The Ukrainian arm of the climate movement Fridays for Future has called for global demonstrations to demand an end to Russia's military assault, reports Andrea Germanos.
Andrea Germanos
As Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists in London ramped up their latest with a 10th consecutive on October 16, author Naomi Klein pushed back against criticism of the climate protesters and said the climate crisis itself is what is truly disruptive.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn joined the mass protest against Donald Trump in London on July 13聽 where he said the message to the U.S. president was a call for a "world of justice not division."
Speaking from Trafalgar Square to an enormous crowd after hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of London, Corbyn praised those gathered for "asserting our right to free speech and our right to want a world that is not divided by misogyny, racism, and hate."
An air strike by the US-backed Saudi-led coalition on a hotel near the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed dozens of people on August 23, multiple news agencies have reported. It came as a humanitarian crisis extended its grip on the impoverished nation.
Ireland is poised to ban onshore hydraulic fracturing (fracking) after its Senate 聽a bill on June 28 outlawing the destructive oil and gas extraction method.
Anti-fracking campaigning group聽聽the development as a 鈥渧ictory for people power鈥.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on November 30 that former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin 鈥 a man聽聽as 鈥渢he anti-populist from Hell鈥 鈥 is his pick for treasury secretary.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has reiterated his opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying on August 23 that United States President Barack Obama鈥檚 push to get the trade deal passed during the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress is 鈥渙utrageous鈥 and 鈥渁bsolutely wrong鈥.
The TPP is a huge proposed trade deal involving 12 Pacific Rim nations, including Australia. It encompasses 40% of the world鈥檚 GDP. It was negotiated in secret, but draft chapters published by WikiLeaks confirmed anti-TPP campaigners鈥 worst fears of a huge power grab by corporations.