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Lee Fang of the Intercept will speak. He studies the Koch brothers's use of money in politics, the alt-right, white supremacists, white nationalists, and the far right. Others will speak about how the journalism and race interact, abut labor trafficking, about creating a space for alternative voices. .... https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/coveringraceconference

http://www.cvent.com/events/rights-wrongs-and-responsibilities-covering-race-in-today-s-america/agenda-b219665af4654ec1b2f55930cd175843.aspx

Monarchs have declined by 80 % over the last 20 years. Monsanto's GMO crops and Roundup pesticides have removed the milkweed plants that monarchs eat. "In addition to glyphosate, monarchs are threatened by other herbicides including dicamba, Enlist Duo and by neonicotinoid insecticides that are toxic to young caterpillars." https://www.ecowatch.com/monarch-butterfly-population-migration-2543505935.html

Feb 9 & 10 at SEEC building in Boulder- these talks inspire hope!

https://frontrangeecosocialsolution2018.sched.com/

There is a new article in the Rolling Stone by on how the Republicans are using 3 things to disenfranchise everyone else: dark money; gerrymandering with vote stuffing ( make a few districts 100% Dems and then have most districts with a 60% Republicans); and making it harder to vote: by requiring new ids , limiting the hours open, limiting the locations, taking people off the voting rolls if they don't respond to a postcard, removing them if they miss an election, removing them if they have a name similar to a felon, challenging them at the polls, posting flyers in lower income areas that give the wrong times and locations for voting, putting up signs saying that people will face arrest if they vote while they have unpaid fines, posting police men at the polls to intimidate, not having enough machines in Dem precincts, and the hacking the electronic voting machines and the vote counting machines,.... (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gop-rigs-elections-gerrymandering-voter-id-laws-dark-money-w515664)

"A Toad Story" about a Norwegian community that makes it so toads can safely cross a new highway -tonight at 6 pm at the Meadows library There is a discussion of boreal toad conservation and reintroduction in Colorado by a toad expert. They are having some success in Colorado in reintroducing toads into the upper Poudre River watershed. A fungus in the US is killing some of the toads and frogs. Some of the reintroduced toads are reproducing.

http://boulderrightsofnature.org/events/?mc_id=505

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html?smid=fb-share

Not having FB, Google, and Amazon, and governments own our data.