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Michigan regulators have disallowed $1,025,628 in excess charges for electricity from the coal-fired power plants owned by the Ohio Valley Electric Corp., a dramatic contrast with Ohio regulators paralyzed by the corrupt HB 6 law.

On April 11, the Michigan Public Service Commission disallowed the costs Indiana & Michigan Power (I&M) sought to recover for power they bought from OVEC, which provides electricity to I&M through an intercompany power agreement.

Michigan’s moves comes as the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio continues to drag along its audits of OVEC costs, which started almost three years ago. That audit by London Economics Inc. and filings by consumer groups and industry have shown that OVEC’s plants continue to lose money and paid too much for coal.

Fallout from the corruption of HB 6 continues. On April 9, former PUCO chairman Sam Randazzo was found dead from an apparent suicide in a Columbus warehouse he owned. Randazzo was indicted by federal prosecutors in December and by the state of Ohio in February.

Former PUCO chairman Sam Randazzo

Randazzo was part of the $61 million scheme created by officials of FirstEnergy Corp. and former Ohio House speaker Larry Householder to put Householder and his allies back in power, pass HB 6 and bail out FirstEnergy’s failing investments. Randazzo, appointed by newly elected Gov. Mike DeWine in 2019, helped write HB 6 while ostensibly serving as Ohio’s neutral energy regulator.

HB 6 requires Ohio ratepayers to subsidize the money-losing OVEC plants, which continue to run at will and their electricity to the grid. Michigan, however, is not bound by HB 6.

Michigan and OVEC

OVEC is owned by a group of utilities that together are known as the sponsoring companies. One in American Electric Power (AEP), the parent company of Indiana Michigan Power, which serves electricity consumers in southwestern Michigan.

This connection gives the Michigan PSC jurisdiction over OVEC’s operations. Michigan regulators ruled that I&M’s agreement with OVEC was “uneconomic and with excessive costs.”

Previous Michigan PSC decisions had shown that the state’s regulators were losing patience with OVEC and its expensive electricity. The PSC previously issued warnings to I&M and OVEC that it was “unlikely to allow I&M to recover unjustified costs from Michigan ratepayers.”

PUCO willing to accept utility claims

Since November, C&BP has detailed the PUCO’s willingness to tolerate the high costs of OVEC’s electricityand claims by OVEC and the sponsoring companies that their finances needed to be hidden from the public.

The sponsoring companies also falsely claimed that certain details were trade secrets, even though the information was already publicly available. These details included the names of the companies providing coal to the OVEC, the cost of that coal and OVEC’s annual report.

The PUCO eventually ruled that these details needed to be made public.

Ray Locker is the executive director for Checks & Balances Project, an investigative watchdog blog holding government officials, lobbyists, and corporate management accountable to the public. Funding for C&BP is provided by Renew American Prosperity and individual donors.

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This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN.

In 2019, Makanalani Gomes stood on the slopes of Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in Hawaiʻi, face-to-face with Honolulu riot police. For decades, Native Hawaiians like Gomes watched — and protested — as their sacred mountain was bulldozed and excavated for the construction of telescopes and other astronomical facilities. After the observatories were built, they abandoned construction equipment and debris, littering Mauna Kea’s summit.

Gomes and other activists spent months sleeping on the mountainside, in the cold, successfully blocking construction crews from heading up the slope to build the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope, and to date, the project remains in limbo.

“We are in the fight of our lives and in the front lines every day,” Gomes said.

This week, Gomes will continue her work fighting for Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty when she speaks at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York — the largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers on the planet. Beginning today, the 23rd annual event runs until April 26 and will focus on “emphasizing the voices of Indigenous youth” like Gomes, who is now one of three co-chairs of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus.

“We are intrinsically of our lands and of our waters, of our mountains and of our oceans, and then laying down our bodies in turn to preserve what we have left,” she said. “So I think that’s what I’m looking forward to, is just being with people who understand the walk that we walk and the honor and privilege that we do it with.”

The forum was established more than two decades ago as a permanent advisory body for Indigenous Peoples at the U.N., and is a uniquely influential venue for attendees to ensure their perspectives are heard. Indigenous Peoples and nations can’t vote at the U.N. like member states, but the forum has the ability to make official recommendations as an adviser to the Economic and Social Council, one of the six main U.N. bodies that helps facilitate multinational agreements on sustainable development. The forum has 16 members that serve three-year terms, with eight nominated by state governments and eight by Indigenous organizations.

