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  • The Dirty Business Of Turning This Latino Farmworker Town Into A Toxic Wasteland

    **Update via  The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment

    Last Friday we submitted over 4,900 signatures and comments to the Department of Toxic Substances Control letting them know we aren't ok with Kettleman City being our state's dumping ground! Thank you to everyone who signed and the folks at Cuéntame for speaking up for what is right. We will keep you posted on the future of the dump's permit to expand by a whopping 50% (it is already the largest hazardous waste dump this side of the Mississippi River!)


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    Kettleman City is a rural, majority Latino and farmworker community halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is home to the largest hazardous waste dump this side of the Mississippi and to shockingly high rates of childhood cancer, birth defects and miscarriages - two facts residents believe to be connected. WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO EXPOSÉ.

     

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  • signed Side With Justice Over Racism! 2012-04-26 13:33:27 -0700
    What America doesn’t understand is the role they’ve played in causing this catastrophy. At some point, they have to take responsibility for their callousness: First of all, women are the heart of Mexican (and all Latin American) culture and civilization. The Indiginous women of the Americas have been ripped off for their land which is their livelihood. A woman needs her ancestral land to build her hut and plant her crops, raises chickens and a couple of sheep (for meat, wool for her blankets, milk for cheese etc).
    Without these resourses, a woman’s ability to maintain a family have gone from subsistance to zero. First the Spainards and then the Americans (working with the Spainards) have established Rubber, Coffee and Banana etc Plantations on these stolen lands The Indiginous women and their families are shoved onto the rocky hillsides to fend for themselves for the best lands have been stolen from them. When the torrential rains come, they’re wiped out. Destitute they move to big cities. If they die on the street, their children survive eatting from the city dump. When these children reach puberty, they have no opportunity for education. So what is left for them to do: Prostitution, theivery, drug dealing….or to go North for migrant farm work. These lands were stolen mostly because the Indiginous people didn’t have the taxes to pay for their land. For thousands of generations our people gave tribute to their local tribal leaders who cared about them. Everyone was taken care of. They never heard of taxes. But for 600 years now we have been slaughtered in one way or another. Now America blames us because they can’t tell the difference between a migrant farm worker and a terrorist. All Indiginous people of the Americas know Americans to be terrorists and derelects.
    Secondly, for thousands of generations, since the time of Lord Kukulcan, the Indiginous peoples of the Americas have used sacraments in a ceremonial way, with a curandero and family members to guide the young people into an awareness of spiritual life. These sacraments are not addictive. They are hallucinagenic. Cocaine is not a sacrament. It is a medicine in it’s natural leaf form. When it is cooked into a paste it becomes a poisen. Americans are derelects and don’t know how to use a sacrament in a ceremonial way that benefits. They just like to blow their brains out. Why? Are they trying to forget something?! or are they just ignorant barbarians who like to shoot Mexicans at the Border so they can put another notch on their high powered rifles and maybe win some kind of trophy for who killed the most Mexicans that month) in their secret societies. Well the great grandchildren of the Indiginous people are very hip to what America has done. Remember the Oliver North story of trading guns for drugs?!
    Who was Pablo Escobar selling hundreds of pounds and tons of cocaine too anyway. Wealthy Americans living in mansions in the suburbs! Who brought crack into the African American communities. It wasn’t Pablo and it wasn’t Latin Americans who fought for territory with the black communities for a right to sell to whites on every corner. It was these wealthy Gringos who figured out how to make crack and taught the poor impoverished people how to do it. And why….so they could make money, so they could get a cut of the profits! They are the real enemy of the American people. African Americans and Latinos born in America couldn’t afford to buy cocaine. So these wealthy sons of the devil “fronted” them all the cocaine they could sell.
    Stop putting this catastrophy on the victims. Americans caused this. We don’t even believe that America will ever own up to what they’ve done, just like they broke every treaty they made with Native American tribal leaders…. and are still so cavalier about it. That’s all I have to say at this time. Just think about it, and stop persecuting the Immigrants or give indiginous women their land back!!! and we can get out of your hair once and for all!!!

    Side With Justice Over Racism!

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    The United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Arizona v. United States, the Obama administration’s challenge to Arizona’s anti-immigration law, SB1070. What they won't be hearing is what and who has fueled this discriminatory legislation.

    Will justice triumph over racial profiling and discrimination fueled by supremacist and nativist fringe groups? We need to stand together in this most pressing time.

    We need to show that together we reject this hate agenda.

    Sign the pledge stating that YOU side with justice over racism! 

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  • signed Debbie: Say No To CCA! 2012-04-07 14:29:35 -0700
    People need jobs. Focus more on rehabilitation than punishing refugees. The world belongs to us all! Help the destitute and desperate to come up. Crossing the Border is a victimless crime. Why punish people more? When we push each other over the cliff,

    we can’t then say we’re fighting in “whereever” to create Peace and establish Democracy. That’s Demo-crazy! We don’t need Communism or Socialism…Democracy works fine when Americans live up to the rhetoric of our forefathers and mothers. We are so blessed. Can’t we give each other a break from all the brutality and be good neighbors?

    From: Strange Family http://youtu.be/FfSLZpGukjw

    Debbie: Say No To CCA!

    Why is FL Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz siding with the Corrections Corporation of America and not her constituents in Southwest Ranches? 98% of her constituents DO NOT want a new for-profit immigrant detention center!

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    IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT FOR SALE

    We call on Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-20) to WITHDRAW her current endorsements for CCA’s project.

    The Obama Administration announced a change in the priorities for detentions and deportations, to focus on real national security concerns, not on separating parents from their children or deporting DREAMers who are only seeking a better future.

    It is time for ICE to stop the immigrant money making machine and tell CCA to GO AWAY from Southwest Ranches.

    THIS PETITION IS NOW CLOSED - WE REACHED OUR GOAL!!! But feel free to leave your comment! 

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