Tag: #Breakfreefromplastic
Plastic debris plagues Honduras beaches
The "massive trash tsunami" was filled with plastic debris believed to have come from a neighboring river in Guatemala.
Microplastics in every bite: News study confirms human consumption of plastic
A new study confirms that on average, humans consume 50,000 bits of plastic a year and inhales nearly the same amount.
Nestlé, stop single use:’ Activists confront company executives at Annual General...
"It's time for Nestlé to really take some responsibility for the magnitude of its contribution to the problem."
New York bans single-use plastic bags
New York becomes the second state to ban single-use plastic bags starting in March 2020.
EU to ban common single-use plastics to address environment and marine...
"Europe now has a legislative model to defend and promote at international level, given the global nature of the issue of marine pollution involving plastics."
Why women from Asia are confronting US fracking: Oil extraction equals...
“If we are going to stop plastic we need to stop plastic where it starts.”
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.