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Flint Refuses To Be Poisoned

January 25, 2016 Dorian Bon, www.socialistworker.org , ,
By Dorian Bon for Socialist Worker - FLINT, MICHIGAN, a city of some 100,000 people, is being poisoned. In April 2014, the Michigan state government forced Flint to change its water supply from Lake Huron, which had served the city for half a century, to the Flint River. The water in the river is corrosive enough to cause the lead in city pipes to seep into the water supply, and out through the taps. As a result of the switch, which was implemented to save $19 million over eight years, Flint's water system has been delivering lead-contaminated water to the city's homes, schools, businesses and public buildings.

Iceland Sentences 26 Corrupt Bankers To 74 Years In Prison

January 16, 2016 Grouch E. Geezr, www.americannewsx.com , , ,
By Grouch E Geezr for AmericanNewsX.com. Iceland just sentenced their 26th banker to prison for his part in the 2008 economic collapse. The charges ranged from breach of fiduciary duties to market manipulation to embezzlement. When most people think of Iceland, they envision fire and ice. Major volcanoes and vast ice fields are abundant due to its position on the northern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. (A hot July day in Reykjavik is around 55 degrees.) However, Iceland is also noted for being one of the Nordic Socialist countries, complete with universal health care, free education and a lot other Tea Potty nightmares.

165 Groups Demand GAO Investigation Of Agency Abuse

January 15, 2016 Delaware Riverkeeper, www.popularresistance.org , , , ,
The Delaware Riverkeeper. Washington, DC - On January 14, Popular Resistance joined the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, hundreds of other organizations and thousands of concerned community members in calling for a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC). The letter urging Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren to use their key seats on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to call for a GAO review details FERC’s ongoing bias toward the same pipeline companies it is intended to regulate and highlights the toll this abuse of power has taken on local communities.

Duke Energy Pushes Fast-Track For Gas Plant

January 14, 2016 Jim Warren, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Jim Warren of NC WARN. Durham, NC – Duke Energy responded to our insistence for careful examination of the need for a large gas-fired power plant near Asheville by pressing the NC Utilities Commission to fast-track its approval of the controversial project. The project would add nearly 800 megawatts of gas-fired generation capacity to service the western parts of both Carolinas. Duke has committed to closing two coal-fired units at the site, which provided power totaling 174 MW in 2014. NC WARN and The Climate Times has responded by reminding the Commission that it is required to carefully examine the project by conducting evidentiary hearings that allow expert testimony and cross-examination of Duke officials.

New Year’s Eve Protest Demands Police Reforms In 2016

January 3, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us , , ,
By John Zangas for DC Media Group. Washington, DC — Hundreds rallied in the Chinatown district on New Year’s Eve in protest of police killings of Black women and men over the past year. Protesters briefly shut down intersections as they walked along the 14th and U Street corridors. They ended at the African-American Civil War Memorial on U Street. The rally was organized by Black Lives Matter DMV, Stop Police Terror Project-DC, Black Youth Project 100 and several other groups. Organizers demanded changes to the justice system which permits police to walk away from shootings, often without any charges being filed by prosecutors. Activists focused on several recent high-profile cases where police have killed Blacks under questionable circumstances.

NYPD Kelly’s Emails Deleted Before He Left Office

January 2, 2016 Stephen Rex Brown, www.nydailynews.com , , ,
By Stephen Rex Brown for Daily News - Press delete. Then repeat. Most of former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s emails on his desktop computer were deleted at the end of his tenure despite an order they be preserved for a high-stakes class-action suit alleging a summons quota system within the department. New filings in Manhattan Federal Court show the city backtracking in an ongoing fight over Kelly’s missing electronic correspondence. “The majority of former Commissioner Kelly’s locally stored emails were inadvertently deleted at the conclusion of his tenure,” city attorney Curt Beck wrote to Manhattan Federal Judge Robert Sweet.

Bayview Crowd Calls For Police Chief To Quit Over Death

December 6, 2015 Vivian Ho, www.sfgate.com , , ,
By Vivan Ho for the San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, CA - A community meeting erupted into outrage Friday night as San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr attempted to explain the shooting death of a man by police in the Bayview neighborhood that drew ire nationwide after video of the incident was widely circulated on social media. (The video.) unnamed (6) Police Commission President Suzy Loftus (left), San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr and Bayview Station Capt. Raj Vaswani listen to the combative crowd at the town hall meeting. Dozens of community members packed a room at the City College of San Francisco southeast facility, calling for Suhr’s resignation as he told the crowd that officers fatally shot Mario Woods, 26, “in defense” of both themselves and bystanders at the scene. Woods died shortly after at least five officers fired at him about 15 times in the Bayview neighborhood about 4:30 p.m.Wednesday.

Support The Call To Clean Up The Mines

December 3, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Throughout the United States, but primarily in the Great Plains and the West, a silent polluter is responsible for cancers, birth defects and many diseases including kidney and autoimmune diseases. Yet, most people living in close proximity to these polluters are aware of the danger. I am talking about the 15,000 abandoned Uranium Mines. Most of them are open pits that continue to emit radiation and clouds of radon gas. When it rains, radioactive and toxic heavy metals are washed into the aquifers and rivers. When it is dry, dust carrying radioactive and heavy metals blows across the land. In the heart of the US' agricultural belt, these radioactive and heavy metals enter our food supply. Animals breathe in the toxic dust or drink contaminated water. Metals are taken up by plants that are harvested for animal feed or human consumption.

