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Read our latest submission as we hi honour the International Day for the Elimination of Racism

‘We just sit and cry': Gaza's cancer patients die waiting for treatment Gaza cancer deaths triple as doctors say Israel allows entry of 'chocolates and chips" but blocks chemotherapy drugs.

Gaza cancer deaths triple as doctors say Israel allows entry of 'chocolates and chips" but blocks chemotherapy drugs.

‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.

Renee Nicole Good was identified as the woman murdered by ICE.

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From Fields to Kitchens, the Fight Against Extreme Heat Is a Fight for Workers’ Lives | Common Dreams Worker organizing points the way forward, reminding us that the fight for safe working conditions is inseparable from the fight for dignity, racial justice, and migrant rights.

FCWA member leader @chrisramsaroop.bsky.social on workers and #HeatStress: "Within hours, workers fainted and vomited, while supervisors worried only about the plants. Another day, Jeremiah himself had to be carried out on a cart after collapsing."
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An Olive Story: How One Ancient Variety is Weaving a More Resilient Future in Turkey - Slow Food An Olive Story: How One Ancient Variety is Weaving a More Resilient Future in Turkey - Good, Clean and Fair Food for All

🫒 This isn’t your usual “innovation in agriculture” story.

In southern #Türkiye, the Sarı Ulak olive (once nearly lost !!) is making a comeback thanks to farmers who never stopped believing in their land.

True #Agroecology, no buzzwords.

#agriculture #slowfood

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Madagascar: A glace at the situation of the inhabitants of the Ihorombe region whose lands have been leased by the state to the company Tozzi Green Officials of the Malagasy state have leased land in three municipalities of the Ihorombe region to the company Tozzi Green for 30 years. Numerous studies have shown the pressures and manipulations exe...

Communities in Madagascar face pressure from Tozzi Green, an Italian company which leased farmland from authorities to produce & sell carbon credits from "its" plantations. Update from @collectiftany.bsky.social : farmlandgrab.org/33091 @reddmonitor.bsky.social @recommon.org @cicrocevia.bsky.social

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database.

Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away.

The cruelty is the point.

Supreme Court decision fuels legal immigrants’ fears they’ll be stopped by law enforcement | CNN Politics Legal immigrants are more worried since the Supreme Court cleared the way for a person’s ethnicity to be a factor in immigration stops by law enforcement.

Immigration attorneys, immigrants living in the US legally and non-White US citizens now worry that innocuous activities that aren’t indicative of illegal behavior will be used as reasons for law enforcement to stop and question them.

Far-right groups are doxxing online critics after Charlie Kirk’s death Right-wing activists are targeting teachers, workers for critical remarks on Charlie Kirk’s death.

Right-wing activists are targeting teachers, workers for critical remarks on Charlie Kirk’s death.

Issue 124 - Fall/Winter 2025 - POV Magazine POV Magazine issue 124 (Fall/Winter2025) looks at new documentaries on the circuit including Still Single, Lilith Fair, and Modern Whore.

- @patmullen.bsky.social looks at STILL SINGLE and Masaki Saito's work hard/play hard lifestyle

- @filmfest.bsky.social intvws Min Sook Lee about her most personal work

- @smallmind.bsky.social talks Black Zombie & Haitian Vodou w/ @mayaannik.bsky.social

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SafeWork NSW orders UTS to pause job cuts due to risk of ‘psychological harm’ Union labels intervention a ‘rare and damning rebuke’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has been forced to pause a plan to slash hundreds of jobs after a rare intervention by SafeWork NSW, which said workers would be subject to a “serious and imminent risk of psychological harm” if management pushed ahead. Under the ruling, UTS cancelled all meetings scheduled on Wednesday and Thursday with around 800 impacted staff and paused the release of its change proposal, which was to be rolled out this week. Continue reading...

SafeWork NSW orders UTS to pause job cuts due to risk of ‘psychological harm’

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Locked-out Dalhousie Faculty Association members reject contract offer | CBC News Members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association have voted strongly to reject a contract offer from the university’s board of governors.

Locked-out Dalhousie Faculty Association members reject contract offer

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El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse - Inside Climate News In El Paso, heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say not enough is being done to protect the region’s most vulnerable people.

“All of these deaths are avoidable, perpetuated by the cruelty of our policies...But the heat deaths in particular seem so senseless.”

Cruel and senseless: two words that sum up this administration.

She protested ICE. She died from hanging in custody. Adrienne Villa, a 47-year-old resident of Skid Row, stood before a judge in the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on June 17, pleading not guilty to 14 charges related to her participatio...

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A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.

"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."

Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows There have been more border device searches than ever before, per new data, despite the constitutionality of whether these searches are legal.

According to new government statistics, U.S. border agents searched more electronic devices during a three-month period than ever before. CPB searched 14,899 devices of international travellers between April and June, a 17% rise on the previous 2022 record high. finance.yahoo.com/news/device-...

@unifor.org @psac-afpc.bsky.social @oflabour.bsky.social @seiu.org @cupescfp.bsky.social @opseusefpo.bsky.social @labourcouncil.bsky.social @etfoeducators.bsky.social @osstf.bsky.social @cupwsttp.bsky.social Three years. No justice for the family of Garvin Yapp. Mourn the dead! Fight 4 the living!

Justice Garvin Yapp! @j4mw.bsky.social

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

(Published April 2024)

Corporations and the government are turning the USA into one giant 'sacrifice zone' “This is not a ‘red state’ or ‘blue state’ problem, this is a working class problem,” TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez says in his 2025 Izzy Award acceptance speech. “And it’s not just happeni...

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Anti-immigrant agenda means 'unprecedented growth opportunities' for GEO Group On the company’s earnings call, one participant congratulated executives on “the positive news.”

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Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes not happening at all.

NEW: Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat

The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice, and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes isn’t happening at all.

Activists call on government to enact heat protection for farm workers Ontario’s farm workers need specific rules to protect them in hot conditions, they argued

News coverage from our recent action around heat stress

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