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June 2: Nonviolent ecumenical movements call for ratification of the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty

Letters held by the activists, TPNW, are for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons On the pancarts: Nuclear weapons, Resolution for global disarmament passes in the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House Senzatomica and Rete Pace Disarmo (Network…

Launch of “Making Peace with the Earth: An Ecofeminist Manifesto” – June 5th in Rome

Monday, June 5th, 2023, from 11 am Associazione della Stampa Estera in Italia (Via dell’Umiltà, 83, Rome, Italy)  “Making Peace with the Earth  Through Diversity, Mutuality, Non-Violence & Care” An Ecofeminist Manifesto Press Conference with Dr Vandana Shiva in Rome…

Toxics Watchdog Group Urges Government to Test and Regulate Colored Smokes

3 June 2023, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has proposed that smoke-producing devices, also called colored smokes or smoke bombs, should be tested and regulated to ensure public health and safety following an incident in Bacolod City.…

SALINLAHI: Filipino Culture Throughout the Ages

 A Celebration of the National Heritage Month National Heritage Month is when we look back to what our ancestors have bequeathed to us, the children of the nation. It is important that we, the youth of today, be able to…

International Summit for Peace in Ukraine

The aim of the International Peace Summit is to publish an urgent global appeal, the Vienna Declaration for Peace, calling on political actors to work for a ceasefire and negotiations in Ukraine. Prominent international speakers will point to the danger…

Freedom in Diversity

Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, destroying the role of women in food and farming, and destroying our health and…

Getting Social Security on a more stable path is hard but essential – 2 experts suggest a way forward

Social Security is in trouble. The retirement and disability program has been running a cash-flow deficit since 2010. Its trust fund, which holds US$2.7 trillion, is rapidly diminishing. Social Security’s trustees, a group that includes the secretaries of the departments…

BNM demonstrated against the nuclear test bomb which was conducted by Pakistan

The Baloch National Movement observed 28 May 1998 as the blackest day in Baloch history when brutalist Pakistan conducted its nuclear bomb test in the city of Chaghai, Balochistan. This day marked the darkest moment in Balochistan’s history. The Baloch…

“Put Yourselves in My Place”: Migrants and their Defenders in Chile Call for a Policy Shift

By Maxine Lowy In a house of a verdant upscale neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, Nancy accompanies a retiree. In Venezuela she was a nurse, until basic materials- alcohol, cotton, syringes, and food to prepare healthy meals for patients- became scarce,…

I Used to Be an Animal Lover – Conversation Rhys, Barbara & Mitchell – Part I

I Used to Be an Animal Lover is an anthology of short stories about animals edited by the Australian author D.A. Cairns who describes how he selected the stories for the collection:  “The story had to be well written and…

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