(2023-09-16). Comment] Offline: Mahsa Amini—never forget. thelancet.com September 16, 2022: Mahsa Amini died in Kasra Hospital, Iran, after being arrested, tortured, and beaten for allegedly breaking the Iranian Government's strict mandatory hijab law. She was 22 years old and her murder, for that is what it was, triggered unprecedented nationwide protests, which continue in more muted forms to this day. Women publicly cut their hair, they burned their hijabs, and they confronted riot police. These protests posed the most direct threat to Iran's regime since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
(2023-09-16). A Call To White People: Join The 'Reparations Contingent' At The Black People's March On The White House. popularresistance.org On Saturday, November 4, 2023 the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will hold its 15th annual Black People's March on the White House raising the demand, "Drop the Charges Against the Uhuru 3!" | The Uhuru Solidarity Movement calls on every white person who believes in reparations and justice for African people to get to Washington DC by bus, plane or car and march in the "Reparations Contingent" at this history-making mobilization! | Co-sponsored by the Hands Off Uhuru Fightback Coalition, the March is rapidly gaining momentum with a wide range of forces uniting under the leadersh…
(2023-09-17). Angola plans to eliminate refrigerant gases by 2030. plenglish.com Since 2012 the country began to apply the schedule for the gradual elimination of these gases, which are harmful to the ozone layer and cause global warming, in compliance with the Montreal Protocol, Ivone Pascoal, the person in charge of the issue in the aforementioned ministry, explained to the Angolan Press Agency. | It is expected that the application of the measure of not importing these gases and their exclusion from consumption will be completed by 2025, leaving a margin until 2030 for their total disappearance. | Reaching this point, required intense awareness-raising work on good refrigeration practices…