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Zara, H&M: The European retail giants tied to land grabbing and deforestation in Brazil

27/03/2026lofaack

The world’s biggest cotton certification scheme is giving the green light to clothes made from cotton farms on mega estates ‘plundering’ the Cerrado.

Cotton clothes, towels and bed sheets from H&M and Zara are “stained” by illegal deforestation and human rights abuses, according to a new investigation.

UK-based investigative NGO Earthsight has traced 800,000 tonnes of cotton from the giant Western retailers to Brazilian estates where land grabbing, violence and corruption are rife.

This cotton is exported to several manufacturers in Asia, which together made nearly 250 million items of clothing and homeware in a year for global stores

The Way To Design An Album Cover: Ideas For Making A Good Album Cover

26/03/2026lofaack

Art & Music

According to Pararaton and Kidung Harsyawijaya, this was the place Jayakatwang was impressed to write Wukir Polaman, his final literary work before being executed by Raden Wijaya. Some historians attribute the sequence of events of resistance and crackdown to the socio-political context of the two conflicts involving King Kertajaya and the Brahmin class. The first is the policy of King Kertajaya who tried to reduce back numerous rights from the Brahmana class.

Art & Music

The Baroque period (1580–1750) noticed the relative standardization of common-practice tonality, in addition to the rising significance of musical devices, which grew into ensembles of appreciable dimension. Italy …

High Museums In Vienna Vienna Information

25/03/2026lofaack

Museum of Art

Then in 1941 the museum purchased a Diego Velázquez portrait of the Infanta Margarita of Spain, which was probably a study for a bigger portrait of her in Vienna. Other major benefactors in the course of the museum’s first quarter century have been Archer M. Huntington and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Timken, whose small art collection is housed in the nearby Timken Museum of Art, established in 1965. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s second president, Henry Gurdon Marquand. In 1896, the Museum trustees acknowledged Marquand’s huge contributions to the institution by commissioning this portrait by John Singer Sargent. The museum …

Pope: ‘Let’s work together for peace in the Holy Land’

24/03/2026lofaack

Pope Francis sends a letter to “my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel”, addressed to Karma Ben Johanan, a theologian of Jewish-Christian dialogue, and invites everyone to work for peace in the Holy Land.

By Roberto Cetera – Jerusalem

“My heart is close to you, to the Holy Land, to all the people who inhabit it, Israelis and Palestinians, and I pray that the desire for peace may prevail in all. I want you to know that you are close to my heart and to the heart of the Church.”

Pope Francis sent those words to “my Jewish brothers and

Banyule Council deal with Woolworths angers residents

23/03/2026lofaack

Woolworths made the unsolicited offer in January 2019 to buy the property after earlier winning approval to build a supermarket on a neighboring site. The extra land means the company can build a bigger store than originally planned.

Council struck an agreement with Woolworths before informing the public of the proposal in April 2021. When built, it will be the first major supermarket to open a store in Rosanna.

After conducting community consultation, Banyule bypassed the typical process of advertising the property and sold it to Woolworths off-market in return for a new library to be built at an agreed

Art Gallery Of Burlington

22/03/2026lofaack

Art Galery

Their dream is to make a real distinction with their art, notably for these most precious creatures of all. By partnering with a few of the most unbelievable and impactful wildlife charities in the world, Gillie and Marc are proud to know their abilities are supporting these organizations and the animals they defend. In addition, many artists preserve sources tell me their very own web sites or Patreon pages from which they can immediately sell to the buyer while only losing money from transaction charges. Galleries take a share of the actual sale, whereas PayPal takes a far smaller percentage …

Low Cost Car Rent Australia

21/03/2026lofaack

Automotive car rent

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How land-grant universities are profiting off Indigenous land

20/03/2026lofaack

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Misplaced Trust, an 18-month long Grist investigation that reveals how stolen Indigenous land given to universities is often used for fossil fuel production or mining. Some universities are making billions off these practices.

In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, allowing the federal government to take land from Indigenous peoples and give it to states for the creation of public colleges known as land-grant universities.

Nearly a quarter of university trust lands are designated for either fossil fuel production or the mining of minerals, such as coal and iron-rich taconite.