CO2 EMISSIONS
March 1, 2007 - United States
U.S.A. CO2 emissions are a violation of human rights 1st March, 2007 : An Inuit delegation has arrived in Washington to argue that the U.S. government's climate change policies are a violation of their human rights. A legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has demanded that the U.S. limits its emission of greenhouse gases. The Inuit are saying that pollution is contributing to the melting ice and thawing permafrost of their homeland. Their representatives have presented evidence to the Commission in an attempt to link human-induced climate change to international human rights, and this hearing is the latest stage in the legal process that they started in December 2005.
COMMUNIST PARTY
March 1, 1940 - United States
Communist Party Friday, 1st March, 1940 : The communist party of Dane County in Wisconsin was all for the Soviet-Finnish Peace Treaty. This political activist group believed that this treaty would help keep Americans out of what they considered to be the Imperialist War (World War II). This treaty was actually signed as of March 12th, 1940 between Finland and the U.S.S.R. The Finnish Nation was one of the supporters of Hitler Germany at the time. The U.S.S.R. (a.k.a. Soviet Union) fought on the side of the Allied Powers, which the United States after 1937.