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Latino USA reporter explains how bogus fake colleges impoverish students and their families. She shows how students organized to get some of the debt cancelled. This is an ongoing story.
The Growing Call to Abolish Student Debt
By JULIA ROCHA JUL 22, 2022
latino usa on NPR PRX
Obiturary He "promoted social change through legislation, legal action and political pressure." He challenged corporate polluters and public utilities on behalf of citizens.
He organized against nuclear power, organized 50 student groups (PIRGS) with over 350,000 students at major universities, was the head of Greenpeace, started an public interest law firm, was in the Peace Corps, and worked on political campaigns.
"ban logging of mature and old-growth trees"
"end fracking on public lands and stop offshore drilling, and directing his agencies to reject all new fossil fuel infrastructure."
link Marchs, boycotts, protests outside embassies, fiction, recordings of whalesongs along with general distrust of lying institutions and politicians during the Vietnam War- all led to the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Pelley amendment. Friends and I circulated petitions, oranized writing letters to newspapers, printed save the whale t-shirts, read Mind in the Waters and John Lily's books, Merwin's poems, bought whale books, organized groups, got films and speaker about wildlife, hosted Greenpreace talks, etc.....
Propublica story . Utility company wants to leave its toxic coal fly ash in unlined pits. One pit has over 16 million tons of this toxic coal ash. "samples had revealed concerning levels of boron, calcium and sulfate — all indicators of coal ash. There was also evidence of a contaminant researchers had linked to cancer, hexavalent chromium, which had previously been discovered in some California drinking wells by environmental advocate Erin Brockovich" Activists, environmental attorneys, and neighbors battle the state politicians and Georgia Power lobbyists.- Georgia power wants to create a weaker definition of the word" infiltration" . It seems they want to just protect the top of waste piles, but want to avoid having to put a lining under the waste to keep the toxics away from groudwater and drinking water. "You can’t store this waste full of toxic metals in groundwater,” Sams said."
