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how the planet’s climate has changed since the photo that inspired the environmental movement

how the planet’s climate has changed since the photo that inspired the environmental movement

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A new Earthset image has been captured by the crew of Artemis II, 58 years since the iconic Earthrise photograph taken by the crew of Apollo 8. Over these past six decades, the climate has changed dramatically. “Oh my God, look at that picture over there! There’s the Earth comin’ up. Wow, is that pretty.” That was Nasa astronaut Bill Anders’ reaction to seeing the Earth appearing to rise above the lunar horizon as their Apollo 8 spacecraft came around the Moon on Christmas Eve 1968. Theirs were the first human eyes to see our planet at such a distance and from another celestial body. As fellow astronaut Jim Lovell said a few hours later: “The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.” That original Earthrise image is widely credited with helping to set the mainstream environmental movement in motion. Although I wasn’t born when the Apollo 8 photo was taken, a framed print of it hangs above my desk as a reminder of the beauty and fragility of …

The No Kings movement needs a next step

The No Kings movement needs a next step

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The American people are finally rising up — but rising up is only the beginning. More than eight million people participated in last weekend’s No Kings protests that took place in all 50 states and at 3,000 locations across the country, making it the largest single-day protest in American history. More than one in every 50 people in America participated. Collective action in the form of protests and marches like No Kings are critically important acts of resistance against authoritarianism and the Trump presidency. They are a form of symbolic power signaling that the regime has not yet achieved total control.  The president’s MAGA coalition knows this. That’s why the White House dispatched a spokeswoman to preemptively describe the protests as “Trump derangement sessions.” That’s why a National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman labeled them “hate America rallies.” And that’s why, after the No Kings marches in October, Donald Trump himself posted a video created with artificial intelligence showing him dumping human waste on the protesters. These are the acts of a defiant — and shaken — administration. …

In a town close to the farmworker movement, some struggle to process Chavez allegations : NPR

In a town close to the farmworker movement, some struggle to process Chavez allegations : NPR

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Signage outside of The Forty Acres, the first headquarters for the United Farm Workers of America, founded by Cesar Chavez in Delano, Calif., on March 29. Jennifer Emerling for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jennifer Emerling for NPR DELANO, Calif. – A few hours north of Los Angeles, the small city of Delano is surrounded by miles and miles of grapevines, orange groves and almond orchards. According to Monike Reynozo, everyone here either works in those fields, or knows someone who does. “This is what drives and fuels our city,” she said. Reynozo works for a youth advocacy group known as Loud For Tomorrow, but she said her parents were farmworkers, and their parents before them. On a recent spring morning, she’s walking down an alley to a brightly colored mural that covers the side of a building in the center of town. It shows people in sun hats harvesting fruit, and a little girl proudly holding a bunch of plump, purple grapes. “It really showcases some of our local farm labor movement leaders as …

The House | “Every Movement Was Controlled”: The Quiet Rise In Children Under Deprivation Of Liberty Orders

The House | “Every Movement Was Controlled”: The Quiet Rise In Children Under Deprivation Of Liberty Orders

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Illustration by Tracy Worrall 10 min read31 min There has been a 13-fold increase in the use of court orders that deny children freedom to move and associate in the last seven years. Justine Smith explores the reasons behind this huge increase in what are supposed to be emergency orders Hundreds of children with the very highest level of need are being locked away from society, often in illegal, unregistered homes with a rolling rota of untrained staff, because of shortages in therapeutic care. These children can be controlled through frequent physical restraint and denied basic rights such as contact with family and friends or an education, the ultimate victims of a care system in crisis. They are held under Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) orders, which were designed to give special legal powers to local authorities to restrict the freedom and rights of children and teenagers considered to be an extreme risk to themselves or others. The orders are handed down through the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court, not criminal courts, but …

Opus Dei: Spain under influence of ultra-conservative Catholic movement – Reporters

Opus Dei: Spain under influence of ultra-conservative Catholic movement – Reporters

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again REPORTERS © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 27/03/2026 – 13:27 12:31 min From the show Reading time 1 min The ultra-conservative Catholic organisation Opus Dei was founded a century ago in Spain. Today, it’s an international movement with around 90,000 members. In its home country, it has managed to infiltrate all spheres of modern society, from schools to hospitals. Despite serious allegations against it, Opus Dei remains a powerful force in Spain. FRANCE 24’s Maude Petit-Jové, Mathilde Lopinski, Emile Roger and Sarah Morris report. Source link

50 years ago, Karen Quinlan’s coma sparked the movement for patients’ rights near the end of life

50 years ago, Karen Quinlan’s coma sparked the movement for patients’ rights near the end of life

