Above Photo: Jaime de Guzman (Philippines), Metamorphosis II, 1970. On 5 October, the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a historic, non-legally binding resolution that ‘recognises the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a human right that is important for the enjoyment of human rights’. Such a right should force governments who sit at the table at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow later this month to think about the grievous harm caused by the polluted system that shapes our lives. In 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) pointed out that 92% of the world’s population breathes toxic air […]
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Houseless Camp: ‘It’s A Sovereign Place’ By Stewart Huntington, Indian Country Today. November 15, 2020 Houseless Camp: ‘It’s A Sovereign Place’2020-11-152020-11-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/camp.jpg200px200px Above photo: Teepees cluster around a common campfire at Camp Mniluzahan, a homeless encampment just outside Rapid City, South Dakota. Stewart Huntington. Camp Mniluzahan near Rapid City, South Dakota, provides shelter, food, respect for homeless Natives. Rapid City, SD – When Lakota activists set up a camp for homeless relatives in this Black Hills town last month, the police descended immediately and shut it down. The response? The activists quickly moved the encampment to trust land just outside of town. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/11/1080803391_0:299:3072:2027_1200x675_80_0_0_cd1f4d4877e4ea209db3a97b7ed3a838.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010171080803428-farewell-ceremony-for-french-teacher-to-take-place-wednesday-reports-say/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The farewell ceremony for the murdered French history teacher will take place on Wednesday, national broadcaster BFMTV reported Saturday citing government sources. The information was later confirmed to the channel by education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer. The time and location for the ceremony have not yet been determined. It will be organised in consultation with the victims family, BFMTV reported. © REUTERS / CHARLES PLATIAU Flowers at the Bois d’Aulne college are seen after the attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France, October 17, 2020. Reports emerged on Friday […]
There are two things we love in this world: pans and supporting small businesses. Well, we like more than that, but those two things are great, too. Our Place, the makers of the Always Pan, is having a two day sale right now, where shoppers can take $30 off the Always Pan with the code SHOPSMALL. Scouted Editor Jillian Lucas loves this pan, as do I, for it’s sleek, space-saving design, making it possible to use for everything. It might just replace every pan in your kitchen — it’s just that good. Scouted selects products independently and prices reflect what was […]
Republicans who control the Senate are rushing to put 48-year-old Barrett on the Supreme Court before the November 3 elections, as if Joe Biden takes the White House and Democrats were to gain seats in the Senate then it would become harder to confirm Barrett. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is set to tell senators during her confirmation hearing on Monday that while she has been nominated to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the bench, ‘no one will ever take her place’, according to the Associated Press which has reportedly seen a copy of her remarks. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are taking […]
While all eyes are locked on the presidential debates and the competition between Trump and Biden, a no less important battle is to take place on 3 November, in which the future of 35 seats and control of the US Senate will be decided. The main struggle for dominance in the Senate, currently controlled by the GOP, will take place in six states where Republican and Democratic candidates have toss-up chances of winning the vote, the Cook Political Report said, in its latest assessment of the situation. All six toss-up seats are currently held by the GOP Senators. In three of these […]
The display is reportedly in protest against the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by the administration of US President Donald Trump, as the United States death toll from the virus tops 210,000. A display of 20,000 empty chairs was placed outside the White House in Washington DC on Sunday, in tribute to coronavirus victims in the United States. The chairs, placed on the lawn across from the White House, represent less than 10% of the victims, as the US COVID-19 death toll stood at 210,637 as of Tuesday, according to data collated by the Johns Hopkins University. The static display […]
Russian artistic gymnast Daria Spiridonova is eyeing life after her medal-decorated sporting career at the age of 22, revealing her “dream” of running a venue in Moscow for “cool girls who want to be beautiful and successful”. 2015 World Championships gold medalist Spiridonova has been scheming while the sporting schedule has been largely halted this year, and asked her vast fanbase of more than 125,000 followers on Instagram for their thoughts on her vision of a new post-gymnastics venture. She admitted that she had been plotting her moves “besides sports” for “a long time” and had wanted to turn her attention to […]