“The importance of the Permanent Forum is that it puts pressure on other parts of the United Nations to take appropriate action regarding Indigenous Peoples,” said Andrea Carmen, executive director of the International Indian Treaty Council.

The existence of the forum is itself a product of Indigenous advocacy. Mililani Trask, a longtime Native Hawaiian activist and one of the first members of the Permanent Forum, said advocates used to have to sit and listen while U.N. members discussed issues relevant to them. She said that Indigenous advocates wanted a permanent space where they could speak on the floor.

“Once we were established as a body, it shifted the balance of power,” Trask said. It meant, “we have a basis in working with governments in partnerships instead of going to the gun.”

Trask also said that the forum elevated Indigenous expertise.

“When the forum came into existence it was the first time that non-white Indigenous international legal experts came to the forefront,” Trask said. Member states “didnʻt think that we had any.”

She said the advisory body had a huge influence on the eventual adoption of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples five years later in 2007. The U.N. document outlines the rights of Indigenous Peoples and has been a key tool for Indigenous advocates who seek to hold states and corporations accountable for human rights violations. It’s not legally binding, but it provides an international standard that Indigenous people can point to when their rights are violated.

Just two years ago, the venue enabled the Yaqui Nation in Mexico to regain their sacred Maaso Kova from a museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The deer head is used in ceremonial dances and was taken as part of the colonial enslavement and suppression of the Yaqui people. The return of the Maaso Kova in 2022 was what The New York Times reported as the “first successful repatriation of cultural artifacts to an Indigenous group overseen by the United Nations under its Declaration of Indigenous Rights.”

Andrea Carmen, who is also Yaqui, said it wouldn’t have happened without the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

The forum doesn’t accept human rights complaints, or initiate investigations, like the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. But veteran attendees like Carmen say it is an opportunity to meet high-level officials from the U.N. and state governments, bring awareness to important issues, and create community with other Indigenous Peoples from around the world. The latter is what Gomes is most looking forward to as she prepares her remarks to open Tuesday’s discussion on self-determination and Native youth.

“So many of us, although we’re young people, we’ve already experienced being land defenders and water defenders and literally using our physical bodies to defend Earth Mother,” she said.

This year’s focus will be on how to strengthen those self-determination rights with an eye toward Indigenous youth like Gomes. Gomes is hopeful that the theme will result in more youth attending for the first time. Bryan Bixcul, who is Maya Tz’utujil from Guatemala and works as an advocacy coordinator at the nonprofit Cultural Survival, is one of them.

“A lot of things are being discussed at the international level, but the implementation happens at the national level,” said Bixcul.

Among other events, he’s looking forward to a conversation on the first day of the forum about ongoing efforts to replace fossil fuel energy production with cleaner alternatives like solar and wind that release fewer carbon emissions. Indigenous Peoples’ territories are critical to the success of the energy transition as land they manage holds an estimated 80 percent of the world’s biodiversity, but new mining projects and conservation areas have frequently overlooked their rights. Last year, the Permanent Forum commissioned a group of experts to meet and discuss the green energy transition and its effect on Indigenous Peoples. The resulting report is on the agenda for this year’s forum and spells out a long list of ways that governments and corporations can and should respect Indigenous rights, such as passing laws to require clean energy projects to respect the right for Indigenous people to consent to projects on their land.

Bixcul is also helping to organize a workshop for youth on April 18 to help build solidarity and learn effective advocacy strategies to bring back home. Side events like this are a critical part of the gathering this week and next because they facilitate discussions and connections between activists who have to abide by official time limits for speeches during the main agenda.

“We think it’s very important for communities to outline their priorities —their self-determined priorities— so that as they are facing threats, now or in the future, they are prepared to be engaged in these conversations with corporations,” he said.

One tangible output of the forum will be a report that summarizes recommendations collected during the forum, which advocates can reference as they continue their work in their home countries and in other United Nations bodies. For example, in last year’s report, the Permanent Forum condemned the use of the term “Indigenous Peoples and local communities,” arguing that Indigenous Peoples should be separated from local communities instead of being lumped together, which could diminish the former’s rights. The IPLC acronym continues to be used, but Indigenous advocates have repeatedly pointed to the forum’s statement to bolster their argument for its disuse. They’re concerned that the language could have major implications for who gets access to global funding to mitigate climate change and whether Indigenous people get a say in land decisions, including the expansion of conservation areas.

