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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

All fish tested from Michigan rivers contain ‘forever chemicals’, study finds | PFAS | The Guardian

Source: All fish tested from Michigan rivers contain ‘forever chemicals’, study finds | PFAS | The Guardian

What California roads and freeways are closed by winter storm? – Los Angeles Times

  • Interstate 5 was closed in both directions Friday morning through the Tejon Pass, according to the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans. Officials advised that drivers use U.S. 101 instead.
  • Highway 138 by Palmdale between Highway 14 and the 5 was temporarily closed due to snow falling at low elevations.
  • Highway 2, the Angeles Crest Highway, is closed from 3.3 miles east of Newcomb’s Ranch to Big Pines Highway, west of Wrightwood. Snow chains are required from the gate in La Cañada Flintridge and in Wrightwood.
  • Highway 33 was closed from north of Matilija Hot Springs Road to Lockwood Valley Road, north of Ojai, in Ventura County.
  • Highway 58 was shut down in both directions over Tehachapi Pass from Towerline Road east of Bakersfield to Exit 165 north of Mojave.

Source: What California roads and freeways are closed by winter storm? – Los Angeles Times

In the Grass Roots Begin — Filosofa’s Word

Originally posted on Troubador of Verse: ***** Recorded Poem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h7tp5kdsmqu217y/in%20the%20grassroots%20begin.wav?dl=0 ***** In the Grass Roots Begin I ask now: What is activism’sMost important goal?Be it perhaps to liberateEach person to be whole In any way that person feelThe need their whole to beManifest individ’uallyTruly completely free? I think it is. The question, then,Is whether I…

In the Grass Roots Begin — Filosofa’s Word

Exhausted, but no longer silent: A letter from Istanbul, Turkey — Petchary’s Blog

Global Voices often focuses on our uncertain, fragile world. This letter from a journalist in Turkey, reeling from the social and political aftershocks of the earthquakes, may resonate for Jamaica in more ways than one…

Exhausted, but no longer silent: A letter from Istanbul, Turkey — Petchary’s Blog