Minneapolis, MN — On February 25, 2025, the Minnesota Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee hosted a panel discussion on Ending Slavery in Minnesota led by Marcia Howard, Vice President of the Federation of Teachers Local 59 and ex-prison labor workers. According to panelists, an incarcerated worker makes $0.25-$0.
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As urbanization reshapes global landscapes, ecological balance is increasingly at risk, especially in Africa. The primary drivers are rapid development and expanding human settlements, often without proper environmental considerations, posing a serious threat to birds and biodiversity and weakening ecological resilience.
Philadelphia, PA — After a brutal stock market correction and new anti-trade tariff policies, more than 120,000 layoffs of federal workers, dozens of executive orders, and hundreds of immigrant arrests led by ICE, many Americans are reeling from political and financial upheaval caused by the Trump administration.
“Everyone does it. ” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal timber from the Brazilian Amazon as legitimate, a fraud known as timber laundering. The testimony was collected by a team from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a U. K.
In March, La Via Campesina called on social movements and civil society organizations everywhere to hit the streets and push back against this violent, extractivist system that is fueling hunger, poverty, forced migration, wars, and ecological collapse. The response has been resounding.
Increasing attacks by the Far Right in French universities has become dangerous for the student movement. Our comrades from Le Poing Levé (Fist Up) are calling for the creation of action committees to combat these attacks and turn universities into battlegrounds against the Far Right.
Seven years after an environmental administrator and three secretaries of the environment were charged with negligence that resulted in a toxic cyanide spill at Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s Veladero gold mine in Argentina, the case has still not gone to trial.
Fifty years ago today, the Khmer Rouge took power in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Instead of rebuilding the country after a destructive US bombing campaign, Pol Pot’s movement plunged it into one of the last century’s most horrifying catastrophes.