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Gun violence gentrification study

mardi 12 décembre 2023 à 08:20

A survey found that US neighborhoods now gentrifying had a 30% higher rate of gun violence, and those that gentrified in 2014-2019 had a 60% higher rate.

In each case, they are compared with neighborhoods that have not been gentrifying during the time period.

There is no information about how gentrification relates to the the higher rate of violence.

NASA hands over control as new era of moon missions readies

mardi 12 décembre 2023 à 08:20

Special scientific sites on the Moon are in danger of being messed up by commercial activity, which is currently unregulated in the US.

let alone internationally.

Refugees facing destitution

mardi 12 décembre 2023 à 08:20

The UK has a new means of discouraging refugees: those waiting for a decision on their asylum requests (this takes years) are now left homeless.

Instead of paying to give them places to stay, the state is paying Rwanda to accept them.

UK anti-strike law is ‘galvanizing moment’ for unions

mardi 12 décembre 2023 à 08:20

The British Trade Union Council says it will defend any worker who is prosecuted for striking.

That is good, but the tactic that sometimes wins, against a government that won't go so far as to kill thousands of nonviolent resisters, is to pack the jails.

Urgent: Fossil fuel ads

lundi 11 décembre 2023 à 05:20

US citizens: call on Facebook/Instagram to stop showing fossil fuel ads.