Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to win a seat in Congress. She went on to become the first Black woman to run for President.
Harper Lee died today in Monroeville, Ala., where she lived. She was 89. Her first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies and became one of the most beloved and most taught works of fiction ever written by an American author.
Hank Conner, a nephew of Ms. Lee’s, said that she died in her sleep at"The Meadows", an assisted living facility. [There are two books that I first read in my adolescence that made a lasting impression on me. One was "The Catcher in the Rye", and the other was this one, "To Kill A Mockingbird"]
R.I.P. Ms. Lee. You changed the world.
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Under the bill, there would be no new leases for extraction of fossil fuels — such as coal, oil, and gas — on all federal lands. It would also stop new leases for offshore drilling in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico and prohibit offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
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3) LATE NIGHT LAUGH
"Bernie Sanders has been fighting an uphill battle against Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump is battling with anyone who makes eye contact with him. Which means the only one who's safe is Ben Carson." ~ Stephen Colbert
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via Daily Beast"If the GOP frontrunner 'lost hundreds of friends on 9/11, and donated hundreds of millions of dollars to 9/11 victims', there’s no public record of it."
But there is actually an upside to it! It's also dumping huge amounts of nutrients and minerals into Arctic waters. The ground up phosphorus could be instrumental in reoxygenating the planet.
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Currently, Bernie Sanders is at 49% to Clinton's 42%, with a margin of error of 4.2%.
PPP is an establishment Democratic Polling Organization that usually, in their polls, gives Hillary the highest numbers among concurrent polls. So if PPP puts Bernie ahead by 7 points, this could be real.
Sanders has been closing the gap for months. Now, for the first time, he appears to be in the lead.10/18/15 ~ Emerson College Poll ~ Clinton-59%; Sanders-25%,11/22/15 ~ Boston Globe Poll ~ Clinton-54%; Sanders-29%,2/18/16 ~ PPP Poll Poll ~ Sanders-49%; Clinton-42%,
Hundreds of Wisconsin businesses closed in support of their immigrant workers Thursday, and the state's dairy farms went without a substantial portion of their workforce. Immigrants make up more than 40 percent of hired labor on Wisconsin's dairy farms. Voces de la Frontera, one of the organizing activist groups, listed tattoo parlors, tax services, daycares centers, and cafes that also closed statewide.
"CannaCon is the worlds largest Cannabis business marketplace. Boasting over 300 vendors and 10,000 attendees per show, CannaCon is the #1 marketplace for Producers, Processors and Retailers."
Doors open at 10am for Expo only goers, To see the speakers, Doors Open at 9am and close at 5pm
The Vatican, during the Aids crisis, would not back off their stance, saying you would go to HELL, if you used contraception! So this is a big deal. Kudos to you, Pope Francis! You rock!
The Vatican recently took in four Syrian refugees. That may not seem like very many, but proportionally, by population, it would be equal to the United States taking in 2.8 million refugees.
After five years on the radio, they expanded to TV, and then online, and are now broadcast all over the world. Kudos to one of the best news shows on the air!
“They’re nonrecyclable and nonbiodegradable, and the amount of them buried in landfills could circle the globe an estimated 12 times. Now Germany’s second-largest city appears to have aligned itself with the Kill-the-K-Cup movement.”
“Thanks to sweeping green-purchasing regulations that went into effect in January, workers and visitors at state-run buildings in Hamburg will no longer have access to single-use coffee pods. According to the 150-page Guide to Sustainable Procurement, government offices are now barred from buying ‘certain polluting products or product components.’ Bottled water and plastic cutlery are off the table as well, but the java capsules were specifically called out as problematic.”
“’These portion packs cause unnecessary resource consumption and waste generation, and often contain polluting aluminum,’wrote the guide’s authors.The tiny containers are promoted by manufacturers and celebrities—such as George Clooney, who hawks Nespresso—for their convenience. But they ‘can’t be recycled easily because they are often made of a mixture of plastic and aluminum’, Jan Dube, a spokesperson for the Hamburg Department of the Environment and Energy, explained to BBC News on Friday. Germany’s recycling plants are similar to others around the world in that they don’t come with equipment that can separate a foil lid from the capsule’s plastic bottom.”
“Dube also expressed concerns about the financial expense of single-use coffee pods to German taxpayers.‘It’s 6 grams of coffee in 3 grams of packaging,’ he said. ‘We in Hamburg thought that these shouldn’t be bought with taxpayers’ money.’”
“Jens Kerstan, Hamburg’s senator for the environment, told BBC News that prohibiting the pods sends a message to manufacturers and to Hamburg’s 1.8 million residents that waste won’t be tolerated. ‘With a purchasing power of several hundred millions of euros per annum, the city can help ensure that environmentally harmful products are purchased less frequently,’ he said.”
“As for whether the new rules in Hamburg will spread, there’s reason to hope. Germany’s Green Party, which has plenty of power in Hamburg, wields considerable influence across the nation and in the EU as a whole. Meanwhile, in the United States, consumers’ love affair with single-use coffee capsules seems to be cooling off. In February, Keurig announced its sixth consecutive quarter of declining sales of its machines.”
[How about recyclable pods made of hemp plastic? I’d develop it myself, but I had to give up caffeine a while ago, so that wouldn’t be much fun for me. But somebody should do it!]