‘Lots of people still don’t have roofs’: Jamaicans living in hardship after Hurricane Melissa Many say they have not received support to rebuild their homes months after the storm caused unprecedented destruction

'Last year, in an open letter to Cop30 in Brazil, hundreds of human rights groups and environmentalists argued that there was a link between colonialism and enslavement and the climate crisis.'
#climate #hurricanes #jamaica #caribbean #environment #ecology #housing #funding #emergency #COP #delays

Could Avi Lewis divide or unite the NDP? New Democrats gather in Winnipeg to select their new leader, one that faces the challenge of rebuilding after the worst general election performance in the party's history. Power & Politics guest host...

'Power & Politics guest host J.P. Tasker asks one of the front-runners in the federal NDP leadership race, Avi Lewis, why he thinks he's the one for the job.'
#canada #NDP #federal #party #politics #socialism #progressive #left #leadership #theleap #oil #climate #environment #labour #government

Selling Oppression to Gen Z Women 3.27.26

'But let’s be clear: the party responsible for abortion bans ... don’t care about how the medical system treats us. They care about stigmatizing birth control, and priming us (especially young women and girls) to accept the erosion of our basic rights.'
#abortion #birth control #feminism #rights

Banking on War What happens when a country that talks about human rights starts wiring its economy into the business of war?

'Layering a powerful financing institution on top of an export regime with a gaping blind spot doesn’t just preserve the risk of indirect complicity, it amplifies it. Rather than loosening our dependence on U.S. systems, we deepen it.'
#canada #militarization #arms #banking #USA #economy #policy

No New York by Adele Bertei review – a vivid, vibrant, musical coming of age 1970s and 80s New York are viscerally evoked in this potent memoir of the ‘no wave’ scene

“I looked around the club at the kids like me,” Bertei writes, “we all seemed so young, vital curious and cocky … life had already beaten the hell out of us and now, we were beating back.”
#punk #nowave #nyc #1970s #contortions #music #culture #underground #lgbtqa+ #feminism #literature #style

UN votes to describe slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’ Members call for reparatory justice as landmark resolution aims for ‘political recognition at the highest level’

“So many of the intersecting global challenges we now face are rooted in the legacies of enslavement and empire: from geopolitical instability to racism, inequality, underdevelopment and climate breakdown. To truly confront these issues, we must acknowledge where they come from.”
#slavery #africa

‘A new world is being born’: author Rebecca Solnit on the ‘slow revolution’ the far right cannot tolerate It’s easy to focus on authoritarians and their petty victories. But zoom out and the picture is more encouraging, says the woman who popularised the term ‘mansplaining’, whether it’s in feminism, or t...

"I wanted, in this horrible moment, to remind people that what the far right is doing globally, I think, is largely backlash. A new world is being born, and they’re basically trying to abort it. Which is a little ironic, given their views on abortion.”
#optimism #progress #feminism #lgbtqa+ #energy

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81%

"Rivers need to be managed as connected systems, with coordination across borders and investments in basin-wide solutions now before these migrations are lost for ever.”
#rivers #water #ecology #environment #fish #fishing #pollution #dams #hydroelectricity #borders #cooperation #UN #CMS #sustainable

Trump’s sanctions against a UN human rights expert show free speech is dying | Francesca Albanese recommended ICC arrests and investigations over Gaza. Who will be the administration’s next target?

