Voices, The Peoples News
March 26, 2021
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous / Global
Tahltan Nation evicts Doubleview Gold from territory over refusal to respect Indigenous law https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/03/24/tahltan-nation-evicts-doubleview-gold-from-territory-over-refusal-to-respect-indigenous-law.html
# Border / Immigration
President Joe Biden has announced plans to speed up the processing of migrant children traveling alone to the United States, but said his policy of returning most families to Mexico remains unchanged.
https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2021-03-25/no-easy-answer-biden-vows-to-take-in-migrant-children-but-says-most-families-will-be-turned-away
# CoronaVirus
‘I can feel your breath’: when COVID-19 and environmental racism collide. “And environmental policies are created by members of the elite, mostly white people, who hold perceptions about who matters and who does not matter.”
https://thenarwhal.ca/covid-19-environmental-racism-canada/
# Economy / Trade
Trump Appointees Are Sabotaging Biden’s Stimulus Checks, Will he let them sabotage Social Security as well?
https://prospect.org/politics/trump-appointees-sabotaging-bidens-stimulus-checks/
Will Trump’s Holdover IRS Chief Sink Biden’s Child Tax Credit?
Commissioner Chuck Rettig disingenuously claims he can’t meet the program’s July launch deadline.
https://prospect.org/politics/will-trumps-holdover-irs-chief-sink-bidens-child-tax-credit/
# Education / Schools
San Francisco School Board Ditches VP for Anti-Asian Tweets. Nearly
5,000 people signed a petition calling for Collins to go—and, on Thursday, they at least got part of their wish.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/03/21/mayor-breed-leads-chorus-of-officials-calling-for-school-board-vps-resignation-over-anti-asian-tweets/
Rutgers University Will Force Students to Get COVID Vaccine to Attend In-person Classes https://www.blackenterprise.com/rutger-university-forces-its-students-to-get-vaccinated-to-attend-in-person-classes/
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals Executives at billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy are pitching to spend over $8 billion to build 10 new natural gas power plants in Texas. In return, lawmakers would agree to create a revenue stream for Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway through an additional charge on Texans’ power bills.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/25/warren-buffett-texas-power-plants/
The U.S. chemical safety board was slashed by Trump. Its backlog is piling up. The board’s final report on the 2019 release of a potentially lethal chemical at a Philadelphia refinery is among 19 awaiting approval.
https://publicintegrity.org/environment/chemical-safety-agency-backlog-refinery-explosion/
Oil companies are winning approval to build massive crude tanks, largely in communities of color, despite states’ clean energy pledges.
https://capitalandmain.com/despite-climate-commitments-health-concerns-states-approve-giant-fuel-tanks-0325?utm_source=Energy+News+Network+daily+email+digests&utm_campaign=f9a59c24e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_11_11_46_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_724b1f01f5-f9a59c24e0-89260183
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Global
The EPA revokes a permit for an oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands, citing years of air and water pollution affecting the largely Black and Hispanic surrounding community.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25032021/biden-epa-limetree-oil-refinery-virgin-islands-permit/
# Global Politics and other news
Saudi accused of threat to Khashoggi UN investigator is human rights chief Awwad al-Awwad, former aide of crown prince, denies threatening to ‘take care of’ Agnès Callamard https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/25/saudi-accused-of-threat-to-khashoggi-un-investigator-is-human-rights-chief
# Gov / Political
Not Very Slow Joe Biden Destroys the GOP on Deficits. “All of a sudden many of them have rediscovered fiscal restraint and the concern for the deficits. But don’t kid yourself, this approach will come with a cost:
more pain for more people for longer than it has to be.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/537548-biden-rips-gop-for-all-of-a-sudden-showing-fiscal-restraint
GA Pols Sign Voter Suppression Bill Under Pic of Plantation. The photo of white lawmakers celebrating a bill that will disenfranchise Black voters went viral on Thursday night.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a35951372/georgia-voting-bill-jim-crow/
Threat of Authoritarianism Is No Longer on the Horizon: It’s Arrived in the GOP To counter the fascist politics in the GOP, we need liberatory forms of education to expand the public imagination.
