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понедельник, 6 мая 2024 г.
четверг, 2 мая 2024 г.
Police continue to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters across the US
Police
continue to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters across the US
www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02
More than 1,600 people have been arrested at 30
schools, most recently at UCLA and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire
Police arrested dozens of pro-Palestine demonstrators on college campuses
across the US on Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Dozens of students were arrested at the
University of California, Los Angeles, as police cleared a fortified encampment. At least 90 students were arrested at
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
More were arrested at the University of New
Hampshire and the University of Buffalo in New York. In Oregon, police moved into the school’s library, which has been
occupied by demonstrators since Monday.
The protests are part of a movement to force
schools to divest from businesses
that support the war in Gaza, and reflect how the war has become a major flashpoint in US politics. More than
34,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel began a campaign to dismantle Hamas, the Gaza health ministry has said. More people
in Gaza have been thrust into near
starvation, as Israel
has limited food aid to the area.
On 7 October, Hamas killed more than 1,200 people and took roughly 250 hostages in an attack on Israel. Since
the campaign again Hamas began, the US has provided substantial military support to Israel, including most recently in a $15bn aid package.
Student protests have grown across the country since an
encampment sprung up at Columbia University in New York in mid-April. In many cases, police and universities have
responded with force to demonstrations that threaten to continue into
commencement season. Hundreds have been arrested in the weeks since the protests began.
California highway patrol officers detained dozens of protesters at UCLA
on Thursday morning after a 24-hour
standoff, CNN reported, after university authorities apparently told police the fortified
encampment was an “unlawful assembly”.
California police tore down plywood and pallets that
protesters used to reinforce their encampment, and also reportedly used stun
grenades, also know as flash-bangs, to try to disperse the crowd and zip-tied
detained protesters. By early morning, police had “full control” of the encampment area, according to one witness.
The night before, counter-protesters attacked
the encampment, but police did little to stop the violence, a scene that has since prompted criticism of
police and university authorities.
“The
community needs to feel the police are protecting them, not enabling others
to harm them,” Rebecca Husaini, chief of staff for the Muslim Public Affairs
Council, said in a news conference on the Los Angeles campus on Wednesday.
At Dartmouth, where an encampment had only
recently sprung up, a professor said the university responded with “full
force”, and posted a video of a white-haired colleague being grabbed and dragged away by police.
“In the hour or so it was allowed to exist, this
was the model of a peaceful, inclusive protest,” Jeff Sharlet, a professor at
Dartmouth College, told the Washington Post. “They obstructed nothing; disrupted nothing;
menaced nobody; and neither used nor displayed
hate speech.”
The chaotic scenes at UCLA came after New York police burst into a building occupied by anti-war
protesters at Columbia University on Tuesday night, breaking up a demonstration
that had paralyzed the school.
By Wednesday, a scrum had also broken out
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after police with shields removed all
but one tent and shoved protesters. Four officers were injured, including a
state trooper who was hit in the head with a skateboard, authorities said. Four
were charged with battering law
enforcement.
Protests began at Columbia on 17 April. An
Associated Press tally counted at least 38 times since 18 April when arrests
were made at campus protests across the US. More than 1,600 people have been
arrested at 30 schools.
In one rare example of authorities de-escalating
protests, Brown University in Rhode Island agreed to a divestment
vote in October – apparently the first US college to agree to such a demand.
Authorities have also made arrests and cleared
protest encampments at City College, Fordham University and Stony Brook College
in New York; Portland State in Oregon; Northern Arizona University in
Flagstaff, Arizona; Tulane University in New Orleans; and the University of
Texas, Dallas.
Student protests have also sprung up in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Lesson 1
Task 1. Read the
article, write out the words in bold and translate them into Russian.
Task 2. Consult
the dictionary and be ready to explain the meaning of the words in bold.
Task 3. Make up
your own sentences with the words in bold (at home).
Task 4. Make up
dialogues using the words given in bold (in class).
Lesson 2.
Task 5. Think over
and divide the text of the article into logical parts.
Task 6. Make up
and write a question to each logical part.
Task 7. Be ready
to render the article.
Task 8. Learn by
heart the words in bold and be ready for a dictation translation.
понедельник, 18 марта 2024 г.
четверг, 29 февраля 2024 г.
Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe
Emissions from Israel’s war in
Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe
Nina Lakhani Climate justice
reporter
Tue 9 Jan 2024 08.30 GMT
Exclusive: First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows.
The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, new research reveals.
The vast majority (99%) of the 281,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2 equivalent) estimated to have been generated in the first 60 days following the 7 October Hamas attack can be attributed to Israel’s aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers in the UK and US.
According to the study, which is based on only a handful of carbon-intensive activities and is therefore probably a significant underestimate, the climate cost of the first 60 days of Israel’s military response was equivalent to burning at least 150,000 tonnes of coal.
The analysis, which is yet to be peer reviewed, includes CO2 from aircraft missions, tanks and fuel from other vehicles, as well as emissions generated by making and exploding the bombs, artillery and rockets. It does not include other planet-warming gases such as methane. Almost half the total CO2 emissions were down to US cargo planes flying military supplies to Israel.
The data, shared exclusively with the Guardian, provides the first, albeit conservative estimate of the carbon cost of the current conflict in Gaza, which is causing unprecedented human suffering, infrastructure damage and environmental catastrophe.
It comes amid growing calls for greater accountability of military greenhouse gas emissions, which play an outsize role in the climate crisis but are largely kept secret and unaccounted for in the annual UN negotiations on climate action.
According to Crawford, about 20% of the US military’s annual operational emissions go towards protecting fossil fuel interests in the Gulf region – a climate change hotspot, warming twice as fast as the rest of the inhabited world. Yet the US – like other Nato countries – is mostly focused on the climate crisis as a national security risk, rather than on its contribution to it.
Responding to the carbon analysis, Lior Haiat, a spokesperson for the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs, said: “Israel did not want this war. It was imposed on us by the Hamas terror organization that killed, murdered, executed hundreds of people and kidnapped over 240 including children, women and the elderly. ”
“Among all the problems facing the state of Palestine in the coming
decades, climate change is the most
immediate and certain – and this has been amplified by the occupation and war
on Gaza since the 7 October,” said Ikhmais, the Palestinian climate director.
“The carbon emissions from the military attacks contradict the UNFCCC and Paris
agreement goal … recognizing the environmental impact of war is crucial.”
Lesson 1
Task 1. Read the article, write out the words in bold
and translate them into Russian.
Task 2. Consult the dictionary and be ready to explain
the meaning of the words in bold.
Task 3. Make up your own sentences with the words in
bold (at home).
Task 4. Make up dialogues using the words given in bold (in
class).
Lesson 2.
Task 5. Think over and divide the text of the article
into logical parts.
Task 6. Make up and write a question to each logical
part.
Task 7. Be ready to render the article.
Task 8. Learn by heart the words in bold and be ready
for a dictation translation.
среда, 7 февраля 2024 г.
What is art for you?
Sometimes we think what kind of role art plays in our life.
The video below will help you to answer this question.
Watch it and try to answer the questions "What is art for you?"
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суббота, 30 декабря 2023 г.
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