USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.
Sen. John McCain supports ongoing genocide against the Navajo Nation
Submitted by dcu on Sat, 07/08/2006 – 3:47am.
My wife and I have just returned from visiting Navajo friends in
New Mexico and Arizona. Upon returning home I received an email from a
friend in Colorado about what John McCain is doing to the Navajo people. Read
about it below the fold:
Federal Wildlife Agencies Ordered to Ignore Global Warming
Any questions?
ASW
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 14, 2008 10:24 AM
CONTACT: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Bill Boteler (202) 265-7337
Federal Wildlife Agencies Ordered to Ignore Global Warming
No Review of New Greenhouse Gas Pollution for Impact on Species or Habitat
WASHINGTON – October 14 – Top Bush administration officials have forbidden wildlife
agencies from analyzing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired
power-plants or any other project on species and habitat, according to documents
released today by Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility (PEER). These directives are designed to block the
Endangered Species Act (ESA) from being used as a legal tool for addressing global
warming.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 13, 2008 1:32 PM
CONTACT: Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Haiti’s Hurricane Victims Facing Homelessness and Food Shortages
MSF Denounces Inefficient Emergency Response in Gonaïves
GONAIVES – October 13 – Five weeks after a series of hurricanes struck Haiti, people
in the city of Gonaïves are still deprived of essential services, the international
medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF) said today. Since early October, families have been evicted from schools and
churches where they had sought refuge after the storms destroyed their homes.