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These Politicians Are Helping Companies Take Gold From Public Lands for Free – The industry has extracted some $300 billion worth of these minerals from public lands in the U.S. since 1872 — Mother Jones

Barbara Crane Navarro

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part oftheClimate Deskcollaboration. Amid the recent skirmishes over revising the reconciliation bill, known as the Build Back Better Plan, lawmakers once again skipped a chance to reform the General Mining Law of 1872. Under this outdated law, hardrock miners canextract…

These Democrats Are Helping Companies Take Gold From Public Lands for Free — Mother Jones

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Criminalization of Indigenous land defenders

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Just prior to COP26, more than 120 organizations signedthe Call to Action from the Global Women’s Assembly for Climate Justicethat states: “We call on all governments to respect the right of freedom of expression and peaceful protest, and to immediately halt the criminalization of land defenders, whose efforts are central to a climate-just world.”

That statement calling for an end to the criminalization of land defenders was echoed byGlobal Witness, Fridays for Futureand others.

The UN Human Rights Council also passed a resolutionin March 2019 that affirms defenders “must be ensured a safe and enabling environment to undertake their work free from hindrance and insecurity, in recognition of their important role in supporting States to fulfil their obligations under the Paris Agreement.”

Third RCMP raid; Canada ignores UN resolution

The RCMP raid on November 18-19 is the third RCMP assault on Wet’suwet’en territory in support…

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Ann and Anna, (serial short story, Part 8): Lost

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

… Parts 7 (Rock), 6 (Believe), 5 (Naming), 4 (Home), 3 (Trust), 2 (Hope), and 1 (Nightmares) have posted on previous Sundays…

In my fear of the slave hunters, I had forgotten my fear of riding.

That was a grave error.

“Shoot ‘im again! Shoot ‘im!!”

As I looked back at that bear, its terrible face lifted to the sky, my grip on old Mary’s mane slipped a little. I let go with my right hand, reaching down as I turned my head back, feeling for the reins. More shots rang out, and I jumped, losing the right rein I had just retrieved. I was barely managing to keep my seat, stretched over the pommel as I was.

Then I saw the log.

When I awoke, it seemed like days must have passed. Night had fallen, cold and still. The smell of pine…

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Bullhead City Man Convicted for Threatening to Kill Speaker of the House of Representatives | USAO-AZ | Department of Justice

Yesterday, Steven Arthur Martis, 77, of Bullhead City, Arizona, was found guilty by a jury of one count of communicating an interstate threat to kill or harm Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. Martis is set to be sentenced on January 25, 2022.

On January 17, 2021, Martis called Speaker Pelosi’s Washington District Office from his residence in Bullhead City, Arizona, and left two voicemails. In his first voicemail, Martis threatened, “I’m coming to kill you . . . .” Martis followed up with a second voicemail, in which he advised, “You’re dead . . . .” Martis made these two calls after the Federal Bureau of Investigation had approached him and warned him about making similar calls in the past…

Source: Bullhead City Man Convicted for Threatening to Kill Speaker of the House of Representatives | USAO-AZ | Department of Justice