Take Action For Drone Whistleblowers Under Attack

December 1, 2015 ToBlome, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
From Toby Blome of CODEPINK. Code Pink Women for Peace support the very courageous actions of four former US drone operators, Michael Haas, Brandon Bryant, Cian Westmoreland, and Stephan Lewis, who have come under increasing attack for disclosing information about “widespread corruption and institutionalized indifference to civilian casualties that characterize the drone program.” As truth tellers, they stated in a public letter to President Obama that the killing of innocent civilians has been one of the most “devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world.”* These public disclosures come only after repeated attempts to work privately within official channels failed. Despite the fact that none of the four has been charged with criminal activity, all had their bank accounts and credit cards frozen. This retaliatory response by our government is consistent with the extrajudicial nature of US drone strikes.

Curbing Corruption With Civil Resistance

November 29, 2015 Elena Volkava, www.wagingnonviolence.org , , ,
By Elena Volkava for Waging Nonviolence. Book review - Corruption is a widespread and global phenomenon, ranging from “narco-corruption” in Central America to “petty corruption” in Eastern Europe, such as candidates buying votes with buckwheat and sunflower oil before elections. Rather than focusing on the issue itself, Shaazka Beyerle explores how corruption is being curbed with civil resistance in her new book “Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice.” Beyerle documents and analyzes civic grassroots initiatives that have expressed clear demands, reached their objectives, employed an array of nonviolent actions, and were sustained over a period of time.

FBI and DOJ: Will Track Police Shootings

November 24, 2015 Xxdr Zombiexx, www.dailykos.com , , ,
By Xxdr Zombiexx for Daily Kos - In separate announcements, the FBI and the Department of Justice say they’ll create programs to monitor police-involved shootings at the federal level. Law enforcement agencies are tasked with tallying their own officer-involved shootings, but after the officer-involved death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, it came to light that no government agency maintains a complete database of the national numbers. On Wednesday, FBI Director James B. Comey called it “embarrassing” and “ridiculous” that up until very recently, officials had made no concerted effort to track the sort of violence that has inspired national protests and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Cop Shooting Cost $5 Million To Hide

November 22, 2015 Justin Glawe, www.thedailybeast.com , , ,
By Justin Glawe for The Daily Beast. Chicago, IL - A judge has ruled that police must release dashcam video showing the violent death of 17-year-old old Laquan McDonald, shot 16 times by officer Jason Van Dyke last October. Judge Franklin Valderrama ruled the video must be released on Wednesday, Nov. 25 and denied a motion from the city to appeal the decision, securing the video's release. The video reportedly shows McDonald carrying a knife on the southwest side of the city on Oct. 20 last year, walking as far as the width of two car lanes away from police before an officer shoots him 16 times. If the streets explode, it will be hard for even the most skeptical observer to say it is anything but justified: McDonald never posed a serious threat to officers.

Protesters Disrupt City Council Meeting For Jamar Clark

November 22, 2015 Sam Richards and Alexa Aretz, www.nstarpost.com , , , ,
By Sam Richards and Alexa Aretz for the North Star Post. Minneapolis, MN - Minneapolis City Council meetings are usually not as lively as the one this morning. Shortly after the gavel struck, calling the Council to order, three protesters stood up and disrupted the proceedings. Later on, a vigil and march was held outside MPD Fourth Precinct. Michelle Gross, veteran activist with Communities United Against Police Brutality, was the first to speak. Gross strongly dissented against the lack of leadership from elected officials and mismanagement by the Minneapolis Police Department(MPD) in response to the on-going protests. She advocated for MPD to adopt a limited liability insurance plan, similar to those mandated for medical and other professionals.

Time To Stop Worshipping Economic Growth

October 31, 2015 Brent Blackwelder, www.steadystate.org , , ,
By Brent Blackwelder of Casse - There are physical limits to growth on a finite planet. In 1972, the Club of Rome issued their groundbreaking report—Limits to Growth (twelve million copies in thirty-seven languages). The authors predicted that by about 2030, our planet would feel a serious squeeze on natural resources, and they were right on target. In 2009, the Stockholm Resilience Center introduced the concept of planetary boundariesto help the public envision the nature of the challenges posed by limits to growth and physical/biological boundaries. They defined nine boundaries critical to human existence that, if crossed, could generate abrupt or irreversible environmental changes.

Top Coal Executive Faces Criminal Charges

October 10, 2015 Mason Adams, www.grist.org , , ,
By Mason Adams for Grist.org. Charleston, W. VA - The autocratic, micro-managing, bludgeoning style that won throwback Appalachian coal baron Don Blankenship the ire of environmentalists, the fear of underlings, and the title “Dark Lord of Coal Country” from Rolling Stone may finally have caught up with him. The opening arguments began today in Blankenship’s federal criminal trial. He faces charges of conspiring to avoid safety laws and lying to regulators that could put him behind bars for up to 31 years. Blankenship casts a long shadow over the Appalachian coal industry. Since the early 1980s, he’s fought labor unions, regulatory agencies, environmental activists, and other coal companies.
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