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Zambales Communities to President Marcos: Suspend Dredging Now or Lose Our Coastline Forever

San Felipe, Zambales – With beaches vanishing, resorts collapsing, and livelihoods lost, coastal communities in Zambales are issuing an urgent appeal to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.: immediately suspend all dredging and sand mining activities across the province. The call comes after a devastating…

GAIA Joins Call to Member States at Plastics Treaty Negotiations (INC-5.2): Keep Your Promise, Fix the Process, End Plastic Pollution

Geneva, Switzerland – Four days into the final Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, we are not on track to deliver a treaty that will protect people and nature. Enough is enough; something must change. We are joining the voices of waste pickers,…

The Song of the Whales: a sensory journey celebrating the ocean

Centered on the theme of the ocean and whales, spiritual beings in many traditions, this project is both a celebration and a call to action, explains the Oktoecho group. This show offers a sensory journey celebrating the symbolic power of…

Marseille remembers Hiroshima and signs the cities’ appeal in favor of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

On Wednesday, August 6, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in response to the call launched by the Marseille Peace Movement, around fifty activists from various groups, such as Femmes solidaires, the French…

Yurii Sheliazenko: “The protests are good, but there are still some Ukrainians who believe in the war.”

In Kiev, I met Yurii Sheliazenko, a Quaker conscientious objector and leader of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, whom I had met and interviewed during my trip to Ukraine last August, and his friend Artem Denysov, also a Quaker. They took…

Fast for Justice: Four Days of Awareness and Action for Palestine in Montreal

 I announce that I will sit at Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam in Montreal for 4 days, from August 8 to 11, for an awareness-raising action and a call to collective action in support of the martyred Palestinian people. During these 4…

Protest to Take Place in New York City Against Starvation in Gaza: March for Humanity

Protesters will be gathering from across the country in New York City on Saturday, Aug. 16 for a massive show of opposition to the forced starvation of Gaza imposed by the U.S. and Israeli governments. Trump has greenlit this Israeli…

What’s Responsible For The Upcoming Putin-Trump Summit?

One of them must have offered more concessions to the other. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov confirmed on Thursday that Putin and Trump could meet as soon as next week following Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s “highly productive” three-hour-long meeting with his…

MSF report: GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation” that must be shutdown

An analysis of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical data, patients’ testimonies, and first-hand medical witnessing at two MSF clinics in Gaza, Palestine, point to both targeted and indiscriminate violence by Israeli forces and private American contractors against starved Palestinians at…

EcoWaste Coalition Tags 1,146 Online Listings for Mercury and Mercury-Added Products

(Watchdog group presses regulators to issue immediate takedown orders) The environmental health and justice group EcoWaste Coalition urged government regulators to stop the uncontrolled online trade of mercury and mercury-added products by actively enforcing Republic Act No. 11967, or the…

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