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Refinery Strike Is Not Just About Safety - It's About Pollution
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t r u t h o u t | 03.06
Refinery Strike Is Not Just About Safety - It's About Pollution
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29489-refinery-strike-is-not-just-about-=
safety-it-s-about-pollution
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: An estimated 7,000 refinery workers are striking at =
15 facilities in seven states. The ongoing strike is not just about making =
refineries safer for workers. It's also about preventing accidents that spe=
w pollution on neighboring communities on a regular basis.
Do the Americans With Disabilities and Civil Rights Acts Apply to Police Op=
erations?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29342-do-the-ada-and-civil-rights-act-apply-=
to-police-operations
Michael Avery, Truthout: A mentally ill woman was shot by police officers w=
ho failed to follow their training. The Supreme Court will hear her suit un=
der the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act, and the o=
utcome will determine the applicability of the ADA to police operations and=
the accountability of police under the Civil Rights Act.
We Must Create a Nation Where People Can Age With Dignity and Fair-Wage Sup=
port
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/29487-we-must-create-a-nation-wh=
ere-people-can-age-with-dignity-and-fair-wage-support
Ai-jen Poo, The New Press: Let's remember: people getting older is not a cr=
isis; it's a blessing. We're living longer; the question is how we should l=
ive. As a country, the United States must figure out how to embrace this de=
mographic shift with grace.
North Carolina Factory Farms Contaminating Local Waterways
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29488-north-carolina-factory-farms-contamina=
ting-local-waterways
Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News: A study published in January c=
oncluded that streams near large industrial farms in eastern North Carolina=
are full of bacteria from pig feces. For those battling the state for more=
stringent regulations, it's another knock against an industry that heavily=
impacts their lives.
Union, Environmental Group Say Nuclear Workers Suffering From Toxic Exposur=
e
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29491-union-environmental-group-say-doze=
ns-of-nuclear-workers-suffering-from-toxic-materials-exposure
Elizabeth Grossman, In These Times: Since March 2014, nearly 60 workers at =
the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State have sought medical att=
ention for on-the-job exposure to chemical vapors released by highly toxic =
waste stored at the site, some as recently as August.
Dean Baker | February's Strongest Wage Growth in Lowest Paying Sectors
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29500-february-s-strongest-wage-growth-i=
n-lowest-paying-sectors
Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: The labor market h=
ad another strong month in February, with employers adding 295,000 jobs in =
the month. While there were small downward revisions to the January numbers=
, this still left the three month average at 288,000 jobs. The unemployment=
rate dropped to 5.5 percent.
Attica's Ghosts: New Calls to Close Site of Prison Revolt After Guards Avoi=
d Jail for Brutal Abuse
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29498-attica-s-ghosts-new-calls-to-close-sit=
e-of-prison-revolt-after-guards-avoid-jail-for-brutal-abuse
Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: More than four decades afte=
r the infamous Attica prison uprising, conditions are savage inside the New=
York facility where three guards nearly beat a prisoner to death in 2011. =
The guards were charged for the attack, but they all have pleaded guilty to=
a misdemeanor and will not serve jail time.
"Missing Plastic" in the Oceans Can Be Found Below the Surface
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29501-missing-plastic-in-the-oceans-can-=
be-found-below-the-surface
Julia Reisser, Charitha Pattiaratchi and Maira Proietti, The Conversation: =
"The world's oceans contain trillions of plastic fragments coming from pack=
aging, fishing gear and other synthetic objects that break down at sea over=
time. Now we have published the first ever high-resolution depth profiles =
of ocean plastics."
Revolutionary Extractivism in Bolivia?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29506-revolutionary-extractivism-in-bolivia
Nicole Fabricant and Bret Gustafson, North American Congress on Latin Ameri=
ca: In neoliberal countries where violent dispossession is intensified, ext=
ractivism is easier to critique. Yet in Bolivia, where recently re-elected =
President Evo Morales speaks of deepening a socialist project through what =
we might call "social" extractivism, the ecological left is often at odds.
Make the Stop Overdose Stat Act a Priority for 2015
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/29503-make-the-stop-overdose-stat-act-a-p=
riority-for-2015
Emily Cerciello, Next New Deal: Opioid overdose is an epidemic in the Unite=
d States. Drug overdose death rates have more than tripled since 1990. It's=
time for Congress to take an evidence-based and public health focused appr=
oach to the epidemic of opioid overdoses.
Richard D. Wolff | Economic Update: Economic Decline and Growing Resistance
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29484-economic-update-economic-decline-a=
nd-growing-resistance
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: This episode provides updates on taxis vs. Uber=
vs. driver co-ops, an apology on Detroit, International Womens Day and cut=
ting workers' compensation. We also respond to questions on the economics o=
f debts, past and present. Finally, we give an in-depth critical analysis o=
f issues including resisting economic decline and extremes of economic ineq=
uality.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Fran Lebowitz: Capitalism Triumphed Over Both Communism and Democracy
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout:=C2=A0Perhaps one can argue that there i=
s still hope for democracy, the kind of faint pulse that an experienced par=
amedic detects when others have declared a person found lying in the street=
dead.