Voters wait in line to cast their ballot at an early voting location in Fairfax, Virginia on September 18, 2020. Growing tensions in the country have some election officials worried about potential violence at polling places. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Voters wait in line to cast their ballot at an early voting location in Fairfax, Virginia on September 18, 2020. Growing tensions in the country have some election officials worried about potential violence at polling places. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Concern is growing over potential confrontations at polling places due […]
New findings have revealed that Manaus, the largest city in Brazil’s Amazon, is one of the most coronavirus-infected cities in the world, with 44 to 66 percent of the population having been infected. Gordon Dougan, professor of microbial pathogenesis at the University of Cambridge, believes that Manaus is a unique place due to the sheer numbers of the infected and its geographical isolation. Sputnik: New data has shown that 44 to 66 percent of the population of Manaus has been infected with COVID-19. How is herd immunity achieved? Professor Dougan: So there’re two ways you can achieve herd immunity. One is, […]
BASED has a new method for aligning decentralized finance (DeFi) projects with each other. At its core is a smart contract called Moonbase, CoinDesk has learned. Based.Money is a project of the Ghouls, a loose consortium of crypto developers, artists, designers and meme makers. Friday night, the outfit will release its newest project since BASED, the rebasing game dropped this summer during the boom of Weird DeFi. Based.Money is a game that riffs on Ampleforth’s rebasing mechanic, where it makes a daily readjustment in the supply of BASED tokens, adjusting the amount in everyone’s wallet. It’s a game of optimizing for […]
US President Donald Trump is “all over the place” when it comes to the military, pushing back on reports he had called fallen troops “suckers” and “losers,” and continuing military operations even as he says the country’s long wars should end, Ted Rall, a columnist and syndicated editorial cartoonist, told Radio Sputnik’s Political Misfits. In an article published in The Atlantic on September 3, the outlet’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, quotes various anonymous sources claiming that the US president had repeatedly disparaged service members. For example, Goldberg claims that Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 […]
TORONTO (Sputnik) – The current societal unrest in Canada, the United States, and other parts of the world is proof that current systems in place are failing citizens, Communist Party of Canada leader Liz Rowley said in an interview. Amid the ongoing unrest, politicians, activists, and other public figures have often asserted that communists and other left-wing groups are at fault. Rowley says that while communists and other left-wing factions are part of the movement for change, to characterize the protests as a left-wing conspiracy is to ignore all the issues that ordinary citizens are currently facing. “I can tell you […]
What street violence? There is no stinking street violence! CNN and Don Lemon had a collective meltdown on Tuesday after Day 2 of the RNC 2020. Advertisement – story continues below Don Lemon and his guests last night ensured Americans that there is no violence in the cities today.Every thing is fine.That’s just fake news by the Trump campaign. Meanwhile, in the background the Kenosha riots are playing out in real time. TRENDING: Media Blackout: North Carolina Man Arrested For Shooting at Crowd of Trump Supporters, Which Included Children This is comedy gold. How batsh*t crazy is @cnn? This batsh*t crazy… […]
When you visit Maypop on O’Keefe Street, a popular “American South meets Southeast Asia” eatery in New Orleans, you’ll see a huge 3-dimensional accordion-like mural on the wall. It’s also reminiscent of a giant Vietnamese folded fan. If you’re on one side of the restaurant, you’re looking at a map of The Mississippi Delta. If you walk to the other side, your view is a map of The Mekong Delta in the southern part of Vietnam. After a dozen visits to New Orleans spanning from the late 1990s through its tricentennial, it’s noticeable to me that New Orleans’ three hundred-plus years […]
Actress and #MeToo pioneer Rose McGowan has continued an all-out assault on the Democratic Party, sparring with liberal celebrities over 2020 presidential pick Joe Biden and the Dems’ progressive bonafides. McGowan launched a fresh offensive on Friday night, picking up from a rapid-fire tweet session the day prior – in which the actress dubbed the party “frauds,”“monsters” and “the lie.” She first tangled with Biden backer and fellow actress Alyssa Milano, who responded to McGowan’s earlier tweet storm with a thread outlining how the Democrats had “[made] the world a better place.” Milano’s thread did not go over well, with McGowan […]
Apparently, every generation in human history has wondered when the end of the world will come, with some even trying to predict the date. Human history counts dozens of “end of the world” dates, but obviously, none of them has turned out to be the right one. Yet. Theoretical physicist Matt Caplan has predicted when the universe will come to its end – which turns out to be, contrary to most “end of the world” conspiracies, not very soon. In research titled “Black Dwarf Supernova in the Far Future”, earlier teased in media and now published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, […]
