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read in English below: Ecologists in Action confirms the presence of the cancerous herbicide glyphosate in all surface and groundwater in Spain.

El glifosat contamina les aigües superficials i subterrànies

Ecologistas en Acción .. read in> Català, Catalunya, País Valencià “ Castellano | Català | Galego

• Ecologistes en Acció publica una investigació que analitza les dades dels organismes de conca des de 2015 fins a 2019.
• L’organització ecologista confirma la presència de l’herbicida glifosat en totes les aigües superficials i subterrànies de l’Estat espanyol.

• En el 31 % de les mostres d’aigües superficials es va detectar la presència de glifosat, percentatge que augmenta fins el 42 % per al seu metabòlit AMPA. Quant a les aigües subterrànies, es van detectar les dues substàncies en un 11 % i un 0,3  de les analísis.
• En alguns casos la concentració de glifosat és centenars de vegades superior als valors límit legals.

[Informe] Contaminación por glifosato en el medio acuáticoEcologistes en Acció analitza la presència de l’herbicida glifosat i el seu metabòlit de degradació AMPA en les aigües superficials i subterrànies de les demarcacions hidrogràfiques espanyoles durant el període 2015-2019. Els resultats conclouen que el glifosat contamina el medi aquàtic i que cal prohibir-lo.

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Transgender Day Of Remembrance 2021 – Freedom News2021/11/20 shared with thanks

(To Kell & Back: despatches from the front line)

“you don’t have to live next to me
Just give me my equality”
Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddamn

It is not the responsibility of trans people to thank you for showing up and being an ally. It is not our task to reward you for using the correct pronouns no matter how unusual they are (zie, hir, per, iel, ix) nor for calling us by own chosen names. It is no more our job to request you stand up for us when we are not in the room than it is the job of Black peoples of African origin to praise white people for “freeing” the peoples we and our forebears enslaved.

It is no more our job to be grateful for your recognition than Black indigenous australians should be grateful to white so-called australia for recognising that the indigenous peoples of so-called australia have first title and that terra nullius was a lie. Not raping women, not making women scared, not hitting women are not achievements AMAB people need to be praised for, and not putting trans women in ‘male’ prisons should be just as much an obvious choice.

The past two months have been very stressful for trans & nonbinary people. Across the political spectrum from anarchist elders to liberal-left newspapers, public broadcasters to international media companies, a panoply of charities, NGOs, governments (and their official oppositions) have been putting into the public domain vast quantities of traumatizing bigoted hate. To have the uk prime minister openly praising a lesbian gay & nominally bisexual charity, that seeks to eradicate trans people, is galling if not just terrifying. To see the BBC broadcast programmes and articles that attack the leading LGBT rights charity for daring to include trans ‘rights’ in its existing campaigns. And to have this attack approved of by the minister for Women and Equalities. To sit in disbelief that an employment tribunal has ruled that it is a ‘protected belief’ to question the gender of your colleagues at work. And of course Keira Bell.

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