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Suzanne Lee

vendredi 8 janvier 2016 à 01:00

Suzanne Lee dares Northern Ireland to prosecute her for her abortion.

Sarah Ewart needed an abortion because her fetus had a fatal defect, but doctors in Northern Ireland were terrified of life imprisonment if they did it. It cost her 3000 dollars to go to England for the operation.

Women in nearly all countries in Latin America face similar oppressive laws, but there is no nearby place they can go for an abortion.

Tax on sugary drinks

vendredi 8 janvier 2016 à 01:00

Mexico's tax on sugary drinks has substantially reduced consumption of them.

Exssential injustice of NAFTA

vendredi 8 janvier 2016 à 01:00

The company that was going to build the Keystone XL pipeline is suing, claiming that under NAFTA the US has no right to reject the pipeline.

I don't know that it will win, but the mere fact that it can try demonstrates the essential injustice of NAFTA and other business-supremacy treaties.

Let's put an end to NAFTA! And let's defeat the TPP!

Edward Pinkney

vendredi 8 janvier 2016 à 01:00

Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor promoted a recall petition for the mayor. Officials accused him of a possibly imaginary crime, a white jury convicted him based on no evidence whatsoever, and he was sentenced to prison for years. But even that did not silence him.

They have mistreated him in prison, too.

Opposition legislators in Venezuela

vendredi 8 janvier 2016 à 01:00

In Venezuela, Congress and the Supreme Court disagree about whether certain opposition legislators were elected honestly or by fraud.

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