Item: A few months ago, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management renewed the previously cancelled mineral exploration leases to Antofagasta, the Chilean mining giant that owns Twin Metals, the Canadian penny-stock company that has been doing the groundwork for Antofagasta’s experimental plans to mine copper in via an underground mine in water-rich northern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Quetico Provincial Park in Canada.

 

Prior to Trump’s administration, the US Forest Service concluded that copper mining posed "an inherent risk of irreparable harm to an irreplaceable wilderness." The Trump administration had earlier cancelled a more complete study that would have fully determined the extent of that harm.

 

"It is now more clear than ever that the Trump administration is steamrolling the American people and allowing a foreign mining company to write the rules when it comes to America's most popular wilderness.'' Tom Landwehr, of Save the Boundary Waters, said in a statement.

 

 

Hobbs & Shaw is an action-packed spin-off from the Fast & Furious film franchise, with Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) and Jason Stratham reprising their roles from that highly kinetic cinematic series as the titular Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw. There are plenty of explosions, car chases, combat, death defying stunts that makes Evel Knievel look like a wuss and the like in this 2 hour and 15 minute ultra-violent, noisy movie-movie. In H&S, what Hitchcock called the MacGuffin - the plot device that provides the cosmic rationale for all of the story’s frenetic derring-do - is a serum with a virus that will wipe out humanity.

 

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Friday, August 2, 2019, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Frankly County Municipal Court, 375 S. High St., Columbus 43215.

“So, Senator Sanders, do you think that someone who’s profited from the current so-called healthcare system, like John Delaney, is qualified to tell you not to change it?”

is a different sort of question from

“So, Congressman Delaney, won’t good Americans run screaming from Senator Sanders’ rabid socialism?”

Similarly,

“Senator Warren, what percentage of federal discretionary spending now goes to militarism and what percentage should?”

is a different sort of question from

“Senator Warren, we’ve all heard that irrelevant crap about how Medicare for All will cost people less money overall, but will you just admit that it would raise taxes on the Middle Class?”

The Nixon tapes are still in the news! My God, they’re still spewing bile, still making America’s eyeballs roll.

They’re as relevant as ever.

Donald Trump, it turns out, is merely the inner Richard Nixon, live and uncensored. He’s also the inner Ronald Reagan — the inner voice, suddenly made public, of every white male racist who has ever occupied the Oval Office (which is probably most of the occupants).

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Wednesday, July 31, 6:30-8:30pm
Sporeprint Infoshop, 979 E. Fifth Ave.
Join us to discuss Chapter 1 of Jackson Rising, a 2017 book about "the struggle for economic democracy and black self-determination in Jackson, Mississippi." Chapter 1 is available as a free pdf here: https://maineworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/jackson-rising-chapter1.pdf

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On July 22, 2019, the Trump administration passed an executive order that expands the implementation of the expedited removal process, which can fast-track deportation procedures for persons detained by I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents, often without many of the legal protections typically afforded to those being deported from the U.S. According to the notice published by the Department of Homeland Security, individuals can now be deported, without a hearing in front of a judge, if they have “not affirmatively shown, to the satisfaction of an immigration officer, that they have been physically present in the United States continuously for the two-year period immediately preceding the date of the determination of inadmissibility.”

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Tuesday, July 30, 6:45pm
Kossuth Street Garden, 641 Kossuth St.

A series of musical offerings, unplugged will be held each Tuesday night as volunteers water plants, weed, plant and tend the garden.
This week we feature Angela Cleary's finger picking and beautiful vocals.
We will feed our volunteers at 8.
This is the first of its kind and we hope it grows each week.

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