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

Steve Bannon’s lawyers quit after he calls for beheading of Dr Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray – Lyve.News

Source: Steve Bannon’s lawyers quit after he calls for beheading of Dr Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray – Lyve.News

US COVID-19 cases keep climbing, with no end in sight | CIDRAP

The United States reported 121,888 new COVID-19 yesterday, and 1,210 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard. That’s nearly 20,000 more cases than were reported yesterday, and the third day in a row of more than 1,000 deaths. The 7-day daily average of new cases is above 92,000.

The COVID Exit Strategy website, which measures each state’s progress based on 14-day trends in positive cases, hospital capacity, and testing, lists 43 states as having uncontrolled virus spread, and six as trending poorly. Only one state—Vermont—is listed as trending better.

“This is going to get worse before it gets better, and it could get significantly worse,” former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, told CNBC this morning.

Source: US COVID-19 cases keep climbing, with no end in sight | CIDRAP

Thanks to Stacey Abrams and Grassroots Organizers, Voters of Color Are a Force in Swing States

Abrams reach extended far past Georgia. Her organization, Fair Fight 2020, mobilized voter outreach efforts across the nation, connecting local organizations and activists with resources and manpower to protect the vote in their communities.

As impressive as Abrams work and foresight was, she was far from alone in this effort. Organizers like Tamieka Atkins of ProGeorgia, Nsé Ufot of the New Georgia Project and Deborah Scott of Georgia Stand-Up played pivotal roles in mobilizing voters across Georgia, rallying them around issues like affordable housing, transit equity, economic development and labor unions.

These same efforts transformed Arizona, a former conservative stalwart. Latinx organizations like Living United for Change in Arizona (Lucha) have worked for decades to flip the state, once known for its draconian Maricopa County Sheriff, Jeff Arpaio (regarded as a precursor to Donald Trump) and SB1070, a law that required local law enforcement to ask the legal immigration status of anyone they considered suspicious.

“The 10 years of this, it’s a sign that Arizona is moving in the direction that we envisioned since 2010,” Tomas Robles, co-executive director of Lucha, told The Guardian. “You have eight-year-olds who experienced the heartbreak of watching their families stand there in fear because of SB1070. They’re now 18-year-old voters. You have a ton of people that have grown up experiencing what it is to organize and what it is to build collective political power in a state that used to have none of it.”

Source: Thanks to Stacey Abrams and Grassroots Organizers, Voters of Color Are a Force in Swing States

Greece re-enters lockdown in an effort to save Christmas | New Europe

In a televised address to the nation, followed by an extended press conference, Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that the country would be entering a second full lockdown from November 7 until at least the end of the month in the hope that the move would help halt the growing nu

Source: Greece re-enters lockdown in an effort to save Christmas | New Europe

In the Arctic, ‘everything is changing,’ massive animal tracking study finds | CBC News

Animals across the Arctic are changing where and when they breed, migrate and forage in response to climate change, says a new study unveiling the massive scale of the change. The changes mean humans in the Arctic may have to adapt and adjust everything from hunting seasons to conservation to land use, scientists say.

“There’s changes everywhere you look — everything is changing,” said Gil Bohrer, corresponding author of the new study published online Thursday in the journal Science.

It describes the new Arctic Animal Movement Archive, which compiles data about the movements of 86 species from golden eagles to caribou to bowhead whales across the Arctic over three decades, combining the work of more than 100 universities, government agencies and conservation groups in 17 countries around the world, including more than a dozen in Canada. That allows researchers to observe changes on a scale they had never been able to before.

 

Source: In the Arctic, ‘everything is changing,’ massive animal tracking study finds | CBC News

Source: In the Arctic, ‘everything is changing,’ massive animal tracking study finds | CBC News

In the Arctic, ‘everything is changing,’ massive animal tracking study finds | CBC News

Animals across the Arctic are changing where and when they breed, migrate and forage in response to climate change, says a new study unveiling the massive scale of the change. The changes mean humans in the Arctic may have to adapt and adjust everything from hunting seasons to conservation to land use, scientists say.

“There’s changes everywhere you look — everything is changing,” said Gil Bohrer, corresponding author of the new study published online Thursday in the journal Science.

It describes the new Arctic Animal Movement Archive, which compiles data about the movements of 86 species from golden eagles to caribou to bowhead whales across the Arctic over three decades, combining the work of more than 100 universities, government agencies and conservation groups in 17 countries around the world, including more than a dozen in Canada. That allows researchers to observe changes on a scale they had never been able to before.

 

Source: In the Arctic, ‘everything is changing,’ massive animal tracking study finds | CBC News