cynicalidealism:

Enduring Exile: A family’s journey from Armenia to Syria and back again.

"Armenians who survived the 1915 genocide and moved around the world all passed first through Syria. In the Armenian imagination, Syria is a place of refuge and rebirth."

Heading home (at Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL))

Switzerland will vote to give all adults guaranteed $2,800 monthly income.

Grassroots organizers were able to collect the 100,000 signatures required to force a referendum on the proposed initiative. The move is the latest by Swiss grassroots activists who are pushing for reforms following the European financial crisis.

Activists dumped 8-million 5-cent coins on Oct. 4— one coin for each person living in Switzerland— in the center of the Federal Square outside of Switzerland’s parliament in Berne.

A group of 34 U.S.-raised immigrants are in custody after attempting to cross into the U.S. from the Mexico border, the latest tactic from ‘Dreamer’ activists. The group, which donned an array of graduation paraphernalia, faced questioning from immigration officials Sept. 30.