Rayshard Brooks Desecrates Martin Luther King’s Memory and Legacy At Ebenezer Church
This glorifying of Rayshard Brooks, a violent criminal, and apparent gang member, is going to do a lot of harm. …
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US Senator Wellstone Exposé of Bernie Sander’s Lies Regarding Dumping Vermont Nuclear Waste in Texas & Bernie’s Environmental Racism
US Senator Wellstone said regarding Bernie Sander’s Texas-Maine-Vermont Nuclear Waste Compact: “This story is depressingly familiar. A similar scenario unfolds …
Wall Built to Hide Slums & Families Evicted Ahead of Trump Visit to India
Link: https://youtu.be/eFz4gro7uhs Steve Herman @W7VOA tweets: “Clearing the way for @narendramodi and @realDonaldTrump“ in response to “Press Trust of India …
DC Attorney General Racine Co-Leads Multistate Lawsuit to Stop Trump Admin from Eliminating Food Assistance for Nearly 700,000 Struggling Americans
According to the Trump Administraion, if you are poor and unemployed you are supposed to have children or drop dead, …
LSU Heisman Trophy Winner Joe Burrow Shines Spotlight on American Poverty – Geaux Burreaux!
Tonight LSU plays Clemson in the New Orleans Superdome for the 2020 College Football National Championship. At four minutes into …
Lawmakers Refused to Increase an Infamous Prison’s Funding; Mayhem Ensued; Inmates Murdered; Convicts Escaped
The Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica have done a wonderful job of shining light on the situation during …
Inside The Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other On Fire and Gangs Have More Power Than Guards
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
From ProPublica: “LOCKED DOWN Inside The Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other On Fire and Gangs…
Trump Stumps for Republican Governor in Kentucky, Where Poverty Has Jumped to 15.7% (2018) & Mississippi with Poverty at 19.6%
Trump tweeted support of the wrong person on Friday. He thought he was going to Louisiana, instead of Tupelo, Mississippi …
Leader of the Castro Enterprise Involved in Armed Home Invasions that Targeted Victims of Asian-Indian & Other Asian Ancestry Sentenced to Prison
The reason that they were targeted is clear: Asian-Indian households have the highest median income of all ethnic groups in …
The United States Gave India its First Computer Science Program at IIT Kanpur (1962-72)
The United States foolishly gave India its first computer science program. No good deed goes unpunished. Americans Call Congress! https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials …
In India’s Assam State Poor Sell Assets-Pay Bribes to Prove Citizenship
India doesn’t want immigrants and even deports people who have always lived there who they think might have been immigrants …
Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging
From Kaiser Health News: “Starving Seniors: How America Fails To Feed Its Aging by Laura Ungar and Trudy Lieberman, Sept. …
US Census: Asian Men Earn Over Twice As Much As Black Women
Black women make $0.48 for every $1.00 earned by Asian men, $0.57 for every $1.00 made by white men, $0.52 …
Inside The Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other On Fire and Gangs Have More Power Than Guards
From ProPublica: “LOCKED DOWN Inside The Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other On Fire and Gangs Have More Power Than …
“Camden Not Rising”; Poverty Rate 37.4%; Holtec Nuclear Tax Break- Now Under Investigation- Was Over $1 Million Per Job; Holtec Still Importing Foreign Workers
6 minute video, “Camden Not Rising” link: https://youtu.be/oNGeaTO8ooA This short video shows poverty in Camden and interviews local people: “Camden …
Jeffrey Epstein, a Billionaire Friend of Presidents Trump & Clinton, Arrested for Sex Trafficking
From DemocracyNow.org: “Jeffrey Epstein, a Billionaire Friend of Presidents Trump & Clinton, Arrested for Sex Trafficking”, July 8, 2019 Link: …
Candidate For US Senate-Mississippi: David Baria Speech (November 1st)
Link to David Baria speech, November 1, 2018 (9 minutes): http://youtu.be/uXlV6oa9J-g More information: https://www.bariaformississippi.com https://www.bariaformississippi.com/priorities/ Final push people! Like, mile …
“From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice” (Book Review)
From H-Net.org: “Markowitz on Jackson, ‘From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Economic …
Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers, Homeless Used To Cleanup At Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Site; UN Experts Raise The Alarm
“Workers hired to decontaminate Fukushima reportedly include migrant workers, asylum seekers and people who are homeless,”… Tens of thousands of …
“The American Dream Is Rapidly Becoming The American Illusion”, UN Special Rapporteur On Extreme Poverty And Human Rights
https://www.census.gov/popclock/ The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights came to damning, but unsurprising, conclusions after his visit …
CBC Chairman Statement on White House Criticism of US Congressmen Lewis, Thompson
““It’s laughable that the White House is criticizing John Lewis and Bennie Thompson for not attending the opening of a …
US Congressmen John Lewis-Bennie Thompson Joint Statement On Not Attending Opening Of Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (Racist-Sexist Trump Crashing The Opening)
“Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office of the White House after the March …
Meals on Wheels for Seniors Cut from Multiple Directions by Trump Budget; Loser Trump Gets F Minus on Moral Test of Government
Like Trump and minions, the Nazis hated the disabled and didn’t want to spent money to help and even killed …
Anti-Corruption Rule Lobbied Against by Rex Tillerson Repealed by US Congress Shortly After Senate Confirmed Him as Secretary of State; More Perks for Putin and Friends?
