🇨🇱 Images from the Atacama desert, which has become a dumpster for the global fast fashion industry. Over 100,000 tons of clothing, many of them new items with price tags that weren't sold or used, have been dumped in the Atacama desert in Chile.
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- Replying to @peoplesdispatchThe fast-fashion concept, the mass-production of cheap and disposable clothing, has made the fashion industry one of the most polluting industries worldwide, just after oil and agriculture.
- Replying to @peoplesdispatchWhen combining CO2 emissions from clothing production & the massive clothes waste, fashion production accounts for 10% of humanity's carbon emissions. #Fashion #ToxicFashion #FashionPollution #FashionIndustry #FastFashion #SustainableFashion #FashionRevolution 📷 by @MayneJason
- Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union SUCCESSFULLY STOPPED the US Ambassador from visiting their university in solidarity with Palestine and in protest of US imperialist policies.
00:00 - #PeoplesHistory | 🇮🇷 On this day in 1953, the CIA’s first successful coup overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and his democratically elected government. British intelligence backed their US counterparts in this illegal act.
- ⚽️ During a UEFA match on March 17, 2022 between Red Star Belgrade & Rangers FC, Red Star fans held up signs reminding the US+NATO what their “peace” looks like. 20+ countries bombed & attacked by the US+NATO. #abolishNATO #Imperialism
- 🇨🇴🇻🇪 Colombia stands with Venezuela As part of the week of action "Here in Struggle", members of Colombian social movements marched to the US Embassy in Bogotá to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian and Venezuelan people amid direct threats by US President Donald Trump.
00:00 - This is the last speech of Chilean Socialist President Salvador Allende. Allende spoke to the people through Radio Magallanes as the CIA-backed coup was underway. He pledged that he would not resign and would give his life to repay the support of the working class.
00:00 - 🇮🇳🇵🇰"Both the elites in India and Pakistan use this kind of dispute to shore up their own shallow legitimacy. They would rather the poor go to die, then solve their own country's problems." @vijayprashad, Indian historian and director of @tri_continental speaks about the
00:00 - 🇵🇸 We express our total solidarity to Ali Abunimah, the executive director of the indispensable outlet @intifada who was just arrested in Zurich, Switzerland ahead of a speaking event. Since it was founded over 20 years ago, EI has provided consistent and rigorous coverage of
- 🇲🇽Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that Mexico is ready for the 25% tariffs that will begin on February 1. She also warns that it is the US economy that will be most impacted by the steep tariffs, but that Mexico is prepared for any situation.
00:00 - 🇵🇸 Italy stands with the Global Sumud Flotilla! Thousands marched on the streets of Milan on September 4 to support the Global Sumud Flotilla, to demand that the Italian government protect the members of the Global Sumud Flotilla amid Israeli threats. They also called for an
00:00 - 100,000 on the streets for Palestine in the US capital Washington DC. Protesters demand ceasefire now!! #March4Palestine
00:00 - 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪 FINAL RESULTS ARE IN FROM VENEZUELA’S ELECTIONS With 95% of the votes counted the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela just published the final results of the presidential elections in the South American country. It confirms that Nicolás Maduro of the United
