At COP15, Indigenous leaders warn against 'biggest land grab in history'
At the UN biodiversity conference, Indigenous leaders fight to be included in 30x30 talks.
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mercredi 7 décembre
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At COP15, Indigenous leaders warn against 'biggest land grab in history'
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Moscow’s Mule: How Russia Rewrote a Narcotics Case to Get its Spy Back
When the reported Russian spy Sergey Cherkasov was arrested in Brazil, Russia’s authorities suddenly remembered he’d been wanted all along – for smuggling heroin in 2012.
mardi 6 décembre
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Life is tough for Russian independent media now in exile
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Indigenous Argentineans Resist Becoming “Sacrifice Zone” for Ecocolonialism - Truthout
The Global North’s demand for lithium threatens a new chapter of colonial dispossession. -
Anti-Authoritarian Collective Action Is Happening on a Mass Scale in China - Truthout
This resistance is the result of a confluence of immediate catalysts and long-term political and economic dynamics.
lundi 5 décembre
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The Fight for Housing Justice in Los Angeles
From the Los Angeles Tenants Union to Downtown Crenshaw, communities of color in L.A. are rewriting the rules of housing rights. -
A Wisconsin town tried to stop factory farm pollution. Then got sued
"This is standard operating procedure for the Big Ag boys."
dimanche 4 décembre
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Protesters Across UK Demand Government Address Fuel Poverty Crisis This Winter - Truthout
As energy bills — and fossil fuel profits — soar, demonstrators demanded immediate action from PM Rishi Sunak.
jeudi 1er décembre
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Abducted and tortured by the Russians, Kherson’s survivors tell their stories
Three torture survivors from Kherson, Nova Kakhovka and Kakhovka told openDemocracy what happened to them
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Ukrainians on the front line face a winter without warmth or light
Zaporizhzhia, a once 700,000-strong city 40km from Russia’s front lines, remain defiant – but life is hard
mercredi 30 novembre
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San Francisco Has Voted to Tax Corporate Landlords for Leaving Housing Vacant
The groundbreaking affordable housing victory in San Francisco could serve as a blueprint for other cities to follow.
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Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk
Elon Musk appears to have out-sourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform's right-wing extremists. The post Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk appeared first on The (...) -
Elon Musk, “Free Speech Absolutist,” Has Launched a Crackdown on Left-Wing Twitter Accounts
No one should’ve honestly believed Elon Musk would use his ownership of Twitter to champion free speech. Besides the fact that the man is a professional bullshitter, it was always dubious that a guy who slaps employees with gag orders and bars them from wearing pro-union messages had a genuine (...)
mardi 29 novembre
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Progressive Health Care Initiatives Coasted Through in Midterms
Initiatives to expand health care access and reduce costs won big on election night, rattling for-profit industry lobbyists. The post In a Wisconsin Trump County, and Across the U.S., Progressive Health Care Initiatives Coasted Through appeared first on The (...)
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Trumpism Won’t Be Defeated in a Single Election Cycle
The slim GOP takeover of the House will undoubtedly unleash a further tsunami of right-wing extremism.
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Evangelical Lobbying Threatens Supreme Court’s Independence
“Operation Higher Court” sent lobbyists to wine and dine Alito, Thomas and Scalia, while pushing right-wing positions.
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How States Limit Teen Access to Abortion
by Lizzie Presser, photography by Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt for The New York Times ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
mardi 22 novembre
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Indigenous and Black Communities Find Common Cause for Land Justice
Historically, Indigenous and Black folks have been turned against each other by colonizers and enslavers. Now, communities are learning from one another and finding solidarity in efforts to reclaim stolen lands.
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The Global South needs urgent action on COP27’s loss and damage deal
Exclusive: Farmers suffering worst droughts in 40 years tell openDemocracy how their communities are being destroyed
lundi 21 novembre
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Tunisia’s struggle for energy democracy
Tunisian unions are not only fighting for better terms and conditions in the energy sector. They want democratic control, writes Ilyes Benammar
dimanche 20 novembre
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Turkey Is Starving the Rojava Revolution
“We spend most of our waking life on trying to meet our basic needs,” said K. as we sat in the dark in her yard one hot August night. Households in Qamişlo — one of the largest Kurdish-majority cities in the de facto autonomous North East Syria (NES), commonly known by its Kurdish name Rojava (...)
jeudi 17 novembre
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How Scientists From “Global South” Are Sidelined at IPCC
Researchers say systemic bias at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has led to projections that perpetuate economic inequality. The post How Scientists From the “Global South” Are Sidelined at the IPCC appeared first on The (...)
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How Russia’s loyal ‘opposition’ parties support the war against Ukraine
On Ukraine, little separates Putin’s United Russia from either the Communist Party of Russia or A Just Russia
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Nawaat – IMF-Tunisia agreement: a social time-bomb
Tunisia’s new agreement with the IMF is just two months away from becoming operational. The government, however, is far from being prepared to navigate what follows once it begins the precarious task of dismantling the subsidies system which covers basic goods and hydrocarbons. Rather than (...)
mercredi 16 novembre
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In Melbourne’s North, Residents Are Up Against Billionaire Developers
Urban space has always been a class issue. Profit-seeking developers stand on one side and residents and ordinary people who favor the social good on the other. Whoever wins conflicts like this determines what gets ripped down or built up, where that happens, and for what (...)
