Articles by Jill
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Notes and Images from the Vietnam War
Jill Godmilow | Vimeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Here’s a film for high school students and their teachers about the history of the Viet Nam War.
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The “Other Side” of the Story: Combatants for Peace in Palestine/Israel
j.jill | Combatants For Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – When we pick up a newspaper or turn on a television news broadcast, more often than not, information focuses on conflict, violence, disaster. Nationally and internationally, it seems an increasing number of broadcasts and publications skew focus and create confusion in groups of people without clarity in distinguishing truth from lies.
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Feeding the People in Times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua
Rita Jill Clark-Gollub, Erika Takeo and Avery Raimondo | Council on Hemispheric Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
22 Jun 2020 – In the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere there are no hunger flags flying. The market stalls are stocked, customers are buying, and prices are stable. Nicaraguan small farmers produce almost all the food the nation consumes, and have some leftover for export. We will examine how this is possible.
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Marchers Support Assange ahead of London Extradition Hearing
Jill Lawless | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
22 Feb 2020 – Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange marched through London today to pressure the U.K. government not to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to the United States in hearing due to begin in a London court on Monday 24 Feb. Famous backers, including Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, editor in chief of WikiLeaks Kristinn Hrafnsonn, Assange’s father John Shipton, Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters, and Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde joined the crowd.
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Does Journalism Have a Future?
Jill Lepore – The New Yorker,
28 Jan 2019
28 Jan 2019 – In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.
→ read full articleFirst Ever Egg Factory Farm Drone Exposé Reveals the Horrific Reality for Millions of Hens
Jill Ettinger | Organic Authority/Mercy for Animals – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2017
10 Aug 2017 – A new video released by animal rights group Mercy for Animals compiles the first publicly-released drone footage of several sprawling factory farms. The exposé serves as yet another significant reminder that modern industrial animal agriculture is not only dangerous to human health and “detrimental to the local and global environment, but it also involves animal abuse so severe that it would warrant felony cruelty charges if dogs or cats were the victims.”
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Jill Richardson | OtherWords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Trump’s made so many orders — on the environment and everything else — that it’s hard to keep track, much less resist. That’s the point.
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Jillian C. York | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
2 Aug 2016 – The last year has seen an uptick in digital threats faced by individuals and organizations around the world. Over the past few months, there have been attacks on boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement websites, threatening emails to activists and new information emerging on Israel’s surveillance capabilities.
→ read full articleNine Banks Including RBS Settle $2bn Forex Rigging Claim in US Court
Jill Treanor – The Guardian,
17 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 – Nine major banks including Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Barclays have settled a US$ 2bn claim brought by investors in a US court for losses caused by the rigging of foreign exchange markets but are warned cases could be brought elsewhere.
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Mario Trujillo and David McCabe, The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2015
The new federal rules for net neutrality were allowed to take effect on Friday [12 Jun 2015] after the U.S. Court of Appeals denied a motion to stay the regulation. The ruling is not on the final merits of the challenge, but it hands an early victory to net neutrality advocates.
→ read full article[Banksters Mafia Orgy] Major World Banks Hit by Record Fine for Rigging Forex Markets
Jill Treanor in London and Dominic Rushe in New York – The Guardian,
25 May 2015
The reputation of the banking industry took another hammering on Wednesday [20 May 2015] as record fines imposed on Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Citi, JP Morgan and UBS, which pleaded guilty for rigging foreign exchange markets and over collusion by traders in several countries, topped [£6.3bn.] [€ 8.8bn.] [US$ 9.86bn.].
→ read full articleSewage Sludge as Fertilizer: Safe?
Jill Richardson – Food Safety News,
20 Jan 2014
Despite sludge’s relative obscurity, the newly formed Food Rights Network is taking on sewage sludge as its flagship issue. Simply put, the group says that it is not safe to grow food in sewage sludge [industrial, hospital, human excrements/waste].
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Jill Treanor and Jennifer Rankin – The Guardian,
16 Dec 2013
Pressure on staff to get ‘a grand in your hand’ or face demotion led to bonus-induced selling frenzy, FCA says.
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Jillian C. York – Open Democracy,
30 Sep 2013
Behind Google and Verizon lies a much more complex landscape of American companies ready to do global business selling surveillance technologies – and stay apathetic to the consequences.
