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Plastics Recycling is a Lie
From Beyond Plastics: Can you please help share the short claymation video we released today to set the record straight on plastics recycling. Our video is in direct response to a particularly egregious example of greenwashing that Coca-Cola released last week, an...
We need help protecting water!
No one should be allowed to gamble with clean, safe water – but that’s exactly what financial speculators are trying to do by trading water futures. Allowing financial speculators to profit off of and drive up prices on a resource that we all need is dangerous!Will...
Rikers Island from those who have lived there
Excellent panel discussion this evening on Rikers Island with Jose Saldana, Vincent Schiraldi, Alelur Duran and Steven Dominguez. It’s been a disaster since it opened in 1932. Plans for closure began with Ed Koch. Will Eric Adams move forward or wiggle out? Where will...
Turning Lawn into Native Pollinator Garden!
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Westchester #CommunitiesNotCages Town Hall
Get on the New York bus to the June 18th Poor People’s And Low-Wage Workers Assembly and Moral March On Washington!
Get on the New York bus to the June 18th Poor People's And Low-Wage Workers Assembly and Moral March On Washington. New York is joining people from across the nation to gather in Washington, DC for the June 18th Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers Assembly and Moral...
Statement from Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Inc.
From the VVAW National OfficeMarch 25, 2022In our 55 years as an organization, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) has witnessed way too many wars. We know firsthand the consequences and devastation of imperial wars.We are saddened and angered at the unnecessary...
Thomas Palley on Ukraine
Ukraine: What Will Be Done and What Should Be Done? Thomas Palley Antiwar.com February 26, 2022 The inevitable has happened. Russia has invaded Ukraine. It was inevitable because the US and its NATO partners had backed Russia into a corner from which it could...
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.The National Education Association just voted to cut all ties to the Anti-Defamation League
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In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the ...WESPAC on Twitter
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality.
A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine.
I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.…
Israeli soldiers arrested in Belgium after war crimes complaint by rights groups
NEW: @andrewcuomo just conceded the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City to @ZohranKMamdani. Cuomo had universal name ID, a $25M PAC backing him and tons of institutional endorsements. Mamdani is a 33-year-old socialist. The magnitude of this can't be overstated.
BBC reports that any blocking of the Straits of Hormuz would have to be signed off by Iran’s National Security Council before it can happen. That sounds very democratic for a country which is supposed to be a tyranny, compared to say bypassing Congress to bomb a sovereign nation.
There's no overstating how extraordinary this is. The West has now lost political support from the whole of Asia, even Japan and South Korea.
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to free Mahmoud Khalil immediately!
This is his story.