Tag: water protecters
600+ water protectors facing criminal charges unlikely to receive fair trials
“It appears that the state's strategy is to simply delay discovery, charge people based on collective action and not individual acts which can be established by admissible evidence, and then hope for a conviction from a jury overwhelmingly biased towards law enforcement and the state.”
The many ways to help Standing Rock
Even if you can’t show up at the wintry encampments, you can join water protectors in other ways: from calling the North Dakota governor to breaking up with your bank.
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Treasury refuses to close private jet tax loophole senators call a giveaway to billionaires
The formula values a flight from New York to Washington at $236, against a fair market cost of up to $5,112
Federal panel halts first AI data center approved on US public land
The board found regulators treated an 88.5-acre data center as barely different from the solar farm it was supposed to replace.
Casino workers strike at Encore Boston Harbor after contract talks stall
More than 1,300 Teamsters and UNITE HERE members walked out after voting 97 percent to authorize the strike
California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration
More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.