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A rare and powerful cyclone tracking through the Arabian Peninsula is poised to make destructive landfall in Yemen on Tuesday morning. Hours after devastating the nearby island archipelago of Socotra, where three were killed and more than 200 injured, Cyclone Chapala continues its rapid approach to the mainland, where meteorologists expect it will tear through […]
Ahead of G20 meetings starting Sunday in Turkey, more than 60 organizations representing millions of people from around the world mobilized to demand world leaders “stop funding the problem” and put an end to fossil fuel subsidies. #StopFundingFossils Tweets Happening on and offline, the Stop Funding Fossil Fuels day of action targets G20 countries for […]
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ExxonMobil has launched a full-throttled “bully” campaign against the graduate students who recently unmasked its scandalous climate change cover-up threatening to pull funds from the university that helped bring to light its dangerous and “most consequential” lies. In a letter (pdf) addressed to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and obtained by Politico, the oil giant’s […]
The mayor of Flint, Michigan on Monday night declared a State of Emergency over lead poisoning from the drinking water—after more than a year of public outcry that residents, particularly children, are being irreparably harmed by the dangerous toxin. The newly-minted Mayor Karen Weaver issued the declaration in response to a “man-made disaster” sparked when […]
As the year draws to a close, it’s worth noting a handful of progressive gains that people-power made possible: Despite the lack of coverage in corporate media about the Vermont Independent and his presidential bit, Sen. Bernie Sanders and his call for a political revolution have resonated nationwide. Sanders, who’s put a spotlight on economic […]
Global outcry over academic freedom and human rights has erupted following news on Friday that the Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has arrested at least 18 academics and scholars for signing an open letter last week calling for the end of Turkey’s brutal treatment of the country’s Kurdish people. “[President Erdoğan] then launched […]
The late peace activist Jerry Berrigan, or, rather, 30 life-sized images of him, joined a dozen people at drone base in upstate New York on Thursday to protest the “instruments of terror” and urge the military personnel there not to commit crimes against humanity and war crimes. Berrigan, who died in 2015 at the age […]