May 18—Climate activists at the University of Colorado Boulder say the university’s new plan to decarbonize lacks ambition and transparency, and that CU Boulder is falling behind in climate action. “I would say CU Boulder has actually failed pretty epically on climate action in the past and has not really been transparent about that failure […]
As climate protection activists once again invaded the grounds of an airport in Germany and disrupted travel plans at the start of a holiday weekend, the country’s interior minister is calling for rigorous prosecution. After a blockade at Munich Airport on Saturday by climate activists from the Last Generation group, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wrote […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent conservative activist’s son was sentenced on Friday to nearly four years in prison for what prosecutors said was his “relentless” assault on the U.S. Capitol, where he smashed a window, chased a police officer and invaded the Senate floor. Leo Brent Bozell IV, 44, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, was one of […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — About 100 Filipino activists and fishermen, along with journalists, sailed Wednesday to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, where Beijing’s coast guard and suspected militia ships have used powerful water cannons to ward off what they regard as intruders. The Philippine coast guard deployed three patrol ships and a […]
A flotilla of about 100 mostly small fishing boats led by Filipino activists sailed on Wednesday to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. It is an area where Beijing’s coast guard and suspected militia ships have used powerful water cannons to ward off what they regard as intruders. The Philippine coast guard and […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Refugee rights activists on Monday criticized Poland’s pro-European Union government for plans to tighten security at the border with Belarus and for continuing a policy initiated by predecessors of pushing migrants back across the border there. The activists organized an online news conference after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made his […]
Outside the lawn of the Arizona state Capitol on Saturday, Gina Mendez reflected on the 18-year battle she and others have waged against legislation they consider anti-immigrant and racist. The 33-year-old Mexican American and south Phoenix resident walked out of Cesar Chavez High School as a freshman student in 2006 to protest an immigration enforcement […]
The Cotton Campaign, which is a coalition of labour rights NGOs, independent trade unions, brand and retail associations, has called for Uzbekistan’s government and cotton sector to publicly affirm its commitment to allowing independent monitoring and reporting on labour rights in the cotton sector after the incident. It claimed the attack on founder and director […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Clarence B. Jones says he thought a prankster was on the line when he answered the telephone and heard the person on the other end say they were calling from the White House. “I said, ‘Is this a joke or is this serious?’” Jones recalled. The caller swore they were serious and […]
The head of ExxonMobil told to “eat shit” as he was about to receive an award. A US senator and coal boss called a “sick fuck”, almost sparking a brawl. Theatre shows interrupted. As the climate crisis has deepened, protests aimed at those deemed responsible are becoming starkly personal, and often confrontational. At the vanguard […]
PARIS (AP) — French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ‘’social cleansing” ahead of the Summer Olympics. Before dawn on an unusually cold April morning, around 30 teenage boys and young […]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s Supreme Court upheld a state ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower court’s ruling that sided with a gun manufacturer’s argument that the 2021 law regulating firearm components with no serial numbers was too broad and unconstitutionally vague. Separately the court handed a setback to anti-abortion activists in a […]