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9 in 10 US counties have experienced a climate disaster in the last decade
Climate change is here and “all taxpayers are paying for it.”
mardi 15 novembre
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As Serbia expulses dozens of Tunisians from Belgrade, thousands of others are making their way towards Europe along the Balkan route. « I can count on one hand the number of them who are still here », says a sixty-something-year-old resident of a small village in the center of Djerba. (...)
dimanche 13 novembre
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Far-Right “Landlordism” Wants to Dispossess Entire Populations
In forty-eight hours, the world saw the electoral defeat of one right-wing leader and the triumphant return of another. While Jair Bolsonaro did not acknowledge that he had lost the October 30 Brazilian presidential runoff, he does now seem to have been forced to give up his claim to power. (...)
jeudi 10 novembre
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US voters have backed abortion rights. But Republicans will fight back
OPINION: Narratives of the ‘resiliency of American democracy’ are premature, even if the Democrats held out well
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Ocasio-Cortez: New York State Democratic Party May Have Cost Democrats the House
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the role of abortion and the youth vote in the midterms, Ukraine, and the political distinction between unemployment and inflation. The post AOC: The New York State Democratic Party’s Corruption May Have Cost Democrats the House appeared first on The (...)
mercredi 9 novembre
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What the midterm elections mean for the climate — so far
As control of Congress leans right, hope for action shifts to the White House and states.
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Abortion Rights Win in Several Statewide Ballot Initiative Contests
Polling conducted prior to the midterms shows that abortion is a critical issue for voters.
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In New York City, Racial Equity Ballot Measures Passed by a Wide Margin
New York City approved three ballot measures to codify racial justice in the city charter. As I reported earlier this week, the Racial Justice Commission and proposed ballot measures were a response to the racial reckoning in the summer of 2020 over police brutality and to a pandemic that (...) -
The return of the American bison is an environmental boon — and a logistical mess
American bison are back on the rise. The problem is, they don't respect fences.
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The Midterms Handed Democrats in Congress a Mandate to Codify Abortion Rights
With 48 senators supporting a filibuster carveout for abortion rights, Democrats should act before the new Congress. The post The Midterms Handed Democrats in Congress a Mandate to Codify Abortion Rights appeared first on The (...)
mardi 8 novembre
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Drought looms over midterm elections in the arid West
Democrats Mark Kelly and Catherine Cortez Masto fought for drought funding. They may both lose their seats.
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From New York to Texas, climate candidates are gaining momentum in local races
If successful, this new crop of activists-turned-politicians could affect climate action from state to local levels.
lundi 7 novembre
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LGBTQ Equality Is on the Ballot -- Just Not in the Way You Think
Attacks on LGBTQ rights are hiding in plain sight in the 2022 midterm elections.
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The Most Important Midterm Election
There are some positive signs heading into Election Day. But there are just as many indicating a far grimmer outcome.
dimanche 6 novembre
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Thousands of votes won’t count this year over minor absentee ballot errors
Thousands of Americans will lose their right to vote in this year’s midterm elections over mistakes like forgetting a signature or putting down the wrong date on paperwork for mail voting. Most states don’t offer voters an opportunity to correct — or “cure” — absentee ballots after submission. And a (...)
vendredi 4 novembre
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For Abortion Rights, Could Kentucky Be the Next Kansas?
A ballot measure in the state could pave the way for a total abortion ban. The post For Abortion Rights, Could Kentucky Be the Next Kansas? appeared first on The Intercept.
mardi 1er novembre
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Rainbow Forum: Armenian LGBTIQ activists defy war to hold annual celebration
Weeks after Azerbaijan’s attack, queer activists won support from a member of Turkey’s parliament at annual forum
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In Brazil, Lula vows to halt deforestation — but it won’t be easy
The president-elect faces deep political division, and Bolsonaro still has two more months in power.
vendredi 28 octobre
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Iran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters' Mobile Phones
The documents provide an inside look at an Iranian government program that lets authorities monitor and manipulate people's phones. The post Iran’s Secret Manual for Tracking and Controlling Protesters’ Mobile Phones appeared first on The (...)
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How the US far-Right is acting to get Bolsonaro re-elected in Brazil
Bolsonaro is unlikely to give up power without a fight. Key Trump supporters are preparing to do battle for him
mardi 25 octobre
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Rishi Sunak is 'better news than Truss' on climate change, but by how much?
Britain's new prime minister has a mixed record on environment, energy, and climate policy.
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More Than Two Years After George Floyd’s Murder Sparked a Movement, Police Reform Has Stalled. What Happened?
by Jake Pearson ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In the spring of 2020, George Floyd’s caught-on-camera murder by a Minneapolis police officer prompted massive social justice protests (...)
lundi 24 octobre
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The Remote Control Killers Behind Russia’s Cruise Missile Strikes on Ukraine
In the early hours of Monday, 10 October 2022, Russia pummelled Ukraine’s largest cities with missiles killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 100, according to Ukraine’s national emergency service. Russia has boasted about the surgical precision of its cruise missiles and claimed the (...)
jeudi 20 octobre
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Mobilisation in Russia: a perspective from the Left
On September 21, Putin announced “partial” mobilisation. What does it mean? Who are the most vulnerable to mobilisation? How does it affect civic infrastructures and women’s status? We asked a group of left activists, journalists, and sociologists from Russia, who have been running the anti-war (...) -
Russian police are torturing people who protest the war
Those standing up to the war report horrific instances of abuse at the hands of the authorities
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