‘The magnitude of warming is so high that everything is melting everywhere now’. Glacier collapse shows climate impact: https://www.independent.co.uk/…/arctic-summer-global-warmin… [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]
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From Ali Feruz via Marianna Trembovler: My country on fire. We already lost a lot of forests and wild animals. Government doing nothing. I don’t know what else to say …
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ERITREA is one of the most difficult countries to get in, incredible visa redtape country.
by iara leeonly 2 were issued in 2018! I have been trying to visit for years, If anyone can help us, please let us know!!! Stephen Lioy visited Eritrea and took these …
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“For all Jair Bolsonaro’s well-documented hostility to indigenous rights, an aerial assault on the Amazon seems far-fetched. But campaigners believe that under Brazil’s new administration indigenous communities face their most …
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USA is out of control with lack of gun control 🙁 [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]
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Last week, US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar announced the introduction of a new resolution protecting the right to boycott—a response to the 25 states that have passed laws curtailing the right to participate in the BDS movement!
by iara leeHere’s an interesting take on John Lewis’s support for the resolution. What do you think about this, friends? “There’s no question as to Lewis’s credentials as a long-standing member of …
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Do you know about the woman who discovered the cause of global warming? “Eunice Newton Foote rarely gets the credit she’s due. The American scientist, who was born exactly 200 …
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This week marked the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, when Serb forces systematically killed more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys.
by iara leeHow can we learn from this to precent similar atrocities from happening in the future? This article lays out the 10 stages in genocide: “Genocide is not committed by a …
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– The Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests started in June 2019, when the HK government attempted to push forward a controversial extradition law that would have permitted authorities to arrest …
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Congrats to our friend Benny Wenda of the Free West Papua Campaign on being awarded Oxford’s Honorary Freedom of the City!!
by iara lee“It is my great honour as Lord Mayor to both propose and award Honorary Freedom of the City to Benny Wenda. It is a well-deserved accolade for someone who sought …