The extremely rare Pernambuco Pygmy-owl is critically endangered on the @IUCNredlist due to massive logging and deforestation for #palmoil #beef farming in #Brazil support this animal’s survival by making art and joining the#boycott4wildlife
Based on the available scientific evidence and current clinical experience, the SPR Collaboration recommends that physicians and authorities consider the following covid-19 treatment protocol for the prophylactic and early treatment of people at high risk or high exposure.
A controversial Vox poster modified by Spanish Revolution showed up the greedy racist bastard.
Toni Cantó is a very popular extreme right actor, politician and TV celebrity from Valencia. When he was brought in as running mate to help reelect Ayuso as Mayor in the Madrid local elections the media went wild. His publicity said that on winning he would pact with the new openly fascist party Vox.
The Vox publicity team produced a racist poster/meme saying’ Your Granny gets just 426 euros pension while a ‘MENA’ costs ‘us’ 4,700 a month. and the slogan.’ Protect Madrid, vote safe’.
A ‘mena’ is Spanish rightwing slang for a boy, usually Moroccan, who allegedly fakes his age to stay in Spain and behaves very badly, to say the least.
Because of its role in setting defense policy—which determines subsidies and other rewards to private industry—the Senate Armed Services Committee is awash in cash from military contractors. According to OpenSecrets, Reed’s top contributors during the 2020 campaign cycle included Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, two of the leading beneficiaries of federal contracts.
The Senate Armed ServicesCommittee agreed Thursday to add $25 billion to President Joe Biden’salready massive$715 billion Pentagon spending request, a move that prompted immediate outrage from progressive activists who have beendemanding cutsto the bloated U.S. military budget.
“Just the proposed $25 billion increase to the Pentagon budget alone could end homelessness in the…
A poster shared on social media calling for the release of detained Mother Nature members. Source: Facebook
Human rights groups in and outside of Cambodia are calling for the immediate release of Mother Nature activists who were detained for filming a sewage flow near the Royal Palace.
Mother Nature members Sun Ratha 26, and Yim Leanghy 32, were arrested on June 16 while documenting the flow of raw sewage in the Tonle Sap river. Their colleague Ly Chandaravuth, 22, was arrested in Kandal province. They were charged with plotting an attack against the state and insulting the king. The group’s founder, Spanish citizen Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, was charged in absentia.
From the General Confederation of Labor CGT we join the international denunciation against the bad governments of Mexico and of the € urope fortress that continue with their policy of limiting the fundamental right to identity and free movement.
More than nine months ago a delegation of Zapatistas, the National Indigenous Congress and the Front of Peoples in Defense of Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala reported their decision to “agree to an invasion” of € uropa.
Well, despite having applied for passports, vaccinations and entry visas, to this day, 62 colleagues continue to be denied the right to recognize their identity and manage their passports. In the same way, the bad French government has denied the entry of the, the, the 118 delegates.
Mural painting near La Realidad symbolizing the Zapatista uprising on 01-01-1994
At CGT we have been denouncing the absence of respect for the fundamental rights of people for decades, such as the right to have a passport and free movement. And this is another example of the need to reiterate our struggle for the demand for “roles for everyone” and freedom of movement.
Last year’s #EndSARS protests against police brutality, this year’s banning of Twitter and the #June12 protests across the country marking the historical battle to uphold democracy by resisting military dictatorship, are evidence of social media’s rising profile in Nigeria’s democratic landscape.
Young people taking a selfie. Image by Iwaria, February 2021, free to use
For many Nigerians, social media has morphed into the tool of choice in outing the excesses of rich oligarchs and business people, promoting and mobilizing protests, and holding the government accountable.