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06/05/23
Author: 
Damien Gayle
A protester in Warsaw, Poland, during a previous wave of youth-led climate rallies in November. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

May 5, 2023

Twenty-two institutions have been shut down as part of proposed month-long campaign

A wave of student occupations has shut down schools and universities across Europe as part of a renewed youth protest campaign against inaction on climate breakdown. Twenty-two schools and universities across the continent have been occupied as part of a proposed month-long campaign.

04/05/23
Author: 
andrea bennett
‘Governments should be intervening to remove profit from housing, instead of subsidizing private developers in the hopes that they will provide some discounted housing as part of their developments,’ says Ricardo Tranjan. Photos by Jackie Wong.

May 3, 2023

‘The Tenant Class’ makes the case that rents are high for some so profits can be high for others. A Tyee Q&A with author Ricardo Tranjan.

04/05/23
Author: 
Rebecca Ratcliffe
Workers move blocks of ice into a storage unit at a market during heatwave conditions in Bangkok. Photograph: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images

Apr. 27, 2023

Record figures for month recorded in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China and South Asia

Asia is experiencing weeks of “endless record heat”, with sweltering temperatures causing school closures and surges in energy use.

Record April temperatures have been recorded at monitoring stations across Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, as well as in China and South Asia.

03/05/23
Author: 
Euronews Green with AFP
A ship is guided through the Panama Canal's Miraflores locks near Panama City

Apr. 27, 2023

A lack of rainfall has seen water levels drop in the two artificial lakes that supply the canal.

A lack of rainfall has forced the Panama Canal to reduce shipping traffic.

The water supply crisis is threatening the future of this important maritime route which links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

03/05/23
Author: 
Sarah Cox
BC Hydro secretly handed out more than $430 million in Site C dam contracts, without asking for bids, over a recent three-year period, The Narwhal has learned through a freedom of information request. Illustration: Carol Linnitt and Shawn Parkinson / The Narwhal

Apr. 26, 2023

Beleaguered engineering firm SNC-Lavalin was among the big winners of no-bid contracts for the over-budget hydro project on B.C.’s Peace River, according to documents obtained by The Narwhal

Over the past three years, undisclosed BC Hydro employees quietly awarded more than $430 million in contracts — without any competition — to three dozen companies and consultants for work on the troubled Site C hydro dam, according to a list obtained by The Narwhal. 

03/05/23
Author: 
Helene Cooper and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Asylum-seeking migrants waving their hands at National Guardsmen near the Rio Grande before crossing into the United States in March.The Biden administration fears that the lifting of a public health rule that allowed officials to quickly expel migrants could lead to an increase in border crossings.Credit...Go Nakamura for The New York Times

May 2, 2023

WASHINGTON — President Biden is sending 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border with Mexico, officials said on Tuesday, as the administration braces for a possible influx of migrants seeking to take advantage of the lifting of Covid-era restrictions on asylum.

Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters that the troops would fill gaps in transportation, warehouse support, narcotics detection, data entry and other areas.

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03/05/23
Author: 
Joe Fassler
The industry is trying to convince everyone … that dietary change has no role in climate strategy. Illustration: Lola Beltran/The Guardian

May 3, 2023

A Masters of Beef Advocacy program teaches ‘scientific sounding’ arguments on cattle’s sustainability in an all-out public relations war

The US beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: that you shouldn’t be too worried about the growing attention around the environmental impacts of its production.

03/05/23
Author: 
John Pilger
Image Source: Carlos Latuff – Copyrighted free use

May 3, 2023

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the public with more than a thousand turned away.

02/05/23
Author: 
Sharon Zhang
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gives remarks at the Heritage Foundation's 50th Anniversary Leadership Summit at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on April 21, 2023, in National Harbor, Maryland. ANNA MONEYMAKER / GETTY IMAGES

Apr. 27, 2023

The bill would bar unions for teachers and nurses from automatically collecting dues.

The Republican-dominated Florida legislature passed an extreme anti-labor bill on Wednesday that would severely weaken unions for public employees and expand the state’s ability to abolish those unions, while carving out an exemption for a notable group: police.

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