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Jillian C. York – Al Jazeera,
10 Dec 2012
Civil society groups and web companies have joined together in opposing what many perceive to be a takeover of internet governance by the Internet Telecommunications Union-ITU, a UN body. If it were to gain more control, those parties would be the biggest losers.
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Jill Treanor – The Guardian,
1 Oct 2012
The British Bankers’ Association is to be stripped of its role of setting the Libor interest rate – used as the benchmark for the cost of borrowing for households and businesses around the world – following the rate-rigging scandal which resulted in Barclays being fined £290m for its attempts to manipulate the rate.
→ read full articleIsrael ‘Pillaging’ Palestinian Resources
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Sep 2012
By mining natural resources from the occupied Palestinian territories for its own economic purposes, Israel is committing the war crime of pillage in the Dead Sea area, according to a report released Monday [3 Sep 2012] by Palestinian human rights group Al Haq.
→ read full articleOn Not Visiting an Orphanage in Cambodia
Jill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2012
In Cambodia, visiting orphanages is listed as a tourist attraction on Tripadvisor, right up there with temples, museums and restaurants. Imagine if you had been rescued form an abusive or neglectful environment and had to retell (or hear someone else retell) your painful story every night. I don’t think there is any brand of therapy that would recommend daily public rehashing followed by compulsory dancing as a method of recovery.
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Jillian Kestler-D’Amours – Inter Press Service-IPS,
23 Apr 2012
As 60 percent of the international activists set to land at Ben Gurion airport Sunday [15 Apr 2012] had their plane tickets cancelled, organisers of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ fly-in campaign condemned what they say is European complicity in Israel’s illegal restrictions on their right to travel freely.
→ read full articleFrom Yanacocha to Conga: Peruvians Keep Fighting Against Destructive Mining Industry
Luisa Trujillo – Waging Nonviolence,
26 Dec 2011
Throughout history, South American nations have had their futures decided by a small number of people. It began with the Spaniards, who, as soon as they touched ground, let two or three religious and political authorities rule from 5,000 miles away. Sadly, little has changed since then, except now the ruling few are the corporate elites, empowered through government deals like the recently ratified free trade agreement between Colombia and the United States, NAFTA, and thousands of illicit licenses given to multinational companies.
→ read full articleWorld’s Wealthiest People Now Richer Than Before the Credit Crunch
Jill Treanor – The Guardian,
4 Jul 2011
We are not all in this together. The UK economy is flat, the US is weak and the Greek debt crisis, according to some commentators, is threatening another Lehman Brothers-style meltdown. But a new report shows the world’s wealthiest people are getting more prosperous – and more numerous – by the day.
→ read full articleGroundbreaking New UN Report on How to Feed the World’s Hungry: Ditch Corporate-Controlled Agriculture
Jill Richardson - AlterNet,
21 Mar 2011
A new report from the UN advises ditching corporate-controlled and chemically intensive farming in favor of agroecology. There are a billion hungry people in the world and that number could rise as food insecurity increases along with population growth, economic fallout and environmental crises. But a roadmap to defeating hunger exists, if we can follow the course — and that course involves ditching corporate-controlled, chemical-intensive farming.
→ read full articleTwo Dangerous Ingredients in Everyday Products That Are Threatening Our Health
Jill Richardson - AlterNet,
30 Aug 2010
Numerous chemicals that are legally used in personal care products are untested, inadequately tested, or even proven harmful, but few are as widely used and as unnecessary as the endocrine disrupting chemicals triclosan (an ingredient in 75 percent of liquid hand soaps) and triclocarban (most commonly found in deodorant bar soaps).
→ read full articleThe U.S. Ploy to Promote Genetically Engineered Seeds and Pesticides to Poor Mexican Farmers Is Impoverishing Their Communities
Jill Richardson - AlterNet,
16 Aug 2010
The Obama administration’s Feed the Future initiative promises a second Green Revolution that will feed a planet of nine billion people by doubling crop yields by 2050. But considering that we produce enough food to feed the planet today and a billion people still go hungry, are yields really the problem? And if they are, are providing Green Revolution technologies like hybrid and genetically engineered seeds, chemical fertilizer and pesticides to subsistence farmers the best way to achieve them? I visited subsistence farmers in Mexico to find out.
→ read full articleLife after Oil: Cuba Can Teach Us How to Live Without Our Dirty Fossil Fuel Addiction
Jill Richardson - Alternet,
28 Jun 2010
The crisis in the Gulf is only the most recent reminder that we have to begin imagining a post-carbon future.
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