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Posted in Columns Communications Community organizing Economy Internet Neighborhoods Public Policy Utilities Wade Rathke

Cooperatives need to get broadband to the countryside

Wade Rathke Meteor Columnist February 8, 2020

New Orleans       How can I say this plainly?  Electric cooperatives have become increasingly less cooperative, and, frankly, not even all that electric.  What was a huge breakthrough in taking electricity the last mile into rural…

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Small Signs: A Protest In Flagstaff, Arizona

Last summer there were over 50 marches, actions, and demonstrations in Flagstaff, Arizona sparked as elsewhere in the country by the death last summer of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Documentarian Levi Stallings spent hours taking and compiling video from the Flagstaff actions and sit down conversations with residents from all walks of life. Read more, see the video here…

“Years of Repair”: video

The film— entitled "Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair"— is a sequel to last year's "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" and runs with the idea that the year 2020 became an "historic turning point" for the world, one in which "the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and global uprisings against racism drive us to build back a better society in which no one is sacrificed, and everyone is essential." (Image: The Leap/The Intercept/Illustration by Moll Crabapple)
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In the climate crisis, it’s possible to live in the same place but inhabit different worlds. by Elizabeth Weil and...
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April 28, 2020 Flagstaff, Ariz.    The Grand Canyon Trust reports serious problems at the Canyon Mine uranium mine south of...
Climate change threatens drinking water quality across the Great Lakes
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Like the truck-machines in ‘Mad Max,’ the ‘freedom convoy’ relies on access to fuel
2022-02-25
Truckers and supporters gather in Delta, B.C. on Jan. 23 before departing on a cross-country convoy that arrived in Ottawa five days later.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck by Krista Collier-Jarvis, Dalhousie University February 12, 2022 The media has been inundated by images of the ‘freedom convoy’...
Ruling on rooftop solar, clean energy ‘game-changer’
2022-02-01
"For the first time a federal court has said utilities can be liable under antitrust laws if they attack rooftop solar," said one advocate. "The future for renewable energy just got a lot brighter." by Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams February 1, 2022 [caption id="attachment_54195" align="aligncenter" width="1280"]...
Could direct action stop climate change?
2021-12-21
by Wade Rathke December 20, 2021 Little Rock    Sometimes you stumble over something so obvious, you shake your head wondering why your thinking was so patterned that it was in danger of becoming more habitual than flexible in facing organizing problems. An organizer always has...
Global climate disasters – This is not the new normal
2021-12-18
Spotlight on Climate by Stefan Sommer Saturday, December 18, 2021 2021 was yet again one of the hottest years on record. This past summer was the hottest summer on record for North America. Is this the New Normal? In Flagstaff many people are now installing home...
Why the second-driest state rejects water conservation
2021-12-16
Utah has some of the highest per-capita water use and is the fastest-growing state. Yet a powerful group that steers Utah’s water policy keeps pushing for costly infrastructure over meaningful conservation efforts. by Thursday, December 16, 2021 [videopack id="53489"]https://meteor.news/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Utah-Water-Loop-intro-Wider-States.mp4[/videopack] With rising temperatures and two decades of...
2021 Arctic Report Card reveals a (human) story of cascading disruptions, extreme events and global connections
2021-12-14
The report describes, rapid and pronounced human-caused warming continues to drive most of the changes, and ultimately is paving the way for disruptions that affect ecosystems and communities far and wide. Community members from Utqiagvik, Alaska, look to open water from the edge of shorefast sea...
Consumers shop in a Target store on September 28, 2021 in Miami, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
As executives hike prices, US corporations rake in biggest profits since 1950
2021-11-30
"Prices are high," said Sen. Sherrod Brown, "because corporations are raising them—so they can keep paying themselves with ever-larger executive bonuses and stock buybacks." by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams November 30, 2021 [caption id="attachment_53335" align="aligncenter" width="1280"] Consumers shop in a Target store on September 28, 2021...
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2021-10-26
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="450"] Climate jargon can feel overwhelming.  Illustration by Dennis Lan/USC, CC BY-ND[/caption] by Wändi Bruine de Bruin, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences October 26, 2021 As a major U.N. climate conference gets underway on Oct. 31, 2021, you’ll be hearing a...
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‘We had a deal’: Warren joins Sanders and house progressives in fight for Biden’s agenda
2021-09-29
"The agreement from the beginning was that all the pieces would move together," said the Massachusetts Democrat. "I don't want to see that deal broken." by Jake Johnson, Common Dreams Wednesday, September 29, 2021 [caption id="attachment_44751" align="alignright" width="353"] Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) arrives at the U.S....
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40 million people rely on the Colorado River. It’s drying up fast.
2021-08-27
One of the country’s most important sources of fresh water is in peril, the latest victim of the accelerating climate crisis. by Abrahm Lustgarten Friday, August 27, 2021 [caption id="attachment_37584" align="aligncenter" width="2560"] Lake Mead, the nation’s largest freshwater reservoir, has been losing water because of epochal...

