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The protests halted Nairobi's central business district as riot police used tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators near parliament. Protesters are urging lawmakers to reject the legislation, which includes a 2.75% income levy for national medical insurance and increased taxes on vegetable oil and fuel.
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Already 2024 is a record-shattering year for the climate as May set a new global temperature record for the 12th month in a row. “The next 18 months are critical in the fight to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5C,” according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. There are less than six months until UN climate conference COP29. But the European Parliamentary elections earlier this month saw a lurch to the far right and a rejection of green-leaning parties and policies, leaving climate-concerned citizens without an official voice. In response, climate groups have embraced their dem...
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Parades have been taking place in Poland during Pride month as organisers call for LGBTQ rights to be expanded in the largely conservative and mostly Catholic country. Pride parades in Poland have traditionally been more of a protest event than an opportunity to party, as they are in some of Europe's more LGBTQ-friendly cities. But last week, a march in Warsaw drew over 20,000 people including two government ministers for the first time - deputy prime minister Krzysztof Gawkowski and Equality minister Katarzyna Kotula, who are both from The Left party. According to Brussels-based NGO ran Rainb...
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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of Brazil’s National Congress in Brasilia on Wednesday to protest a bill that would further criminalise abortions. Carrying placards, stickers, and banners with the slogan 'a child is not a mother,' the protesters chanted slogans against the bill and its supporters. Some women wore the emblematic red cloaks and white bonnets from the TV adaptation of 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel set in a patriarchal theocracy.
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Thousands of activists marched in Sao Paulo on Sunday in support of the legalisation of marijuana in Brazil, denouncing what they described as violence and abuse of power by security forces. With placards, plants, banners, and cigarettes, the protest march took place under the slogan “Rolling a future without war.” It also comes after the Brazilian Congress on Wednesday, June 12 approved the Constitutional reform of the drugs, that seeks to punish for possession of drugs regardless of the quantity and substance.
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Argentine President Javier Milei's comprehensive reform package was narrowly approved in the Senate late on Wednesday, as protests against his measures turned violent in Buenos Aires. Following an 11-hour debate, senators voted 37–36 in favor of Milei's tax reforms and an omnibus bill. The motion was initially tied 36–36, but Vice President Victoria Villarruel, the head of the chamber, cast the decisive vote. "For those Argentines who suffer, who wait, who do not want to see their children leave the country…my vote is affirmative," Villarruel said. Last December, Milei introduced his extensive...
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Donald Trump was not the first celebrity presidential candidate who could reasonably be accused of insurrection against the United States. Many decades before Trump, another best-selling author and charismatic leader in a rowdy movement to upend dominant American political mores aimed for the U.S. presidency—Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panthers' minister of information and the author of Soul on Ice. Unlike Trump, who this year overcame challenges from Colorado, Maine, and Illinois about his eligibility due to the Constitution's Insurrection Clause, Cleaver couldn't be caught up by the 14th Ame...
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Hundreds of people gathered in Paris and across Europe on Sunday night to protest the European Union's parliamentary election results, which saw significant gains for far-right parties.
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In a field outside of the Belgian capital, Brussels, farmers gathered to protest against European environmental regulations, with demonstrators coming from Poland, the Netherlands and France. Organisers had expected a significant turnout for this final protest before the EU elections, despite the fact that Brussels recently eased environmental demands in its common agricultural policy (CAP). As the EU struggles to hit its climate goals, European farmers believe these concessions do not go far enough to protect their industry. “There are a few small developments that we are obliged to note. But...
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Columbia University had its class reunion this weekend. And along with alumni like me trying to relive their college years, pro-Palestinian protesters came back to campus. While some students picketed outside, urging alumni not to donate to the university, another group inside the campus gates set up an "encampment-style installation" titled "Revolt for Rafah: Installation I." Protesters unfurled a banner that stated "we're back, bitches." Later, they erected a scale model of a Mark 84 bomb, an American-made 2,000-pound weapon used by the Israeli military, next to a map of upper Manhattan show...
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