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Arundhati Roy: Will Booker Prize-winner face jail for 14-year-old remark?
BBC News· 1 day agoThe Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) is notorious for making it exceptionally...in years...
James Lawson Led the Faith-Based Struggle Against Plantation Capitalism
The Nation· 2 hours agoTo the very end of his life, the revered religious leader and academic, who died last week at the...
World Bank Financing Arm Rejects Calls to Directly Compensate Victims of Harm at Kenya Schools
The Intercept· 7 days agoOn Thursday, the World Bank Group’s Executive Board will vote whether to approve the International Finance Corporation’s plan to remedy...
Civil rights leader James Lawson, who learned from Gandhi, used nonviolent resistance and the ‘power...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWar, Lawson spent nearly 14 months in prison. After being paroled, he went to India, where he worked...
6 books that explain the history and meaning of Juneteenth
Rhode Island Current via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoAfter decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 8 hours agoDuring COP15, the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, developed countries agreed to raise $100 billion in annual climate finance by 2020, money that developing countries could tap to transition ...
‘Monumental step forward’: Thailand to become first Southeast Asian nation to legalize same-sex...
CNN via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoThailand will become the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after the...
Thailand has tried for years to solve its pollution problem. But ‘haze season’ always comes back
WFLA Tampa Bay· 1 day agoSAMOENG, Thailand (AP) — When the haze season comes, village chief Nanthawat Tiengtrongsakun and his tribesmen start preparing the land for fire. They cut shrubs and trees on their small parcels of…
A New Marshall Plan for Ukraine
The National Interest· 3 days agoWhen the current war in Ukraine ends, rebuilding the war-torn country will be crucial to the future of freedom and democracy. Post-war Ukraine promises...
Garment Workers Say Nike Turned a ‘Blind Eye’ to Their Plight
Sourcing Journal via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAnd it was Nike that Akter was thinking about when she and her family struggled to afford food,...
