The policy playbook from the Heritage Foundation would strip away remaining rights in the US to clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet. Earthjustice is a legal grouping set to fight back.
When Donald Trump takes office for the second time in January, we expect his administration to dramatically dismantle environmental protections. We see the shape of what’s coming not just from battling his first administration, but because of the blueprint laid out in Project 2025.
Project 2025 is 900 pages, and 150 of them are about how to destroy the environment. This deregulatory agenda, written by former Trump government officials and Heritage Foundation staff, would strip away our rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet.
Earthjustice is built for moments like this. We’re the legal arm of the environmental movement, with more than 200 attorneys wielding the power of the law to defend the planet and its people. We filed more lawsuits on behalf of clients against the last Trump administration to protect the environment than any other organization – and we won 85% of our cases.
We’ve shown that we can take on the Trump administration’s worst ideas and win.
We’ve studied the proposed tactics in Project 2025, including undermining government staff who are charged with safeguarding health and environmental protections.
We are prepared to defend the environment and communities from what comes next, no matter how long it takes. Here are some of the Project 2025 recommendations we’re most concerned about:
Taking a hatchet to bedrock environmental laws
What Project 2025 says:
Gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA): Project 2025 would rewrite the most successful legal tool we have for protecting wildlife in ways that would harm imperiled species. It specifically calls for removing protections from gray wolves and Yellowstone grizzlies.
No need for national monuments: Another proposal would repeal the Antiquities Act, which would strip the president of the ability to protect priceless public lands and waters as national monuments.
Weaken the Clean Air Act: Project 2025 would nix the part of the law that requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set health-based air quality standards.
Less say for communities in environmental decisions: The plan would undermine key portions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which ensures you have a voice in major projects built near you……
ECSAHARAUI Por Ahmed Omar El llamado «Africa Eco Race», que se promociona falsamente como un evento deportivo de aventura y resistencia, se ha convertido en una herramienta descarada para el blanqueamiento de la ocupación marroquí en el Sáhara Occidental. Lejos de ser una competición legítima, este evento se ha transformado en un mecanismo insidioso que perpetúa la […]
6 MONTHS OF IMPRISONMENT OF THE ANARCHIST COMRADE ABEL DEMONSTRATIO Saturday 30 November 19:30h Plaça Orfila, Barcelona
**DEMO CALLOUT**
This November 30th will mark 6 months since our anarchist comrade Abel was kidnapped by the State and imprisoned in the Brians 2 CP Prison (Barcelona) with a firm sentence of 3 years and 9 months for the assault on a JUSAPOL protester who was carrying fascist symbols in 2018……
170,000 people march in the largest anti rent demo in history of Spanish State
November 26, 2024 – By Sindicat De Llogateres (Rent Payers Union) 1207 views
Last Saturday, Barcelona experienced a historic day with the largest demonstration for the right to housing in the history of the Spanish State. 170,000 people filled the streets of the city center to demand the four urgent measures against speculation: lowering rents, indefinite contracts, recovery of empty, tourist and seasonal homes and a ban on buying for speculation.
The march, called by more than 4,000 organizations, had around thirty separate columns that met up from all over Catalonia on foot, by bus or by train.
Lower rents, indefinite contracts, recovery of homes and prohibition of speculative purchases….
The State needed 3 people to declare a ‘Terrorist Organisaation’ – Kyriakos is dead and Marianna wounded and jailed.. “because they needed a third, like magic, they discover a bag with one fingerprint and kidnap Nikos.
This is an attempt to provide information and context for those outside Greece concerning the recent state abduction of anarchist Nikos Romanos.
On 31 October, 2024, an explosion in the Athens neighborhood of Ampelokopoi killed the comrade Kyriakos X and severely injured the comrade Marianna M.
They were both in an apartment where an explosive device detonated, knocking out one wall of the building. The state claims they were planning to detonate a bomb elsewhere and that it exploded prematurely. Both Kyriakos and Marianna are anarchists, respected participants in the movement.
The press in Greece is owned by a handful of old families who control most of the remaining greek assets– those that haven’t been sold off to foreign investors.
The Greek mainstream media exists to disseminate state narratives, and it immediately began slandering the victims of the explosion as well as engaging in wild speculation– such as that the israeli embassy was the intended target.
Whether or not that’s true, it is true that israeli mossad agents came to assist the Greek police in their investigations.
