New Report Sheds Light on Fossil Fuel Industry’s Effect on Latinx Communities High asthma, low insurance rates and close proximity to oil and gas facilities make for a dangerous combination. The fossil fuel industry is harming the well-being of Latinx communities, according to a report the Clean Air Task Force released yesterday (September 27). “What we found… Read More Fossil Fuel Industry’s Heavy Impact on Latinx Communities
“On climate change and domination: Some thoughts on the Baton Rouge police protests and rain” Editor: This article by Alycee Lane is a profound analysis that uncovers the connections between police brutality and climate change. She shows that police oppression of Black, Indigenous and other colonized people is part of the same system that enforces the extraction and burning… Read More Atmosphere of Domination: Thoughts on the Baton Rouge police protests and rain
EPA is ‘failing’ its environmental justice obligations, civil rights watchdog says Coal ash was front and center in the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report. CREDIT: FLICKR/Alan Greig The Environmental Protection Agency is “failing” in its environmental justice obligations while struggling to help poor communities of color facing pollution, particularly coal ash, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights… Read More EPA ‘failing’ on environmental justice
“We’re Freedom Fighters”: The Story of the Nationwide Prison Labor Strike Sunday, 18 September 2016 00:00 By James Kilgore, Truthout | Report (Image: IWW Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee) We need your help to stay hot on the trail of injustice and corruption. It only takes a moment — click here to support independent reporting! The first national… Read More Sept. 9 National Prison Labour Strike
DOUG SAUNDERS The Globe and Mail Where to find school bullies? Not where you might expect A few years ago, I found myself in the vice-principal’s office at a Toronto elementary school with a majority of recent immigrants and refugees from Africa, Asia and the Middle East in its student body. I was struck by… Read More Immigrant Schools: Less Bullying, Better Grades
A Five-Part Series on Sexual Exploitation in Buddhist Communities. Part 1: BPF Rising Up to End Sexual Abuse in Buddhist Communities Link to original article in BPF Turning Wheel Media: http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/rising-up-to-end-sexual-abuse-in-buddhist-communities/ Video Transcript Happy Valentine’s Day BPFers! I’m heading out today to join up with One Billion Rising, a movement to recognize that over 1 billion women and girls… Read More Rising Up to End Sexual Abuse in Buddhist Communities Part 1
Last night I listened to the CBC broadcast of Payam Akhavan’s speech on his work as a war crimes investigator for the UN, and as a jurist at the Int’l Court of Human Rights at the Hague. Akhavan is a B’hai, and he is now on my list of spiritual teachers that I hold on… Read More Payam Akhavan: B’Hai Human Rights Jurist on Empathy, Interdependence
