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www.mayorsforpeace.org                                                            www.2020visioncampaign,org For immediate release: June 22, 2015 Contact: Jackie Cabasso, Mayors for Peace North American Coordinator (510) 306-0119 wslf@earthlink.net  U.S. Conference of Mayors Unanimously Adopts Resolution “Calling for Effective Implementation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Disarmament Obligation and Redirection…

A team of Pressenza is here at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum from the 22nd to the 24th of June, an event hosted by the German public media organisation, Deutsche Welle which brings together over 2000 people from the…

Obama has essentially replaced Kerry with Nuland to direct policy in Ukraine. Kerry’s 4 hour meeting with Putin in Sochi has been negated by Obama’s statements at the G7.  If the neocons have their way, war with Russia will result. …

William McNeilly, the Royal Navy whistleblower who exposed security and safety flaws in  Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines, has left the Navy and will not face court martial or any further punishment for his actions. In a new nine-page report published online,…

The Story of Philosophy – from antiquity to the present, By Christopher Delius and Matthias Gatzemeier, Deniz Sertcan, Kathleen Wunscher. Konemann publishers I thought to myself, now here is a book that might fill a few gaps as the topic…

Rio Camera Kids is a project developed by film director Marco Nicoletti with the support of Italian NGO CISP that will open up opportunities for the youths of the Rio Favelas. The test case ‘The Rocinha Favela’ will provide ten…

Independent Filmmaker Stonewalled by BBC Pens Open Letter to Rona Fairhead Fed up with a litany of rejections and stonewalling, writer/director Dan Hartley decided to offer his multi-award winning debut film to the BBC for free, see open letter below:…

The BBC reports that “A committee convened by the Greek parliament has claimed much of the country’s debt of 320bn euros was illegally contracted and should not be paid.” “The concept of odious debt is established in international law where…

The all-important (apparently) vote of the acceptance or not of the newly revamped electoral reform proposals for Hong Kong to vote for the position of Chief Executive (CE) ended in humiliation for Hong Kong’s administration and for Beijing as eight…

Americas OAS Becomes the First Region in the World with a Convention for the Protection of the Rights of OLDER Persons June 15, 2015 – The member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) today approved the Inter-American Convention…