Tag: India
India’s decision to eliminate single-use plastic bags by 2022 is ‘game-changing’
"It is the duty of each one of us, to ensure that the quest for material prosperity does not compromise our environment."
10 amazing social movement struggles in 2017 that give us reason...
Here are ten stories showing that people power works.
India may ban petcoke, one of dirtiest fossil fuels exported by...
“NCR air pollution is at public health emergency levels and requires drastic action.”
1,200 dead, 41 million affected by flooding in India, Bangladesh and...
Although the monsoon is an annual event, this year’s rains have been considered far worse than usual, and people are blaming climate change for making things much worse.
World’s biggest coal company closes 37 mines as solar prices plummet
India's energy market is undergoing a rapid transformation as it moves away from fossil fuels.
Coal is in a death spiral as India cancels new plants...
The renewable energy sector in India already accounts for 60,000 jobs, and will add a similar number by 2022.
Asia: 260 million indigenous peoples marginalized, discriminated
Asian indigenous peoples face discrimination and marginalization, heavy assimilation pressure and violent repression by state security forces.
Monsanto loses millions of dollars after Indian farmers switch to indigenous...
Monsanto claims that the genetically modified cotton seeds they sell are superior. So why are so many people trying to switch?
This park in India is shooting poachers to protect rhinos
The policy is heavily controversial. Not all of those that have been shot are poachers.
Dalit Lives Matter
Technology has helped to facilitate these movements locally and disseminated information about them throughout the world in a way earlier generations of activists could have only dreamed about.
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Global leaders plead for peace in Ukraine at UN
Altogether, leaders from at least 50 countries spoke up for peace in Ukraine at the 2023 UN General Assembly.
Supreme Court could trigger hundreds of billions in corporate tax cuts ‘with the stroke...
"The Roberts Court could decide with the stroke of a pen to simultaneously forgive big business decades of tax dues."
Elected Democrats are conformist enablers of Biden for 2024
Alarm bells among pro-Biden pundits have finally begun to break the political sound barrier. So why is it quiet on Capitol Hill on the Democratic front?
Climate campaigners decry ‘absolutely horrendous’ brutality against protesters at fed summit
"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.
Missouri set to execute Marcellus Williams despite DNA evidence proving innocence—again
Unless we reform this corrupt system, racist politicians will be rewarded with higher political offices–for–”frying a black man.”