Category: Climate
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
During Roundtable, Trump Calls Some Unauthorized Immigrants ‘Animals’ President Trump, speaking on Wednesday to a gathering of officials from California who oppose the state’s “sanctuary” law, compared some people who illegally cross the U.S. southern border to “animals.” #TrumpsAmerica#Immigration#Mexico#HumanRights ‘He was my whole world’: Palestinians mourn killing of loved ones “He was the spirit of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Illegal Immigration Does Not Increase Violent Crime, 4 Studies Show Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, looked at whether the soaring increase in illegal immigration over the last three decades caused a commensurate jump in violent crimes: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. “Increased undocumented immigration since 1990 has not increased violent crime over that…
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Sounds About White?
The Trump Apologist The 2016 Election was a real shit show. America elected a reality TV star to the highest political office in the land. Soon after the election, many liberals went on the defensive about how Trump won. They blamed pro-wrestling, Russia, Facebook, and ‘the blacks.’ In fact, everything got blamed for the election…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Confederate flag-bearing trucks park outside Michigan school “If the motive was to intimidate, that was wrong,” he said. “Trying to intimidate by race, color, creed, political belief, or religious belief is wrong. We have to respond to that in the right way so that the right message gets out.” #Michigan#MidWest#Confederate#Bigots The Palestinian women at the forefront…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Wealth inequality is soaring – here are the 10 reasons why it’s happening All of these causes of inequality are within the power of government to put right. Ultimately wealth is created by hard work and endeavour, not by reallocation and redistribution. Yet we penalise labour and subsidise both debt and the ownership of assets.…
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Gone, but Not Forgotten
America thinks that men who look #StephonClark or me, my nephews, friends, mentors, fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and brothers are monsters who deserve to be judged with death at the slightest so-called “threat,” real or imagined. To law enforcement or the state. Women who look like #AtatianaJefferson or my mother’s, sisters, nieces, my wife, cousins, aunties, and grandmothers…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In Canada, You Can Now Use Bills With a Black Woman on Them While Americans are still waiting to deposit Harriet Tubmans in their bank accounts, our neighbors to the north have just unveiled a new $10 bill that features their own civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond. #Canada#CivilRights#BlackGirlMagic#ViolaDesmond UN moves towards recognising human right…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Larry Williams Jr.
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to union organizer, founder of UnionBase.org, former President…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
‘We’ve seen the worst of humanity,’ Florida school official says as 17 killed in campus shooting A former student who had been expelled for disciplinary reasons opened fire at a South Florida high school Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding at least a dozen others, authorities said. The suspected gunman, Nikolas Cruz, 19, was quickly…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
A Murder Trial Stirs Emotions About Canada’s Relations With Its Indigenous Population “Saskatchewan is just beginning, I don’t even know if we have really started on reconciliation,” she said. “I’m not saying that Indian people deserve a break because we’ve been victimized. I’m saying that both sides have to take accountability and responsibility for what…
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