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[Link] Families of drafted Russian soldiers accuse Putin of snubbing them
Read: 23/11/2022 www.theguardian.com
Two months after mobilising tens of thousands of Russian men, the Kremlin has said that Vladimir Putin will grant some of their mothers and wives an audience to quell fears over the mass call-up.
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[Link] Teen climate activist subjected to sexist and racist abuse amid federal court climate case
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Teenage climate crisis campaigner Anjali Sharma has revealed the torrent of sexist and racist abuse she has received while fronting a legal case against the Morrison government’s approval of a New South Wales coal project.
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[Link] $35m chalets, $14,000 bottles of wine and $700 tips: Russians made this town rich. Now they have vanished
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Before the war against Ukraine started just over a month ago, the exclusive French ski resort of Courchevel was buzzing with wealthy Russians. They constituted 7 per cent of its tourist population, but in terms of the town's income, Russia's elite were a goldmine.
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[Link] Fireproof Australia: who are the radical Extinction Rebellion splinter group?
Read: 10/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
It was the re-election of a Coalition government in May 2019 that altered the trajectory of Sam Noonan’s life and politics.
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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.
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[Link] The deadly new risk Afghan women face: It starts with a strange phone call and can end with murder
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Her body was found riddled with bullets alongside three other women who had also been killed. Ms Ayoubi is a journalist and activist who left Afghanistan over concerns for her own safety.
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[Link] Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be, Too?
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Peaceful protest isn't curbing the rapidly worsening crisis. Some activists say it’s time to attack the actual tools used to destroy the planet. Violence can be a flimsy word—so broad as to be devoid of meaning.
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[Link] Upstart Corn Activists in Mexico Just Beat GMO Goliath Bayer-Monsanto
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Mexico's Supreme Court just rejected appeals by companies including Bayer-Monsanto, Synganta, and Corteva, and voted to ratify an injunction that restricts the cultivation of genetically modified corn.
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[Link] How These Young Activists Are Uniting Middle Easterners
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
The youth-run organization is based in the US but has created an international community that lives online with the sole purpose of bringing to light human right violations and current events happening in the Middle East.
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