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AltEn environmental catastrophe continues
The AltEn environmental catastrophe continues. See previous posts:The AltEn Environmental Catastrophe in Mead, NebraskaIndigenous panel discussion of AltEn environmental disaster The Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy has launched a public portal keep the Mead community, Saunders County residents and … Continue reading
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Call your spirit back
We are constantly assaulted from all directions. Violence and war, racial injustice, hunger, houselessness, pandemic, environmental disasters and chaos.Frightened to withdraw. Cover ourselves with a hard shell. Cower.But we feel how this diminishes us. This is not how we want … Continue reading
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Indigenous panel discussion of AltEn environmental disaster
This is follow-up on this morning’s article about the environmental catastrophe at the AltEn facility at Mead, Nebraska. The video below is of the panel presentation by Indigenous leaders of the Great Plains Action Society and Ní Btháska Stand. April 11 at 7:00 PM … Continue reading
The AltEn Environmental Catastrophe in Mead, Nebraska
One of the people I met on the First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March is Mahmud Fitil, who told me stories related to tar sands spills. He said at that time no commercial lab would analyze the water samples from areas … Continue reading
What is said and what is left unsaid
It is nearly incomprehensible to wake up this morning and see news of another police shooting of a Black man. Especially in Minneapolis at this time of the trial of Derek Chauvin. This morning my friend Avis Wanda McClinton wrote … Continue reading
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Courts and pipelines
The long fight against fossil fuel pipelines in this country continues. Last year Judge James Boasbert invalidated the permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline because of legitimate environmental concerns of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. He ruled the pipeline to … Continue reading
Des Moines, Police and Protest
I hadn’t known much about police and protests in Iowa before becoming engaged with Des Moines Mutual Aid (DMMA), which is closely connected to the Des Moines Black Liberation Movement (DesMoinesBLM). The trial right now of former Minneapolis police officer, … Continue reading
Martin Luther King, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
In part because many of the staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) began working from home during the COVID pandemic, Witness Wednesday began to meet using Zoom. This is an opportunity for FCNL and supporters to worship together. … Continue reading
NoDAPL in Iowa Since 2014
Last night Great Plains Action Society livestreamed a remarkable event. The videos highlight the history of the work of so many in Iowa to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The first video, NoDAPL Iowa – Since 2014 is the … Continue reading
We protected our water, and we did a good job at doing it
It is so traumatic to see the green, contaminate water gushing out of the former Piney Point phosphate processing plant in Florida. That reservoir holds about 800 million gallons of water containing phosphorus and nitrogen. That wastewater will contribute to … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 