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“Housing affordability has become a critical economic and political issue. With credible solutions, progressive parties can reclaim that space, and bring voters with them – but it will need real political will.”
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European progressives must tackle housing crisis to beat far right, say researchers
Centre left can win broad support by addressing soaring house prices and rents, according to data analysis
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
“Housing affordability has become a critical economic and political issue. With credible solutions, progressive parties can reclaim that space, and bring voters with them – but it will need real political will.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
This year ICE has sent more immigrant children into the federal shelter system than in the previous four years combined. New data suggests families are being separated.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This year ICE has sent more immigrant children into the federal shelter system than in the previous four years combined. New data suggests families are being separated.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“The main issue we have here is that [the residents] couldn’t find a rentable home in Loudoun County due to the high prices, due to the nonsense requirements that apartments are asking for,” New Virginia Majority Representative Alejandra Fernández said.
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www.loudounnow.com/news/mobile-...
Mobile Home Park Residents Seek Affordable Housing Options
Dozens of residents gathered at the Mobile Hope complex Saturday night to join solidarity vigil for the 85 families who are being displaced by the closure of the of Leesburg
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November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“The main issue we have here is that [the residents] couldn’t find a rentable home in Loudoun County due to the high prices, due to the nonsense requirements that apartments are asking for,” New Virginia Majority Representative Alejandra Fernández said.
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Sing it louder ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlSJ...
Jimmy Cliff Live - The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Wailers4Ever
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sing it louder ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlSJ...
Ferial Haffajee: "Trump’s stayaway ended up being a net-positive as the meeting became another staging post for a trend in geopolitics. This is the continued rise of the middle powers, not as a bloc but as an interest and interesting group."
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
G20 South Africa goes post-Trump as middle powers signal fresh path | Daily Maverick
<p>Trump’s stayaway ended up being a net-positive as the meeting became another staging post for a trend in geopolitics. This is the continued rise of the middle powers, not as a bloc but as an intere...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Ferial Haffajee: "Trump’s stayaway ended up being a net-positive as the meeting became another staging post for a trend in geopolitics. This is the continued rise of the middle powers, not as a bloc but as an interest and interesting group."
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
“This law censors organisations, affecting their right to freedom of expression and freedom of association. They would prefer to be lapdogs for fear of being shut down, rather than watchdogs of the government”
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www.equaltimes.org/zimbabwe-s-n...
Zimbabwe's new NGO law threatens to turn civil society “watchdogs” into “lapdogs”
It has been just over seven months since the Private Voluntary Organizations (PVO) Amendment Act was signed into law in Zimbabwe on 11 April 2025, and it is already reshaping the operating environment...
www.equaltimes.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
“This law censors organisations, affecting their right to freedom of expression and freedom of association. They would prefer to be lapdogs for fear of being shut down, rather than watchdogs of the government”
www.equaltimes.org/zimbabwe-s-n...
www.equaltimes.org/zimbabwe-s-n...
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An Offer You Can Refuse | Daily Maverick
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November 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Latest on #AbregoGarcia case explained (brilliantly!) by his lawyer
WATCH: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorney gives update on legal battle over ICE efforts to deport him
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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November 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Latest on #AbregoGarcia case explained (brilliantly!) by his lawyer
The extraction of minerals is not discrete from the extraction of life. When coal burns to sustain military occupation abroad, when ports and rails move materials to sites of violence, we are implicated.
mg.co.za/friday/2025-...
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Art as a weapon
We recognise how narratives are vehicles of power, as they shape who is seen as Human, who is believed, and whose suffering matters
mg.co.za
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The extraction of minerals is not discrete from the extraction of life. When coal burns to sustain military occupation abroad, when ports and rails move materials to sites of violence, we are implicated.
mg.co.za/friday/2025-...
mg.co.za/friday/2025-...
Most of the people expected to die from soaring temperatures in coming decades live in poor, hot countries in Africa and South Asia. Many emitted relatively little of the pollution that causes climate change and are least prepared to cope with increasing heat.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Most of the people expected to die from soaring temperatures in coming decades live in poor, hot countries in Africa and South Asia. Many emitted relatively little of the pollution that causes climate change and are least prepared to cope with increasing heat.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“For generations, families have lived in the same houses. Now, rising property prices and short-term rentals are displacing long-term residents, including the elderly,”
groundup.org.za/article/bo-k...
groundup.org.za/article/bo-k...
Bo-Kaap residents call for Airbnb to be regulated
Long-standing residents say they are being pushed out by short-term rentals
groundup.org.za
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“For generations, families have lived in the same houses. Now, rising property prices and short-term rentals are displacing long-term residents, including the elderly,”
groundup.org.za/article/bo-k...
groundup.org.za/article/bo-k...
“Our presence in these spaces is not granted, but earned through generations of struggle, resistance and organisation. Every step towards recognition and access has been the result of our persistent efforts to raise our voices and defend our rights."
www.opendemocracy.net/en/cop30-ind...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/cop30-ind...
Indigenous women: ‘Climate finance is a right, not a favour'
At a COP30 fringe summit, women who’ve protected the rainforests for centuries demand access to UN climate funding
www.opendemocracy.net
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“Our presence in these spaces is not granted, but earned through generations of struggle, resistance and organisation. Every step towards recognition and access has been the result of our persistent efforts to raise our voices and defend our rights."
www.opendemocracy.net/en/cop30-ind...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/cop30-ind...