On Saturday, the Belarusian president ordered an air assault brigade to be transferred from Vitebsk region in the country’s northeast to Grodno region near Belarus’s borders with Poland and Lithuania after expressing concerns about increasing military activity in those two NATO nations. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has announced that a buildup of NATO forces, including tanks and aircraft, is taking place on his country’s western borders, and warned that he will not allow foreign powers to interfere in the country’s internal political affairs. “Look around: there are tanks, there aircraft are taking off 15 minutes from our borders. And this is […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the grand temple in Ayodhya dedicated to Lord Ram – a revered deity in Hinduism. For the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, the Ram Temple has been a major poll plank for over three decades. With a grand temple coming up in India’s Ayodhya soon, it will not only restore the holy city’s charm like other major Hindu pilgrimage centres such as Varanasi, Prayagraj, and Mathura, but also enhance the prospects of an economic facelift. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the temple […]
The Israeli Defence Forces noted that it “considers [the] Syrian regime responsible for any action taken in its territory”, adding that “it will not allow” any violation of the sovereignty of the state of Israel. Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) announced it thwarted an attempt made by “four terrorists” to place explosives on the border between Israel and Syria, noting the troops managed to hit the squad of “terrorists” without any casualties to IDF. “Recently, an IDF force thwarted an attempt to place explosives on the Syrian border. A special force that ambushed the southern Golan Heights, near a military post, identified […]
New research by travel website Asher & Lyric has found that the US is the second-worst wealthy nation in the world in which to raise a family during 2020. The travel site ranked 35 countries that are part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is an intergovernmental economic organization. “We only used OECD countries because they have reliable data in a wide range of key topics useful for this study. Our definitive ‘Raising a Family Index’ is comprised of 30 critical statistics from trusted international sources broken down into 6 categories identifying favorable conditions for raising a […]
California has most COVID-19 cases in U.S., surpassing New York, as spike continues by Luke Money/LA times California now has the most confirmed coronavirus infections of any state, surpassing New York, as an ongoing statewide spike in the number of infections has pushed its overall case count past 413,000. As of Wednesday morning, data from Johns Hopkins University showed California had reported about 1,100 more cumulative COVID-19 cases than New York — which was besieged by the virus in the early spring but has since seen the numbers of newly confirmed infections, deaths and hospitalizations drop dramatically. California, however, is trending in the opposite direction. […]
After a Washington Post story reporting multiple instances of sexual harassment against female employees, the Washington NFL team’s owner Dan Snyder said the alleged behavior had “no place in our franchise or society,” and hired independent investigators to look at the allegations. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption toggle caption Mike Stewart/AP After a Washington Post story reporting multiple instances of sexual harassment against female employees, the Washington NFL team’s owner Dan Snyder said the alleged behavior had “no place in our franchise or society,” and hired independent investigators to look at the allegations. Mike Stewart/AP The NFL and Washington team owner Dan […]
Tennis ace Nick Kyrigos has posted a series of smitten photos after replying “bed time” to a photo by Chiara Passari – but the Australian who claimed he slept with fans every week says he is still experiencing inner turmoil. Controversial Kyrgios has been busy while tennis has been suspended, admitting that he would drink beer all the time if he was allowed to and claiming that he has slept with fans on a weekly basis. Now the 25-year-old has revealed photos of himself relaxing with new girlfriend Chiara Passari, providing a romantic end to a week in which he called Novak […]
The Struggle To Protect The Sacred Place Where Life Begins By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. June 28, 2020 The Struggle To Protect The Sacred Place Where Life Begins2020-06-282020-06-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/arctic-e1593356059900.png200px200px Above photo: Porcupine caribou herd. Wikimedia/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Indigenous groups lead fight against Arctic oil drilling. A nationwide grassroots movement led by the Gwich’in people may soon reach its long-sought goal: permanent protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As the Trump administration neared the end of its first year in office in 2017, it seemed environmental activists had lost one of the most hard-fought battles in the movement’s history. Thanks to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107965/27/1079652761_0:206:2000:1331_1200x675_80_0_0_bbb104d7e3b05bb9d9764e2a52327a78.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202006271079736882-tehran-blast-took-place-at-missile-production-facility-news-agency-claims-citing-satellite-images/ A large explosion woke up the residents of the Iranian capital with a huge dawn-like blaze seen to the east of the city. The blast, officially attributed to an explosion of a leaky gas tank, shattered windows in some buildings, but ultimately resulted in no casualties. Satellite images of the purported site of the overnight blast in Tehran’s suburbs suggest that it took place on the territory of the complex tasked with building missiles, AP reported, citing the information from the images. According to the AP, an area located 20 kilometres east […]