Since the explosion, the state has made additional arrests of people it claims are somehow connected to the apartment and its lease, sublease, etc.
As the Greek press promoted the propaganda of the state, there commenced activity in some cowardly corners of the left to distinguish the more “guilty” of those accused from the others. This is the question of who to tar with the labels of “anarchist” and “terrorist” — thereby assumed to deserve repression– vs. who is really “innocent.”
The anarchist movement itself, both in Greece and internationally, has rejected such division and remained strong in solidarity despite a chilling increase in repression.
There were multiple support gatherings outside the hospital where Marianna was held under guard and when, shortly after her second surgery, she was transferred to Korydallos prison, comrades also gathered there. Kyriakos has been honored with actions, banners, marches, events and memorials, and will remain a beloved comrade forevermore.
There has been no “disavowal,” no step back..
Earlier demonstration for Nikos Romanos
Since the tragedy in Ampelokopoi state repression against those suspected of being “anarchists” has become more aggressive, although this is consistent with an ongoing trend since the pandemic.
What we have seen now are not new tactics but an increase in frequency: police actions such as stopping and searching people around the neighborhood Exarcheia, early-morning “preventative detention” of targeted individuals (people considered politically prominent) on the days of demonstrations and marches, and an increase in surveillance of those the Greek state has a grudge against, including by parking unmarked cars with surveillance equipment in front of their homes.
Few people in the anarchist movement here have been under as heavy surveillance, long-term, as the comrade Nikos Romanos. He was a friend of the anarchist Alexis Grigoropolous, and witnessed Alexis’ murder by police on 6 December 2008.
Since that time Nikos has been arrested many times and accused of many crimes, along with false accusations of involvement with the direct action group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.
Because Nikos is a living witness to the shameful conduct of the state, he has been labeled a terrorist by politicians and the mass media many times over. Of their many accusations, however, the only crime the judiciary has ever pinned on him is a bank robbery, for which he served a prison sentence.
This started in the early hours of this morning across the Gaza Strip.
We can confidently say that the entire Gaza Strip has been bombed equally since the early hours of this morning
We can still clearly hear the sound of the fighter jets flying at a very, very low level across the central area of Gaza and Deir el-Balah city.
Reports were received from the northern part of the Strip, particularly from Jabalia and the city of Beit Lahiya. These fighter jets carried out deadly attacks that destroyed the remaining residential buildings in Jabalia refugee camp, Jabalia town as well as the northern part of Beit Lahiya Project area and Beit Lahiya city.
This is just pushing people into further internal displacement and causing massive civilian casualties.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp, particularly in the northern area of the camp, very close to the Netzarim junction, the Israeli military on the ground is conducting a policy to expand the junction. In doing so, it carries out these attacks to destroy remaining residential buildings.
These buildings are residential homes and residential towers that the Israeli military claims are being used as observation points by Palestinian fighters.
But from what we’ve heard from witnesses, there were massive numbers of civilians inside these residential buildings.
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US arms sales to Israel
The ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has been in place for almost a day now and Lebanese troops have started moving to the south of the country under the terms of the deal.
People are travelling back to towns, villages and homes they were forcibly displaced from but Israel’s military has imposed movement restrictions on Lebanese civilians in parts of south Lebanon.
US media are also reporting that President Joe Biden’s administration has approved new weapons sales to Israel. $640 million
In 2019, I moved into a tiny, black A-frame cabin nestled into the woods—there were maybe two neighbors who could have heard me scream. But there was no one in sight...
The first night I spent in that cabin, I felt like I was in, you know, a horror movie.
There I was, a dark and stormy night, too distracted by the flashes of lightning through the glass window in the door to pay attention to my sweetheart. I was waiting for the next flash to illuminate a silhouette against trees.
Instead, it was fine. The next day, we laid flooring and they talked about their love, as a queer sex worker, of true crime podcasts.
For the first month or so, as I walked up the hill at night to my cabin, I was afraid. I clutched a knife; I jumped at shadows. It wasn’t long before I stopped being afraid of those woods..
Maybe, more than anything, I stopped being afraid because I realized: I was the scary thing in those woods.
I live in West Virginia, and I’m no more afraid to live here than elsewhere.
