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“Women in chemical-intensive industries and waste work face multiple burdens. They are disproportionately impacted by hazardous chemicals and waste exposure due to social, biological factors, and gender differences,” Donna Paz T. Reyes, Board Member of BAN Toxics said, as the…

Sonia Mendoza: Mother Earth’s Tireless Advocate by Marlet Salazar What started as Sonia Mendoza’s small-scale efforts to fix the uncollected garbage in her village has led to a lifelong commitment of advocating for Zero Waste. Her tireless campaigning together with…

Broad Coalition Drew Thousands in First National Antiwar Protest John V. Walsh Thousands of people assembled at the Lincoln Memorial on February 19 to protest the US proxy war using Ukrainians as cannon fodder to bring down Russia.  It took…

Colorful banners, moments of silence, torchlight processions, Peace marches, speeches by representatives of civil society organizations, chants, sit-ins and flash-mobs. These are the initiatives that enlivened the squares of the 75 Italian cities that took action for Peace in the…

The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness, and President Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough. We should, in fact, center the idea of fairness in this debate. By Sonali Kolhatkar “Nobody’s telling the person…

India’s presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20) comes at a critical juncture; even as the  pandemic wanes, geopolitical tensions between the US and China could spiral into a possible military confrontation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is now entering…

Europe is continuing its suicidal mad dash towards the militarisation of society. After a year of war in Ukraine, almost everywhere there is talk of reintroducing compulsory military service, reopening a debate that was thought to be definitively closed and…

The world’s living in a very complicated political situation, especially with the Ukraine War lasting more than anyone ever thought and people want peace. “The situation we are facing now isn’t just coming out of Putin’s or Zelensky’s madness but…

Each Spring Judaism celebrates the holiday of Purim based upon the story found in the biblical Book of Esther. The holiday has always been marked by a balance of fun and seriousness. Children and adults dress in costume and humorous…

In our post-war period, the censorship imposed by the winning side of the war was tremendous, and terrible, since the political-social-military allied with the Church (Catholic and catholic) was exercised in every corner of the country and over every civil…