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Mining the Grand Canyon?!

January 16, 2016 Comments Off on Mining the Grand Canyon?!

I’m really concerned by possible uranium mining in our precious Grand Canyon.  It was threatened before.  Then a coalition of conservationists, Native American tribes, and activists banded together to get the Grand Canyon protected via a moratorium on mining there.  However, as power shifts and special interests put on pressure (uranium mining is very lucrative), that could change.  This is, after all, an election year.

There’s a movement to protect the Canyon forever by having it declared a Heritage National Monument.  If you’d like to learn more and/or sign a petition to President Obama, go to Support the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument.  (If the link doesn’t work, go to http://grandcanyontrust.nonprofitsoapbox.com/grandcanyonnationalmonument.)

 

 

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So. Carolina Helps Unite America

July 10, 2015 Comments Off on So. Carolina Helps Unite America

This morning, America took an overdue step forward in uniting our people.  The Confederate battle flag came down from the SC state building.

Those Southerners who see the flag as a symbol of their heritage forget that this was not the original Confederate flag under which the Southern states united to preserve their economy.  In fact, it’s a symbol of division rather than unity.  If the Civil War didn’t make it that, SC did in 1961 when they raised it in protest against desegregation, the law that said that everyone, including Blacks, deserves an equal chance at an education and that people should not be divided into groups according to the color of their skin.

I think the crowd witnessing the flag’s retirement summed it up in their massive chant of “USA! USA! USA!”

 

 

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