Last year’s forum also called for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to conduct a special report led by Indigenous experts to analyze climate change’s effects and opportunities for Indigenous peoples. The recommendation wasn’t immediately taken up by IPCC but Carmen from the International Indigenous Treaty Council said that’s typical.

“These things take some time,” she said.

Many of the topics at this year’s Permanent Forum arenʻt new: Last year, there was a particular focus on climate, and planned sessions on land defenders and militarization have been discussed before. But one agenda item that wasn’t there last year is a meeting with the president of the General Assembly to discuss the outcome document from the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, a report from the General Assembly meeting a decade ago that lists a series of commitments by U.N. member states’ to Indigenous rights, such as implementing policies that promote the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Carmen said such a high-level meeting hasnʻt happened for a few years and plans to use the opportunity to ask about the creation of a new U.N. body dedicated to the repatriation of Indigenous items.

The Permanent Forum can be challenging to navigate for Indigenous youth, especially those who are from more rural areas, need visas, or face language barriers. But Gomes said she has been inspired by how many Indigenous people attend despite such hurdles.

“We find a way to navigate in these systems that weren’t designed by us, or for us,” she said.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Your guide to the 2024 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Apr 15, 2024.

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When the sharing economy took off in the 2010s and upended entire industries, the firmest proponents of the model heralded it as an economic revolution that would help slash emissions. Of all the ideas that emerged and dissolved over the years, shareable electric scooters seemed to possess the most promise for climate. Almost anyone with a smartphone and a credit card could grab one and ride it down the block or across town, eschewing automobiles.

Yet, as the industry matures and Lime — which, with operations in 280 cities worldwide, is the biggest player — moves further into its eighth year, researchers have shown that the eco-friendly dreams of shared micromobility have not materialized without problems. The true climate benefits of these fleets depends upon how companies deploy and manage them, and safety remains a concern as injuries climb. But industry leaders appear intent on ensuring their scooters are as sustainable and safe as possible.

“It’s really important as a company that has set a net zero target by 2030,” said Andrew Savage, Lime’s head of sustainability, Andrew Savage, “that we walk the walk, and that we do everything we can to inspire the industries around us to decarbonize as well.”

The sustainability of shared micromobility is an active area of research in a fast-changing industry. Ultimately, researchers see two factors that determine the overall climate impact of e-scooters: how users ride them, and how operators manage them from manufacturing to disposal.

A recent survey of the latest research questioned whether the sharing economy is inherently sustainable, which included a particular look at e-scooters. The survey found many researchers repeatedly concerned with the question, “If riders hadn’t rented a scooter, how would they have gotten to their destination?” If someone would have walked instead of ridden, that person increased the emissions associated with that trip. But several studies, including one by the Portland Bureau of Transportation and another, funded by Lime, by a German research institute, have found that though anywhere from a third to well over half of scooter users would have walked instead, enough other trips that would have been taken by car were not and shared scooters, on the whole, help reduce overall transportation emissions — often preventing 20 grams of CO2 emissions per mile ridden on a scooter.

The picture in urban landscapes, however, can get slightly more complicated when researchers consider how those providing the scooters retrieve them to charge, repair, or redistribute them to where people are likely to use them. Colin Murphy, director of research and consulting at the Shared Use Mobility Center said that when operators use big cargo vans to manage their fleets, they can negate some of the emissions savings from users.

To address this, Savage said the company is improving its fleet logistics to reduce overall emissions. Lime’s scooters and bikes are now equipped with larger, swappable battery packs which means they need to be charged less often and when they do, fleet workers can drive around with a trunk full of battery packs rather than taking the scooter back to a warehouse, effectively cutting logistics emissions in half while ensuring scooters are available more often. Savage said the company has also bought over 140 electric vans to support those operations. Though that’s 10 times the number Lime had a few years ago, it’s still only one van for every two cities it operates in.

Savage said Lime is also working to reduce its impacts in other ways. For instance, in North America, “once vehicles arrive at port,” Savage said “we are now using emissions-free trucking to get those to our distribution centers.” Beyond that, it has designed a modular bike that makes it easier to swap out damaged parts, and parts that are beyond repair are often sent for recycling. And it has worked with one company, Gomi, to salvage cells from partially damaged batteries for use in what it says are zero-waste bluetooth speakers.

