Tuvalu as Metaphor for Black America
The people of Tuvalu are losing access to significant portions of their livable land mass, due largely to the actions of people in the western world, especially the United States.
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Justice P.B. Sawant: Obituary; Article: ‘How Much of a Democracy Is India, Really?’
On February 15, 91-year-old Justice PB Sawant breathed his last. In an article written some days before his death, he wrote: In every “democracy” where there is capitalist economic system, there is no democracy at all.
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Let The Chamoli Disaster be the Final Wake Up Call for Our Government
Press Statement: The Chamoli avalanche flood of 7 February is starkly reminiscent of the Uttarakhand flood of 2013 and is a strong indicator of the impending high risks associated with reckless development of such fragile mountainous regions.
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Modi Blocks Farmers from Entering Delhi While Their Protest Expands Across India
Farmers are uniting and protesting as never before in India. They are ignoring the caste, religious, and class boundaries that normally divide them. Prime Minister Modi planned to encircle the farmers. But the farmers are now encircling his government.
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Dismantling Public Sector and Subverting Welfare State
Paradoxically the prime minister who talks of Atmanirbhar Bharat is doing exactly the opposite in striking at its very root by privatising the public sector enterprises and pursuing neo- liberal policies which would make India critically dependent on international finance capital.
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It’s Clear Why NewsClick Is Being Targeted, and Why it Was Viewed as a Threat
Platforms like NewsClick and the people involved in running it take risks because they want to make the freedom of expression substantive.
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Stop Targeting India’s Youth and Environmental Activists
Press Statement: Young environmental activists, that the country should be proud of, are the latest victims of the Centre’s continuing efforts to deligitimise the ongoing farmers protest and the nationwide solidarity it has generated. We demand that Disha Ravi be immediately released.
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Who is Disha Ravi, the Climate Activist Arrested by Delhi Police?
Ravi is a 21-year old who volunteers with Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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Karnataka Anti-slaughter Law Neither Protects Cows, Nor the Poor Who Tend to Them
Except for stoking communalism, such laws will only reduce dwindling bovine populations, as farmers have nowhere to go to sell their older cows and buffaloes, thus reducing their ability to rear them.
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Myanmar Citizens Challenge Powerful Military
Over the past week, Myanmar’s citizens are openly and publicly challenging the country’s powerful military, whose coup earlier this month now threatens to stifle the country’s fledgling democracy.
