2022-11-25: News Headlines

_____ (2022-11-25). Save The Planet — Nicaragua And The Climate Crisis. popularresistance.org Under the slogan Uniting the world to tackle climate change, the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), which will be held in Glasgow (UK) from 1 to 12 November 2021, will bring together representatives of some 200 governments with the aim of accelerating climate action to fulfill the Paris Agreement. The Presidency of the conference is already working with civil society and business to prepare the annual event and inspire climate action ahead of the event. | What is COP: | The Conference of the Parties or COP is the supreme body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…

_____ (2022-11-24). Nicaraguan Migrants At US border — Are They Being 'Pushed' Or 'Pulled'? popularresistance.org Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking for jobs? Until July 2020, numbers were tiny. But in the last 1 Ω years numbers have increased sharply. Suddenly this has become a story, and government detractors argue, with little evidence, that people are fleeing political repression. "They'd rather die than return to Nicaragua," is a typical headline. Manuel Orozco, a Nicaraguan based in Washington who strongly opposes the Sandinista government, told The Hill that "Nicaragua's dictatorship is criminalizing democracy and fueling migration to the U.S." Then, on September 20, this became…

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