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Researchers continue to find new information about how widespread plastic pollution has become, but also how we can help stem the tide. by Tara Lohan, The Revelator December 3, 2020   [caption id="attachment_27986" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Plastic pollution lines a Singapore beach. Photo: Vaidehi Shah, (CC BY...

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[caption id="attachment_31168" align="alignright" width="414"] An excerpt of a letter penned by Guy Reffitt, sent to ProPublica from jail.[/caption] The material...
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Savannah and Sam Peyton, who were without power for days last week, huddle in multiple layers under a sleeping bag at their home in Austin, Texas, on Thursday night, Feb. 18, 2021. Temperatures plummeted to the teens and single digits across Texas, and at least 58 have died in storm-affected areas across the country from causes including carbon monoxide poisoning, car crashes, drownings, house fires and hypothermia. Credit: Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux
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Biden ban on new private prison contracts will not reach ICE detainees
2021-02-02
[caption id="attachment_29871" align="alignright" width="651"] President Joe Biden on Tuesday signs a memorandum strengthening nation-to-nation relationships and directing federal agencies to...
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2020-09-30
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2020-09-16
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2020-09-16
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ICE deported a woman who accused guards of sexual assault while the Feds were still investigating the incident
2020-09-16
The DHS and DOJ inspectors general are investigating allegations that ICE guards assaulted detainees in camera blind spots. DHS instructed...
Rights groups condemn ICE amid whistleblower’s allegations of unwarranted hysterectomies
2020-09-15
'Forced Sterilization Is Genocide' The complaint alleges numerous health and safety violations in regards to Covid-19 in addition a disturbing...
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2020-09-11
Internal emails show ICE rebuffed New Mexico public health officials offering to help contain COVID-19. by Patrick Michels and Laura...
ICE guards “systematically” sexually assault detainees in an El Paso detention center, lawyers say
2020-08-14
Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE...

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Despite Biden moratorium, ICE and CBP deport hundreds
2021-02-02
'Get These Agencies Under Control Immediately' "Don't. Look. Away. We can't trust ICE and CBP, even if their boss is...
Biden ban on new private prison contracts will not reach ICE detainees
2021-02-02
[caption id="attachment_29871" align="alignright" width="651"] President Joe Biden on Tuesday signs a memorandum strengthening nation-to-nation relationships and directing federal agencies to...
Biden’s path to citizenship for immigrants could face an uphill battle
2021-01-21
  by Ryan Knappenberger, Cronkite News Thursday, January 21 [caption id="attachment_29461" align="alignright" width="270"] President Joe Biden, shown here in a campaign...
New IG report, says ACLU, shows just how far Trump team ‘was willing to go to destroy’ immigrant families
2021-01-15
"Just when you think the Trump administration can't sink any lower, it does." by Brett Wilkins, staff writer Friday, January...
US detained migrant children for far longer than previously known
2020-11-29
Newly obtained data show that the U.S. government has detained nearly 1,000 migrant children for longer than one year since...
Trump races to weaken environmental and worker protections, and implement other last-minute policies, before Jan. 20
2020-11-27
The Trump administration is rushing to approve dozens of eleventh-hour policy changes. Among them: The Justice Department is fast-tracking a...
Lawyers can’t locate parents of 666 seized migrant children—121 more than previously believed
2020-11-10
[su_pullquote align="right"]This is an update from a previous story identifying 545 un-reunitable children.[/su_pullquote].    The children were separated from their families...
Trump got what he wanted at the border. Would Biden undo it?
2020-10-28
Democrats agree that Trump’s caused asylum-seekers unacceptable misery. But the goal of deterring people from migrating to the U.S. —...
‘Cruelty was always the plan’: pressed on mass family separations in final debate, Trump smears victims as ‘bad people’
2020-10-23
"The Trump immigration agenda is defined by cruelty: it's responsible for six children dying in cages, forced women into unnecessary...
Native American man shot protesting Trump border wall, others tear gassed, arrested by US agents on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
2020-10-13
"It's obscene and offensive to us that local and state governments move to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day while the federal...

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