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As Florence Makes Landfall, Poorest Once More Likely to Suffer Most From Storm's Destruction
Written by Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams
"These disasters drag into the light exactly who is already being thrown away," notes Naomi Klein
How about some good news? Kansas Democratic Representative advances bill for Native Peoples.
Written by Chris Reeves | Daily Kos
How about some good news? Kansas Democratic Representative advances bill for Native Peoples.
For those of us who were in Charlottesville on August 12th, nothing will ever be the same. We learned that is no such thing as "alt-right." We will never use that sanitized self-serving euphemism again. Instead, we will call these terrorists "Nazis," both because that is what they call themselves, and because that is what we saw in Charlottesville.
Veterans Arrive at Standing Rock to Act as 'Human Shields' for Water Protectors
Written by Nika Knight | Common Dreams
As tensions grow in North Dakota, with multiple eviction orders facing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, U.S. military veterans on Friday began arriving at the Oceti Sakowin protest camp.
2,000 veterans plan to be a 'human shield' for the North Dakota Pipeline activists
Written by Walter Einenkel | Daily Kos
As more and more signs point towards the government trying to strong-arm Dakota Access Pipeline protectors and activists in the coming days, a movement called Veterans Stand for Standing Rock plan on lending their help and their bodies.
Michigan Fights To Avoid Delivering Water To Flint Residents
Written by Kate Abbey-Lambertz | The Huffington Post
The ongoing crisis has left the city without safe drinking water for over two years, but the state claims water deliveries are too much to ask.
Army Corps Says It Won’t Forcibly Evict Standing Rock Water Protectors, But Refuse To Elaborate
Written by Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project
In a follow-up of its letter to leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a statement Sunday clarifying it has no plans to forcibly evict water protectors from camps north of the Cannonball River on December 5.
Sioux Tribe Leader Responds to Army Corps Eviction Letter With Ominous Warning to US Gov’t
Written by Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project
Cory Booker Calls For Federal Investigation Into Police Tactics At Dakota Access Pipeline
Written by Tamerra Griffin | Buzzfeed
The US senator from New Jersey also wants the Justice Department to send federal authorities to the protest site to ensure demonstrators can exercise their First Amendment rights.
AFL-CIO Constituency Groups Stand with Native Americans to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
Written by Marian Manapsal | APALA
Together, the Labor Coalition for Community Action, which includes the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, and Pride at Work, rises in solidarity with Native Americans and our allies in protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and defending Native lands from exploitation by corporations and the U.S. government. We advocate for a progressive labor movement rooted in dignity and respect of all peoples, including Native Americans and their families.
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Oil Company Takes Dozers on 20-Mile Detour to ‘Deliberately Destroy’ Ancient Native American Sites
Written by Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project
U.S. Government Bans Native American Tribe From Protesting On Their Own Land – Send In Police To Remove Protesters
Written by Jafari Tishomingo | Counter Current News
A North Dakota federal court has prohibited indigenous tribes from protesting the Bakken pipeline on their own reservations.
Dakota Access, a developer of the pipeline, filed the report citing “Worker and law enforcement safety was at risk”.
Fighting for Racial Justice for Communities of Color
Written by Tefere Gebre and Johanna Hester | The Medium
Lately, the public discourse around immigrants in the United States has turned decisively negative. From anti-Muslim sentiments to outlandish accusations about the Latino community, immigrants in this country have felt and continue to feel under attack. As an Ethiopian refugee who immigrated to the United States as a teenager and an immigrant from the Philippines who came to this country at 15 years old, we consider these attacks personal.
Flint Water Crisis: The Libertarian Damage Control Begins
Written by Kevin Carson | Center for a Stateless Society
In their hasty scramble to blame the Flint water crisis on anything — anything at all — other than the regime of Emergency Managers and phony corporate “privatization” that Reason has been promoting for years in Michigan, Reason writers are forming a circular firing squad.