Daily Archives: March 20, 2022

2022-03-20: News Headlines

XRSFBay, Stop The Money Pipeline Coalition (2022-03-20). Tuesday 3/29: Virtual Arts Training for the #Defund Climate Chaos Week of Arts Action. indybay.org Online arts training webinar for climate justice…

_____ (2022-03-19). Three Years After The First Global School Strike, Signs Of Success. popularresistance.org Three years ago this week — on March 15, 2019 — an estimated 1.4 million young people and supporters in 128 countries skipped school or work for what was then the largest youth-led day of climate protests in history. That record was soon eclipsed by even larger demonstrations later that year, with 1.8 million joining a May 24 day of action, and 7.6 million protesting for the climate over the course of Sept. 20 and the week that followed. The school strikes for climate movement, launched by 15-year-old Greta Thunberg of Sweden in late 2018, had reinvigorated the global climate movement and brought publ…

_____ (2022-03-19). Women And Labor: Key Struggles In The MENA Region. popularresistance.org How do women and gender equality measures advance in a context of conflict, climate change, high unemployment, low labor force participation, limited democratization and a pandemic? These are challenges facing the Arab region as many citizens, women's rights organizations, some governments and external partners seek wide-ranging institutional changes and an improved environment for women's participation and rights. | Surveys show public support for some — but not all — proposals for gender equality. Equal inheritance rights for women, for example, remain off the table, even in progressive Tunisia. Fam…

Dave LIndorff (2022-03-19). Radical Elders to Organizational Meeting Next Saturday, March 26! thiscantbehappening.net Are you a veteran activist or a veteran organizer of progressive organizations and are over age 55? If so, here's some exciting news. We all know America is moving into a dangerous period of reaction, the world climate is careening out of control threatening human and perhaps all life on earth, wars and US military … |

Geoff Dembicki (2022-03-19). Conservative party-linked Facebook page, Canada Proud, a major source of climate disinformation. nationofchange.org Leading the charge is Canada Proud, a right-wing Facebook page with close ties to the Conservative Party, which made post after post in the early days of the invasion urging the country to export more hydrocarbons to Europe.

Editor (2022-03-19). Tom Engelhardt: Cold War II or World War III? scheerpost.com Global catastrophe concept (greenhouse effect, global warming are destroying our planet) | By Tom Engelhardt / He's our very own emperor from hell, an updated version of Nero who,

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