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Raising Alarm Over Human Rights Abuses, Tlaib, Omar, and Raskin to Boycott Modi Address <[link removed]>
"The evidence of Modi's escalating repression of India's religious minorities is extensive," said one Muslim civil rights group. <[link removed]>
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'An Act of Ecocide': Civil Society Groups Condemn Weaponization of Ukraine Dam <[link removed]>
"The destruction of the dam represents the most serious single blow to the environment during the war," said one advocate. <[link removed]>
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On World Refugee Day, Calls to 'Broker Peace' So 35 Million People Can Go Home <[link removed]>
"We know too well the cost of inaction: a world with the highest forced displacement in recorded history," the U.N.'s top refugee official noted. "We cannot let this continue." <[link removed]>
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'Blatant as it Comes': Ethics Experts Sound Alarm Over Trump Hotel Deal With Oman <[link removed]>
"How and when is he going to sell out U.S. interests?" Virginia Canter of CREW asked. "That is the question this creates." <[link removed]>
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'A True Scandal, and Should Be Covered as Such': Outrage Over Medicaid Purge Grows <[link removed]>
"Pausing disenrollment was a tremendous act of social welfare; restarting it is criminal," said one single-payer advocate. <[link removed]>
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Himalayan Glaciers Could Lose 80% of Their Ice by 2100, Threatening Billions of Lives <[link removed]>
"We need leaders to act now to prevent catastrophe. There is still time to save this critical region, but only if fast and deep emissions cuts start now." <[link removed]>
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Himalayan Glaciers Could Lose 80% of Their Ice by 2100, Threatening Billions of Lives <[link removed]>
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Rights Groups Blast UK Bill to Ban Public Bodies From Boycotting Israel <[link removed]>
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Where Are All the Affordable EVs? <[link removed]>
Automakers have solved problems of affordability and engineering before. With the planet at stake, they must do so again. <[link removed]>
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Remembering Gus Newport, A Progressive Titan <[link removed]>
The former Berkeley mayor's record of accomplishments from civil rights activism to groundbreaking political initiatives to far-sighted community economic development programs to global solidarity and elder statesman leadership could fill volumes. <[link removed]>
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Why California's Public Employee Pension Funds Should Divest From Fossil Fuels <[link removed]>
To date almost 1,600 institutions worldwide with over 40 trillion dollars in assets have divested from fossil fuel companies; CalPERS and CalSTRS should join them. <[link removed]>
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