US citizens: call for protection of the corals off the New England coast.

US citizens: call on Congress to block the sale of arms to the UAE if it rejects a cease fire in Yemen.

Everyone: phone the banks that might fund the Keystone XL pipeline.

US citizens: call on the USDA to reject GMO eucalyptus trees.

The article is mistaken in one point: growing these trees and burning them would not contribute to global heating. But the other reasons, such as the danger that the genes would spread, are significant.

Since the Israeli Medical Association condemns force-feeding of prisoners, Israel threatens to bring in foreign doctors to do that.

Force-feeding sometimes kills the prisoners. Fasting also is eventually fatal, but the prisoners (like anyone else) have a right to end their own lives.

Some of the prisoners are too weak to stand up, so Israel is now fining them for not standing when ordered to do so.