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Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Spooning Up The Waste

December 18, 2014 By Kate Lanier 1 Comment

Kate’s collects the top mining, fracking and environmental news from around the world including:

Bangladesh: Villagers “using spoons, sponges and shovels” are trying to mop up 77,000 gallons of oil unleashed in an area that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A Padma Oil Co. tanker collided with a cargo ship. Oil has spread “across 50 miles of rivers and canals.” Padma is paying the locals for whatever oil they can collect. Vegetation and animals are reportedly dying. And the impact on the human spirit?

Arizona: 40 Years of Resistance on Black Mesa! Major government-corporate cluster-you-know-what over at the Black Mesa mines results in grievous harm to Navajo and Hopi peoples. And now, Peabody coal wants a “lifetime mining permit” there. Sierra Club has joined Native Americans in a federal suit over this mess.

Nicaragua: Some 7,000 Nicaraguans have been “scheduled for removal to clear a path for Central America’s second interoceanic canal [with the] Nicaraguan Army … already providing security for Chinese canal firm HKND.” A villager in Obrajuelo said, “They want to run us off our properties—to scatter us like birds without a nest. … we would rather die here fighting than get forced off our [ancestral] land.” Apparently, the whole thing is shrouded in mystery—to be followed by misery.

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Adoption Hurdles For LGBT Families

November 28, 2014 By Ricky Riley Leave a Comment

Less than half of the states in the U.S recognize same-sex adoption outright The Child Welfare Information Gateway reports that there were an estimated 400,540 children in the foster care system. Most of these children won’t have homes that they can call their own. In fact, they may stay in the foster system until they […]

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: adoption, Arkansas, Atlanta, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, foster care, foster chidlren, gay adoption, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Human Rights, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, LGBT, LGBT adoption, LGBT marriage, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pelham, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Washington D.C, Washington State

Mexico: The U.S. Border Patrol’s Newest Hire

October 15, 2014 By Todd Miller Leave a Comment

When an exodus of Central American children occurred this summer, the U.S. media focused on the arrival of more than 60,000 children in Nogales, Arizona, and McAllen, Texas, where the Department of Homeland Security detained thousands of kids in warehouses and Air Force bases. Border hawks were quick to pontificate about the porosity of the U.S.-Mexico […]

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Alan Bersin, Alejandro Solalinde, Arizona, Arriaga, border, border children, Border crisis, Central America, Chiapas, children, Chimaltenango, Department of Defense, drug war, Enrique Peña Nieto, Florida, Guatemala, Homeland Security, immigration, la Bestia, la migra, McAllen, Merida Initiative, Mexico, Miami, Michael McCaul, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, Miguel Angel Paz, Mike Fisher, National Institute of Migration, Nogales, Oaxaca, Plan Frontera Sur, Plan Sur, Southern Border Plan, Texas, the Beast, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Embassy, U.S.-Mexico border, U.S.-Mexico relations, undocumented, United States border, United States House, Veracruz, Voces Mesoamericanas

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