“It should be lost on no one that in less than 48 hours the Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed the former …
Lack of Accountability Just Endorsed by US Congress Allows Oil and Mining Companies to Keep Robbing Countries of Money Needed to Reduce Poverty, Improve Education, Health Care, Agriculture and Reduce Migration
“Managed properly, Oxfam argues, revenues generated from the oil industry could dramatically reduce poverty while improving education, health care, and …
Cardin Statement on Senate Repeal of Key Anti-Corruption Rule for Oil, Gas, Mining Industry
https://www.c-span.org/video/?423407-1/rex-tillerson-sworn-secretary-state “FEBRUARY 03, 2017 Cardin Statement on Senate Repeal of Key Anti-Corruption Rule for Oil, Gas Industry WASHINGTON – U.S. …
Why Should the US Solve Australia’s Offshore Refugee Problem? Why Does Australia Have Lots of Room for People from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc., but None for these Refugees?
It remains unclear why Australia doesn’t want to accept the refugees that it has left offshore on the islands of …
Trump Still Considering Swapping Central American Refugees (in Costa Rica) to Australia in Exchange for Middle Easterners Detained by Australia! Not a Joke!
A Trump spokesperson said on Tuesday, as reported by Reuters, that the U.S. will still take the over 1,000 Middle …
Carson Evaded Sen. Warren Questions on Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Conflicts of Interest; How Many Real Estate Scions Are Needed as White House Assistants?
When you hear about public-private partnerships, urban redevelopment projects, the wall with Mexico, or even infrastructure and lead abatement keep …
What is Union School in Haiti where the late Monica Petersen Supposedly Taught?
US Embassy Compound Haiti Across from Gated Community for Embassy Workers What is Union School in Haiti where a Monica …
The US to Swap Indigenous Peoples of the Americas to Australia in Exchange for Middle East Muslims? Not a Joke! It’s in Reuters
The US promised Australia that they would take a bunch of Middle Eastern refugees-migrants that are trying to enter Australia …
Congressmen Ruiz, Grijalva Request Oversight Hearing to Discuss Tribal Consultation for Dakota Access Pipeline-Not an Isolated Incident
As these Congressmen point out, Dakota Access Pipeline is not the first nor only consultation failure. For instance, the US …
Radioactive Racism at Radioactive Garbage Site in Memphis, Decades After Martin Luther King’s Support of Memphis Garbage Workers Led to his Assassination
Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Photo of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike Diorama at the National Civil Rights Museum, by Adam…
Improved Access to Voting Needed for American Indians and Alaska Natives says US DOJ; Lack of Rights in their own Land; Most Economically Impoverished of Americans
Note: By American Indians is meant Native Americans, indigenous to North America, and not the many migrants from India, who …
104 year old, US Civil Rights Activist, Survivor of Bloody Sunday (Selma, Alabama, 1965) Passed On
From DemocracyNow.org: “WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2015 Civil Rights Activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, Survivor of Bloody Sunday, Dies at 104 Civil …
“The Freedom to Demonstrate” Against Uranium Mining for Almost a Decade: Cameco vs. Clean Water & Lakota Sioux
“SOME DAY THE EARTH WILL WEEP, SHE WILL BEG FOR HER LIFE, SHE WILL CRY WITH TEARS OF BLOOD. YOU …
Cameco Uranium Mining vs. Clean Water & Lakota People
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, is holding evidentiary hearings starting today, Aug. 24 through August 28, in Crawford, Nebraska: …
Might You be Forced to be a Nuclear Worker? Snatched from a Cinema to Fight a Nuclear Fire?
As we’ve recently discussed, Savannah River Nuclear Site is one of the top “welfare to work” employers for several South …
Canada Resource Grab: Past-Present Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples to Gain Control over Land and Resources – Landmark Report
By DemocracyNow.org: “WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015 “Cultural Genocide”: Landmark Report Decries Canada’s Forced Schooling of Indigenous Children The Truth and …
Gold Mining, Poverty, Debt, Militarism and Revolt in Burkina Faso
Mine in Burkina Faso: probably Kalsaka gold mine. It is huge. As of 2012, there were 6 gold mines in …
Radioactive Racism at Radioactive Garbage Site in Memphis, Decades After Martin Luther King’s Support of Memphis Garbage Workers Led to his Assassination
Photo of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike Diorama at the National Civil Rights Museum, by Adam Jones, Ph.D., CC-By-SA-3.0 via …
