Mozn Hassan to Receive Her Right Livelihood Award in Cairo Egyptian human rights defender Mozn Hassan, who shared the 2016 Right Livelihood Award with her organisation Nazra for Feminist Studies, will receive her award in Cairo on 25-26 March. Hassan was unable to attend the award ceremony in Stockholm on …
Waking up from an American dream
The weekend didn’t bring much rest, to put it lightly. Chaos reigned from airports to board rooms as the world grappled with President Trump’s executive order on refugees and immigration. It opened up legal nightmares, generated corporate pledges to hire refugees, and sparked protests that drew some immigrants …
Opinion: Trump flirts with theocracy
Opinion Monday, January 30, 2017 Let’s not mince words. President Trump’s recent actions are an attempt to move the United States away from being the religiously free country that the founders created — and toward becoming an aggressively Christian country hostile to other religions. On Friday, his White House deliberately …
GOOG: U.S. firms push back against immigration ban
GOOG :U.S. firms push back against immigration ban 4:33 am, Mon, Jan. 30, 2017 Read now »
First Draft on Politics: Immigration Ban Provokes Chaos and Confusion
Monday, January 30, 2017 NYTimes.com/Politics » Monday, January 30, 2017 President Trump flanked by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Jim Mattis, the pick for defense secretary, at the Pentagon on Friday. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Good Monday morning. • The White House rolls back part of its ban …
The Entire Senior Management of the State Department Just Resigned
This Week’s Top Story The Entire Senior Management of the State Department Just Resigned [READ MORE] In Other News Donald Trump Will Require All EPA Science to Be Screened by Political Staffers The New York Times Just Published a Story on How Trump Spends His Days Trump Ordered Government Scientists …
Rachel Maddow just nailed it. Russia is guilty.
Rachel Maddow just nailed it. Russia is guilty. I have always been a fan of Rachel Maddow. If for no better reason than for the way that she pinned Rand Paul to the wall a couple of years ago for his civil rights views. He’s never been back since. And …
Trump’s Real Role Model | Why Build A Wall? | Brazil’s Big Dams
January 29, 2017 Rethinking America Trump’s Amazing International Role Model: Rodrigo Duterte The Phillipines’ new President, not Russia’s Putin, is the international leader closest to Trump’s heart and mind. | By Philip Bowring Why Donald Trump Does Not Need to Build a Wall The right kind of PR stage-managing could …
Trump’s Global Gag a Devastating Blow for Women’s Rights
________________________________________ Trump’s Global Gag a Devastating Blow for Women’s Rights Erika Guevara-Rosas The image of a group of men in suits making decisions about the rights of women is becoming an emblematic sign of the backlash against our human rights, particularly those related to women’s bodily integrity and reproductive and …
2016 – A year in Review
2016 – A year in review Dear friends of ecovillages, The past year has seen global developments that could not have been foreseen even just one year ago. Who would have thought that the majority of people in Great Britain would have voted to leave the European Community, for example; …