On February 22, 2017, Eric W. Poemoceah was peacefully demonstrating against DAPL. He was unarmed, facing a group of about 30 militarized law enforcement officers clad in riot gear, with about 15 feet between him and the group of officers.
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Liberty Mutual’s role in the fossil fuel industry is coming under increasing scrutiny. In advance of the company’s annual policyholder meeting on April 8, dozens of customers have asked if Liberty Mutual will drop coverage of the Keystone XL and Trans Mountain tar sands pipelines, rule out the entire tar sands sector, and stop supporting fossil fuel expansion.
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I get asked this question so frequently and I always struggle with a response because, for every amazing gardener, there’s a different and probably contradictory answer to this question.
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In important elections like this, both parties cue their most mediocre white men from the one percent whose electability is based almost entirely on their race, gender and financial class, coupled with their uncanny ability to peddle nostalgia.
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A federal judge ruled to revoke Nationwide Permit 12 for the Keystone XL pipeline, a key water-crossing permit needed to complete construction of the project. The ruling states that the US Army Corps violated the law by granting the permit, and that the Corps must begin formal consultations under guidelines of the Endangered Species Act, causing major delays for construction.
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Fort Peck Assiniboine Sioux frontline organization Kokipansi held the first frontline #NoKXL action in Montana on the direct path of the Keystone XL pipeline. If built, this dirty tar sands project will run through the tribal nation’s only fresh water sources, the Milk and Missouri Rivers, and put at high risk the tribe’s new $300M water treatment plant.
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You'd have thought that we're America, we get it done. NOPE. Instead, we're getting $1,200 to shut up. Almost half of our economy is in the toilet and we’ve got the largest body count. Sometimes, being number one isn't that cool. Watching the U.S. government deal with COVID-19 is like the Ministry of Magic dealing with Voldemort coming back.
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Port Gamble S’Klallam tribal members recently celebrated the return of nearly 1,000 acres to tribal ownership, 165 years after the tribe signed the Point No Point Treaty that ceded most of the tribe’s land to the U.S. government.
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The news that major U.S. banks like JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other Wall Street banks are preparing to ask regulators to allow them to take direct ownership of oil and gas companies should ring major alarm bells on Capitol Hill and across the nation.
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As the coronavirus pandemic upends life in the United States and makes public rallies and protests impossible, Stop The Money Pipeline, alongside the Youth Climate Strike Coalition is announcing Earth Day Live, a three-day innovative and interactive livestream to address another global crisis threatening humanity: the climate emergency.
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“The actions of those who willfully violate this order may ultimately drag out the COVID-19 crisis even longer.”
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In order to stop annihilating ourselves with our own hands and our outdates laws we need to understand why all these regulations were created and where they came from. Current attorney for the Nooksack 306 disenrollees, Gabe Galanda emphasizes, “Disenrollment is an existential threat to Indian people throughout the country.”
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Our vision is for our urban Native youth to have a multitude of platforms for elevating their voice and strengthen their connections with their culture and traditions, academic success and socio-economic-political empowerment is the result.
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Stop the Money Pipeline, a coalition of over 90 organizations working to end the financing of climate destruction, are warning that an upcoming visit of oil CEOs to the White House on Friday cannot lead to a public bailout of the fossil fuel industry.
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The Alberta Government has announced they will ignore the calls for climate action and instead invest $1.1 Billion dollars to TC Energy to build the Keystone XL pipeline. This project has been seen as an upon attack Indigenous sovereignty and direct contributor to fueling climate change.
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The Hoopa Valley Tribe applauds Fresno County’s Superior Court refusal to validate a proposed contract between Westlands Water District and the Bureau of Reclamation. The contract would have allocated up to 1,150,000 acre-feet of Northern California water annually to Westlands, most of which would be imported from the Trinity River, which has sustained the Hupa people since time immemorial.
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Whatever way you’re trying to justify history or culture or whatever, just don’t. The Cleveland Indians celebrating “Chief Wahoo” with a big grin is pretty gross. Do you remember the old Braves logo? The one with the dude screaming with a mohawk? Not a good look, folks. The Atlanta Honkies or the Washington Missionaries (Not the religious people.) doesn’t exactly sound awesome, it sounds predatory.
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When she was approached to run for the open seat in the 22nd Legislative District in Thurston County, Breiler thought about it and decided to combine the timeless traditions she had learned from her family and from the canoe journeys with the modern administrative, academic and investigative skills she learned doing research.
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