'Although we have all conducted research on Israel’s human rights violations, we cannot freely share that research, our analysis, and our recommendations with Albanese or the ICC lest we or our students be arrested or fined.'
#albanese #palestine #gaza #genocide #trump #sanctions #intimidation #gag

US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan Trump administration announces deal with TotalEnergies to redirect investment to oil and gas

'Lena Moffitt, executive director of the climate advocacy group Evergreen Action, called the new deal “a taxpayer-funded bribe to kill homegrown clean energy and hand the money straight to oil and gas executives”.'
#wind #renewables #total #trump #usa #oil #gas #climate #environment #politics #crazy

Socialist Emmanuel Grégoire elected Paris mayor, as National Rally fails to take key cities City hall veteran beats rightwinger Rachida Dati in French capital, while far-right RN fails to win Marseille and Toulon in French local elections

'Grégoire said: “Paris will be the heart of the resistance against this alliance of the right, which seeks to take away what we hold most precious and fragile: the simple joy of living together.”'
#paris #elections #left #green #politics #france #municipalities #cities #democracy

These Canadians are helping white supremacists profit from hateful livestreams | CBC News A Canadian streaming platform is helping white supremacists who have been kicked off mainstream social media continue to profit from hateful content, an investigation by CBC’s the fifth estate has fou...

'An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences.'
#nazism #fascism #hate #livestream #platforms

Iran social media strategy pivots to information war amid US-Israel attack Cyber experts say influence operations in ‘asymmetric’ campaign to intensify moral pressure on US and Israel

'Some AI generated footage has faked successful strikes on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, bomb damage supposedly inflicted on buildings in Tel Aviv, and Israeli soldiers supposedly crying in fear over Iranian retaliation.'
#iran #propaganda #socialmedia #X #AI #disinformation #war #usa

‘I want my career, my children and a free supple life’: Sylvia Plath’s radical reinvention Too often framed as a tragic icon or a victim of domesticity, the poet remade herself and her work at the start of the 60s, as a new collection will show

'This coming May, Faber will publish The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a complete edition that almost doubles the content of the Collected Poems (1981) and properly reflects the remarkable acceleration Plath’s work underwent from 1959 ...'
#plath #poetry #england #literature #culture #feminism #publishing

Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin Mors Imperator caused a scandal in 1887 amid fears it mocked the German kaiser – more than 100 years later it is being displayed in a state museum

'... von Preuschen was a poet, world traveller and painter known for her large-scale ... historical still life pictures. At the 1896 International Women’s Congress in Berlin she gave an impassioned speech calling for women to be allowed education at artistic academies.'
#painting #culture #feminism

Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East, says Unrwa commissioner-general Phi...

'It is incomprehensible that a UN entity has been allowed to be crushed as Unrwa has, in violation of international law, with total impunity, and with staff and Palestinian communities paying an unacceptable price.'
#UNRWA #palestine #gaza #israel #usa #war #genocide #multilateralism #diplomacy

Top US Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before ‘Teleporting is no fun,’ Gregg Phillips, picked to lead Fema’s office of response and recovery, has said on a podcast

'As the director of Fema’s office of response and recovery – the largest of the agency’s divisions – Phillips is tasked with making recommendations on whether federal disaster declarations and aid are needed.'
#psychosis #gaga #nutso #cretin #maga #trump #conspiracy #FEMA #podcasts #loonysphere

People in North Yorkshire town found to have ‘alarming’ levels of toxic Pfas chemicals in blood Exclusive: Testing in Bentham, home to UK’s highest recorded Pfas levels, finds one in four have blood levels in greatest risk category

'In May 2024, Ends Report and the Guardian published an investigation revealing that groundwater in the small rural town of Bentham in North Yorkshire was contaminated with the highest level of Pfas ever known to be recorded in the UK.'
#Pfas #UK #science #pollution #environment #ecology #health

Fire experts ‘kept awake’ over growing hazard of lithium-ion batteries Fire service warns ubiquity of batteries in everyday products is outpacing public understanding and safety regulations

'The latest data reveals a sharp increase in battery-related fires across Scotland, while firefighters in London attend an e-bike or e-scooter fire every other day.'
#ebikes #escooters #lithium #batteries #fire #explosions #hazard #regulation #government #awareness #tech #EVs #tablets #smartphones

Inside the Rage Machine review – we’re all doomed, totally doomed Whistleblowers who once worked at Meta and X (until the guilt got too much) reveal the truth about the companies that increasingly rule our free time – and it’s even worse than you may have feared. Pr...

