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The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit's CO2 Pipeline

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit’s CO2 Pipeline , unmasks the billion-dollar financial interests and high-level political ties driving the Midwest Carbon Express. Led by Summit Carbon Solutions, the project intends to build a 2,000-mile pipeline to carry CO2 across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, to eventually inject and store it underground in North Dakota. Having failed to...

Dignity or Exploitation – What Future for Farmworker Families in the United States?

Dignity or Exploitation — What Future for Farmworker Families in the United States? documents the systematic abuse of workers in the H-2A program and its impact on the resident farmworker communities, confronted with a race to the bottom in wages and working conditions. H-2A workers also face disproportionate exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report describes some of the most acute situations, and analyzes the basic reason for the...

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Homelessness: The Fault in "American Greatness"

Across Oakland and Berkeley, tent camps are sprouting near BART tracks and underpasses. As rents skyrocket in the Bay Area, California working class communities are disproportionately affected.
Image Credit: Doug Blackmon, Erik Prince, Ann Hagedorn; Aftermath of of the Endless War

The Return of Erik Prince: Trump's Knight in America's New Crusade

The Return of Erik Prince: Trump’s Knight in America’s New Crusade? a new brief from the Oakland Institute, exposes the comeback of the founder of Blackwater, the notorious private security company. An ardent detractor of Obama/Clinton foreign policy during the presidential campaign, Prince is now set with access to unique assets, to be a key player in Trump’s foreign policy. Using information not seen before, the brief describes Prince’s post...

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Down on the Farm

Today, enthusiasm for agriculture borders on speculative mania. Driven by everything from rising food prices to growing demand for biofuel, the financial sector is taking an interest in farmland as never before.

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Blog

Faith and community leaders held silhouettes of striking workers, unable to attend due Covid-19.

McDonald's High Tolerance for Inequity, Injustice & Racism

Thursday, June 11, 2020 Anuradha Mittal

Amidst a global pandemic, McDonald's with its estimated net worth of $163 billion, has failed to provide the basic protective gear to keep its workers safe. 33 cooks and cashiers, mainly Latino including 24 women, at its Telegraph Avenue location in Oakland are on a strike for this reason.

Image: Essential Workers. Copyright: Dignidad Rebelde

Ensure Basic Rights of the Working Poor on Cesar Chavez's Day

Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Andy Currier

Forced to continue working in conditions that place their lives at risk, the harsh realities these workers face in daily life are coming center stage.

President Trump welcomes Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Photo: Tia Dufour

Crude Conflict or Climate Justice

Thursday, March 26, 2020 Victor Menotti

As we isolate ourselves physically due to the global Coronavirus pandemic, it is important to recognize real opportunities to convert the current crisis into a viable transition toward social, economic, and climate justice globally.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Credit: USDA, Tom Witham

Feeding the Rich While Starving the Poor: Trump Administration’s Cuts to Food Assistance

Thursday, December 26, 2019 Andy Currier

Early December, the Trump administration finalized a rule that will tighten work requirements to qualify for food stamps; a decision that will strip desperately needed food assistance from an estimated 700,000 people.

Residents walk past campus map at the STFRC in Dilley, Texas. Credit: Charles Reed, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

From Home to Hieleras

Thursday, October 27, 2016 Anna Peare

In the United States, thousands of women and children fleeing violence and poverty are detained as prisoners in for-profit family detention centers, like the South Texas Family Residential Center.

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Press Releases and Public Statements

Carbon Scam: Summit Carbon Solutions Sells Fictitious Credits

No False Solutions! Citizens Mobilize to Educate Governor Reynolds and the IUB on Dangers of Carbon Pipelines

Joint Letter to TPG Rise Climate — Divest from Summit Carbon Solutions' Carbon Pipeline Project

Joint Letter to Tiger Infrastructure Partners — Divest from Summit Carbon Solutions' Carbon Pipeline Project

Open Letter to Congress Calling to Suspend All Funding and Tax Credits to Summit Carbon Solutions and other CCS Projects

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Videos & Audio

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit’s CO2 Pipeline

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit’s CO2 Pipeline

The Great Carbon Boondoggle: Inside the Struggle to Stop Summit’s CO2 Pipeline

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Are Bono and Harold Hamm Pipeline Partners?

ESG University

CO2 Pipelines - Boondoggle in the Boonies!

Podcast by George

No False Solutions! Citizens Rise Up to Resist Dangerous Carbon Pipelines in the Midwest

Common Dreams

Alan Guebert: Summit at the heart of 'The Great Carbon Boondoggle'

Farm Forum

Guebert: American agriculture's Great Carbon Boondoggle, Part 2

Lincoln Journal Star

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