But perhaps the most concerning hurdle the industry faces is also the one over which it has, in reality, the least direct control: rider safety. One study, released earlier this year by researchers at the University of California Los Angeles, found that from 2017 to 2020 serious injuries for scooter riders rose threefold, just as revenues for the scooter-sharing industry shot from $10 million to nearly $450 million. This trend only continued into 2021 and 2022, with micromobility injuries increasing an average of 23 percent every year. And these aren’t just scrapes and bruises. The UCLA-led study found that scooter users were, compared to cyclists, more likely to end up with a broken arm or leg, require surgery, or even end up paralyzed. The researchers suspect that may be due, among other things, to riders often lacking safety gear.

Lime insists that it places safety first. But with most American cities designed to promote cars over all other forms of transit, the health of scooter users is, like those of pedestrians and cyclists, at risk once wheels hit pavement. Perhaps it should be no surprise that of the 30 people killed in 2018 while riding an e-scooter, 80 percent were struck by a car. This is why, if society wants to move away from cars as the default, Kailai Wang, who studies urban mobility at the University of Houston, believes urban areas need to invest in upgraded infrastructure like protected bike lanes that can make roads safer for non-automotive transport.

Of course, cars aren’t the only dangers e-scooter users, like cyclists, face. Poor road and sidewalk conditions can lead to serious injuries. And sometimes riders are their own enemy. According to some studies, first-time riders and late-night riders face elevated risks. Murphy, said that these are two areas where scooter-sharing platforms and local policymakers can step in.

For instance, he said that operators could artificially limit the max speed of a scooter during a user’s first few rides as they grow accustomed to the vehicle. In other cases, many cities prohibit e-scooter rides in the wee hours to prevent misuse. But “to the degree that these vehicles provide a real kind of transportation lifeline for some people,” Murphy said, “that’s almost when they’re at their most important.” For someone who ends a late shift after bus services end, an e-scooter might actually be their best, or only, means of getting home. This reality led the Chicago City Council, for example, to consider revising its own late-night prohibition.

As long as people have access to one of these vehicles when they need one, and a safe lane in which to ride it, shared micromobility can help cities move away from car-dependent transportation, slashing emissions in the process, by shifting transit from something material and energy-intensive to something low-impact and electric.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline 8 years into America’s e-scooter experiment, what have we learned? on Apr 15, 2024.

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Spring Magazine - Sun, 04/14/2024 - 22:49

Starving Wolves, formed in 2015, are a sonic punch-in-the-gut punk outfit from Austin, Texas. Their sound takes a lot of the more traditional hardcore punk...

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Resource Recycling News - Sun, 04/14/2024 - 22:24

Protecting Temporary Workers In The E-Scrap Industry

This article appeared in the March 2024 issue of Resource Recycling.Subscribe todayfor access to all print content. Throughout the year, scrap processors see fluctuations in the amount of electronics and other waste materials coming from collections around their communities. …

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Resource Recycling News - Sun, 04/14/2024 - 22:18

Scrap plastic exports hit lowest volume on record

This article appeared in the March 2024 issue of Resource Recycling.Subscribe todayfor access to all print content. A lot can change in a decade. Exports of recovered plastic out of the U.S. have been on a downward trend for the …

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Talk Fracking - Sun, 04/14/2024 - 22:14

Trên sân Stamford Bridge, Chelsea vs Everton đối đầu trong trận đấu muộn của vòng 32. Đoàn quân của Mauricio Pochettino đang cố gắng khẳng định sức mạnh của mình để níu giữ hy vọng đá cúp châu Âu. Chelsea sẽ cần phải chứng minh rằng họ xứng đáng được đánh giá cao hơn đối thủ.

Nhận định phong độ Chelsea vs Everton 02h00 ngày 16/04

Cùng chuyên gia 90phut nhận định trận đấu giữa Chelsea vs Everton.

Nhận định phong độ Chelsea

Chelsea đã cho thấy sự tiến bộ vượt bậc về mặt chiến thuật và kỹ thuật. Với 3 chiến thắng và 2 trận hòa trong 5 trận đấu gần nhất, đội bóng áo xanh đang cho thấy sức mạnh không hề nhỏ của mình. Các học trò của Pochettino đã ghi được 15 bàn thắng và dù để lọt lưới 11 bàn nhưng họ vẫn duy trì được phong độ ổn định. Chelsea đang thể hiện lối chơi kiểm soát bóng hiệu quả với sự nổi bật của các ngôi sao như Palmer và Enzo Fernandez.

