The FBI’s repeated opposition to the release of Leonard Peltier is driven by vindictiveness and misplaced loyalties, according to a former senior agent close to the case who is the first agency insider to call for clemency for the Indigenous rights activist who has been held in US maximum security prisons for almost five decades.Coleen Rowley, a retired FBI special agent whose career included 14 years as legal counsel in the Minneapolis division where she worked with prosecutors and agents directly involved in the Peltier case, has written to Joe Biden making a case for Peltier’s...…The FBI’s repeated opposition to the release of Leonard Peltier is driven by vindictiveness and misplaced loyalties, according to a former senior agent close to the case who is the first agency insider to call for clemency for the Indigenous rights activist who has been held in US maximum security prisons for almost five decades.Coleen Rowley, a retired FBI special agent whose career included 14 years as legal counsel in the Minneapolis division where she worked with prosecutors and agents directly involved in the Peltier case, has written to Joe Biden making a case for Peltier’s...WW…

XALAPA, Mexico — Regina Martínez’s death was brutal. Someone broke in through the metal door from her beloved garden patio, the tiny patch of tranquility that kept her from moving from her modest cinder-block home to a safer location.The intruder probably surprised her in the bathroom, from behind, investigators believe. At barely 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, she scratched and struggled to fight off her attacker, leaving skin under her fingernails. The assailant broke her jaw with brass knuckles, then wrapped a rag around her neck, squeezing the life out of the region’s best hope for...…XALAPA, Mexico — Regina Martínez’s death was brutal. Someone broke in through the metal door from her beloved garden patio, the tiny patch of tranquility that kept her from moving from her modest cinder-block home to a safer location.The intruder probably surprised her in the bathroom, from behind, investigators believe. At barely 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, she scratched and struggled to fight off her attacker, leaving skin under her fingernails. The assailant broke her jaw with brass knuckles, then wrapped a rag around her neck, squeezing the life out of the region’s best hope for...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldResearchers say half a million infections might have been stopped if more states had suspended disconnections during pandemicLast modified on Fri 26 Mar 2021 11.32 EDTA national moratorium on water shutoffs could have prevented almost half a million Covid infections and saved at least 9,000 lives, according to new research.Good hygiene is essential to preventing the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus. Amid pressure from public health experts and rights groups, hundreds of utilities and states suspended...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldResearchers say half a million infections might have been stopped if more states had suspended disconnections during pandemicLast modified on Fri 26 Mar 2021 11.32 EDTA national moratorium on water shutoffs could have prevented almost half a million Covid infections and saved at least 9,000 lives, according to new research.Good hygiene is essential to preventing the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus. Amid pressure from public health experts and rights groups, hundreds of utilities and states suspended...WW…

The Texas governor has sent troops to fortify the border while advocates say the immigration numbers are being politicizedLast modified on Thu 1 Apr 2021 17.00 EDTThis is a so-called hotspot for irregular migration – folks crossing the border river without permission to enter the US – in what the Republican party and anti-immigrant activists are calling a crisis at the border. During one afternoon this week, there were more law enforcement vehicles cruising along this dusty 15-mile stretch towards Los Ebanos, a tiny border community connected to Mexico by a hand-operated cable ferry, than...…The Texas governor has sent troops to fortify the border while advocates say the immigration numbers are being politicizedLast modified on Thu 1 Apr 2021 17.00 EDTThis is a so-called hotspot for irregular migration – folks crossing the border river without permission to enter the US – in what the Republican party and anti-immigrant activists are calling a crisis at the border. During one afternoon this week, there were more law enforcement vehicles cruising along this dusty 15-mile stretch towards Los Ebanos, a tiny border community connected to Mexico by a hand-operated cable ferry, than...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldWater Act proposes massive injection of federal dollars as millions of people go without access to clean, safe, affordable waterSupported byLast modified on Wed 5 Jan 2022 10.22 ESTDemocratic lawmakers and advocates are urging to back legislation proposing unprecedented investment in America’s ailing water infrastructure amid the country’s worst crisis in decades that has left millions of people without access to clean, safe, affordable water.Boil advisories, leaky lead pipes, poisonous forever chemicals, bill arrears...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldWater Act proposes massive injection of federal dollars as millions of people go without access to clean, safe, affordable waterSupported byLast modified on Wed 5 Jan 2022 10.22 ESTDemocratic lawmakers and advocates are urging to back legislation proposing unprecedented investment in America’s ailing water infrastructure amid the country’s worst crisis in decades that has left millions of people without access to clean, safe, affordable water.Boil advisories, leaky lead pipes, poisonous forever chemicals, bill arrears...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldChild drowned while crossing the freezing Rio Grande with his family amid unprecedented weather conditions at US-Mexico borderLast modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 13.22 ESTAn eight-year-old Honduran boy has become the latest victim in a string of drownings on the as migrants attempt to cross the Rio Grande in treacherous winter conditions.The child, who has not been named, drowned on Wednesday while attempting to cross the freezing river with his family amid unprecedented Arctic conditions in the borderlands which have...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldChild drowned while crossing the freezing Rio Grande with his family amid unprecedented weather conditions at US-Mexico borderLast modified on Fri 19 Feb 2021 13.22 ESTAn eight-year-old Honduran boy has become the latest victim in a string of drownings on the as migrants attempt to cross the Rio Grande in treacherous winter conditions.The child, who has not been named, drowned on Wednesday while attempting to cross the freezing river with his family amid unprecedented Arctic conditions in the borderlands which have...WW…

