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LNI & DEPT OF HEALTH MUST FOLLOW FARMWORKER LEADERSHIP WITH EMERGENCY RULES
Dear supporters, C2C has been sounding the alarm about substandard and often nonexistent health and safety protections for farmworkers, most notably with regard to the dangers of pesticide exposure, for 15 years. For the last month, we have been begging the state to implement emergency rules to … [Read more...]
AS LONG AS GRASS GROWS
The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock: The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism Author: Dina … [Read more...]
The Problem with Wilderness
The American environmental movement is rooted historically in ideas about pristine wilderness, free from human presence, that replicate colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege. Native-led movements are changing the script. (UU World Magazine) DINA GILIO-WHITAKER | 3/1/2020 … [Read more...]
NW Immigrant Rights Project Suggests Three Ways You Can Support Immigrants Right Now
Tell Congress to Include Immigrants in the Next Relief Package Congress's COVID-19 relief efforts have excluded many immigrants from their public health and economic stimulus policies. With Congress likely to pass additional legislation as soon as next month, it is time to speak up! Our partners … [Read more...]
Did You Miss Backbone Campaign’s Deep Dive into Ideas for Local Resilience? Catch Up Here
Backbone Campaign took a deep dive last week into solutionary ideas for local resilience when we interviewed Judy Wicks - an expert on local living economies - and a group of time bank experts last week. You can watch the Time Bank Conversation Here Backbone Campaign believes that Time Banking is … [Read more...]
Buy Stamps to Keep US Postal Service Viable for Election
The 2020 election is a watershed moment for our country. We need to have mail-in election ballots with hard copy paper trails--which means we need the Postal Service. Today the Postal Service is in financial trouble due to decreased revenue from business advertising because so many businesses … [Read more...]
The Wild: NW tribes’ legacy, and power, of telling a good story
The Lummi have been telling stories for thousands of years. "I am a Lummi tribal member and it's been taught to me that we are the lactamish people. We are survivors of the flood," Lisa says. The Lummi people are born storytellers and in many ways natural environmentalists. As Lummi … [Read more...]
Amid pandemic and Pilgrim anniversary, Wampanoag face new threat
Unitarian Universalist Association calls for urgent action to support Native American tribe that first welcomed its Pilgrim religious ancestors 400 years ago. ELAINE MCARDLE | 4/17/2020 he Wampanoag, the People of the First Light, were the first Native American nation to give … [Read more...]
The Condor and the Eagle: Earth Day Screening, Discussion
The Condor & The Eagle Documentary Film Screening & Discussion Wednesday, April 22nd, 6-8 pm Pacific / 7-9 Mountain / 8-10 Central / 9-11 pm Eastern Sliding scale suggested donation: $10-50+ (all are welcome regardless of ability to pay) Close out Earth Day with this award-winning … [Read more...]
US: Address Impact of Covid-19 on Poor
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has put a spotlight on economic inequalities and a fragile social safety net that leaves vulnerable communities to bear the economic brunt of the crisis, Human Rights Watch said today. US policymakers will need to consider these underlying inequalities in … [Read more...]
‘Cancer Alley’ Has Some of the Highest Coronavirus Death Rates in the Country
As predominately Black communities in the polluted areas along the Mississippi from New Orleans to Baton Rouge face heightened risks from COVID-19, the EPA has suspended enforcement of the environmental rules designed to protect them. Some government agencies are beginning to acknowledge the … [Read more...]
Coronavirus Death Rates Are a Direct Result of Environmental Racism
Along with other forms of systemic inequality, environmental racism can cause many of the underlying conditions that make the virus particularly dangerous for black and brown communities. “We’ve known literally forever that diseases like diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and asthma are … [Read more...]
The US Has Neglected Indian Country for Years. Now Comes a Pandemic
Nationally, health experts and tribal leaders are sounding the alarm that Native Americans are particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19. Native Americans are more likely to live in overcrowded and intergenerational housing, lack access to running water, and experience health disparities … [Read more...]
Whale People: Protectors of the Sea
The short film from the Lummi partnership with The Natural History Museum for the exhibition "Whale People: Protectors of the Sea" has won an award in three categories at the Best Shorts Competition and the film is also an official selection at the Cannes International Film Festival, American … [Read more...]
“BURIALS ARE CHEAPER THAN DEPORTATIONS”: VIRUS UNLEASHES TERROR IN A TROUBLED ICE DETENTION CENTER
Etowah County has a unique role in ICE’s architecture of detention and deportation. For more than two decades, the agency has provided the local sheriff’s department with a steady stream of funds for housing hundreds of immigrant detainees at a time. “The contract between Etowah County and ICE has … [Read more...]
“IRRESPONSIBLE AND DANGEROUS”: U.S. DEPORTS HAITIANS DESPITE CORONAVIRUS RISKS
Despite these concerns, and the U.S. government’s own public advisories, which emphasize the need to “avoid all international travel due to the global impact of Covid-19,” the U.S. deportation flight proceeded as scheduled. Yet seven of the Haitians on board were removed at the last minute. Among … [Read more...]
CONSERVATIVE OPERATIVES FLOAT PLAN TO PLACE RETIRED MILITARY, POLICE OFFICERS AS GOP POLL WATCHERS ON ELECTION DAY
The idea is a reprise of once-illegal Election Day “ballot security” intimidation tactics, intended to challenge voter registration and remove voters from the rolls. At a strategy session in February attended by conservative donors and activists, several people expressed a specific need for … [Read more...]
Removing Lower Snake River Dams to Protect Salmon and Orcas
May 12, 2020, 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 04:00pm - Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 05:00pm What: “Removing Lower Snake River Dams to Protect Salmon and Orcas” video conference When: May 12, 2020, 4-5 p.m. PST Who: Columbia Riverkeeper Senior Attorney Miles Johnson sets the record … [Read more...]
“Yet Again, Federal Court Invalidates Key Permit for Keystone XL”
Wow! A glimmer of hope! A federal judge just ruled that “the US Army Corps of Engineers violated the law when it approved Nationwide Permit 12, a key water crossing permit for TC Energy’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and many other pipelines nationwide. The ruling invalidates Nationwide Permit 12, … [Read more...]
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