The BuzzFlash Commentary
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/fran-lebowitz-capitalism-triu=
mphed-over-both-communism-and-democracy
Elizabeth Warren Causes DC Freakout: Why the Liberal Hero Has Elite Washing=
ton in Hysterics
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/06/elizabeth_warren_causes_dc_freakout_why_the=
_liberal_hero_has_elite_washington_in_hysterics/?source=3Dnewsletter
Read the Article at Salon
Will US Greed for Profits Threaten Cuba's Eden, the Last Untouched Wildlife=
Forest and Coral Reefs in the World?=20
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/will-us-greed-for-profits-thr=
eaten-cuba-s-eden-the-last-untouched-wildlife-forest-and-coral-reefs-in-the=
-world
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
The NRA's New Low: Insulting Gabby Giffords
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/03/nra_s_pers=
onal_swipe_at_gabby_giffords_on_twitter_the_national_rifle_association.html=
?wpsrc=3Dfol_tw
Read the Article at Slate
We Must Honor the Legacy of Selma Footsoldiers by Repairing What They Fough=
t for=20
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-j-vagins/we-must-honor-the-legacy_b_6=
785522.html
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
Yet Another Oil Train Has Derailed and Caught Fire
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/03/choo-choo-boom-boom
Read the Article at Mother Jones
Dems Vow to Protect Boehner From Conservative Coup
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/234766-dems-would-back-boehner-in-coup-at=
tempt
Read the Article at The Hill
Why "You Drive a Car" Is Not a Good Rebuttal to Calls for Climate Action
http://www.grist.org/climate-energy/why-you-drive-a-car-is-not-a-good-rebut=
tal-to-calls-for-climate-action/
Read the Article at Grist
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>Perhaps one can argue that there is still hope for democracy, the kind of faint pulse that an experienced paramedic detects when others have declared a person found lying in the street dead.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We Must Honor the Legacy of Selma Footsoldiers by Repairing What They Fought for </strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Yet Another Oil Train Has Derailed and Caught Fire</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> An estimated 7,000 refinery workers are striking at 15 facilities in seven states. The ongoing strike is not just about making refineries safer for workers. It's also about preventing accidents that spew pollution on neighboring communities on a regular basis.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FJE13DpMvKO81vYvJXWeHaI9osPVGAEQ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Michael Avery, Truthout:</strong> A mentally ill woman was shot by police officers who failed to follow their training. The Supreme Court will hear her suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Civil Rights Act, and the outcome will determine the applicability of the ADA to police operations and the accountability of police under the Civil Rights Act.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C%2BKqbxq31Pcu4ojLq1Ri8KI9osPVGAEQ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=76KMtv8qvrvvGjZr%2FKWJRaI9osPVGAEQ"><strong>We Must Create a Nation Where People Can Age With Dignity and Fair-Wage Support</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Ai-jen Poo, The New Press:</strong> Let's remember: people getting older is not a crisis; it's a blessing. We're living longer; the question is how we should live. As a country, the United States must figure out how to embrace this demographic shift with grace.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nsxZVS7dTAi4x6I3V6E%2BVaI9osPVGAEQ"><strong>Read the Excerpt</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Brian Bienkowski, Environmental Health News:</strong> A study published in January concluded that streams near large industrial farms in eastern North Carolina are full of bacteria from pig feces. For those battling the state for more stringent regulations, it's another knock against an industry that heavily impacts their lives.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YD0YPt%2BrCEy%2FvfMtn1MOXKI9osPVGAEQ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Elizabeth Grossman, In These Times:</strong> Since March 2014, nearly 60 workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State have sought medical attention for on-the-job exposure to chemical vapors released by highly toxic waste stored at the site, some as recently as August.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kZrbPFF%2FbcG09sKFCsIM9qI9osPVGAEQ"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XXiz5D5dIa79RFzNI6GM3KI9osPVGAEQ"><strong>Dean Baker | February's Strongest Wage Growth in Lowest Paying Sectors</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research:</strong> The labor market had another strong month in February, with employers adding 295,000 jobs in the month. While there were small downward revisions to the January numbers, this still left the three month average at 288,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dropped to 5.5 percent.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!:</strong> More than four decades after the infamous Attica prison uprising, conditions are savage inside the New York facility where three guards nearly beat a prisoner to death in 2011. The guards were charged for the attack, but they all have pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and will not serve jail time.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qRp7m9Nm5OjoMxGTIR9FVaI9osPVGAEQ"><strong>"Missing Plastic" in the Oceans Can Be Found Below the Surface</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Julia Reisser, Charitha Pattiaratchi and Maira Proietti, The Conversation:</strong> "The world's oceans contain trillions of plastic fragments coming from packaging, fishing gear and other synthetic objects that break down at sea over time. Now we have published the first ever high-resolution depth profiles of ocean plastics."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Nicole Fabricant and Bret Gustafson, North American Congress on Latin America:</strong> In neoliberal countries where violent dispossession is intensified, extractivism is easier to critique. Yet in Bolivia, where recently re-elected President Evo Morales speaks of deepening a socialist project through what we might call "social" extractivism, the ecological left is often at odds.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Emily Cerciello, Next New Deal:</strong> Opioid overdose is an epidemic in the United States. Drug overdose death rates have more than tripled since 1990. It's time for Congress to take an evidence-based and public health focused approach to the epidemic of opioid overdoses.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Richard D. Wolff, Truthout:</strong> This episode provides updates on taxis vs. Uber vs. driver co-ops, an apology on Detroit, International Womens Day and cutting workers' compensation. We also respond to questions on the economics of debts, past and present. Finally, we give an in-depth critical analysis of issues including resisting economic decline and extremes of economic inequality.</p>
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