Mexico is opening legal aid centers across the U.S. to enforce the human rights of Mexican immigrants.
These legal aid centers have already opened up at consulates in 50 cities across the U.S. to combat deportation. Legal counseling is free for any Mexican person living in the U.S. who feels their rights are being violated. According to the Pew Research Center, there are more than 6 million undocumented Mexicans living in the United States. [BBC]
Trump’s new Travel Ban will take effect on March 16.
This one is for six Muslim-majority countries (Iraq was taken off) and applies only to new visa applicants, not Green Card holders like before. About 60,000 people had their visas revoked under the previous ban, those people will now be able to enter the U.S. It’s still a 90-day ban on travelers entering the U.S. from the six listed countries and it’s still an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees entering the U.S. [Reuters]
A guy filled a tram with 50,000 disposable coffee cups and then drove it through Melbourne.
The entire country of Australia drinks 50,000 cups of coffee every 30 minutes and therefore, more than 1 billion disposable coffee cups and lids end up on the street or in landfills each year. Melbourne is pretty much at the center of it all, being a huge coffee city. So Craig Reucassel, who is actually filming a three-part ABC series on waste right now, sent a tram through the city to remind everyone how wasteful disposable coffee cups really are. [Global Citizen]
If you’re using it once and throwing it away it’s probably a waste. #BYOCoffeeCup #WarOnWasteAU pic.twitter.com/5GudpsQJZh
— Craig Reucassel (@craigreucassel) February 21, 2017
It’s now possible to run Denmark on a 100 percent wind power.
The Danes tested a new wind power installation back in Feb. and successfully generated enough energy to run their entire country. On a windy day, the turbines generate 97 gigawatt-hours of power — enough to run 10 million average European homes. [Futurism] 