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United Nations Warns of Famine, Urges Debt Relief and Calls for New Debt Process to Confront Coronavirus

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/23/2020 - 16:34

Over the last 48 hours, United Nations agencies warned the coronavirus could spread famine to hundreds of millions, called for new debt relief processes and the UN's chief urged expanding debt relief and aid to more countries."Without debt relief and emergency aid, too many countries do not have the ability to feed their people, strengthen health services or help their people survive the economic impacts of the coronavirus," stated Eric LeCompte, a UN finance expert, who leads the religious development group, Jubilee USA Network.On Thursday, United Nations Secretary Genera

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Earth Day to Mayday begins with XRDC "Guerilla Gardeners"

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 04/23/2020 - 12:53

Extinction Rebellion DC Spokesperson Sophia Kianni reports: "On Wednesday, XRDC sent out teams of guerrilla gardeners to plant herbs, fruit trees and vegetables in abandoned lots around the city and wider DMV. The rebels targeted a dozen locations, including Columbia Heights, Bloomingdale, Silver Spring, Capitol Hill and Brookland."

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Nurses protest at White House for Personal Protective Equipment

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 23:53

On the 21st of April, National Nurses United read out the names of nurses who have died in the fight against the zoonotic COVID-19 coronavirus. They were protesting being literally sent into battle with little or no armor, and demanding that Trump ensure that US industry produced enough masks and protective gear for them.

Video cropped from National Nurses United Twitter video(vertical) 2 min 20 sec

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Still cut from National Nurses United's Twitter video

Student activists backed by Extinction Rebellion defy lockdown in Rockville climate protest

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 23:20

On the 21st of April, MOCO Students on Climate backed by Extinction Rebellion protested in Rockville against a digital meeting of the Board of Education after the scool board ignored 700 signatures on a petition demanding action on climate change. A convoy of 20 honking cars circled the building the digital meeting originated from, and school security had to intervene to stop the horns due to an audio conection inside the building being used by some part of the meeting.

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Youth Education

Economic Crisis Could Get Much Worse Says IMF

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/17/2020 - 14:20

The International Monetary and Financial Committee, the leadership of the IMF, released their Spring Meetings communiqué calling coronavirus economic impacts, "unprecedented" and that "the global economic outlook is subject to high uncertainty.""The IMF is saying that our economic prospects are terrible, our economy could even face further disaster and they don't know how much worse it can actually get," noted Eric LeCompte, who leads the religious development group Jubilee USA.

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