The EcoWaste Coalition, an advocate for a zero waste and toxics-free society, has decried the unabated sale of skin-lightening cosmetics containing mercury in online shopping platforms, which goes against the global ban on such products to protect public health and...
Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics warns the public against the selling of unregistered and unnotified children’s products such as modeling clay toys in the market. BAN Toxics managed to purchase 8D Super Light Modeling Clay Toy, priced at P65 pesos per pack at M. de...
Jane Bremmer: At the forefront of environmental justice by Johanna Poblete When Jane Bremmer and her partner Lee bought a weatherboard cottage in the outer suburban area of Perth called Bellevue, they had plans to build a ceramics business from home. This was the...
by Vhycent Andlen P. Cruz and Ma. Patricia Delos Reyes The Polytechnic University of the Philippines San Juan Campus (PUPSJ) through BSED EN 2-1 Class is wishing all nations a meaningful and delightful International Mother Language Day (IMLD) being celebrated...
Humanity, where are you? What have we done with goodness? On Feb. 6, a strong earthquake struck Turkey and Syria, killing 45,000 in Turkey, 6,000 in Syria and injuring about 120,000 in both countries. Six departments (wilayas) in Turkey and four in Syria were...
Are we incapable of imagining nonviolent alternatives? First, we invite you to watch the following video about monkeys, bananas and the ladder. It makes us think that many of the basic issues that we accept without any questioning or verifying, [are issues that] we...
ClientEarth files world-first derivative action in High Court of England and Wales Claim alleges Shell Board mismanaging climate risk, breaching company law Institutional investors with over 12 million shares in the company support the claim ClientEarth has today...
In Bolivia, 24,000 farmers in cooperation with communities and public water suppliers protect more than 600,000 hectares of forest from deforestation, exploitation, and the interests of mining companies—and thus protect the regional water supply in the long term. The...
History seems to show some partial benefit to Latin America in moments when the United States was otherwise distracted, as by its Civil War and other wars. This is a moment right now in which the U.S. government is at least somewhat distracted by Ukraine and willing...
The warehousing of asylum-seekers behind barbed wire encapsulates where ‘protecting borders’ leads. As representatives of the European Union’s 27 member states came together on February 9th and 10th in Brussels, for a summit focused on war, the economy and migration,...
By David Swanson, Remarks on Feb. 19th at Lincoln Memorial as part of https://rageagainstwar.com , Washington D.C., February 20, 2023 I want to say THANK YOU to everyone here today and especially to those of you who have been here to oppose every war or who are now...
Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others in the mad quest for wealth, fame or power. But the idol always ends by requiring self-sacrifice, leaving us to perish on the blood-soaked...