Public Participation
The Aarhus Convention and its Protocol on PRTRs empower people with the rights to access information, participate in decision-making in environmental matters and to seek justice. They are the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy.
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Is IRON MAIDEN A Democracy? BRUCE DICKINSON Responds
During an appearance on the May 8 episode of the Brazilian TV talk show "Conversa Com Bial", Bruce Dickinson was asked if IRON MAIDEN is a democracy. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Uh, ultimately you can't have a team as a democracy. A football team is not a democracy. You've go...
"They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either"
"Arab publics favor the Palestinians, the thinking goes, & will vote in governments that act accordingly — & that is a no-go zone."
Now, "the U.S., it seems, can’t have democracy either, lest an American democracy end its support for everything & anything Israel wants to do to the Palestinians."
The Irish government’s unwavering commitment to housing and feeding an unprecedented influx of migrants in the wake of a severe housing and cost of living crisis has brought the Irish electorate to boiling point. It has many similarities to the migrant crisis in the U.S.
People are protesting against the hypocrisy of Netanyahu and wants him to resign.
Protesters took to the streets of several cities across Israel on Saturday, demanding the release of all hostages held in Gaza ahead of Israel’s Memorial Day.
Can you see the level of brutality Palestinian's are going through, they are being displaced from their homes to an unknown place.
The Israeli military has told residents of central Rafah to evacuate, signalling a major expansion of its military operations in the city and threatening the displacement of hundreds of thousands more people.
A.R. Moxon offers an excerpt from a chapter of his new book Very Fine People, to be published on June 25. He asks what we'll do if we manage temporarily to halt the advance of Trump's party. The problem is,
"We’ve learned things about ourselves, and our country, and our friends and neighbors, and our systems of administration and authority, that we can never un-know."
"We now know who will look the other way, and what they’ll look the other way for. We know who will find reasons to accept unacceptable things, or become confused about obvious truths and obvious lies. We know now what people will stand for. We know now what people will cheer for. When the chips are down, you find out what people are like when the chips are down. And then you know."
"We now know that, even though Trump is a disruption to the status quo in some ways, he isn’t only a disruption to the status quo. In many ways, he is a part of that status quo’s inevitable progression. He’s the result you can expect to see, in a society which believes that we have no shared society beyond individual desire, that life must be earned, that profit is how you earn it, and that violence redeems."
India and Maldives relations are getting affected as the tension is increasing.
India has withdrawn all its soldiers from the Maldives, the government here has said, ahead of the May 10 deadline set by President Mohamed Muizzu for the complete withdrawal of Indian military personnel from his country.
Netanyahu has lost his ability to think rationally.
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed Israel can "stand alone", after the US warned arms shipments could be stopped if he orders a full-scale invasion of Rafah in Gaza.
People are now not even allowed to protest for the rights of Palestine in University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia police cleared an anti-Israel encampment at the University of Pennsylvania.The cops in riot gear removed and arrested over 30 pro-Palestinian protesters after 16 days of demonstrations on campus.
Student protest movements have historically functioned as an indispensable corrective for America and the West. That is the legacy of 1968 we should be talking about.
@tzimmer_history i traveled to Berkeley daily during the height of the demonstrations. Even during People's Park one could avoid any confrontation by avoiding a several block area. The press covered the most sensational, but it was far from the whole story. Later in life I had the opportunity to take a small (12 person) seminar at SSU from Mario Savio. It was called "Science and Poetry". He was kind and soft spoken but also passionate. There are so many layers to student movement that are ignored. The current crack downs are the #anithesis of #democracy.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar responds to PRRI's latest poll, which finds that a majority of Americans across almost all faith lines and in almosst all states support legal access to abortion. But white Christian nationalists strongly oppose this:
"As Tears for Fears warned, 'Everybody wants to rule the world.' That’s why we have to be so vigilant in monitoring every group’s motivations."
"Christian nationalists are one of the worst possible groups to have any say in our government because they are at their core against the U.S. Constitution. They want everyone to live under Christian rule, even though there is very little consensus among Christians on what Christianity is."
"They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either"
"Arab publics favor the Palestinians, the thinking goes, & will vote in governments that act accordingly — & that is a no-go zone."
Now, "the U.S., it seems, can’t have democracy either, lest an American democracy end its support for everything & anything Israel wants to do to the Palestinians."
#metoo likely revival as women and the men who love them, react to the badgering of #stormydaniels and the overall treatment of women by Republicans and denial of #abortion and #bodyautonomy to women. #vote like #democracy is on the line. It is.