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Pipeline-supporting banks

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

How to contact 17 giant global banks that are funding the Dakota Access Pipeline -- and some questions to ask them.

While you're at it, if you have money in any of these banks, how about moving it to a small bank that lends money to your local businesses?

Mosul civilians used as human shields

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

PISSI has made thousands of civilians in Mosul into human shields, forcing them to move to places where fighting is expected.

It is urgent to help the people freed from PISSI's control to visit Muslims around the world, to inform young people of what PISSI is really like.

US immigration policy

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

Adam Crapser was brought to the US at age 4 for adoption, but his parents did not arrange to make him a US citizen. Now he is to be deported to South Korea, where he does not speak the language and will be treated as an outsider.

It is wrong to deport people who came to a country as children and have remained there. Though they are not literally natural-born, the difference is of no moral significance.

UK's separation from the EU

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

The UK is offering various businesses special deals and exemptions from whatever new rules will result from its separation from the EU. This assures that the whole burden will be borne by those who have no special clout.

The injustice of "free trade" is that it gives business more power over governments and society. To reduce "free trade" can be good, but only if the government has the courage to insist on decreasing that power. The Tories, who are on the side of the wealthy anyway, don't even think of trying to do that.

Free speech

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

A Netherlands politician faces a trial for "inciting racial hatred" for raising the question of how many Moroccans it is desirable to have as immigrants.

This sort of question — substitute any group, it doesn't matter which — is a legitimate question to ask.

More fundamentally, laws against "insulting religion" are blatant injustice. Freedom of speech includes the right to insult anyone or anything. Even you, even me.