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USA: Nearly every wolf in the lower 48 just lost its Endangered Species Act protection. And Eco Destroyer Trump Wants Re Election ?

Gray wolves, once nearly extinct, could be coming back to Colorado | US news | The Guardian

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Hi Mark,

Nearly every wolf in the lower 48 just lost its Endangered Species Act protection.

USA: Nearly every wolf in the lower 48 just lost its Endangered Species Act protection. And Eco Destroyer Trump Wants Re Election ?

Their survival is now at stake.

We’ll be in court as soon as possible to fight this disastrous move. Please make an emergency gift now to the Saving Life on Earth Fund. All gifts will be matched.

It’s now up to states to decide what happens to these beautiful, family-oriented animals.

That’s why we’ll be leveraging the full power of our grassroots activists to shut down plans to hunt, trap or poison wolves state after state.

In the few places where wolves exist today — like the northern Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes states and West Coast — they face persecution.

Washington state has wiped out entire packs for conflicts with livestock, mostly by gunning wolves down one by one from a helicopter.

In Wisconsin a law is already on the books requiring trophy hunts of wolves.

What to know about the gray wolf, whose fate in Colorado could be decided by voters - ABC News

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Idaho has for years expanded its hunting and trapping seasons on wolves — it even contributes to bounties to kill them.

In Montana it costs $19 to kill a wolf. And anti-wolf forces there have tried to make it cheaper.

That’s the way some states view wolves: as cheap, expendable targets for trophy hunting and barbaric trapping.

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Anarchist Prisoners in the rotating Hunger Strike in Spanish State

Oct 27 2020 0 By thecollective

from Act for freedom now!

Spain: 14 anarchist/libertarian prisoners take part in a rotative hunger strike

Rotative hunger strike in Spanish prison

Since last 1st of September 2020 at least 14 prisoners, mostly anarchists, are taking part in a new rotative hunger strike against the precarious health conditions in the Spanish prisons.

They have presented also a 14 point program against isolation custody (FIES/DERT), tortures and physical and psychical violence from the prison guards, dispersion of prisoners far from their homes, etc.

Each comrade is doing a 10-days-hungerstrike, one following other, every month 3 prisoners.

Violence in Spanish prisons is very common, every year 200 prisoners die inside Spanish prisons violently or from drugs, lack of medical attention or diseases. At present in corona times, the conditions in jail are unbearable (bad food, no activities, no visits…).

Last month of August our comrade Carmen Badía Lachos was violated b y a prison guard inside the ‘hospital’ part of the Zuera-prision (Zaragoza).

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Huge successful Indigenous, black and peasant ‘Minga’* in Colombia Eng/Esp

Indigenous, black and peasant ‘Minga’* in Colombia: breaking the fence, weaving with equals (a Minga is a Collective Work)

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by Raul Zibechi 28 octubre, 2020 11 minute read from “Alternativas” magazine shared with thanks translation thefreeonline

More than 8,000 indigenous people, peasants and Afro-descendants arrive in Bogotá to denounce the massacres that are taking place throughout Colombia with the complicity of the Government of Iván Duque.

“Guard, guard. Strength, strength ”, thousands of young people chant raising their chontas (wooden canes), showing the decision of the native peoples, blacks and peasants to defend life and territory, during the Minga that has arrived on Sunday, October 18 for the night to Bogotá. There are 8,000 wills who traveled 450 kilometers from Cali, in the south of the country, to the capital, mobilizing 500 vehicles, many goats (open buses from rural regions) and walking in an orderly manner, flanked by the Indigenous Guard.

It is the only organized mobilization with precise objectives, capable of setting Colombian society in motion. Proof of this is that all the media, even the most right-wing, are covering the Minga, and that the extreme right of the Democratic Center, Uribismo, supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe, filed a complaint because, they say, “the mobilization is violating biosafety protocols and putting citizens at risk ”.

The truth is that the arrival of thousands of indigenous, Afro and peasant farmers to Bogotá mobilized a good part of the capital, where it was received by the young people who won the streets last November, during the national strike, and occupied them again on 9 and September 10 in response to the murder of a lawyer by the police. The multicolored chivas circulated overflowing to the sound of whistles and drums.

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Firefighters hope for a break in the wind as 2 wildfires burn in California’s Orange County with little containment

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LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of residents in California’s Orange County remained under evacuation orders Tuesday as two wildfires continued to threaten upscale neighborhoods.

As morningcame, the Silverado Fire had consumed 17square miles with only 5% containment, prompting an expansion of the evacuation orders to include sections of Mission Viejo, the Orange County Fire Authority reported.

About 70,000 Irvine residents were under evacuation order and another 6,000 in nearby Lake Forest.

To the east, the Blue Ridge Fire has burned about 23¾square miles with no containment as of Tuesday morning. Officials said more than 8,700 homes are under evacuation.

They include 5,958 in the Chino Hills, 2,500 in Yorba Linda and 276 in Brea. Ten Yorba Lindahomes weredamaged by the flames, butno structures had been reported lost in either of the two blazes.