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  •  | Children playing in flood water | MR Online

    Climate emergency: Indonesia faces catastrophic floods, disappearing islands

    Originally published: Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières on February 2, 2020 by Peter Boyle & Yuyun Harmono (more by Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières)  | (Posted Feb 12, 2020)

    While the stark reality of the global climate emergency struck home in Australia with its worst bushfire season, its neighbour Indonesia faced catastrophic floods and islands disappearing below the rising sea. Green Left’s Peter Boyle interviewed Yuyun Harmono, the climate change campaigner of Friends of the Earth Indonesia (Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia – WAHLI).

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    Trump’s ‘national emergency’ power grab

    Originally published: Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières on February 19, 2019 by Barry Sheppard (more by Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières)  | (Posted Feb 21, 2019)

    President Trump declared a “national emergency” to stop what he calls an “invasion” of drugs, sex traffickers, murderers and other criminals at the border with Mexico by building a wall between both countries.

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    United States: defend Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the first two Muslim women in the U.S. Congress!

    Originally published: Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières on February 14, 2019 by the Steering Committee of Solidarity (USA) (more by Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières)  | (Posted Feb 19, 2019)

    Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are under attack for who they are–as Muslim Arab-American women, and as progressive critics of U.S. foreign policy not only in Palestine but throughout the Middle East and in Latin America as well.

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    AGO proposes nationwide raids on books containing ’banned ideas’

    Originally published: Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières on January 23, 2019 by Tempo (more by Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières)  | (Posted Jan 29, 2019)

    Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo is proposing that massive raids be carried out to hunt down books which contain communist teachings and banned ideologies. The proposal was made after the seizure of hundreds of books around the country allegedly containing “banned ideas”. — Taufiq Siddiq, Jakarta “I’m proposing that if possible, yes massive raids be carried […]

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    Originally published: Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières on January 4, 2018 by DRAPEAU Thierry (more by Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières)  | (Posted Jan 10, 2019)

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  •  |  | MR Online

    Power to the People: In Italy, Potere al Popolo, a new left-wing movement is born

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    The meeting, attended by thousands of people, was thrilling and inspiring; all Italian communist parties and organisations, as well as environmentalist groups, social and community centres and workers associations took part in it.

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