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War Is Not a Game – Vigil 11/19 in Old Bethpage

Rally along Veterans For Peace, Long Island Chapter, on Sunday, November 19th, from 1:00pm-2:30pm, to stand in front of the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage to show our outrage over supporting and sponsoring an event there that glorifies war.…

Veterans for Peace Joins International Delegation Attempt to Reach Rafah Border Crossing With Gaza

VFP member Danny O’Brien, VFP Board member Gerry Condon, and VFP Advisory Board member, journalist Chris Hedges, are among an international delegation of writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, students, and organizers who arrived in Cairo, Egypt this week with the goal…

EcoWaste Coalition Exposes Trade of Mercury-Laden Cosmetics in QC in Violation of City Ordinance No. 2767-2018

12 November 2023, Quezon City.  The sale of skin-lightening cosmetics contaminated with mercury in Quezon City has not stopped despite the promulgation five years ago of a historic ordinance banning such poisonous cosmetics. Based on the market monitoring conducted by…

EcoWaste Coalition Deplores Online Sale of Banned Paints with Toxic Lead Content

Watchdog Group Discovers Three More Aerosol Paints Sold Online with Lead up to 94,900 ppm   10 November 2023, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has deplored the continuing use of online shopping platforms as a channel to…

Pressenza rejects State Department accusation of being part of a disinformation campaign promoted by Russia

On November 7, the Reuters news agency released a communiqué from the US State Department under the title “The Kremlin’s Efforts to Covertly Spread Disinformation in Latin America”. In the text released, it is intended to involve the international news…

16 US lawmakers Unite for Julian

15 US congress members and one senator writing to Joe Biden and lobbying him to drop extradition attempts against Julian. In America’s fragmented political landscape, this letter brings together everyone from republican and fierce Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene, libertarian…

UN debate on Cuba: Overwhelming majority against US economic war

Voted out: 187 of the 193 member states of the United Nations are calling for an end to the US blockade against Cuba. The USA and its ally Israel are completely isolated. With an overwhelming majority of 187 votes in…

A joint Jewish-Arab declaration for peace

We – movements, organizations and activists, Jews and Arabs – write these words out of heavy mourning for the thousands of people killed in recent weeks, and out of terrible anxiety for the safety of the abducted and those who…

Towards the end of human dignity

In response to the humanitarian appeal of the University of Birzeit in Palestine , the Edward Said Free Chair of Palestinian Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, pronounces: it is necessary to break the explanatory…

WARNING: Expandable Water Toys Pose Health Risks to Children

Safe Toys for Kids advocate BAN Toxics is issuing a warning to the public regarding the sale of expandable water toys that pose a risk to children. These colorful expandable water toys are made from superabsorbent polymer (SAPs) plastic chemicals,…

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