I encourage you all to read about Dolores Bustamante, a longtime apple picker & advocate for the rights of farm workers in upstate NY.
She was instrumental in banning state troopers from asking immigration status & helped pass the Green Light Law.
Last month, ICE arrested her.
Rural indigenous communities have surrounded Evo Morales' residence to protect him. Leaked docs (attached below) show US armed forces & Bolivian police preparing a joint operation to kidnap him & massacre villagers.
"If we surrender now, how will our future generations live?"
BREAKING: US armed forces & Bolivian police are preparing a joint operation to kidnap Evo Morales and massacre the indigenous communities in the vicinity.
Police officers opposed to the plan have leaked documents confirming the operation.
The area near the mouth of the mississippi river used to be the most biodiverse waters on earth. But in just 3 generations of industrialization, it's now considered a dead zone for marine life
Wow this from Mark Talley is the realest thing I've ever read in the Buffalo News. The spectacle that has been created out of these horrific murders is absolutely disgusting.
Link around the paywall because everyone in Buffalo should read this: https://t.co/FPBW7jS2k4
Harrison Ford: “Humanity is a part of nature, not above it. We need cultural change. We need to extend social justice. We need to respect and elevate the indigenous people that are being marginalized, and in many cases, killed in cold blood. The world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess”
This city let 4 years pass and absolutely nothing has changed. The poor are poorer, the orgs that get the most money, still get the most money. The traumatized are still trying to heal, more houses are abandoned, more stores are closed…
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this is a completely unhinged thing to do that has somehow been normalized under capitalism. imagine explaining to someone 300 years ago the idea of destroying 420k trees cuz a company went bankrupt