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9 May 2024, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition denounced the rampant sale in Pasay City of imported skin-whitening products laden with mercury as if such act is within the bounds of law. The group revealed the unlawful…

Organizations, collectives, movement leaders, trade unionists, community members, students and intellectuals, artists and cultural workers, and activists will convene in Detroit, MI from May 24-26 for the People’s Conference for Palestine. The conference comes as Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza…

Carabineros assassinated. In the early hours of the 97th anniversary of the founding of the Carabineros, three non-commissioned officers were murdered on the road between Cañete and Tirúa, in the province of Arauco, Biobío region; an event considered to be…

Now it’s official. Northeast India completed its three-phase polling under general elections 2024 with an impressive voters’ response to elect 25 members to the 18th Lok Sabha. Assam voted in the final phase poll in the region on May 7…

“The students are absolutely right, and may be saving our humanity.” Veterans For Peace applauds the students who are protesting against the US/Israeli genocide in Palestine.  These courageous young students are doing the right thing at the right time. “The…

On May 7, the exhibition “Nakba – Flight and Expulsion of Palestinians in 1948” will be opened at the Schwabing Citizen Center Seidl-Villa after months of negotiations, despite strong reservations from the city. The organizers are the Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group…

Sitting outside on a finally warm sunlit spring day, a robin chirps for attention from a blossoming tree nearby and seems to be looking directly at me. It feels as if the insistent noise is a message, as if this…

7 May 2024, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition today announced that seven more imported paint products failed laboratory tests for lead content and should therefore be withdrawn from the market at once. Based on the analyses carried…

We are experiencing institutional immunodeficiency in the face of a national government that acts as a serial violator of the national constitution. There is an urgent need to respond. By Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe Malvinas, Antarctic, and South Atlantic Islands…

Although the multinational banana company has already been sanctioned in that country for its links with paramilitary groups in Colombia, this is the first time it has had to answer in court to the families of people murdered by the…