To be clear, there are specific and tangible threats that queer people are facing from the legal systems of red states. If I had, or was, a trans child or teenager, I’d likely be looking hard at other places to live, other places where access to medical care was more certain.
To be brave in the face of threats isn’t to ignore those threats. While I would never advise anyone to run (or to stay), I think it behooves a lot of people, especially trans people, to keep their passports in order and make some contingency plans. I’ve been pondering changing my name legally for awhile, but recent events have made me a lot less interested in doing so anytime soon–I’d rather that my government name be unconnected with my political writing and I’d rather that my government name match the gender I pass more easily as.
But just because there are very real threats facing us—both now and clearly visible on the horizon—doesn’t mean we don’t have agency, and it doesn’t mean that we ought to give up, to flee, or despair. It has never been safe to be a trans person in this country. We, after enormous effort and bloodshed, had reached some high water marks in terms of legal protections and cultural acceptance, and we’re seeing that high tide recede in front of us. That’s okay. We’ve been through it before. Maybe not as individuals, but certainly as a culture.
A journalist named Edward R Murrow has a quote that floats through my head often enough: “remember that we are not descended from fearful men.”
We queers have a lineage of bravery that simply cannot be argued.
The longer quote from Murrow is actually worth bringing up too, in this context and this moment. He was writing about Senator McCarthy, he was writing against the red scare. “We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men–not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.”
The idea in that quote is that we must fight McCarthyism, for sure, but also that we ought not to be driven by fear into an age of unreason. We ought not to let fear of one another dominate our lives. For the most part, I want to say this to all of the people who have bought into the propaganda against queer people, especially trans people, of late. But I also want to remind myself of this. We ought not walk in fear, one of another.
I have enemies, to be sure. They’ve sent me photos of my family. They’ve told me they would burn down my house with me inside. But the average person, including the average person here in West Virginia where I live, is not my enemy. I am frustrated–beyond frustrated–to know that an overwhelming majority of my neighbors voted for a president who explicitly spreads hatred against queer people. Yet these people have never made me feel unsafe personally.
I’ve lived in an awful lot of places, and frankly I’ve dealt with far more harassment in cities (coincidentally blue state cities, based on where I’ve lived) than I’ve ever gotten in small towns (often in red states). This isn’t because the countryside is some magical place free from bigotry, but simply because there are fewer people here. If I walk down the street in New York City, I will pass literally thousands of people, so it’s far more likely that someone will say something terrible to me.
My data is also skewed by the fact that I subconsciously expect to be safer in big liberal cities, so I take fewer precautions and dress more provocatively. Where I live, sometimes I “boy mode.” Sometimes I don’t. Some of the people around here know I’m a trans woman, some just think I’m a weird queer man with bangs and earrings (and pickup truck and a Carhartt coat, which helps). No one really gives me shit.
It’s not like you cross the imaginary line from Maryland to West Virginia and suddenly everyone is a different type of person. The people here aren’t, you know, monsters. No matter what horror movies have told you.
“La revolución de las palabras. La revista Mujeres libres”, de Laura Vicente Villanueva, una autora que está especializada en historia social, sobre todo en dos temáticas: historia de las mujeres y el anarquismo”
Precisamente, de esos dos campos trata este libro editad recientemente, en 2020. Las mujeres sufrían una situación de subordinación, no existía de igualdad respecto al hombre, incluso dentro del movimiento libertario a pesar de lo que las ideas sostenían.
El título del libro alude a que las mujeres eran expropiadas de las palabras, por lo que tomarlas era llevar a cabo ya una auténtica revolución.
Desde el anarquismo, se trató siempre de paliar el problema del analfabetismo, de no dominar la lectura y la escritura, a través de escuelas, ateneos o el autodidactismo, que fue una vía para muchas personas.
La palabra, oral o escrita, proliferaba en los espacios libertarios, pero insistiremos que sobre todo para los hombres; hubo publicaciones de todo tipo, algunas de gran relevancia y otras no tanto, así como escritores y oradores de gran talento, también otros medios literarios o representados como las obras de teatro, los poemas o las novelas sociales.
Las mujeres intentaron tomar la palabra ya desde el siglo XIX, con todos los impedimentos e incluso burlas y menosprecio, que tuvieron que soportar por parte de los hombres; debido a estas circunstancias y humillaciones, muchas tuvieron que esconderse mediante seudónimos masculinos.
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