For decades, the palm oil industry, backed by the RSPO, has misled consumers with the false promise of “sustainable” palm oil.
Behind this green façade lies a brutal reality of deforestation, human rights abuses, and the destruction of endangered species’ habitats.
Dozens of investigations from many different industry watchdogs have exposes the RSPO’s certification as a sham, enabling continued environmental devastation under the guise of sustainability.
However it’s not only the palm oil industry that is an environmental liability, gold mining and meat deforestation also deserves to be strongly condemned for its ongoing ecocide.
Read on to discover the examples of greenwashing deception from these industries, so that you don’t fall for their corporate greenwashing.
Protect our planet and all human and non-human beings by refusing to support these lies……………
El primer ministro israelí admite la responsabilidad del régimen en los ataques con 📟aparatos de comunicación que causaron cientos de muertos y heridos en Líbano.
I don’t understand why we insist on gain of function research. Can someone give me the low down on what good would come out of this research? Because I don’t see it..
PETER PAN
Just keep playing with bugs whilst ratcheting the global pandemic emergency architecture toward rinse, repeat of the COVID-19 scam/grift Do you think RFK.Jnr and more critically minded folk in the Trump Administration will be a sufficient handbrake on the criminal nonsense?
Ten years later the Mexican Supreme Court has revoked the sentence against Indigenous Mazateco & political prisoner Miguel Peralta!
We now demand the courts of Oaxaca to grant Miguel full freedom!
We won’t stop taking the streets in solidarity. We want Miguel in the streets
AVISPA COMMUNITY
Mexico.. Demands for complete freedom for Indigenous Mazatec Community Organizer Miguel Peralta. The case of Miguel Peralta, community organizer and ex-political prisoner from the community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca.
The Supreme Court decided to put a definite end to the nearly ten years of political imprisonment and persecution if Miguel Peralt but he awaits confirmation by local Oaxaca Court controlled by ruling oligarchy.
Miguel is one of 35 members of the community assembly of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón criminalized in case number 02/2015, following a socio-political conflict in December 2014.
The conflict was a consequence of mounting tension between the community assembly and the interests of a far right ruling cacique group, backed by political party power, who’ve sought to maintain historic and racist control of the municipal government, municipal funds, and the exploitation of natural resources in the community.
Miguel became a symbol for all the political prisoners, especially all those indigenous activistas arbitrarily jailed in environmental and land disputes.
On December 14, 2014, the assembly was violently attacked by the cacique group led by Manuel Zepeda Cortés as they gathered in the town plaza to elect a community authority.
The ensuing violence left two dead, including the son of Manuel Zepeda.
Zepeda’s daughter, Elisa Zepeda Lagunas, would lead the criminalization efforts, fabricating crimes and using positions of political power in the municipality and then state government to influence the legal processes.
Miguel Peralta was arrested in April 2015 on charges related to the events on December 14.
Over two years later, on October 26, 2018, he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for homicide and attempted homicide.
Following an appeal from his legal team, his fifty-year sentence was absolved and his case returned to the final hearing, for the fact that he was denied his right to be at his first final hearing.
Prison authorities had used the excuse that they didn’t have gas money to transport him from prison in Cuicatlán to the court in Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca.
In October 2019, he was acquitted of the charges and released after spending almost 4.5 years in prison.
Following an appeal from the accusing party, on March 4, 2022, the fifty-year sentence was reaffirmed and a warrant put out for his arrest after less than two years of freedom.
Following an appeal to that decision, the collegiate court in Oaxaca returned his legal process back eight years, to the testimony stage, seeking again for Miguel to face this process from inside prison.
In the face of this decision, his legal team filed a request to the Supreme Court of the Nation for a review.
Miguel Peralta is currently free, but with a warrant out for his arrest.
All Eyes on the Supreme Court
“The court had a historic opportunity” explained Miguel Peralta’s lawyer, Araceli Olivos, in a press conference in Mexico City.
The court had the opportunity to set a different precedent in the relation between Indigenous peoples and the Mexican state; a relation that has historically been stained by oppression, exploitation, discrimination, and marginalization against Indigenous peoples.
With the decision to revoke Miguel’s sentence the court begins undoing the historical atrocitiess perpetrated against Indigenous peoples.
Palestinians react after a school sheltering displaced people was hit by an Israeli strike in Shati camp in Gaza City November 7, 2024 (REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa)
Later in the day, Al Jazeera reported that at least 52 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Thursday, including 42 in the north, where Israeli forces are carrying out an ethnic cleansing campaign.
At least 12 were killed in a strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza
Palestine Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli forces killed 78 Palestinians and injured 214 in the previous 48-hour period as Israeli […]
Reuters reported that dozens of Palestinian families were pushed out of Beit Lahia, one of the cities where the ethnic cleansing campaign has been focused. Israeli forces have been destroying homes in Beit Lahia to ensure Palestinians don’t return.
“After they displaced most or all of the people in Jabalia, now they are bombing everywhere, killing people on the roads and inside their houses to force everyone out,” a displaced Palestinian man told Reuters.
In southern Gaza, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported three children were killed by an Israeli strike in
Gaza’s Health Ministry said that the latest violence brought its death toll since October 2023 to 43,469 and the number of wounded to 102,561.
The ministry only counts bodies brought to hospitals and morgues.
“There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry said.
A group of American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza have estimated the US-backed Israeli bombing campaign and siege has killed at least 118,908 Palestinians, including over 60,000 who have starved to death.
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