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Posted: Fri, Mar 15, 2024 5:43am PDT
As the war in Ukraine continues with its daily death toll and destruction growing under a ceaseless barrage of canon fire and rocket attacks, the question of who will pay for the physical damages when the war ends, a hotly debated subject, has already been resolved in Ukraine. Presently, the World Bank estimates those damages including its patrimony and cultural assets at over $500 billion dollars and growing....
Posted: Thu, Mar 14, 2024 7:04pm PDT
Instead of today’s economic system, which increases inequality, a new system is indispensable, according to Rockström and colleagues. What is needed is a ‘wellbeing economy’ which serves people and the planet—rather than people and the planet serving the economy, as the Wellbeing Economic Alliance (WeAll) puts it....
Posted: Wed, Mar 13, 2024 7:22am PDT
In an action welcoming AIPAC to Congress for their lobbying efforts, human rights activists including members of Code Pink and others continued their weeklong “Flood Congress for Palestine” campaign by greeting AIPAC and Congress members outside of the Capitol, in the street and today, inside the Rayburn Congressional Office Building....
Posted: Tue, Mar 12, 2024 4:20pm PDT
Argentina: El Hambre No Espera...
Posted: Tue, Mar 12, 2024 7:53am PDT
Modern societies cannot really function well without a general social security system. That's why we need a security system for the whole of society that everyone pays into. In addition, growing social inequality is also a major economic risk....
Posted: Sun, Mar 10, 2024 5:17pm PDT
Palestina y los bienes comunes: la Musha’a...
Posted: Sun, Mar 10, 2024 1:05pm PDT
Early California Black Churches played a central role not only in the Colored Convention Movement but in Black women’s fundraising and organizing efforts in general. By holding events like the “Fruit Festival,” as well as picnics and fairs, Black women raised funds to build, buy, and sustain churches. Once such churches were established, they also served as channels through which Black women organized and participated in philanthropy and political activism involving fundraising....
Posted: Sun, Mar 10, 2024 12:40pm PDT
Since the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7 and the massive and sustained invasion of Gaza by the IDF, the world has seen Palestinian and human rights activists protesting daily calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
Activists have employed any number of means to convey their message including the use of mobile LED billboards permanently mounted on a truck that can roam the city bringing its messages to the public....
Posted: Sat, Mar 9, 2024 3:57pm PST
Argentina: Declaración feminista 8 Marzo 2024...
Posted: Sat, Mar 9, 2024 6:11am PST
México: Nuestros cuerpos y territorios no son mercancía!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 8, 2024 11:41am PST
Thanks To The Art, Culture, Music, Food, and Grace Shared By The Migrants Coming To America! The Painting On My Wall, Is Called "The Woman With The Yellow and Green Hair."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 8, 2024 3:00am PST
As Israel's deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip enters its sixth month, an official report from Türkiye on the situation in the Palestinian enclave has been dispatched worldwide, aiming to serve as evidence in the prosecution of those responsible for "massacre, war crimes, and genocide," according to the country's chief ombudsman....
Posted: Thu, Mar 7, 2024 11:43pm PST
Declaring, "We are outraged, we are heartbroken," hundreds of protesters turned out to block Biden's motorcade en route to his State of the Union speech, forcing cars to take "the long way" to the Capitol. Concluding a day-long series of protests across Washington DC, hundreds of people in black shirts reading "Not In Our Name" and "Biden’s Legacy = Genocide" sat and stood along Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol, delaying Biden's speech by about a half hour. Organizers with megaphones led ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 7, 2024 10:59pm PST
For the past ten days at the Israeli Embassy, peaceful human rights activists have erected and maintained a presence 24/7 outside of the compound bedecked with numerous Palestinian flags, signs, banners and a memorial dedicated to Aaron Bushnell who last month immolated himself in protest over the war in Gaza whose last words were “Free Palestine.”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 7, 2024 4:57pm PST
The WFP said after the trucks were turned away and rerouted they were "stopped by a large crowd of desperate people" who took about 200 tons of food....
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 7:39pm PST
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing March 6 on Global Food Security, a timely topic especially so with millions starving in Gaza...
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 5:02pm PST
An international anti-war direct action movement can end the threat of nuclear war...
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 10:24am PST
Navajo, White Mesa Ute, Havasuapai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Lakota testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, revealing the nuclear holocaust in Indian country, of uranium mining, scattered radioactive waste, and deadly uranium mills poisoning the aquifers and land of Native people. They countered the claims by the EPA, BIA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials that claimed they were abiding by U.S. federal laws requiring consultation, upholding Treaties and sa...
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 9:26am PST
"Some of the obstacles that we have seen from the Israeli political establishment, you have seen ministers in the Israeli government block the release of flour from the port at Ashdod. You have seen ministers of the Israeli government supporting protests that blocked aid from going in to Karem Shalom," spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters, referring to a key border crossing between Israel and Gaza....
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 7:50am PST











