Daily Archives: January 24, 2024

2024-01-24: News Headlines

Candice Bernd (2024-01-24). Biden's Base Revolts: Climate Activists Ramp Up Pressure Ahead of Super Tuesday. truthout.org "Trump, are you for ordinary people or are you for oil millionaires? Why are you letting my generation's future burn? Why aren't you fighting for people like me? You are taking millions and millions from the fossil fuel industry," 17-year-old Sunrise Movement activist Adah Crandall shouted at former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Laconia, New Hampshire, Monday night. |

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-24). Climate activists call on SA gov't to dump Santos from cycling race. greenleft.org.au

Sharon Zhang (2024-01-23). Naomi Klein: If Biden Wants to Stop Trump, He Should Step Down. truthout.org One of the most effective routes that President Joe Biden could take to prevent Donald Trump from taking office again is for Biden to step down, according to Naomi Klein, author and Professor of Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. As Gaza has been decimated by Israel's U.S.-funded genocidal campaign in the past months, droves of progressive voters have vowed not to vote for… |

greenleft.org.au (2024-01-23). Climate activists call on SA gov't to dump Santos from cycling race. greenleft.org.au

Jeff Shantz (2024-01-24). Canada: Hearing reveals police racism and abuse of Indigenous land defenders. greenleft.org.au An abuse of process hearing started last week against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and their infamous Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), for violence inflicted on Indigenous land defenders opposing construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline across unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, reports Jeff Shantz.

Eve Andrews, Grist. (2024-01-24). Is East Palestine Safe One Year After The Ohio Train Derailment? popularresistance.org If there hadn't been construction planned for the bridge that crosses over Leslie Run, one of the creeks that runs through the middle of East Palestine, Ohio, Rick Tsai and Randy DeHaven might not have noticed the worst contamination they'd seen in the creek in weeks. | A backhoe had hoisted a chunk of earth from the bank of the creek, leaving a pool about eight feet across and deep enough to come up to the knees of Tsai's rubber fishing waders. What it also left, in Tsai's words, was an opportunity for a sort of "geological sample" — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the cre…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2024-01-23). The Houthis Are Not a Group That Can Be Bombed into Extinction. libya360.wordpress.com Amal Saad Houthi supporters protesting against US airstrikes near Sana'a, Yemen, 14 January 2024. Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters The 'axis of resistance' is more than a band of Iranian-backed militias. It's an ideological alliance. The war launched by the "axis of resistance" against Israel and the US marks the first time in history that a coalition…

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