Phong độ thi đấu ChelseaNhận định phong độ Everton

Trong khi đó Everton của huấn luyện viên Sean Dyche dường như đang trải qua một mùa giải đầy thách thức. Đội khách chỉ giành được 1 chiến thắng, 1 trận hòa và nhận tới 3 thất bại trong 5 trận đấu gần nhất. Họ chỉ ghi được 4 bàn và để thủng lưới tới 8 lần, phản ánh một hàng thủ yếu kém và thiếu hiệu quả. Dù Calvert Lewin luôn cố gắng tạo ra sự khác biệt, nhưng một mình anh là ko đủ. Lối chơi phòng ngự phản công của họ không đủ sắc bén để đối phó với những đối thủ mạnh hơn như Chelsea.

Phong độ thi đấu EvertonLịch sử đối đầu giữa Chelsea vs Everton 02h00 ngày 16/04

Trong lịch sử gần đây giữa Chelsea và Everton, mỗi đội có những thắng lợi, hòa và thua khá cân bằng với kết quả gần nhất là Everton đã đánh bại Chelsea với tỷ số 2-0. Tuy nhiên, bản lĩnh và tinh thần chiến đấu của Chelsea tại Stamford Bridge luôn là một thách thức lớn cho bất kỳ đội bóng nào. Hiện tại, Chelsea có vẻ như đã rút ra được nhiều bài học từ những lần chạm trán trước và đang tìm cách áp dụng chúng để lấy lại ưu thế.

Lịch sử đối đầu giữa Chelsea vs Everton 02h00 ngày 16/04Soi kèo châu Á Chelsea vs Everton 02h00 ngày 16/04

Kèo châu Á cho trận này là Chelsea chấp Everton 0.75 bàn. Chelsea, với lợi thế sân nhà và phong độ cao hơn hẳn, được dự báo sẽ thắng kèo này. Dựa trên sức mạnh tấn công hiện tại và khả năng phòng ngự của đối phương, Chelsea có đủ khả năng để vượt qua tỷ lệ chấp và giành chiến thắng với cách biệt.

• Chọn Chelsea -0.75 FT

Soi kèo tài xỉu Chelsea vs Everton 02h00 ngày 16/04

Kèo tài xỉu cho trận đấu này được ấn định ở mức 3 bàn. Xét về khả năng ghi bàn của Chelsea với tổng cộng 55 bàn thắng trong mùa giải cùng với hàng thủ không mấy chắc chắn của Everton, trận đấu này có khả năng cao sẽ là một trận cầu tấn công rực lửa. Do đó, kèo tài có phần hấp dẫn hơn trong trận này.

• Chọn Tài 3 FT

Soi kèo tỷ số Chelsea vs Everton 02h00 ngày 16/04

Trận đấu giữa Chelsea và Everton tại Stamford Bridge dự kiến sẽ kết thúc với chiến thắng cho đội chủ nhà. Đội bóng của Pochettino được kỳ vọng sẽ thể hiện sức mạnh vượt trội và giành chiến thắng với tỷ số 3-1.

• 90p dự đoán tỷ số: Chelsea vs Everton: 3-1 FT

Đội hình dự kiến Chelsea vs Everton

Chelsea: Petrovic, Gusto, Silva, Disasi, Chilwell, Enzo, Caicedo, Sterling, Palmer, Madueke, Jackson.

Everton: Pickford, Tarkowski, Mykolenko, Patterson, Branthwaite, Gomes, Harrison, Garner, Onana, Calvert-Lewin, McNeil.

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Với những phân tích trên, trận đấu giữa Chelsea và Everton tại Stamford Bridge dự kiến sẽ là một màn trình diễn ấn tượng từ đội chủ nhà. Để theo dõi chi tiết hơn và nhận định chuyên sâu hơn về các trận cầu hấp dẫn khác, đừng quên truy cập website 90phut TV.