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(The Conversation) — March 31, 2026, marks 50 years since a landmark decision that shapes American patients’ rights every day: the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who had suffered an irreversible coma. Quinlan’s case established for the first time that decisions near the end of life should be made by patients and families, not by doctors and hospitals alone. As a bioethicist, I have taught and written extensively about the profound impact the Quinlan case has had on law, bioethics and the pursuit of death with dignity. The Quinlan story In April 1975, at the age of 21, Karen Ann Quinlan suffered a cardiac arrest and loss of oxygen to the brain while at a friend’s party. After she had gone to bed, friends discovered that she had stopped breathing, and she was rushed to the hospital. After a while, doctors determined that Quinlan was in a persistent vegetative state: a condition in which all cognitive functions of the brain have been lost and the patient has no …

CERN achieves first controlled movement of antiprotons

CERN achieves first controlled movement of antiprotons

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A major breakthrough by the BASE experiment could enable precision antimatter research beyond CERN. A team of physicists working on the BASE experiment at CERN has completed the first successful demonstration of transporting antimatter in a controlled environment. The group managed to move a container holding antiprotons across CERN’s main campus while maintaining the particles’ stability – an achievement that marks a significant technical milestone in experimental physics. The test involved relocating a compact trapping system loaded with 92 antiprotons. Researchers disconnected the apparatus from its host facility, transported it by truck, and resumed operations without losing the particles. Given that antimatter annihilates instantly upon contact with ordinary matter, maintaining confinement during motion represents a substantial engineering and scientific advance. Why transporting antimatter could revolutionise science Antimatter remains one of the most puzzling subjects in modern physics. While its properties mirror those of ordinary matter, with opposite charge and magnetic characteristics, the observable Universe is overwhelmingly composed of matter. This imbalance contradicts expectations from early-Universe models, which suggest equal quantities of both should have formed …

How the sanctuary movement became the faithful’s answer to ICE raids

How the sanctuary movement became the faithful’s answer to ICE raids

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This is the second in a series of articles about faith and protest. (RNS) — In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order lifting a 14-year ban on enforcing immigration laws at sensitive locations like churches and schools. It was part of a larger crackdown on mass arrests and deportations that instilled fear in immigrants across the country — and galvanized faith communities and leaders, who drew on a tradition stretching back to the Hebrew Bible to protect and advocate for immigrants.  The crackdown reignited tension between the U.S. government and religious communities over immigration that has flared on and off ever since the birth of the “sanctuary movement” in the early 1980s, when churches and synagogues began offering shelter and support for undocumented immigrants, believing they were obeying a higher moral obligation than U.S. laws. Today the movement continues — and is still led by clergy and religious groups — though the focus has shifted from offering physical shelter to providing aid to immigrants too fearful to leave their homes.   The concept of …

The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI

The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI

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AI has injected a shot of optimism. Like much of Silicon Valley, many attendees at the summit subscribe to the idea that AI might dramatically increase their productivity—though their goal is not to maximize their seed round but, rather, to prevent as much animal suffering as possible. Some brainstormed how to use Claude Code and custom agents to handle the coding and administrative tasks in their advocacy work. Others pitched the idea of developing new, cheaper methods for cultivating meat using scientific AI tools such as AlphaFold, which aids in molecular biology research by predicting the three-dimensional structures of proteins. But the real talk of the event was a flood of funding that advocates expect will soon be committed to animal welfare charities—not by individual megadonors, but by AI lab employees.  Much of the funding for the farm animal welfare movement, which includes nonprofits advocating for improved conditions on farms, promoting veganism, and endorsing cultivated meat, comes from people in the tech industry, says Lewis Bollard, the managing director of the farm animal welfare fund …

Progressive faith leaders found new power in protesting ICE. Can their movement survive success?

Progressive faith leaders found new power in protesting ICE. Can their movement survive success?

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(RNS) — Two years ago, the Rev. Quincy Worthington did not consider himself an activist. The minister of a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation in Highland Park, Illinois, he was outspoken on issues such as racial justice, but his public advocacy was mostly limited to statements and attending an occasional protest. Last fall, however, Worthington found himself hauling fellow faith leaders off the pavement after they had been beaten and arrested by state police for protesting outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility outside Chicago. He has endured enough tear gas and pepper balls, shot by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents, that he knows when to tighten the straps of his gas mask. And as the immigration resistance gained national attention, Worthington appeared on a network news show to make theological sense of it all. But it was when his daughter’s high school teacher mentioned to the class that Worthington was an example of someone “trying to make a difference” that he found himself grappling with the impact of his actions. “I’m just some …