U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii blocks the latest
version of the Trump administration’s travel ban
(Moslem Ban 2.0), saying it likely violates First Amendment protections.
Maryland Federal judge echoes Hawaii decision. But, according to Rob Hunter, writing in the Guardian UK, “the fate of the new ban will be decided in the
streets, not the courts. So don’t assume that judges can do the heavy lifting
for us.” The struggle is up to us.
California joined Washington and other states challenging the latest
travel ban.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes
to support DAPL divestment efforts, paving the way for San Francisco to become the first city to
actually withdraw funds from companies financing the pipeline.
Other cities having passed similar
legislation include Seattle,
Alameda, Santa Monica and Davis.
Sami (Laplanders)
indigenous people of Norway persuade second largest pension fund to divest from companies linked to
building the DAPL.
Storebrand, a Norwegian
investment manager divests $35 million from firms tied to DAPL.
Head of UN West Asia’s
commission, Rima Khalaf resigns after pressure from the secretary general to withdraw a report
accusing Israel of imposing an apartheid regime on Palestinians.
Marissa Alexander freed at last after two years of having to pay
for her own ankle monitor.
Families of Yuvette Henderson and Kayla Moore have the right to a jury trial to bring
justice for both women assassinated by law enforcement.
Facebook Forbids Police from using its data for surveillance.
Bechtel Corporation
pulls out of mini-nuclear development.
Quote of the week:
Instead of foreign policy, we have a
sports league kicking the globe around for power and glory and people rooting
for their team rather than examining the events in play.
—Judith Bello
Ready for the April 29 Nationwide Climate
Action
“I think one of the best things that we can do is look into economic
conversion of the defense industry into green industries, working on
sustainable and renewable forms of energy and/or connecting with indigenous
people who are trying to reclaim their lands from the pollution of the military
industrial complex. The best thing to do would be to start on a very local level
to reclaim a planet healthy for life.” — Cindy
Sheehan
Working with groups
determined to participate in the April 29 climate mobilization and planning
actions of their own, I offer this DRAFT of a flyer text which makes the
connection between militarism with Climate Collapse (fits 8 1/2 X 11):
TO Fight Global Warming & Planetary degradation WE NEED PEACE
Fact 1: The U.S. Military is the greatest unreported
polluter on the planet with uninhibited use of fossil fuels, massive creation
of greenhouse gases, and extensive release of radioactive and chemical
contaminants in the air, water, and soil.
Fact 2: While making war to control more oil, it is a top
consumer of fossil fuels,
burning 340,000 barrels a day, 80 percent of the federal
energy demand.
Fact 3: The US military has dumped corroding barrels of
nuclear waste in the oceans, and chemical contaminants into the soils and water
table.
Fact 4: Life on the planet cannot survive continued
conventional war making, let alone nuclear war. U.S. wars have created
sacrifice zones in the US and worldwide, contaminated by the use of depleted
uranium, land mines and cluster bombs.
Fact 5: The U.S. military is an agent of environmental
degradation with its destruction of 70 acres of a Guam world heritage site
coral reef for a naval harbor.
Fact 6: With its use of sonar, the U.S. Navy is accountable
for the deaths of whales and dolphins, all animals which depend on their own
sonar for survival.
Fact 7: Instead of making more jobs available for
marginalized people, militariz- ation reduces the number of jobs available in
all other sectors, including teaching.
Fact 8: While profiting from its wars, the U.S. bankrupts
other countries. The U.S. made $53 million on Gulf War I while costing 40 low
& middle income countries 1 percent of the GDP, Yemen, 10 percent, and
Jordan a whopping 25 percent.
Fact 8: Militarization is not good for kids, 33% of them
live in poverty (that includes the US), while the US spends 60% of its budget
on militarization.
Sources:
http://projectcensored.org/2-us-department-of-defense-is-the-worst-polluter-on-the-planet/
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/20146-militarism-and-violence-are-so-yesterday-its-time-to-make-peace-the-reality
https://thenearlynow.com/the-smokestacks-come-tumbling-down-c03ba1294522#.cd3khtjc1
Rosalie Bertell: Planet Earth
Peace Pays! Peace
Pays! Peace Pays! Peace Pays!
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