https://truthout.org/articles/threat-of-authoritarianism-is-no-longer-on-the-horizon-its-arrived-in-the-gop/
Georgia Republicans Just Passed a Law to Make It Easier to Overturn Elections The bill hands the GOP-controlled legislature far-reaching control over election administration and who gets to vote.
https://truthout.org/articles/georgia-republicans-just-passed-a-law-to-make-it-easier-to-overturn-elections/
Georgia Rep. Arrested for Knocking on Kemp’s Door as He Signed Voter Suppression Bill. Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon was reportedly charged with two felonies for knocking on the governor’s office door.
https://truthout.org/articles/ga-rep-arrested-for-knocking-on-kemps-door-as-he-signed-voter-suppression-bill/
Georgia’s new voter suppression law is hit with its first lawsuit https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2021/03/georgia-voter-suppression-law-lawsuit-stacey-abrams-marc-elias/
It is now illegal to give you a bottle of water while in line to vote in Georgia https://truthout.org/articles/georgia-bill-would-criminalize-giving-water-to-voters-waiting-in-long-lines/
The Companies Already Bankrolling Insurrectionists Again. They said they wouldn’t be giving to Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election. They’re already donating again.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-mega-businesses-are-already-back-to-bankrolling-insurrectionists
# Legal / Judicial / DOJ
House launches probe into intelligence failures preceding Capitol insurrection “The Committees will conduct robust oversight to understand what warning signs may have been missed,” the House committee leaders said in a letter.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/16/house-probe-capitol-riot-459883
Cops Drag GA Rep From Capitol for Voter-Suppression Protest. In a video, Rep. Park Cannon can be seen knocking on the door to the governor’s office before she’s forcibly removed by two police officers.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/park-cannon-georgia-lawmaker-arrested-and-dragged-from-capitol-for-protesting-new-voter-restrictions
Jacob Blake Sues Cop Who Shot Him Seven Times in the Back. The shooting sparked several nights of unrest in the Wisconsin city of Kenosha and the deaths of two protesters.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jacob-blake-lawsuit-excessive-force-rusten-sheskey-kenosha-officer/
# LGBTQ
Arkansas Governor Signs Anti-Trans Sports Bill Into Law. “This is simply a politically motivated bill for the sake of discrimination itself,” HRC President Alphonso David said, after the anti-trans Senate Bill 354 was signed into law.
https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/3/25/arkansas-governor-signs-anti-transgender-sports-bill-law
# Media
Senator Demands Firing of Postmaster General Over 10-Year Plan to Weaken USPS https://truthout.org/articles/senator-demands-firing-of-postmaster-general-over-10-year-plan-to-weaken-usps/
# Medical / Health
‘Mystery chemicals’ found in pregnant Bay Area women. Forty-two “mystery chemicals” were found in the blood of 30 Bay Area pregnant women https://www.ehn.org/unknown-chemicals-in-people-2651205715.html
# Social
Landlord Took $1M in Relief Then Moved to Evict 350 Tenants. Half the properties that got money from an eviction-prevention fund in Arizona filed to toss tenants.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/arizona-landlord-took-dollar1-million-in-covid-19-relief-then-moved-to-evict-350-tenants
This Son of the Confederacy Gets Paid to Lock Up Black Men. He’s been at the center of a national scandal and a half-dozen local ones, but none of that has made the state do anything other than note it is “aware of the concerns raised.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-north-carolina-paying-this-proud-son-of-confederate-veterans-to-lock-up-black-men
# Weather
TX Winter Storm Toll Was Actually Twice as High: Officials: The new number of fatalities is now 111 and is expected to rise as investigations continue.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-power-grid-failures/
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