Tag: refugees
How volunteers in Ukraine are helping civilians reach safety
Amid deportations, floods and shelling, grassroots groups have formed to help Ukrainians evacuate the frontlines and occupied territories.
A year of global displacement
This year’s record-breaking global displacement crisis calls for greater protections and investment by the international community instead of more indifference and cruelty.
The unprecedented Ukraine-to-Canada ‘air bridge’ could mean a brighter future for...
This air bridge has the potential to be more promising than anything else in recent refugee history.
We must turn solidarity with Ukraine into the new normal for...
The global North’s unprecedented support for Ukrainians has revealed racist double standards. But it’s also an opportunity to extend such solidarity to everyone.
Ukraine: The refugee double standard
This war has unleashed new, overt, and cruel manifestations of racism on the continent, revealing longstanding double standards at the global level.
One year of Afghanistan war spending could fund resettlement of 1.2...
“We’ve spent billions on war. Now, let’s spend to bring Afghans to safety.”
The triumph and tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team
It's beautiful that there's an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.