The U.S. Senate just voted to pollute one of Minnesota’s most beloved places: the Boundary Waters.
Let’s be clear why: more money for billionaires.
Twin Metals and its parent companies are mega-corporations owned by a billionaire family based in Chile. They have a long track record of pollution and environmental devastation, and despite their assurances that this mining is “safe,” decades of research show otherwise.
Twin Metals would bring fewer than 750 jobs to the region, with most of its operations being autonomous and remote, but it risks thousands of jobs in tourism and hospitality. The BWCA is the most visited wilderness in America, attracting almost 150,000 tourists and over $80 million in annual spending to the region.
This won’t bring long-term prosperity. It will cost us millions in healthcare and environmental cleanup.
Mining can be done right, only in the right places. This is the wrong type of mine, in the wrong place.
All watersheds are connected. What happens in one place harms another, and pollution near the BWCA will migrate into the BWCA and the surrounding watershed.
Republicans are in the pockets of big corporations that want to threaten our Minnesota heritage and one of the most pristine environments in the nation.
We must take back the U.S. House and overturn this reckless policy.
Yall. The Pope is currently in Africa. He is not watching press conferences at the Pentagon & then tweeting.
They’re posting quotes from his speeches.
Pope Leo: “Enough with the idolatry of self and money! Enough with the display of power! Enough with war! True strength is manifested in serving life.”
Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.
Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war that kills and destroys. #Easter
@ClwnPrncCharlie when I first started medical school I can recall seeing a young patient with melanoma knowing it was a death sentence and preparing for the end. now as a fellow I see it just disappear on a regular basis. immunotherapy is a game changer
The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light. #HolyThursday
I've been to the year 3000
not much has changed
but we live underwater
and your great great great granddaughter
is deployed to the Middle East in a forever war
The Trump regime is moving to hand over Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters to a Chilean-owned mining giant.
See the plan to save the wilderness: https://t.co/luPPYa7Q8E