Michael Laxer
Canada Reinvents the Xenophobic Wheel
By Saurav Sarkar Bikram Singh is running out of time on his post-study work visa in Canada. Singh is one of about 70,000 migrants who...
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Michael Laxer
4 days ago4 min read
This Chicago Community Envisions a World Without Prisons and Police
The #LetUsBreathe Collective offers a hub for art, activism, and healing to those impacted by mass incarceration. By Damon Orion Often...
Michael Laxer
Oct 1918 min read
The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business
Protecting the Earth’s oceans is problematic when profit is the leading concern. kees torn, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/lic...
Michael Laxer
Sep 94 min read
How Corporate News Has Tried to Numb Americans to the Horrors in Gaza
Protest against the Israeli war on Gaza outside the New York Times building, November, 2023 -- image via X By Norman Solomon As the Gaza...
Michael Laxer
Dec 11, 20235 min read
Dubai Is a Fitting Host for the Climate Circus
A host nation that promises progress but relies on regressive policies is revealing just how seriously fossil fuel interests have coopted...
Michael Laxer
Dec 9, 20236 min read
‘Practices for Care and Endurance’ Support Those Organizing for Ceasefire in Gaza
Amid genocidal violence and mass civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip, well-known writers, artists, healers, and activists shared practices...
Michael Laxer
Nov 28, 20236 min read
Yemen’s Socotra Archipelago: The UAE’s Occupation and Destruction of a World Heritage Site
The United Arab Emirates is destroying the biodiversity of a Yemeni archipelago. A view from Socotra showing some of its unique trees,...
Michael Laxer
Aug 30, 20236 min read
Wildfires Aren’t Just a Threat to People -- They’re Killing Off Earth’s Biodiversity
Cataclysmic wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency due to climate change. The New York skyline as a result of the Canadian...
Michael Laxer
Feb 28, 20215 min read
Nothing is impossible: Maduro addresses the UN Human Rights Council
"Let's change the predatory capitalist economic system that has generated so much pain, death, war and misery." Image via twitter Here we...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20213 min read
A better world is possible: Cuba's powerful statement to the UN Human Rights Council
"Inequalities, hunger and discrimination are growing exponentially, in a world already burdened by an unjust and undemocratic...
Michael Laxer
Dec 4, 20202 min read
The "establishment of a just, democratic and equitable international order is an imperative"
Excerpt from a statement at the thirty first Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel, President...
Michael Laxer
Oct 14, 20203 min read
"The pandemic has been affecting the entire food system and has laid bare its fragility"
The ILO, FAO, IFAD and WHO jointly warn of great dangers ahead for workers, developing nations and people living in poverty without...
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