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldOne in every eight households owes water debt, survey shows, with Black and Latino neighborhoods more likely to be in arrearsSupported byLast modified on Wed 5 Jan 2022 10.22 ESTThe magnitude of America’s water affordability crisis has been laid bare by shocking new data from where debt owed on water bills has hit $1bn and one in every eight households is currently in arrears.A survey by the state water board found at least 1.6m households are behind on water bill payments. The average debt is $500, but 155,000 or so...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldOne in every eight households owes water debt, survey shows, with Black and Latino neighborhoods more likely to be in arrearsSupported byLast modified on Wed 5 Jan 2022 10.22 ESTThe magnitude of America’s water affordability crisis has been laid bare by shocking new data from where debt owed on water bills has hit $1bn and one in every eight households is currently in arrears.A survey by the state water board found at least 1.6m households are behind on water bill payments. The average debt is $500, but 155,000 or so...WW…

As the election nears, young Americans are calling on US politicians to take action on climate, police brutality and immigrationSupported byLast modified on Wed 20 Jan 2021 22.19 ESTThe teenagers were online with the Sunrise Movement, a nationwide youth-led climate justice collective, to learn about organizing Wide Awake actions – noisy night-time protests – to force lawmakers accused of ignoring the climate emergency and racial injustice to listen to their demands.It’s a civil disobedience tactic devised by the Wide Awakes – a radical youth abolitionist organization who confronted...…As the election nears, young Americans are calling on US politicians to take action on climate, police brutality and immigrationSupported byLast modified on Wed 20 Jan 2021 22.19 ESTThe teenagers were online with the Sunrise Movement, a nationwide youth-led climate justice collective, to learn about organizing Wide Awake actions – noisy night-time protests – to force lawmakers accused of ignoring the climate emergency and racial injustice to listen to their demands.It’s a civil disobedience tactic devised by the Wide Awakes – a radical youth abolitionist organization who confronted...WW…

The president’s energy stance may not play well in a swing state threatened by pipeline projects and supportive of climate actionSupported by in West Whiteland and Uwchlan townships, Chester countySat 10 Oct 2020 03.00 EDTLast modified on Sat 10 Oct 2020 03.01 EDTThe spills are down to construction of the – a beleaguered multibillion-dollar project to transport highly volatile liquids extracted by fracking gas shale fields in western Pennsylvania to an export facility in Delaware county in the east, ready to ship to Europe to manufacture plastics.In Pennsylvania, four years after Trump beat...…The president’s energy stance may not play well in a swing state threatened by pipeline projects and supportive of climate actionSupported by in West Whiteland and Uwchlan townships, Chester countySat 10 Oct 2020 03.00 EDTLast modified on Sat 10 Oct 2020 03.01 EDTThe spills are down to construction of the – a beleaguered multibillion-dollar project to transport highly volatile liquids extracted by fracking gas shale fields in western Pennsylvania to an export facility in Delaware county in the east, ready to ship to Europe to manufacture plastics.In Pennsylvania, four years after Trump beat...WW…

Many residents of Martin county, Kentucky, won’t drink their tap water, a legacy of years of mismanagement Supported byLast modified on Thu 1 Oct 2020 20.43 EDTFlorene Reed always makes sure there’s enough bottled water for her teenage grandson, even if that means making do with tap water herself that causes a burning sensation in her stomach.Reed, 63, grew up drinking the crystalline water from wells and local springs dotted throughout the Appalachian mountains in Martin county, but switched to bottled while raising her own family amid safety fears linked to coal mining and mismanagement...…Many residents of Martin county, Kentucky, won’t drink their tap water, a legacy of years of mismanagement Supported byLast modified on Thu 1 Oct 2020 20.43 EDTFlorene Reed always makes sure there’s enough bottled water for her teenage grandson, even if that means making do with tap water herself that causes a burning sensation in her stomach.Reed, 63, grew up drinking the crystalline water from wells and local springs dotted throughout the Appalachian mountains in Martin county, but switched to bottled while raising her own family amid safety fears linked to coal mining and mismanagement...WW…