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Resource Recycling News - Sun, 04/14/2024 - 22:06

California’s Pioneering Strides In Plastic Management

A comprehensive look at the legislation guiding California’s recycling goals. This article appeared in the March 2024 issue of Resource Recycling. Subscribe today for access to all print content. California, a national forerunner in environmental advocacy, continues to implement packaging …

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On Saturday night, Iran launched its retaliatory strike on Israel for Israel’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, which killed two senior Iranian generals and ten others. Tensions had been rising in the week preceding Iran’s eventual attack, as both Israel and Iran exchanged threats and conducted maneuvers in preparation for the escalation. However, Reuters had reported on Thursday that Iran’s foreign minister, Hussein Amir Abdellahian, informed Washington during a visit to Oman that Iran would conduct its response in a way that “avoids escalation,” and that another U.S. intelligence source said “Iran was very clear” that its retaliatory strike would be “under control.”

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Iran launched a historic attack on April 13, hitting Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles.

Tehran invoked article 51 of the charter of the United Nations, which allowed it to act in self-defense in response to Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Syria on April 1.

The US, Canada, and European governments loudly condemned Iran’s April 13 attack, portraying Tehran as the aggressor. However, Western officials failed to mention that Iran was acting in self-defense.

Before the Iranian counter-attack, the leading British think tank Chatham House published an article admitting that the “Israeli attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus on 1 April marks an unprecedented escalation by Israel against Iran in Syria”.

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As Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza — which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans — enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) for facilitating genocide.

Nicaragua charged that, “Germany has provided political, financial and military support to Israel fully aware at the time of authorization that the military equipment would be used in the commission of great breaches of international law,” adding, “The military equipment provided by Germany enabling Israel to perpetrate genocidal acts and other atrocities, included supplies to the front line and warehouses, and assurances of future supplies such as ammunition, technology and diverse components necessary for the Israeli military.”

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Philadelphia, PA — On Saturday, April 13, local groups protested Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed 33,000 Palestinians according to the latest figures. The march gathered in Clark Park.

Organizers say that workers and unions are sending the message today. The Philly Palestine Coalition says groups involved include the Labor for Black Lives Coalition, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, Philly IWW, TNG Local 10/CWA Local 38010, SEIU Healthcare PA, Unity Caucus, Philly Tenants Union, & Workers World Party. According to the post, “Our goal is clear: to stand in unwavering solidarity with Palestinian workers and communities.

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Hundreds of demonstrators took part in a protest against the presence of foreign forces in Niger, including the armed forces of the United States, which has a military base in the north of the country.

The demonstrators gathered in the center of the capital city of Niamey, at the call of civil society organizations close to Niger's ruling military junta whose members took part in the demonstration.

“We have called for the departure of the Americans and all foreign forces from Niger, and the CNSP (acronym for the organization of the military junta of Niger) has taken our concerns into account, and it is in this context that we have come to support and reaffirm our support for the CNSP

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The 2010s were a decade of revolt. From Athens to Atlanta, Santiago to Seoul, a global wave of protest brought masses of people into confrontation with the status quo, demanding an end to neoliberalism, racism, climate change, and more. Yet despite this upswell of grassroots political activity, little lasting, positive change followed. What sparked the past decade of mass protest? Why didn’t it result in political transformation?Vincent Bevins, author ofIf We Burn, joinsThe Chris Hedges Report for a retrospective on the decade that set the world on fire, and how to adapt its lessons for the challenges ahead.

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This month, the Supreme Court will begin to hear one of the highest-profile court cases about homelessness in generations. City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson considers whether a local government can outlaw sleeping outside if adequate shelter is not accessible.

If the Court sides with Grants Pass, cities will be able to rely on punitive policies that do little to nothing to decrease homelessness and often cause worse outcomes for unhoused people in the process. If it favors Johnson, local governments will be required to demonstrate adequate shelter is available for an individual before resorting to harsh enforcement tactics.

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The original Green New Deal resolution took as its models not only the original New Deal but also the home front mobilization for World War II. A fully developed Green New Deal will need both the kind of federal initiative and strong federal agencies that transformed the American economy during World War II and the popular participation and decentralized creativity represented by the Green New Deal from Below.

The Green New Deal from Below can make a significant difference in reducing greenhouse gas pollution, creating good jobs, and countering injustice.

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If we consider that we as a people could soon face a climate-related collapse of our economic infrastructure, how might we avert this outcome? Or, failing that, be able to continue on while maintaining a civil society? It can be seen that the root of the crisis lies in our behavior, our individual and social behavior – which is a cultural problem. Yet, because each of us lives our lives embedded in our culture, we live and think within the domain we have inherited. If our current ways of thinking are much the basis for our crisis, we must make every effort to think again, and differently.

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