'Stupid Indians:' Make Ag Corp Eat Its Words

by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse

Supervisors of Giumarra Vineyards in California hurl racist insults at indigenous farm workers from Mexico:

"Stupid Indians" .... "Indians are of no use" ..."Indians don’t understand anything or how to do anything"

Workers reported these statements as evidence of the harassment and discrimination based on "indigenous status" for a lawsuit involving the sexual harassment of a 17-year old girl.

The farm workers are organizing to get a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract so they can obtain some protection from the continual abuse and violation of their rights by Giumarra, but a UFW rep told me it will be some time before it is unionized.

We can help now with an e-mail letter campaign to ask Kroger (which buys the produce) to enforce its company rules that  vendors can not discriminate against workers and "must operate in a manner that respects the rights of people."

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eKos: Record Warming & Melting of Greenland's Ice Cap

by FishOutofWater

Melt water, Greenland summer 2010

Photo: Sarah Das, WHOI

Record high temperatures over Greenland in spring and summer brought record melting of Greenland's ice cap in 2010.

Cumulative net annual area changes for the 35 widest marine-terminating glacier outlets

Increasing flow of warm melt waters into cracks and crevasses may lead to ice cap destabilization, rapid outlet glacier flow, rapid ice cap decline and rapid sea level rise.

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eKos: Record Warming & Melting of Greenland's Ice Cap

by FishOutofWater

Melt water, Greenland summer 2010

Photo: Sarah Das, WHOI

Record high temperatures over Greenland in spring and summer brought record melting of Greenland's ice cap in 2010.

Cumulative net annual area changes for the 35 widest marine-terminating glacier outlets

Increasing flow of warm melt waters into cracks and crevasses may lead to ice cap destabilization, rapid outlet glacier flow, rapid ice cap decline and rapid sea level rise.

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New Coal Ash Hotline and Video

by Bruce Nilles

The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed coal ash safeguards is winding down, with the deadline being next Friday, Nov. 19th. (Have you submitted your comment yet?)

But just because the deadline is approaching does not mean we're slowing our action on coal ash. It's toxic and must be treated as such.

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Daily bigjac heading over the cliff Poetry Slam

by bigjacbigjacbigjac

The worst thing we can do
for each other,
humans as a whole,
that is,
the worst thing we can do
for each other
is to feed each other.

And nothing else.

No numbers of how many of us
we can feed,
total,
and how many of us
should live in
this city
or that city,
this country
or that country,
based on available
drinking water,
and nearby farms
and ranches.

That is the worst thing we can do
for each other.

Feed each other.

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