People love this city because it feels possible. Diverse. Messy. Alive. That spirit is worth defending. It won’t survive if every flat becomes a mini‑hotel and every lease becomes a gamble.
groundup.org.za/article/cape...
groundup.org.za/article/cape...
Cape Town needs rent control. Here are six ways we could do it
Renting a home close to the city has become unaffordable even for many middle-class households
groundup.org.za
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
People love this city because it feels possible. Diverse. Messy. Alive. That spirit is worth defending. It won’t survive if every flat becomes a mini‑hotel and every lease becomes a gamble.
groundup.org.za/article/cape...
groundup.org.za/article/cape...
Short-term letting through various platforms, including Airbnb, locks up 70% of residential units in the central city
groundup.org.za/article/inne...
groundup.org.za/article/inne...
Inner city Cape Town: no room for locals
Short-term letting through various platforms, including Airbnb, locks up 70% of residential units in the central city
groundup.org.za
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Short-term letting through various platforms, including Airbnb, locks up 70% of residential units in the central city
groundup.org.za/article/inne...
groundup.org.za/article/inne...
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I’m out here at Broadview ICE detention center where a group of inter-faith leaders just got arrested trying to deliver pastoral care to those locked up inside. Peg Haar from Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston says both her son and her pastor were arrested just now.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I’m out here at Broadview ICE detention center where a group of inter-faith leaders just got arrested trying to deliver pastoral care to those locked up inside. Peg Haar from Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston says both her son and her pastor were arrested just now.
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"A really significant chunk of our community is one financial emergency away from being evicted.”
www.denver7.com/news/state-n...
#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
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#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
Free eviction legal services available as Colorado families grapple with financial uncertainty during shutdown
While so many Colorado families change their financial priorities to make sure there's food on the table, other important costs may be put on the back-burner, like important medications or even rent.
www.denver7.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"A really significant chunk of our community is one financial emergency away from being evicted.”
www.denver7.com/news/state-n...
#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
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#housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism
No-fault evictions will be outlawed in England from 1 May, the government confirmed, as it set out the timeline for sweeping renters' reforms.
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Renters’ Rights Act: No-fault evictions banned from May 2026
The government confirms timeline for reforms to England’s rental market, including ending bidding wars.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
No-fault evictions will be outlawed in England from 1 May, the government confirmed, as it set out the timeline for sweeping renters' reforms.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mayor Gaskins, City Council ask sheriff to cease voluntary inmate transfers to ICE | ALXnow #ICEOutofAlexanddria www.alxnow.com/2025/11/13/m...
Mayor Gaskins, City Council ask sheriff to cease voluntary inmate transfers to ICE | ALXnow
Mayor Alyia Gaskins and the City Council are calling on the Alexandria Sheriff's Office to stop transferring inmates to immigration enforcement unless required by law. Following months of pressure fro...
www.alxnow.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Mayor Gaskins, City Council ask sheriff to cease voluntary inmate transfers to ICE | ALXnow #ICEOutofAlexanddria www.alxnow.com/2025/11/13/m...
“We call upon the Sheriff to cease his transfer of persons in his custody in response to ICE administrative detainers and warrants" #ICEOutofAlexandria
www.alxnow.com/2025/11/13/m...
www.alxnow.com/2025/11/13/m...
Mayor Gaskins, City Council ask sheriff to cease voluntary inmate transfers to ICE | ALXnow
Mayor Alyia Gaskins and the City Council are calling on the Alexandria Sheriff's Office to stop transferring inmates to immigration enforcement unless required by law. Following months of pressure fro...
www.alxnow.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“We call upon the Sheriff to cease his transfer of persons in his custody in response to ICE administrative detainers and warrants" #ICEOutofAlexandria
www.alxnow.com/2025/11/13/m...
www.alxnow.com/2025/11/13/m...
"There is no genocide in South Africa, there's absolutely no persecution of anyone based on race. Our constitution has iron-clad protection of every citizen's human rights. Not a square inch of white-owned land has been confiscated since we became a democracy in 1994."
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and po...
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
"There is no genocide in South Africa, there's absolutely no persecution of anyone based on race. Our constitution has iron-clad protection of every citizen's human rights. Not a square inch of white-owned land has been confiscated since we became a democracy in 1994."
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Yeah ... Yeah ... virginiamercury.com/2025/11/04/b...
Blue wave rebuilds the House: Democrats soar to at least 64 seats in Virginia • Virginia Mercury
Democrats managed to increase their majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, moving from 51 to 64 seats (with one race still undecided as of 11 p.m.) as voters turned out Tuesday in a pivotal elec...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Yeah ... Yeah ... virginiamercury.com/2025/11/04/b...
Titi Mashele: “It is a political statement to see people of colour on bikes, in suburbs."
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘You can do hard things!’ The young cycling enthusiasts reclaiming the streets of Johannesburg
Bike culture, once seen as an elite hobby or a last resort for the poor, is flourishing in the post-apartheid City of Gold
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Titi Mashele: “It is a political statement to see people of colour on bikes, in suburbs."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...