Posts Tagged ‘flints’

New Yale Law School report: ‘Trapped in a Black Box: Growing Terrorist Watchlisting in Everyday Policing’

     Comment: Since the synthetic terror of 911, the national security surveillance state has slowly but assuredly seen to it that more and more U.S. citizens “fit” the profile of terrorists. With this one label, a perception has been promulgated by the pathocrats that, for all intents and purposes, considers an ever larger section of […]

Farmworkers Fight For Food And Job Justice

Print Friendly Above Photo: Taken by David Bacon Note The average lifespan for a farm worker in the United States is 49 years old. That is a shocking reality. Many start working when they are very young, 12 to 14 years old, and work their whole lives doing harsh labor for long hours with very […]

Farm Defended Against Pipeline Tree Cutters

Print Friendly Above Photo: Activists defend a Pennsylvania maple syrup farm against tree-cutting for a pipeline./Photo by Vera Scroggins New Milford, PA – Clear-cutting of trees on a Pennsylvania family farm for the Constitution Pipeline was held off another day by successful negotiations between property owners and pipeline company representatives. The discussion was backed up by […]

Flint Whistleblowers Who Exposed Their Poisoned Water

Print Friendly Above Photo: Bottled water distribution in downtown Flint, Michigan, on January 23, 2016. From Shutterstock. We’re Just Getting Started Long before the state declared an emergency in Flint, Michigan, a pastor, a mother, and an attorney teamed up to reveal the state’s lies about their drinking water. The actions of a small group of dedicated […]

UPDATE: FBI – shots fired, 1 killed in Ammon Bundy arrest

     Ammon Bundy, the leader of the armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge near Burns, Oregon, and four others have been arrested by law enforcement amid gunfire, according to the FBI. At 4:25 pm on Tuesday afternoon, the FBI and Oregon State Police “began an enforcement action to bring into custody a number of […]

UPDATE: FBI – shots fired, 1 killed in Ammon Bundy arrest

     Ammon Bundy, the leader of the armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge near Burns, Oregon, and four others have been arrested by law enforcement amid gunfire, according to the FBI. At 4:25 pm on Tuesday afternoon, the FBI and Oregon State Police “began an enforcement action to bring into custody a number of […]

Major Supermarket Bans Bee-Killing Pesticides On Its Produce

German supermarket chain Aldi Süd  has become the first major retailer in Europe to ban pesticides toxic to bees. The ban will include neonicotinoids imidacloprid, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam, from all produce sold in their stores with the retailer expecting fruit and vegetable suppliers to comply with their new policy as soon as possible Beyond pesticides report: […]

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