The fight against Bristol Airport expansion takes a new turn as campaigners unite to target airport owner the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
A new group, Stop OTPP Funding Airport Expansion (SOFAX), is composed of members of the National Education Union (NEU) climate network, medical activists MedAct Bristol, and airport campaigners BABE and London-based HACAN East.
Together the members of the group have launched a solidarity campaign aimed at pressuring the OTPP, which owns stakes in five European airports, to pull its investments in airport expansion.
Climate campaigner Tanguy Tomes said: ‘We know teachers in Ontario are worried about climate change. Some have even campaigned on this issue before, so SOFAX seeks to build on those efforts. The Pension Plan’s claim to be a responsible investor is completely incompatible with its commitment to expanding airports across Europe.’
A still from the new video by SOFAX: Image: SOFAX.
Bristol teacher and NEU member Loz Hennessy said: ‘Ontario teachers are resisting budget cuts and ever-increasing workloads: many of the same issues we face in the UK today. We stand in solidarity with their struggle and see it as related to the fight against airport expansion. What are we prioritising?’
Free the prisoners: Kill the Bill returns to Bristol's streets this Saturday. https://t.co/GyA9jLn6Ql
— The Bristol Activist (@BristolActivist) August 3, 2022
« Então eu decidi defendê-lo e fiquei tipo ‘Isso é bom! Agora que os brancos inventaram seu discurso ‘ecológico’, eles não devem se contentar em repeti-lo em vão para fazer dele novas mentiras.
Mulheres Yanomami pescando na lagoa, Amazonas, Venezuela – Eu também estava pescando! – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro (foto de la película)
Eles realmente precisam proteger a floresta e todos que vivem lá: a vida selvagem, os peixes, os espíritos e os humanos. »
Menina Yanomami pescando no rio e cuidando do irmão, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro (foto de la película)
Os povos Indígenas utilizam a água dos rios e córregos em seus territórios ancestrais para beber, cozinhar, tomar banho e pescar.
O garimpo de ouro e outras indústrias extrativas contaminam a água, envenenando as pessoas, a vida selvagem e o solo.
Desmatamento em terras Indígenas e contaminação por mercúrio para mineração de ouro
As crianças Indígenas também brincam em rios e córregos próximos a suas casas.
Aqui está um filme de 38 segundos com Namowë, o menino Yanomami, em sua canoa:
Namowë, um menino Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela – foto: Barbara Crane Navarro (foto do filme)
Ajude os povos Indígenas e a natureza boicotando todos os produtos do desmatamento; ouro, óleo de palma, madeira exótica, soja, carne bovina, etc. !
Barbara Crane Navarro 1.06K subscribers A film of instants of daily life of a Yanomami community in the Amazon Rainforest of Venezuela made to accompany the children’s book series: “Amazon Rainforest Magic” “La Magie de l’Amazonie” and “La Magia de la Amazonia” for ages 8 to 12, written and illustrated by Barbara Crane Navarro
– Here’s some information for anyone wondering why this longer version of the Yanomami film, originally posted in June 2014 and viewed over 25,000 times, has recently been rated “over 18”:
The Yanomami women in the film have bare torsos and small children are unclothed, as is traditional for them. There are no scenes that could be considered in any way suggestive.
The moments of Yanomami daily life are woven with illustrations from my books of the “Amazon Rainforest Magic” series, available in three languages, both volumes of which show drawings of Yanomami women and girls with bare torsos.
Over a thousand copies of my books have been purchased for schools by a school book distribution company in Pennsylvania.
I’ve also shown this film in schools while discussing Yanomami community life in the Amazon Rainforest for decades to acclaim by teachers, parents and students of all ages.
Antonio Guterres sounds a global alarm at the opening of the meeting to review a landmark nuclear weapons treaty.
Russia’s military launches a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile in this photo taken from video [File: Russian Defence Ministry via AP]
2 Aug 2022
Nuclear threats emanating from the war in Ukraine as well as in Asia and the Middle East have put the world one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation”, the United Nations secretary-general said.
At the UN on Monday, Antonio Guterres issued the dire warning at the opening of a long-delayed meeting to review the landmark 50-year-old Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually achieving a nuclear-free world.
Guterres told many ministers, officials and diplomats gathered in the General Assembly Hall that the month-long review conference is taking place “at a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War”.
The meeting is “an opportunity to hammer out the measures that will help avoid certain disaster, and to put humanity on a new path towards a world free of nuclear weapons”, he said.
However, Guterres warned that “geopolitical weapons are reaching new highs” as almost 13,000 nuclear arms are in arsenals around the world and countries are seeking “false security” by spending hundreds of billions of dollars on “doomsday weapons”.
