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FCWA member leader @chrisramsaroop.bsky.social on workers and #HeatStress: "Within hours, workers fainted and vomited, while supervisors worried only about the plants. Another day, Jeremiah himself had to be carried out on a cart after collapsing."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/work...
From Fields to Kitchens, the Fight Against Extreme Heat Is a Fight for Workers’ Lives | Common Dreams
Worker organizing points the way forward, reminding us that the fight for safe working conditions is inseparable from the fight for dignity, racial justice, and migrant rights.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🫒 This isn’t your usual “innovation in agriculture” story.

In southern #Türkiye, the Sarı Ulak olive (once nearly lost !!) is making a comeback thanks to farmers who never stopped believing in their land.

True #Agroecology, no buzzwords.

#agriculture #slowfood

www.slowfood.com/blog-and-new...
An Olive Story: How One Ancient Variety is Weaving a More Resilient Future in Turkey - Slow Food
An Olive Story: How One Ancient Variety is Weaving a More Resilient Future in Turkey - Good, Clean and Fair Food for All
www.slowfood.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Communities in Madagascar face pressure from Tozzi Green, an Italian company which leased farmland from authorities to produce & sell carbon credits from "its" plantations. Update from @collectiftany.bsky.social : farmlandgrab.org/33091 @reddmonitor.bsky.social @recommon.org @cicrocevia.bsky.social
Madagascar: A glace at the situation of the inhabitants of the Ihorombe region whose lands have been leased by the state to the company Tozzi Green
Officials of the Malagasy state have leased land in three municipalities of the Ihorombe region to the company Tozzi Green for 30 years. Numerous studies have shown the pressures and manipulations exe...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database.

Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away.

The cruelty is the point.
September 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Immigration attorneys, immigrants living in the US legally and non-White US citizens now worry that innocuous activities that aren’t indicative of illegal behavior will be used as reasons for law enforcement to stop and question them.
Supreme Court decision fuels legal immigrants’ fears they’ll be stopped by law enforcement | CNN Politics
Legal immigrants are more worried since the Supreme Court cleared the way for a person’s ethnicity to be a factor in immigration stops by law enforcement.
www.cnn.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Right-wing activists are targeting teachers, workers for critical remarks on Charlie Kirk’s death.
Far-right groups are doxxing online critics after Charlie Kirk’s death
Right-wing activists are targeting teachers, workers for critical remarks on Charlie Kirk’s death.
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September 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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- @patmullen.bsky.social looks at STILL SINGLE and Masaki Saito's work hard/play hard lifestyle

- @filmfest.bsky.social intvws Min Sook Lee about her most personal work

- @smallmind.bsky.social talks Black Zombie & Haitian Vodou w/ @mayaannik.bsky.social

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Issue 124 - Fall/Winter 2025 - POV Magazine
POV Magazine issue 124 (Fall/Winter2025) looks at new documentaries on the circuit including Still Single, Lilith Fair, and Modern Whore.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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True. Also works at eviction court!
August 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Locked-out Dalhousie Faculty Association members reject contract offer

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Locked-out Dalhousie Faculty Association members reject contract offer | CBC News
Members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association have voted strongly to reject a contract offer from the university’s board of governors.
www.cbc.ca
August 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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“All of these deaths are avoidable, perpetuated by the cruelty of our policies...But the heat deaths in particular seem so senseless.”

Cruel and senseless: two words that sum up this administration.
El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse - Inside Climate News
In El Paso, heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say not enough is being done to protect the region’s most vulnerable people.
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August 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."
A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests
The shattering of faith in America's goodness is the hardest part to watch.
www.motherjones.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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According to new government statistics, U.S. border agents searched more electronic devices during a three-month period than ever before. CPB searched 14,899 devices of international travellers between April and June, a 17% rise on the previous 2022 record high. finance.yahoo.com/news/device-...
Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows
There have been more border device searches than ever before, per new data, despite the constitutionality of whether these searches are legal.
finance.yahoo.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
August 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Justice Garvin Yapp! @j4mw.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

(Published April 2024)
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.
www.propublica.org
August 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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NEW: Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat

The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice, and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes isn’t happening at all.
Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat
The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes not happening at all.
www.thegrindmag.ca
August 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
News coverage from our recent action around heat stress

www.torontotoday.ca/local/health...
Activists call on government to enact heat protection for farm workers
Ontario’s farm workers need specific rules to protect them in hot conditions, they argued
www.torontotoday.ca
August 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
www.motherjones.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM