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Industrial Pollution Is Threatening Our Drinking Water: A Dispatch From Los Angeles County
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32031-industrial-pollution-is-threatening-our-drinking-water-a-dispatch-from-los-angeles-county
Daniel Ross, Truthout: While a drought-stricken LA county scrambles to find funds and solutions to clean up toxic chemicals dumped by industry for decades into the water supply, a report finds illegal wells have dumped billions of gallons of hazardous oil waste into protected aquifers throughout the state.
Why New Jobs Are Not Worth the Price of Prisoners' Lives
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32024-why-new-jobs-are-not-worth-the-price-of-prisoners-lives
Alexa Van Brunt, Truthout: Sen. Dick Durbin, an outspoken critic of solitary confinement, is supporting the opening of a high-security prison in Illinois, which would essentially double the number of federal prisoners held in isolation. Durbin should refuse to allow promises of new jobs to trump prisoners' rights.
Shame on Eric Holder, Wall Street's Attorney General
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32025-shame-on-eric-holder-wall-street-s-attorney-general
Clara Herzberg, Truthout: Eric Holder and his ilk entrenched the idea that bankers who gamble away trillions of dollars should face no criminal consequences since prosecution risks destroying the economy. Thus, Holder never convicted anyone for the crimes that spawned the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32026-alec-admits-school-vouchers-are-for-kids-in-suburbia
Jonas Persson, PR Watch: School vouchers were never about helping poor, at-risk or minority students. But selling them as social mobility tickets was a useful fiction that for some 25 years helped right-wing ideologues and corporate backers gain bipartisan support for a scheme designed to privatize public schools.
Protests Demand Justice for Sandra Bland and Kindra Chapman, Black Women Found Dead in Jail
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32035-protests-demand-justice-for-sandra-bland-and-black-teen-found-dead-in-jail
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Hundreds gathered in New York to honor Sandra Bland and highlight the case of Kindra Chapman, an 18-year-old African-American woman found dead in an Alabama jail cell one day after Bland was found dead. Protesters also honored India Clarke, the 10th transgender woman murdered so far this year.
Red Cross Itself May Not Know How Millions Donated for Haiti Were Spent
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32027-red-cross-itself-may-not-know-how-millions-donated-for-haiti-were-spent
Justin Elliott, ProPublica: Documents raise questions about the accuracy of the Red Cross' count of how many Haitians it helped, concluding the figures on one project were "fairly meaningless." The findings parallel earlier reporting about the Red Cross' troubled Haiti program.
How China and Russia Are Running Rings Around Washington
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32030-how-china-and-russia-are-running-rings-around-washington
Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch: While the Vienna Iran deal was being negotiated, Russia and China - countries the Pentagon has officially labeled as "threats" - have been moving mountains to integrate ever larger parts of Eurasia into a vast economic zone that will be beyond Washington's power and control.
New Mexico Field and Dairy Laborers Win Right to Workers' Comp
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32006-new-mexico-field-and-dairy-laborers-win-right-to-workers-comp
Joseph Sorrentino, In These Times: The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled in June that excluding field and ranch workers from workers' comp protection is unconstitutional. It was the second victory for New Mexico's farmworkers in less than a year - and that's big news in a low-wage sector.
US Could End Ban on Crude Oil Exports in a Slick Maneuver
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/32028-us-could-end-ban-on-crude-oil-exports-in-a-slick-maneuver
Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords: The Iran deal could trigger an end to restrictions on US crude oil exports. But the ban is already punctured. The United States, which imports 7 million barrels a day of crude, also exports half a million barrels of it every 24 hours.
UK High Court Rules Surveillance Law Unconstitutional in Groundbreaking Case
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32029-uk-high-court-rules-surveillance-law-unconstitutional-in-groundbreaking-case
Marianne Franklin, The Conversation: Controversial surveillance legislation hustled through Parliament last summer has been ruled unlawful by the UK High Court, which argued that the vague terms and descriptions of powers in the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act renders the act incompatible with human rights under European law.
New Convention Will Help Protect Latin America's Elderly
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/32004-new-convention-will-help-protect-latin-america-s-elderly
Emilio Godoy, Inter Press Service: Discrimination, abandonment or neglect by families, and lack of care, work opportunities and full access to social services are all problems faced by people older than 60 in Latin America. To address this situation, the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons was approved.
UK Is Privatizing Aid to the Developing World as Corporations Seek Their Cut
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31999-uk-is-privatizing-aid-to-the-developing-world-as-corporations-seek-their-cut
Tom Lawson, Occupy.com: Despite a secure future for the UK aid budget, with Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening talking of "emerging opportunities" for British companies in the developing world, it seems that poverty alleviation is no longer the only priority of the government's aid program.
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Obama Administration Grants Shell Final Permits to Start Drilling in Arctic Ocean
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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>Jonas Persson, PR Watch:</strong> School vouchers were never about helping poor, at-risk or minority students. But selling them as social mobility tickets was a useful fiction that for some 25 years helped right-wing ideologues and corporate backers gain bipartisan support for a scheme designed to privatize public schools.</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=jbxeJzmBNx54dZIBk3o0VPSK4v6MfKFI"><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=S7GWqB99HWbikWfaJ46d2fSK4v6MfKFI"><strong>Protests Demand Justice for Sandra Bland and Kindra Chapman, Black Women Found Dead in Jail</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!:</strong> Hundreds gathered in New York to honor Sandra Bland and highlight the case of Kindra Chapman, an 18-year-old African-American woman found dead in an Alabama jail cell one day after Bland was found dead. Protesters also honored India Clarke, the 10th transgender woman murdered so far this year.</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=x%2BQdF5sa2Z61dq%2Bcxa7k7PSK4v6MfKFI"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</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=UIV62duda9DknNmVGbxWlqms7qHpLKs2"><strong>Red Cross Itself May Not Know How Millions Donated for Haiti Were Spent</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>Justin Elliott, ProPublica:</strong> Documents raise questions about the accuracy of the Red Cross' count of how many Haitians it helped, concluding the figures on one project were "fairly meaningless." The findings parallel earlier reporting about the Red Cross' troubled Haiti program.</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=d%2FZ4gQtSJHaPHxtInE7Bg%2FSK4v6MfKFI"><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=20IudIDSbrSZKdDtQ3SHU%2FSK4v6MfKFI"><strong>How China and Russia Are Running Rings Around Washington</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>Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch:</strong> While the Vienna Iran deal was being negotiated, Russia and China - countries the Pentagon has officially labeled as "threats" - have been moving mountains to integrate ever larger parts of Eurasia into a vast economic zone that will be beyond Washington's power and control.</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=yrVQH712JHVUDGlvZr%2BbVvSK4v6MfKFI"><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=lqN2jMxr5t6QisiBsMumKPSK4v6MfKFI"><strong>New Mexico Field and Dairy Laborers Win Right to Workers' Comp</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>Joseph Sorrentino, In These Times:</strong> The New Mexico Court of Appeals ruled in June that excluding field and ranch workers from workers' comp protection is unconstitutional. It was the second victory for New Mexico's farmworkers in less than a year - and that's big news in a low-wage sector.</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=6r6NLB%2F%2BFnEIytF4fA%2FrzfSK4v6MfKFI"><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=ehZfdRr8vrpxroq6gWVzX%2FSK4v6MfKFI"><strong>US Could End Ban on Crude Oil Exports in a Slick Maneuver</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>Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords:</strong> The Iran deal could trigger an end to restrictions on US crude oil exports. But the ban is already punctured. The United States, which imports 7 million barrels a day of crude, also exports half a million barrels of it every 24 hours.</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=ho%2BmfSMLzx8zBO5qVQxe6PSK4v6MfKFI"><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=9zMAFdsKQ4AgZmN4mMMvb%2FSK4v6MfKFI"><strong>UK High Court Rules Surveillance Law Unconstitutional in Groundbreaking Case</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>Marianne Franklin, The Conversation:</strong> Controversial surveillance legislation hustled through Parliament last summer has been ruled unlawful by the UK High Court, which argued that the vague terms and descriptions of powers in the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act renders the act incompatible with human rights under European law.</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=Yr2naH5Med3owTLWLHn7DvSK4v6MfKFI"><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=BeCpnimffpe%2B5pyayyZ81ams7qHpLKs2"><strong>New Convention Will Help Protect Latin America's Elderly</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>Emilio Godoy, Inter Press Service:</strong> Discrimination, abandonment or neglect by families, and lack of care, work opportunities and full access to social services are all problems faced by people older than 60 in Latin America. To address this situation, the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons was approved.</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=mHg8ny1OMdYj8dpyHrD28qms7qHpLKs2"><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=yUga%2BG2TZaMCbDBD%2FVth%2FPSK4v6MfKFI"><strong>UK Is Privatizing Aid to the Developing World as Corporations Seek Their Cut</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>Tom Lawson, Occupy.com:</strong> Despite a secure future for the UK aid budget, with Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening talking of "emerging opportunities" for British companies in the developing world, it seems that poverty alleviation is no longer the only priority of the government's aid program.</p>
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