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From definitions to solutions: Can local food systems sustainably deliver fair rewards for farmers and access to quality food for all?
Rich Kipling, the SFT’s Senior Research Advisor, takes an in-depth look at how we can work towards flourishing local food systems that build communities, increase food security for all, and provide a fair return to farmers and growers.
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‘They killed them without them moving a muscle’: Field executions, starvation, and forced displacement by Israeli army in northern Gaza
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza.
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‘Tortured and left to die’: New details emerge about Israel’s murder of prominent Gaza surgeon
A new report from Britain’s Sky News provides details of Adnan al-Bursh’s death by torture in Israel’s Ofer Prison.
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Floridians voted to restore abortion rights. Why did the amendment fail?
On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed.
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Abortion rights landslide at the polls
On Nov. 5, voters in 10 states were presented with ballot initiatives on abortion with seven states passing pro-abortion rights measures, including in states with currently restrictive abortion laws as well as in states carried by Donald Trump.
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Novichok show trial suffers sudden death shot from doctor’s testimony that government officials sedated the Skripals to stop them talking
The British Government was exposed in the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry this week as keeping Sergei and Yulia Skripal unconscious to silence them.
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Honolulu nurses weather long lockout and win staffing ratio language
In a malicious ploy, a hospital in Honolulu locked out its nurses after a one-day strike—and not just for a couple days, as hospitals often do, but indefinitely. The message was, you can come back only when you accept our demands.
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The year of the watermelon
A year after the beginning of the genocide against Gaza, Peter Mertens takes stock, reflecting on Hayat, born amidst the bombs, watermelons, Israel’s status as an international pariah, language, student occupations, and labor union actions.
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34 million seniors in Medicare Advantage plans face rude awakening
October 15 marks the first day of open enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans–a time that will deliver chaos and confusion for many of the 34 million seniors who depend on these plans to pay their healthcare bills.
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Israeli attacks on Palestinian healthcare amount to crime against humanity, UN inquiry warns
A new UN report confirms that Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s healthcare amounts to crime of extermination, as hospitals in Palestine and Lebanon continue to face relentless attacks.
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Bayer’s “backward” claim: A bid to reap control of Indian agriculture
Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize.
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Health and safety: Amazon fails to deliver
“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” (Jeff Bezos, April 2021)
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BAR Book Forum: George Lipsitz’s Book, “The Danger Zone is Everywhere”
George Lipsitz: The Danger Zone is Everywhere focuses on how unjust access to housing and health skews opportunities and life chances along racial lines. It argues that housing insecurity and poor health are key components of an unjust, destructive and deadly racial order. The book shows how the tort model of injury in law and the biomedical model of health work to occlude structural racism by treating socially produced injuries as personal problems.
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UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting rolls out Labour’s first attacks on NHS
Britain’s Labour government has begun rolling out its National Health Service (NHS) privatisation programme, and clampdown on health workers’ pay.
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When you suffer for your sanity and struggle to get free: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2024)
The antidote to the mental health crisis lies in re-building our societies, moving away from capitalism’s culture of hostility towards a culture of connection and community.
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Capitalists want your blood and maybe your kidney and liver, too
Malcolm X famously said, “show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” That’s literally true for U.S. capitalism.
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Science and the knowledge economy bolster Cuba’s socialist revolution
Cuba and Cuban science gained acclaim worldwide for producing very effective COVID-19 vaccines.
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‘Sandwiched’ caregivers show need for improved welfare state
Our economy and society are heavily dependent on unpaid care work, disproportionately performed by women.
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The invention of the “true transsexual”
The following text navigates through the trans health articles and books published between 1886 and 1966 which appear to have had the greatest influence on the writing of “The Transsexual Phenomenon”, ultimately posing the question: how did we get here?
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 8): Deadly heat
‘Climate change has already caused mass death on a pandemic-like scale’