Category: Climate
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Jose Gonzalez
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to a K-12 public education teacher, environmental education…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Defiant Donald Trump confirms US will recognise Jerusalem as capital of Israel Donald Trump has defied overwhelming global opposition by recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but insisted that the highly controversial move would not derail his own administration’s bid to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. #Trump#MiddleEast#Jerusalem#Politics#Conflict The Libyan Slave Trade Has Shocked the World. Here’s…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline shut after 5,000-barrel leak in U.S. TransCanada Corp has shut part of its Keystone pipeline after 5,000 barrels of oil leaked in Amherst, South Dakota, the company said on Thursday, four days before the state of Nebraska is due to decide on an expansion of the system. #NoDAPL#ClimateChange#OilSpill#NorthDakota Zimbabwe’s Military, in Apparent…
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The Battle for Truth and Justice
In November 2017, I was one of thirty military veterans selected for the Veteran’s Organizing Institute. The following weekend would be a deep dive into grassroots organizing, political theory, bird-dogging, sharing, and telling our stories. The familiar tread throughout the week was that it has always been a military and veteran component at the forefront…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump to triple US national park entry fees “We’re not against fee increases,” Emily Douce, the budget and appropriations director at the National Parks Conservation Association, told the Washingtonian. “Our concern is that we don’t want to price people out of the parks.” #NationalParks#Nature#Trump A quarter of the world will be African by 2050 “We are…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump Wanted Tenfold Increase in Nuclear Arsenal, Surprising Military President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest-ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room. #Trump#Nukes#Politics#War Brazilian court freezes former…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
President Trump Inside and Outside the Lines at the U.N. “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission,” he declared Tuesday, very deliberately from the rostrum of the General Assembly, about the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un. North Korea one-upped Mr. Trump on his reference to a 1970s Elton John lyric by labeling the president the…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones “People don’t survive 20 years of incarceration with any kind of grace unless they have the discipline to do their reading and writing in the chaos of that place,” Ms. Jones said. “Forget Harvard. I’ve already graduated from the toughest school there is.” #Women#Massincarceration#Havard#Prison…
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Evolved Man of the Week: Aaron Mair
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to environmentalist, activist, Navy veteran, and the former…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
For DACA Recipients, Losing Protection and Work Permits Is Just the Start Ms. Perez, the law student, has not given up her dreams of becoming a lawyer, and still thinks of her loan obligations from the perspective of someone who was months away from joining the bar. Asked to entertain the possibility that she could…
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