October 13, 2020 / By mobanmarket
Anti-fracking activists gathered in an act of non-violent civil disobedience on Friday morning near where energy company Crestwood Midstream was scheduled to begin construction on a massive underground gas storage depot on the banks of one of the Finger Lakes in central New York. Wearing the color blue and calling themselves We Are Seneca Lake, […]
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Frustrated by the slow pace of the investigation into the disappearance and possible deaths of 43 students, a group of relatives, teachers, and classmates from the leftist teacher college where they were training seized two government buildings in Mexico’s Guerrero state on Monday. Roughly 600 protesters blockaded the Government Palace in Guerrero’s capital city, Chilpancingo, […]
View ArticleOctober 13, 2020 / By mobanmarket
A coalition of approximately 50 local organizations in Ferguson, Missouri on Thursday asked city officials to give them two days’ advance notice of the grand jury’s announcement of their decision in the Michael Brown case, allowing organizers time to prepare for a public reaction. The jury has been considering whether Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson […]
View ArticleOctober 12, 2020 / By mobanmarket
Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s transition team on Tuesday misspelled the name of the president-elect’s nominee for U.S. trade representative. In a tweet […]
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Faced with an opportunity to end the epidemic within two decades or risk reversing important health gains of the last ten years, the world is at a crossroads in the fight against HIV and AIDS, according to a report released Tuesday by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The document, (pdf), outlines a […]
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Wednesday marks the 30-year anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, in which at least 30 tons of the toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide manufacturing plant, killing at least 3,000 people immediately and leaving hundreds of thousands more to grapple with the aftermath: cancer, tuberculosis, birth defects, and myriad other […]
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The United States government has confirmed that it will seek limited testimony from New York Times reporter James Risen, according to court documents filed Tuesday, in regards to his relationship with the alleged CIA leaker Jeffery Sterling. Ahead of the official filing, press freedom advocates had welcomed the news that the Department of Justice would […]
View ArticleOctober 12, 2020 / By mobanmarket
Last year, the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization officially declared that 2015 would be celebrated as the International Year of the Soil citing the threat to one of the key ingredients to the planet’s food and farming systems posed by “expanding cities, deforestation, unsustainable land use, pollution, overgrazing and climate change.” “In the seed […]
View ArticleOctober 12, 2020 / By mobanmarket
The United States transferred five Yemeni prisoners out of the Guantánamo Bay military prison on Wednesday, releasing them to Estonia and Oman in the first detainee handover of the year. Four of them—Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammad al-Yafi, Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif, Abd al-Rahman Abdullah Au Shabati and Mohammed Ahmed Salam—were sent to Oman. The fifth, […]
View ArticleOctober 11, 2020 / By mobanmarket
Democratic strategist and Fox News analyst Jehmu Greene is entering the race for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Greene announced her candidacy late Thursday in an email to DNC members, Politico reported. “After a historic year and devastating losses up and down the ballot, it is women who are stepping up to protect the rights […]
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