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KXL: Protesting at the Cheyenne River… • Lakota People's Law Project As Keystone XL pipeline (KXL) construction continues near our Cheyenne River Nation, youth organizers are leading the resistance! Last Friday, a group of young activists calling themselves  “Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective” held an action to bring attention to the ongoing threat of KXL.  Some were arrested, but they’ve now been released, thanks to the support of our tribal chairman, Harold Frazier. Over the coming weeks, the Lakota People’s Law Project will help these brave young leaders continue organizing in the community to keep the pressure on. Video: We’re teaming with the Cheyenne River Grassroots Collective and the Indigenous Environmental Network to organize the Cheyenne River Reservation against KXL. As you may know, the Trump administration recently lost a battle at the Supreme Court over KXL: in July, the justices upheld a Montana court’s injunction against KXL construction based on pot...

Why was $73 million 'missing' from this FCPA settlement? | The FCPA Blog Why was $73 million ‘missing’ from this FCPA settlement? Harry Cassin September 29, 2020 7:58 am Last week, Sargeant Marine agreed to  pay  the DOJ $16.6 million to settle FCPA charges that it bribed officials in multiple South American countries. The bribes it paid in Brazil alone helped the company and its trading affiliate win Petrobras contracts worth $185 million. Why was the penalty so small? Sargeant Marine earned around $37.9 million in profit from the bribes it paid in Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador. According to its  plea agreement , the base fine was $150 million due to the severity of the violations, with a range under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines of between $120 million and $240 million. The company received a 25 percent discount because of its “full cooperation and remediation,” the DOJ said. The DOJ said the final “appropriate total criminal penalty” amou...

I am with you #Bernie Let's take on and take down those crooks! Shawnee Lazore DO, HHD, PhD  #Kimmel Bernie Sanders Reacts to Trump Biden Debate Sep 30, 2020 Jimmy Kimmel Live Senator Sanders talks about the debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Trump’s refusal to accept real science, Biden’s thoughts on the Green New Deal and plans to combat the climate crisis, Trump refusing to condemn white supremacists, whether televised debates are constructive, Trump trying to do away with coverage for pre-existing conditions, the hypocrisy of Lindsey Graham in respect to Trump’s Supreme Court nomination, Americans losing faith in the electoral process, Trump cheating the tax system, and what he says to people who are thinking about not voting.

#DemocracyNow Philly Activists Reclaim 50 Vacant Houses, Creating a Model for Organizing as Mass Evictions Loom Sep 29, 2020 Democracy Now! In a historic victory for unhoused people, Philadelphia city officials agreed to hand over 50 vacant homes to a community land trust, following months of organizing and protest encampments. We hear from one of the organizers and speak to Philadelphia-based Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who has written extensively about housing insecurity and says the direct actions there are applicable across the U.S. "This dynamic exists all over the country where you have both empty housing and houseless people, a completely irrational expression of what American capitalism means," Taylor says. The sustained movement in Philadelphia established "a model for what all tenant organizing and activist groups should be taking up, which is occupy the space, occupy the properties and put political pressure on public housing authorities to do their...

Dying Indigenous woman records slurs uttered by Quebec hospital staff Sep 29, 2020 CBC News: The National An Indigenous woman on her deathbed in a Quebec hospital livestreamed the racist insults and threats she received from a nurse. The nurse has been fired and the woman’s death has renewed Quebec's debate over systemic racism.

The 1918 flu hit Native American tribes hard, just as coronavirus has done - The Washington Post Native American tribes were already being wiped out. Then the 1918 flu hit. Indian children who attended the Sheldon Jackson School in Sitka, Alaska, in the early 1900s. (Frank and Frances Carpenter collection/Library of Congress) By  Dana Hedgpeth September 27, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDT The letter delivered the worst news to Grace Nye. Her daughter Cecilia, a Yakama tribal member from Toppenish, Wash., had died of the flu at the Chemawa Indian School, a government-run boarding facility for American Indians in Salem, Ore. She was 16 and lived more than 200 miles away from her family. The letter from the school was dated Oct. 29, 1918. It read: My dear Mrs. Nye: During the scourge of Spanish Influenza from which your daughter Cecilia died I was so extremely busy that it was impossible for me to tell you the particulars in connection with th...