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Last Tuesday, Chilkat Forever delivered a powerful message to the Haines Assembly: nearly 300 Chilkat Valley residents have signed letters opposing the proposed Palmer Project and calling for long-term protection of the Chilkat River. The letters urge the Assembly to “keep the Chilkat River free of acid-generating mines and full of fish – forever.” —Continue reading “A River Worth Defending: Chilkat Community Mobilizes Against Mine – Native News Online”

The land parcel is near popular trails winding through palm canyons south of Palm Springs, and it was returned to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. — Read on http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/desert-tribe-land-return-22070949.php

The US is responsible for bombing an elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, during the opening hours of the US-Israeli war against Iran on February 28, a strike that massacred 175 people, the vast majority being young schoolgirls and schoolboys, according to a preliminary US military investigation. People briefed on… — Read on news.antiwar.com/2026/03/11/us-responsible-for-bombing-iranian-elementary-school-and-massacring-over-100-children-preliminary-investigation/

As Haiti’s interim authorities turned to explosive drones and a private firm run by Blackwater founder Erik Prince, the campaign promised precision. What it delivered, according to human rights investigators, was a rising civilian toll, a fog of secrecy, and another chapter in the long privatization of American power. — Read on http://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/03/12/the-drone-war-haiti-didnt-vote-for/

On July 10, 2025, as federal agents stormed cannabis farms in Ventura County, California, community members rushed to protest what they saw as yet another sweeping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid. Among them was Jonathan Caravello, a 37-year-old philosophy lecturer at California State University Channel Islands. Today, he faces a federal felony charge thatContinue reading “The State Is Escalating Charges Against Protesters. Labor Must Defend Them. | Truthout”

NorCal ICE arrests of noncriminals surge under Trump — Read on http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/03/08/ice-arrests-criminals-california-trump/

Last Friday (2/27), the U.S. Forest Service Black Hills Regional Office issued a permit for exploratory drilling for graphite at Pe’sla, a sacred Indigenous site and place of ceremony for thousands of years. — Read on ndncollective.org/usfs-rams-through-permit-for-drilling-at-sacred-site/

After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks. — Read on theappeal.org/arizona-perryville-prison-hunger-strike/