“We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict,” the UN chief said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken noted North Korea is preparing to conduct its seventh nuclear test, Iran “has either been unwilling or unable” to accept a deal to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement aimed at reining in its nuclear programme, and Russia is “engaged in reckless and dangerous nuclear saber-rattling” in Ukraine.
He cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning after his country’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen”, emphasising his country is “one of the most potent nuclear powers”.
This is contrary to assurances given to Ukraine of its sovereignty and independence when it gave up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in 1994, Blinken said, and sends “the worst possible message” to any country thinking it needs nuclear arms to defend itself and deter aggression.
Official figures published by the UK Government prove that the British public is being lied to about the effectiveness of the Covid-19 injections, and the true number of people who have refused them. A conspiracy of official media lies was used to –convince us to take the vax becuse ‘everyone was doing it’.
If you rewind to December 2021, you may remember an infamous headline published by Andrew Neil for the Daily Mail that read – ‘It’s time to punish Britain’s five million vaccine refuseniks: They put us all at risk of more restrictions’.
This headline is a beautiful example of how you have been lied to since the very beginning of the alleged Covid-19 pandemic.
Because according to the UK Government, 18.9 million people in England who are eligible for vaccination still remain unvaccinated, and 50% of the country has refused a third dose.
Yet despite this, another UK Government report confirms 94% of Covid-19 deaths have been among the vaccinated since the beginning of April 2022, and a shocking 90% of those deaths were among the triple/quadruple jabbed.
(UN News)* — The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday [2 August 2022] that the Greater Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the worst hunger crises of the last 70 years.
More than 37 million people are facing acute hunger, with approximately seven million children under the age of five acutely malnourished in the region.
While finding food and safe water is the absolute priority, WHO said that ensuring a strong health emergency response is needed to avert preventable disease and deaths.
The UN agency is calling for $123.7 million to respond to rising health needs and prevent a food crisis from turning into a health crisis.
“The situation is already catastrophic, and we need to act now,” said Ibrahima Soce Fall, WHO Assistant Director General for Emergencies Response. “We cannot continue in this underfunding crisis”.
Severe drought
The Horn of Africa includes Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya.
Climate change, conflict, rising food prices and the COVID-19pandemic have compounded one of the worst droughts in the region in recent decades, according to the WHO appeal,
“There are now four seasons where the rain didn’t come as predicted and a fifth season is estimated to also fail. Places where there is drought the problem keeps worsening and worsening,” said WHO Incident Manager Sophie Maes.
“In other places like South Sudan, there have been three years of consecutive flooding with almost 40 per cent of the country being flooded. And we are looking at something that is going to get worse in the near future.”
Armageddon Update: Almost the whole world votes anti-nuke at the UN while the Nuclear Terrorist States play ‘Holocaust Chicken’ with our lives and the planet..The US spends mega-billions on new Nukes to deploy in Europe and destroys almost all Anti-Nuclear treaties, while the Russians have made all anti-missile systems obsolete with their Hypersonic missiles.
This article details how the first horrific unstoppable Russian ‘Kinzhal’ Missile destroyed the US hegemony over the world’s oceans.
What Will Happen To a US Navy Aircraft Carrier When Hit by a Hypersonic “Kinzhal” Missile: Expert Modeling
The Stalker Zone website recently explored a hypothetical strike on a large carrier with just one missile– in this case the U.S. Navy’s USS George H. W. Bush, which has a displacement of 97,000 tons and a length of 333 meters.
The world’s first hypersonic aviation missile system is the Russian “Kinzhal“. This is a system based on the Kh-47M2 “Kinzhal” missile and the base carrier (at the moment) – the MiG-31, which received the letter “K”.
According to representatives of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), the “Kinzhal” hypersonic missile system is capable of hitting enemy targets not only on land, but also at sea. In particular, we are talking about such large ships as aircraft carriers.
In this regard, experts model a situation in which aircraft carriers of NATO countries in the event of anti-Russian military aggression could be attacked from the air using the hypersonic missiles of the “Kinzhal” complex.
Nancy Pelosi is headed for Taiwan, and may arrive there tomorrow, despite Chinese objections and undefined threats of retaliation if she does.
Many in Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, say she should ignore the warnings. The Chinese don’t get to determine where the U.S. Speaker of the House can travel, they say.
But the Chinese government says that Taiwan is part of China, and the U.S. government has never explicitly denied this. This is a red line for China. For them, saying the Chinese government has no say over who visits Taiwan is like saying the U.S. government has no say over who visits Puerto Rico or Hawaii.
President Xi Jinping told President Biden on Thursday that, for China, this is a red line that must not be crossed. The Global Times, a semi-official Chinese newspaper, wrote this:
“Don’t say we didn’t warn you!” – a phrase that was used…
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