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'Do it for the water': Native Americans carry Potomac water on prayerful, 400-mile journey

October 16, 2016
By Julie Zauzmer
Washington Post

It’s noon on a Thursday, and Reyna Davila-Day would ordinarily be sitting in her AP Human Geography class, memorizing the rivers of the globe.

Instead she’s stumbling in and out of a gully alongside a busy road, ignoring the cars and trucks that whiz past, walking as fast as her 14-year-old legs can carry her. Instead of...

Standing Rock: A New Moment for Native-American Rights

October 12, 2016
By Sierra Crane-Murdoch
The New Yorker

Katharine Hayhoe, a Climate Explainer Who Stays Above the Storm

October 10, 2016
By John Schwartz
New York Times

LUBBOCK, Tex. — A member of Katharine Hayhoe’s church asked her a question after services a couple of weeks ago: “Do you feel our weather is getting more extreme?”

Urgent action needed to prevent cholera becoming 'the real disaster' in Haiti

October 10, 2016
Christian Aid

Cholera could kill more people in Haiti than Hurricane Matthew, without urgent action to control the disease and ensure families have safe drinking water, Christian Aid warned today.

“I am worried that if it is not controlled as soon as possible, cholera will be the real disaster,” said Prospery...

Court Rejects Dakota Access Injunction, But Standing Rock Sioux Vow 'This is Not The End'

‘This ruling puts 17 million people who rely on the Missouri River at serious risk’

By Nika Knight, staff writer
Common Dreams
October 10, 2016

A U.S. federal court of appeals ruled against the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe late Sunday evening and denied its request for an emergency injunction against the...

After Court Lifts Injunction, Government Once Again Calls for Voluntary Halt to Dakota Access

As arrests of water protectors continued on Monday, joint letter from three agencies says that Standing Rock Sioux objections should be considered

By Jon Queally, staff writer
Common Dreams
October 10, 2016

Ranchers Tote Guns as Tribes Dig In for Long Pipeline Fight

October 10, 2016
By Jack Healy
New York Times

As others built winter shelters over the weekend, she worked in the camp’s supply area, sifting through thousands of donated sleeping bags, parkas and boots.

Fighting for Water

Nine indigenous groups gathered in New York City to show solidarity with the Standing Rock protest in North Dakota. They are also urging the...

Indigenous groups are way ahead of everyone else at protecting forests

And they are turning the Dakota Access protests into a worldwide environmental movement.

By Alexander Sammon
Mother Jones
October 10, 2016

Caring for Creation makes the Christian case for climate action

The new book by Mitch Hescox and Paul Douglas is a marriage of science and faith

By John Abraham
The Guardian
October 10, 2016

Most of you are aware of a growing movement amongst persons of faith to bring more action on dealing with climate change. The argument is powerful for the faithful – the Earth is God’s gift to humanity. We should care for it accordingly.

Flint Officials Are No Longer Saying the Water Is Fine

October 7, 2016
By Monica Davey
New York Times

FLINT, Mich. — All along, through months of complaints from residents of this city about the peculiar colors and odors they said were coming from their faucets, the overriding message from the authorities here was that the water would be just fine.

Yes, there had been a boil order when fecal coliform bacteria turned up in...

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