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Month: August 2018

U.N. calls on China to free Uighurs from alleged re-education camps
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  • Human Rights / Diversity

U.N. calls on China to free Uighurs from alleged re-education camps

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations’ human rights experts voiced alarm on Thursday over alleged Chinese political re-education camps for Muslim Uighurs and they called for...
TheSinghAugust 31, 2018January 15, 2020
Rauner signs medical marijuana expansion bill allowing drug as painkiller alternative
  • Drug War
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  • United States

Rauner signs medical marijuana expansion bill allowing drug as painkiller alternative

A measure that could dramatically expand access to medical marijuana in Illinois — making it available as an opioid painkiller replacement and easing the application process for...
TheSinghAugust 29, 2018August 29, 2018
  • Grassroots Democracy
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  • United States

Opening remarks from the CivicLab’s second Civic Harambee

Here are the opening remarks from the CivicLab's second Civic Harambee which was held on Saturday, August 25, 2018: Remarks by Tom Tresser at the...
TheSinghAugust 27, 2018August 27, 2018
  • Europe
  • Immigration

Sweden’s Economy Is Getting a Lift From Migrants

Hussam Al-Homsi came to Sweden in 2015, along with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeingunimaginable horrors in the Syrian war. Three years on, he finds himself part...
TheSinghAugust 22, 2018January 15, 2020
Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil and “safe cities” as a Euphemism for police state.
  • China
  • China

Chinese Cops Now Spying on American Soil and “safe cities” as a Euphemism for police state.

China is compiling a global registry of its ethnic minorities who have fled persecution, threatening to detain the families of those who don’t comply. The message: Nowhere is safe.

TheSinghAugust 20, 2018August 18, 2018
Atlanta Antifa Outs County Jail Guards as Neo-Nazis, Gets Them Fired
  • Civil / Criminal Justice Reform

Atlanta Antifa Outs County Jail Guards as Neo-Nazis, Gets Them Fired

Howard Costner and Jesse Jones were, until Monday, employed as jail guards in Spalding County, Georgia. But thanks to local anti-fascist (Antifa) organizers, both are now...
TheSinghAugust 18, 2018August 17, 2018
‘Well-being of two million’ in Gaza at stake as emergency fuel runs dry: UN humanitarian coordinator
  • Human Rights / Diversity
  • Middle East

‘Well-being of two million’ in Gaza at stake as emergency fuel runs dry: UN humanitarian coordinator

To avert hospital closures and raw sewage overflowing onto the streets of Gaza, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator on Wednesday called on Israeli authorities to...
TheSinghAugust 15, 2018August 13, 2018
  • Activism

HOW TECH WORKERS ARE ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

As tensions between tech companies and their surrounding communities in cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin continue to escalate, there’s an effort underway to...
TheSinghAugust 14, 2018August 13, 2018
UNESCO gives sustainable development a boost; designates 24 new biosphere reserves
  • Enviroment
  • Interesting
  • Sustainability

UNESCO gives sustainable development a boost; designates 24 new biosphere reserves

Protecting mangroves, tropical rainforests and other biodiversity hotspots, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) bumped up its World Network of Biosphere Reserves...
TheSinghAugust 13, 2018
When censorship is so over-the-top that it becomes a joke.
  • China
  • Press Freedom

When censorship is so over-the-top that it becomes a joke.

Disney’s Christopher Robin has been banned in China. While no specific reason was given for the rejection, the Hollywood Reporter attributed the decision to China’s crackdown on images of...
TheSinghAugust 5, 2018

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