After Tulsa, it was a straight shot to Yuma. Sure, that sounds like the opening line of a geographically incoherent high lonesome song, but it’s really the arc of Donald Trump’s shattered ego on his failed road trip to recapture the old magic of his crowds. Today’s trip to Yuma should have been the salve he needed, but even an afternoon visit with a crowd of Trumpjugend Turning Pointers sporting red hats, cargo shorts and Charlie Kirk tramp stamps couldn’t offset weeks of utter personal and political humiliation. With more than 125,000 Americans dead on his watch, Trump two rallies in […]
A small German party has installed a monument to the first Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. City authorities sought to block the initiative but ended up launching an online educational campaign. The former West Germany has seen the very first monument to Lenin erected on its soil on Saturday, courtesy of a tiny fringe party, the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD). The party proudly unveiled the over two-meter (6.5-foot) tall statue, originally produced in the former Czechoslovakia in 1957 and now placed outside of its office in Gelsenkirchen. The MLPD told the crowd of its red […]
You’re going to just love your new country when it comes to your neighborhood–The far left citizens of CHOP, formerly CHAZ, attempted last night to hoist a giant Black Power Fist statue inside their commune. But the statue was too heavy for the far left activists and feminist allies so they abandoned their project. Advertisement – story continues below This gives us a glimpse of the future where the only approved statues will be the black power fists and the hammer and sickle. Here’s the video – via local Seattle reporter Hanna Scott from KIRO: TRENDING: Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy: White […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107964/46/1079644620_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_b33003b316015972b08bba9ae826f49f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006171079644605-anti-racism-protest-against-police-brutality-takes-place-in-atlanta—video/ Amid the Black Lives Matter movement, protests against police brutality and racial injustice have spread across all 50 of the Unites States. In Atlanta, they have been reignited with the killing of Rayshard Brooks, shot dead by a police officer in a drive-thru line at a Wendy’s fast food restaurant. The protesting against the excessive use of force by police and racial injustice in the US gathered in front of the Atlanta Police Department headquarters on Wednesday in a “die-in” demonstration to “reclaim space and demand accountability”. Participants plan to lie down on the footsteps […]
Chicago police car burning This didn’t make any headlines.During the rioting and looting in Chicago last weekend one man was murdered. The ‘peaceful’ protesters weren’t so peaceful. Several other people were shot in the same are near Water Tower Place around the same time that same night. CWBChicago reported: TRENDING: UPDATE — FULL BODYCAM VIDEO Reveals Atlanta Police Being Patient, Respectful with Rayshard Brooks (VIDEO) Newly revealed in police crime data is a fatal shooting in the 800 block of North Michigan on Saturday, May 30. Asked about the murder, a Chicago Police Department spokesperson this week said a 23-year-old man […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107960/54/1079605416_0:148:2048:1300_1200x675_80_0_0_944327c1a7f55e2f7e5ae58ead03fb54.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006141079605364-police-officers-gather-on-place-de-ltoile-to-protest-castaners-remarks—videos/ Several police demonstrations have taken place since the minister of interior said on Monday that the technique of seizing the neck of a suspect during an arrest must be abandoned and vowed to suspend officers on racism allegations. Dozens of police officers have gathered on Place de l’Étoile in Paris to show their disapproval of Cristophe Castaner’s recent remarks. French police officers protest Castaner’s statements on combating racism on 13 June © Sputnik / French police officers protest Castaner’s statements on combating racism on 13 June © Sputnik / French police officers protest Castaner’s statements […]
In response to several high-profile deaths of African Americans in recent months, some black people are saying that enough is enough. Clockwise from top left: Michael Martin, Tunisian Burks, Sam Tyler, Alexander Pittman, the Rev. Carol Thomas Cissel, Brandon Winston, Donna Ghanney and Mark Turner. NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR In response to several high-profile deaths of African Americans in recent months, some black people are saying that enough is enough. Clockwise from top left: Michael Martin, Tunisian Burks, Sam Tyler, Alexander Pittman, the Rev. Carol Thomas Cissel, Brandon Winston, Donna Ghanney and Mark Turner. NPR Editor’s note: NPR will […]
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan made a dirty, political move on Tuesday that will delay justice for General Mike Flynn. It was revealed on Tuesday that Judge Emmet Sullivan was soliciting amicus briefs to allow for public comment on Flynn’s case. This is a highly unusual, purely political move aimed at dragging out Flynn’s case. It is important to note that Judge Sullivan in his order gave full discretion on which amicus briefs to approve to himself, which means he may likely approve ones critical to AG Bill Barr and General Flynn. TRENDING: Tucker Carlson Confronts Former Rep. Trey Gowdy for Actions […]