market and encourage merchants to adopt cryptocurrencies as an alternative payment method to fiat currencies.

For years, economists have mischaracterized cryptocurrencies as criminal money, an unregulated asset class, and an inefficient payment system, as seen in the recent outburst of widely recognized economist Nouriel Roubini.

The negative stance towards cryptocurrencies portrayed by the majority of leading economists has been expected by the cryptocurrency industry. As decentralized financial networks, consensus currencies challenge the fundamental belief of economists that fiat currencies serve as the base monetary system of the global economy.

But, it is of utmost importance, at least for companies that provide services in the finance sector, to consider the possibility of digital assets potentially competing against fiat currencies in the long-term due the declining trust towards middlemen and financial institutions by millennials.

As former Goldman sachs CEO and chairman Lloyd Blankfein emphasized, who previously stated that it is “arrogant” for economists and bankers to think crypto has no future, there exists a chance that cryptocurrencies could arise and evolve into a major asset class in the years to come.

“If you go through that fiat currency where they say this is worth what it’s worth because I, the government, says it is, why couldn’t you have a consensus currency?”

Hence, while the skepticism towards malpractices and poor protocols utilized by some cryptocurrencies in the global market is encouraged, intentionally mischaracterizing the asset class as an “illegal” payment method and currency is highly inappropriate and more importantly, inaccurate.

The Japanese government has recently allowed 21 cryptocurrency exchanges to form a consortium and self-regulate the local digital asset exchange market, with a national licensing program in place to oversee businesses in the industry.

The government of South Korea officially recognized the cryptocurrency market as a legitimate industry, acknowledging the blockchain as a core technology in the fourth industrial revolution. Gopax, a leading exchange in the local market, is financed and operated by Shinhan, the 2nd largest commercial bank in the nation.

Crypto is Not Illegal

Based on the regulatory frameworks established in major regions, it is evident that cryptocurrency remains legal as a payment method, a remittance system, and as a currency. Even China, which implemented a blanket ban on cryptocurrency trading in September 2017, has recently recognized Bitcoin as a property under local regulations, allowing individuals and businesses to hold and send or receive cryptocurrencies legally.

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todaynewsstories · 6 years

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Greece: Residents and refugees work together to rebuild Lesbos | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW

It’s been three years since the picturesque Greek island of Lesbos was thrust into the world’s spotlight, when around 3,000 people arrived on its beaches every day during the height of the refugee crisis. But although the hotels have emptied of journalists and visitors are once again strolling around the pretty harbor, the crisis hasn’t disappeared. The notorious Moria camp, built to house 2,500 people but currently holding almost 8,000, has been declared “the worst refugee camp in the world” by aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres, with high levels of violence and children as young as 10 attempting suicide.

And it’s not just impacting those housed there. Tourist numbers on the island remain 50 percent of what they were at their peak, many local businesses have closed, and petty crime such as theft has stoked community tensions. Local villagers, who were often first responders at the height of the crisis, have grown to feel bitter and ignored. As Panos, who runs a local food wholesaler, says: “The EU and the Greek government have turned this island into a warehouse of lost souls.”

Locals like Panos feel like the island has been left alone

This is why, on the ground, focus is turning to projects that can benefit both refugees and the local Greek community and help revive this small island that has shouldered far more than its fair share of a global issue.

“Hundreds of volunteers from northern Europe and America came here, but none were listening to the local community and what they felt was needed,” says Adil Izemrane, co-founder of grassroots NGO Movement on the Ground (MOTG), which is supporting a number of such projects. He explains that, when he first asked Nikos Trakellis, the president of Moria village, what might benefit his community, he burst into tears because “no one had ever asked him such a question before.”

One of the most successful projects has been a football tournament for children from the camp and from Moria village. The forced ghettoization of camp residents, along with cultural differences and fears of crime and violence, means building trust between the communities is no easy task. The tournament aims to bring children together first — and, through this, their parents.

Read more: Melissa Network: A hive built by migrant women

“Kids don’t care about labels, they make friends with anyone,” says Tanja Matijevic, an environmental scientist now working as a soccer coach. “Moria village is not wealthy, most people are in day-to-day survival mode. If a family’s goat is stolen because people in the camp are so desperate, that has a big impact.

“Most parents here have just been thanking us for starting a sports league, as it’s not something they would always be able to afford to send their kids to.”

Greek and refugee kids are coming together over football

Spyros Lalos, whose 10-year-old son plays in the tournament, says: “I think a lot of people were nervous at the idea, both parents and the children. But my son enjoyed it and he made friends with some of the kids. Every time they play together, it gets a bit easier and people relax more.”

Digital learning for migrants and Greeks

Another Lesbos resident keen to build bridges is Adonis Zeivekis, 25, from the village of Thermi, a few kilometers north of Moria. “I’m from here and grew up here, so I understand both sides of the problem,” he explains. “I wanted to see if I could get involved and help both somehow.”

One solution Zeivekis and MOTG are working on is twin digital learning labs — one at Moria camp and another in the island’s main town of Mytilene, teaching IT skills to both migrants and Greeks. Two camp residents, Thierry Harbonimana and Kwizera Ahmed Aimable (photo at top), both from Burundi, are working as teachers alongside him. “We will have refugee teachers in the Greek class, then eventually we will mix the two groups,” he explains.

Read more: On the edge of the EU, refugee flows flood a river

Harbonimana says he believes that increasing the number of small, informal interactions between the two communities is the best way to break down barriers. “Anything that helps us grow accustomed to each other is good,” he explains. “Last week, we joined in with some religious festivities here — it’s small, but everyone liked it.” Zeivekis adds: “Yesterday we had a music event with refugee musicians playing, which was open to everyone. I don’t think the majority of villagers are against the refugees, the anger is because we don’t have the facilities here for them.”

A project is underway to repair olive groves damaged by migrants’ tents

However, Harbonimana explains that it can be hard for camp residents to get involved with projects when they are so focused on day-to-day survival: “Some people are just so worried about what will happen next, whether they will get their papers, they can’t think about anything else.”

Other projects include a food truck, in which refugee chefs cook with ingredients sourced from local farmers and invite residents to share meals. Panos, who helps supply the food, cites Lesbos’s large Albanian community as proof that integration on the island is possible. “There’s no reason people can’t stay on the island, get jobs, have families here,” he says.

Lesbos waits for government plan

Outside Moria, olive groves have been destroyed to build makeshift tents. “The situation was so bad that people just decided to leave the main camp,” Izemrane says. MOTG is now working with the community to rebuild the area and create communal gardens for both camp residents and villagers to grow produce. The project should be completed later this year.

But although people on the ground are moving forward with solutions that can help everyone, anger remains at the lack of any overall strategy from the authorities ultimately responsible.

Read more: The EU-Turkey refugee agreement: a review

“At the start, everyone was just in crisis-response mode. But now it’s been three years, people are still arriving, and there’s still no long-term plan. And it will probably go on for many more years,” says Izemrane. “People don’t know what they’re doing here or what’s going to happen to them, which is where a lot of the frustrations come from.”

The Greek government, which is in charge of Moria camp, claims it does not have the funds to improve conditions. Meanwhile, those on the island continue to wait, desperate to know what the future holds.