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Berenice in Mexico City is reading ‘America Day by Day’

“[Author] Simone de Beauvoir is fascinated with American culture. She travels alone and visits New York, Chicago and San Francisco. I like that she wants to know about the intellectual and the daily life. She’s empathetic with the creative class, but also with mothers and housewives. I recently visited Morocco and frequently travel to Guatemala to visit my mother. It is not that easy for a woman. The idea that women don’t play an important role persists. In countries with a high number of femicides and macho environments, like Morocco, Mexico and Guatemala, just being a woman is an act of resistance. Simone de Beauvoir inspires me to continue and to never shut up.”
—Laura García Sandoval for Subway Book Review in Mexico City




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Our National Monuments Help Define America


In April, President Trump ordered the U.S. Department of the Interior to reconsider 20 years of national monuments protections, opening the door to expanded drilling, mining and other harmful development.  But national monuments are inseparable from our heritage as a nation, and they hold irreplaceable memories for so many of us—Republicans and Democrats, city-dwellers and rural folks alike.  That's why Environmental Action joined with a coalition of environmental advocates, land stewards and others to send a clear message to the Trump administration: political and economic fortunes may shift in America, but our national monuments should be forever.  We delivered comments from 106,000 Americans like you to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke—altogether, the coalition rallied more than 2.7 million comments in support of keeping public lands in public hands.
Founded at the first Earth Day with a mission to protect the planet and all of us who live on it, we are Environmental Action. We stand up to big polluters, take on the corrupt politicians and give everyone in America a chance to be an environmentalist with simple, powerful actions.

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INHOFE OKAY WITH CLIMATE STUDY: Sen. Jim Inhofe, arguably the most ardent denier of mainstream climate science, said he has no problem with a provision in the compromise version H.R. 2810 (115) of the National Defense Authorization Act requiring the Pentagon to detail threats posed by climate change to military installations. "Let's have it so we know if they really believe that [it's an increasing security threat to the United States]," he told reporters. "I didn't object at all to that." [POLITICO's Morning Energy, November 16, 2017]


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This year, we've seen profound movement on many issues of importance to the SierraRise community:
  • The rusty patched bumble bee became the first bee in the continental United States to receive endangered species protections
  • The government tightened standards for lead exposure in public housing
  • Two terrible nominees -- Andrew Puzder for Labor Secretary and Sam Clovis for chief USDA scientist -- dropped out
  • Multiple banks have sold off their investments in the Dakota Access pipeline
  • KFC promised to remove antibiotics from its chicken by next year
  • A group of 91 banks agreed to update its principles to reflect climate change and Indigenous rights
  • A massive tourism development at the confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers was voted down by the Navajo Nation Council
  • Hardware chain True Value agreed to phase out bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticides
  • Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to lead an investigation into Russia's attempts to interfere with the 2016 election
Whether you wrote to decisionmakers, shared news with your friends, or volunteered for one of the movement leaders on these topics, we appreciate you for all that you've done. Seeing how this community has stuck together and lifted each other up, we know we can -- and will -- get through this.
Thank you for being there this year and next.
In this together,
The SierraRise team


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NOTE: The news sources here vary.  Not all sources have the same credibility, but in an effort to share some different perspectives, they are included here.  This compendium itself cannot claim to be unbiased.  Please take into consideration where these different perspectives originate in assessing their value.  Thank you

NOTE: I have no official connection to any organization from which information is shared.. Occasionally, I post informational material and/or an opportunity to donate or join as  a "community service" announcement.  These again are shared for their varying perspectives.

Any books listed are random or topic-related to something else in the post.  Think of these as a "library bookshelf" to browse.  They are shared for informational or entertainment value only, not as being recommended
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