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Credit: © Richard Bluecloud Castaneda / Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace Responds to Forced Removal of Water Protectors

February 23, 2017 Kay Whatley

By Cassady Craighill, Greenpeace In solidarity with the water protectors at Standing Rock who are scheduled to be forcibly removed by the Trump administration at 2pm local time on February 22, 2017, Greenpeace USA Climate […]

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Standing Rock Denounces Army Easement Announcement, Vows Court Challenge

February 8, 2017 Kay Whatley

By Chelsea Hawkins and Sue Evans, Pyramid Communications The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on February 7, 2017, in a statement issued from Cannon Ball, North Dakota, said it is undaunted in its commitment to challenge an easement announcement […]

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Standing Rock will Challenge Any Suspension of Pipeline’s Environmental Review

January 31, 2017 Kay Whatley

By Chelsea Hawkins and Sue Evans, Pyramid Comm. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will vigorously pursue legal action to ensure the environmental impact statement (EIS) order issued late last year is followed so the pipeline process is legal, […]

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Tribe Says Trump Executive Order on DAPL Violates Law, Tribal Treaties

January 24, 2017 Kay Whatley

The Decision Puts Water for 17 Million People at Risk By Chelsea Hawkins and Sue Evans, Pyramid Communications The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said today that President Donald Trump’s executive action towards an approval of an […]

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Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Calls for Water Protectors to Return Home

December 6, 2016 Kay Whatley

The following letter, released December 6, 2016, is from the Standing Rock Sioux’s Tribal Chairman, Dave Archambault II: I know we have prayed and continue to do so. Now you must believe in your prayer. […]

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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Issues Proclamation in Support of Oceti Sakowin Camp Safety

November 30, 2016 Kay Whatley

Calls on President Obama to Stop Civil Rights and Law Enforcement Abuses By Chelsea Hawkins and Sue Evans, Pyramid Communications Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II, on November 30, 2016, issued a proclamation […]

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Hundreds Injured when Water Cannons Fired at Water Protectors

November 21, 2016 Kay Whatley

By Jamie Henn, 350.org Hundreds of water protectors were injured at the Standing Rock encampments when law enforcement blasted them with water cannons in freezing temperatures the evening of Sunday, November 20, 2016. The attacks […]

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president of Waterkeeper Alliance, speaking in Boulder, Colorado. Photo: John L. Wathen / Hurricane Creekkeeper.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to Visit Standing Rock on Nov. 15

November 11, 2016 Kay Whatley

Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to Speak At Standing Rock Reservation in Protest of Pipeline By Hailey Bossert, Mixte Communications Across the nation, communities face environmental and public health threats at the hands of […]

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Standing Rock Statements Released Following Police Actions

October 28, 2016 Kay Whatley

On October 27, 2016, hundreds of law enforcement, people in military garb, and military-style vehicles pushed back on the water protectors at the Cannon Ball Ranch encampment in North Dakota protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Following […]

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29 Water Protectors Arrested on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Target Journalists Covering DAPL

October 14, 2016 Kay Whatley

By Marjorie Cohn (NLG President) and Radhika Sainath (NLG Free Gaza Committee) Attorneys with the Red Owl Legal Collective (ROLC) of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) call on North Dakota law enforcement to respect freedom of press […]

Source: Krystal Two Bulls, Red Warrior Camp.
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Following Attack, Native Americans Call for Solidarity Sept. 3-17

September 3, 2016 Kay Whatley

Released by Cody Hall, Red Warrior Camp From the Cannon Ball River, ND 1851 Ft. Laramie Treaty Territory…Today, as we offered prayers to commemorate the 153rd anniversary of the Whitestone Hill Massacre against the Ihanktonwan Dakota peoples […]

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  • Source: The Max G. Creech Selma Historical Museum, Selma, North Carolina.
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    June 14, 2022
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    “JoCo Grows” Agriculture Initiatives Continue Through 2022 Strawberry Season
    May 17, 2022
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    May 17, 2022
  • "Chicken" is one of many films to be presented during the Franklin Flicks/NCISAFF dates in May and June 2022
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  • Writing time during the Spring Writers' Retreat 2022 at Rolling View State Park. Photo: Donna Campbell Smith
    FCAC Writers’ Retreat Provided Advice, Writing Time in Beautiful Park
    May 5, 2022
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    April 13, 2022
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    February 15, 2022

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Earth in Full View. The Apollo 17 crew caught this breathtaking view of our home planet as they were traveling to the moon on Dec. 7, 1972. It's the first time astronauts were able to photograph the South polar ice cap. Nearly the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible, along with the Arabian Peninsula. Source: NASA.
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NASA Seeks Applicants to #BeAnAstronaut

March 2, 2020

For the first time in more than four years, NASA began accepting applications Monday for future astronauts. Aspiring Moon to Mars explorers have until Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at 11:59pm (EDT), to apply. The call […]

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The Strange-ness: Chemtrails

February 1, 2013

Contributed by Chris Chappell By now everyone has seen crisscrossing streaks of white clouds trailing behind jet aircraft, stretching from horizon to horizon, eventually turning the sky into a murky haze. Our gut tells us these […]

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The Strange-ness: Ice Cream and Banking Together

September 15, 2012

A bit of odd news from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A local ice cream shop has started a bank, of sorts, that provide ice cream interest without the usual banking fees. Oh Yeah! Ice Cream And Coffee […]

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