'Extreme content, misinformation and anything that stokes disbelief or anger results in engagement, which means more ads can be sold and more revenue raised, more increases in share prices – and to hell with anything else.'
#bbc #meta #zuckerberg #twitter #X #facebook #algorithms #tech #musk #profit

‘Put him on trial’: pro-Kremlin loyalist turns on Putin in rare outburst Ilya Remeslo sends Telegram post titled ‘Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin’ to his 90,000 followers

“Vladimir Putin should resign and be put on trial as a war criminal. His personalised, corrupt system is doomed to collapse, as we’re seeing now with the war in Ukraine and elsewhere."
#russia #putin #oligarchy #corruption #media #ukraine #authoritarianism #politics #journalism #law #repression

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

“It is really maddening,” said Cara Horowitz at UCLA. “These sites are the result of poor maintenance – if you upgraded the infrastructure a little bit, did good housekeeping, you could solve a really important part of the problem."
#climate #methane #environment #pollution #oil #gas #infrastructure

Leqaa Kordia, a pro-Palestinian activist, released after a year in ICE custody Kordia was taken at a check-in at an ICE office in New Jersey and was held despite court ruling thrice for her release

“ICE detention facilities are built to break people and destroy their health and hope,” she said. “I want everyone to know what happened to me because the same things are happening to other women who are locked up here.”
#ICE #texas #palestine #gaza #protest #incarceration #abuse #law #politics #usa

War in Iran, chaos in the Gulf, repression in the west: and the thread that binds them all is Palestine | Nesrine Malik In the Middle East, the occupation is the original sin. And those who banked on this US-backed ‘stability’ now find it giving way beneath them, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

'In reducing the entire region to its arbitrary definition of what is threatening, Israel has expanded into essentially dictating the fate of that entire region – and the rest of the world.'
#palestine #israel #usa #conflict #iran #lebanon #politics #occupation #genocide #alliances #resistance #oil

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive

'His belief that the formation of public opinion was vital for democracies to survive explains why Habermas continued to write books and newspaper articles deep into old age.'
#philosophy #habermas #frankfurt #adorno #horkheimer #nazism #democracy #education #politics #debate #information #academia

‘My ideas are a little revolutionary’: ecologist Suzanne Simard on intelligent forests, the climate and her critics Her research popularised the idea of the wood wide web, but the scientific backlash was brutal. As the author of The Mother Tree returns to the forest in a new book, she discusses her battle to reimag...

“The forest has got all of these connections and relationships, which women understand really well, and we nurture and honour these things. Men are sometimes, you know, blind to that.”
#forests #ecology #feminism #science #forestry #nature #diversity #logging #clearcuts #climate #BC #canada #UBC

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans

'Tailings dams – repositories of mining waste that is often toxic and stored under water – litter landscapes around the world. Often, they hold huge quantities of poisonous, harmful material.'
#tailings #mining #pollution #toxic #waste #ecology #environment #capitalism #law #science #diversity

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

“We will continue to fight the remaining charges until every defendant is home. Everything about this trial from beginning to end has proven what we have said all along: this is a sham trial, built on political persecution and ideological attacks coming from the top.”
#antifa #texas #justice #maga

Fears about nuclear war are reaching a fever pitch. Another grim sign of the times | Judith Levine News stories are weighing nuclear risk as experts muse on the possibility of global warfare

'UN secretary-general, António Guterres, called the expiration a “grave moment”. With geopolitical tensions rising around the globe and no restraints on US and Russian arsenals, the risk of nuclear war was at its “highest in decades”, he said.'
#armageddon #war #nukes #arsenals #stockpiles #politics

Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a week for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery, asks writer Caelainn Hogan

'The state’s own research found that for every euro the government spent on supporting artists, society received €1.39 in return, and the scheme was estimated to have generated more than €100m in social and economic benefits.'
#artists #funding #poverty #housing #government #ireland #policy #culture