Conference Organizing Committee, Black Agenda Report. (2024-12-19). Declaration Of The International Conference Cuba 2024. popularresistance.org From December 9th to the 13th, the 240 delegates, coming from 30 nations from four continents, gathered for the International Conference "Cuba 2024 Decade for People of African Descent. Equality – Equity – Social Justice", that took place in the cities of Havana and Matanzas. | Attended by 103 delegates from Cuba and 137 from the following geographical áreas: | From the Americas: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, United States, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico and Panama. | From the African continent: Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Comoros, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, To…

Urban CNY News (2024-12-19). New York State Division of Human Rights Enforces Compliance in a Long Island Housing Discrimination Matter. urbancny.com

ICRC (2024-12-19). Brazil: Members of Safer Access network discuss ways to reduce impact of armed violence. icrc.org The event in Fortaleza covered operations in such fields as health, education, social work, youth and human rights.

Owen Schalk (2024-12-19). Israeli historian accuses Canadian media of enabling Gaza war crimes. mronline.org Lee Mordechai says Israel's war has been "enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse" in the West.

APR editor (2024-12-19). West and media are 'erasing' Palestinian history, say critics. asiapacificreport.nz Asia Pacific Report Palestinian history is "deliberately ignored" and is being effectively "erased" as part of Western news media narratives, while establishment forces work to shut down anyone speaking out against Israel's slaughter in Gaza, academics have told a university conference of legal and Middle East experts. A two-day online summit Erasure and Defiance: the…

ICRC (2024-12-18). Brazil: Members of Safer Access network discuss ways to reduce impact of armed violence. icrc.org The event in Fortaleza covered operations in such fields as health, education, social work, youth and human rights.

Disability Justice, Rights Caucus of Workers World Party (2024-12-18). Impact of Gaza occupation on persons with disabilities. workers.org By the Disability Justice and Rights Caucus of Workers World Party On Dec. 8, the 2nd annual commemoration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Solidarity with Palestine and Gaza demanded at a virtual meeting: money for jobs, services, education and access for disabled people and all workers and . . . |

Editor (2024-12-18). Israel expands urbicide as a tool of genocide in Gaza. mronline.org The Israeli military's destruction of entire Palestinian cities and neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip is a clear manifestation of the genocide Israel has been committing in Gaza for the past 14 months, and a primary tool for its implementation.

krish-rad_ind (2024-12-18). Israel expands urbicide as a tool of genocide in Gaza. mronline.org

editor (2024-12-18). Palestinian statehood or setting the stage for the next catastrophic war. onlineopinion.com.au Denying the Palestinian right to statehood and conceding further Palestinian land in the West Bank and Gaza to Israel is a recipe for the next horrific inferno.

Independent Media Institute (2024-12-17). How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship Works to Uproot Racism in the Food System. pressenza.com This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system. | By Damon Orion | Racism has been embedded in America's food and agriculture systems since European colonizers began enslaving Black and Indigenous people for farm and plantation labor. A notable example of how this injustice continued throughout history is the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) In 202…

Philip Ewell (2024-12-17). Quincy Jones Should be Prominently Featured in US Music Education ‚àí His Absence Reflects How Racial Segregation Still Shapes American Classrooms. counterpunch.org Quincy Jones, who died on Nov. 3, 2024, at the age of 91, was one of the most influential musicians in U.S. history. You might think such a notable figure would factor prominently in American music classrooms. Yet my research shows that Jones, who was Black, is rarely mentioned in mainstream U.S. music curricula. As

Jesse Hagopian (2024-12-17). Seattle Planned to Close Up to 21 Public Schools — Here's How We Stopped Them. truthout.org From coast to coast, school districts are proposing closures, as pandemic-era funds have long since dried up and gentrification has driven families out of increasingly unaffordable neighborhoods. Yet in a time when budget cuts threaten public education nationwide, Seattle organizers have shown that communities can fight back — and win. After initially proposing in spring to close up to 21… |

Alina Ramos Martin (2024-12-17). Ambassadors of the Russian Language Program again in Cuba. plenglish.com Moscow, Dec 17 (Prensa Latina) The second educational expedition of the program of Ambassadors of the Russian Language in the World is in Cuba until December 20, reported the channel TVBrics.

UMMID (2024-12-17). Henna inscribed on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. ummid.com 'Henna' has been inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2024.

UMMID (2024-12-17). GUJCET 2025 Registration Starts, Last Date to Apply Dec 31. ummid.com Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSEB) has started receiving Online Applications for GUJCET 2025 through its official website gujcet.gseb.org from today i.e. Tuesday December 17, 2025.

Editor (2024-12-17). President Biden should certify the Equal Rights Amendment. mronline.org The ERA will help restore abortion access, protect women from violence, and help build a gender-equitable future. Biden should certify it while he still has the power to do so.

Editor (2024-12-17). "Massacre of journalists": Four Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza in just five days. mronline.org Gaza (Quds News Network)- Four Palestinian journalists were killed in separate Israeli attacks within five days amid the ongoing assault in Gaza, with media freedom organizations accusing Israel of committing "war crimes" against journalists there.

Editor (2024-12-17). Now Iran's turn. The spectre of a new "1989" mronline.org Iran is now the key to the world.

newarab (2024-12-17). An ethical Christmas gift guide that gives back to Palestine. newarab.com As usual, the lead-up to Christmas is both exciting and overwhelming filled with hours spent online or lost in thought, frantically brainstorming gift ideas for loved ones. | Add the But who says Christmas gift shopping, considering all these factors, has to be such a tedious task? | Carefully curated to suit different personalities and interests, The New Arab (T…

Editor (2024-12-17). INTERVIEW: France and the Colonial Roots of Black Citizenship, Maboula Soumohoro, 2021. mronline.org For more than 500 years, Europeans have controlled the world, enforcing their rule through genocidal violence.

John Clarke (2024-12-17). Carbon capture: False hopes and harsh realities. mronline.org Do not buy the fossil-fuel industry's hype about carbon-capture technology, even the schemes that work cannot be scaled up to the necessary levels, explains John Clarke.

editor (2024-12-17). Ding dong, Australia's misinformation-disinformation bill is dead. onlineopinion.com.au The very idea that speech requires ordering and control is the first step to preventing its exercise. Death, in this case to freedom of thought and political expression, is bound to follow.

editor (2024-12-17). ANU Migration Hub — immigration gaslighter of the year. onlineopinion.com.au The Migration Hub has excelled in 2024, with misleading takes on immigration policy and numbers. Their Xmas brief 'proves' the Albanese immigration deluge isn't happening. You probably imagined it.

UMMID (2024-12-17). Collage of images falsely circulated as idols found in Sambhal mosque. ummid.com A collage of four images are falsely being circulated online claiming to be that of idols found during the survey of Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, it is found after fact check analysis.