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Thirsty For Progress: Detroit Water Brigade Takes A Stand Against Water Shut-Offs

Corporate customers with past-due bills continue to operate in Detroit, yet the city’s families who are unable to pay have their water shut off. It’s just one drop in a flood of crises, and the Detroit Water Brigade has had enough.

Derrick Broze
بواسطة Derrick Broze
Demeeko Williams, left, of the Detroit Water Brigade talks into a megaphone during a rally outside federal courthouse in Detroit, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014.

Editor’s Note: This article is Part I in a special series of MintPress exclusives from Detroit. Part II investigates how some Detroit citizens are taking action to police their own communities as a result of the lackluster efforts made by local police, it can found here.  Part III will investigate how members of the Detroit community are working to

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Meet The Tiny Country Pushing For Huge Change In Palestine

Malta’s foreign minister tells MintPress: “If Israel continues to expand, there is going to be no land left for a two-state solution. There are volumes of condemnation but no concrete action against Israel.”

Ramona Wadi
بواسطة Ramona Wadi

Maltese protesters ‘play dead’ on the steps of City Gate in Valletta to show their opposition to the 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier VALLETTA, Malta --- In the course of a joint endeavor between the Maltese Foreign Ministry and the University of Malta, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki gave a public lecture

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Jim Crow Stlye Segregated Bus System Made Official By Israel

This adds to the more than fifty laws already on the books in Israel that directly discriminate against non-Jews.

IMEMC News
بواسطة IMEMC News

A Palestinian boy takes a photo of graffiti with Hebrew that reads "non-Jews in Israel equals enemies," on a bus in an Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, Monday, March 24, 2014. Israeli police say vandals have slashed car tires and sprayed a bus with hate graffiti in a predominantly Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem. Tel Aviv, Israel – Israeli

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Protesters Vow To ‘Flood The System’ For Climate And Planetary Justice

The mass actions, slated for September and November, are timed to lead up to the United Nations COP21 climate negotiations slated to take place in Paris in November and December.

Sarah Lazare
بواسطة Sarah Lazare
"Communities on the front lines of fossil fuel extraction are fighting back," said Ahmed Gaya, an organizer with Rising Tide Seattle. (Photo courtesy of Rising Tide North America)

"Communities on the front lines of fossil fuel extraction are fighting back," said an organizer with Rising Tide Seattle. (Photo: Rising Tide North America) From the tar sands of Alberta to the Port of Seattle to the communities in the blast zone of oil trains, organizers across North America are calling for a "wave of resistance" this fall

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‘Weaponizing Vulnerabilities’: New Snowden Doc Reveals Spy Agencies Targeted Smartphones

The ‘Five Eyes’ alliance exploited weaknesses in popular browser and planned to hijack links to app stores to implant spyware on mobile phones, new documents show.

Nadia Prupis
بواسطة Nadia Prupis

The intelligence alliance known as Five Eyes—comprising the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Australia—exploited security weaknesses in one of the world's most popular browsers to obtain data about users and planned to use links to Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware, a top secret National Security

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Study: Minorities Threatened More By Governments Than Terrorist Groups

From Myanmar to the Russian Federation minorities have suffered systematic attacks from the governments that are supposed to protect them.

Thalif Deen
بواسطة Thalif Deen

A Rohingya refugee holds her daughter who suffers from a skin disease in their makeshift tent at Dar Paing camp, north of Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar. The authorities in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where mobs disrupted aid operations for displaced Rohingya Muslims, say international aid organizations that withdrew from the area in April are welcome

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