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** Prison officials punish Bryant Arroyo for free speech ([link removed] )
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Bryant Arroyo, an incarcerated worker at Pennsylvania SCI Frackville, was placed in isolated custody for several days — in other words, thrown in the hole, the “Restricted Housing Unit” — for suggesting on separate phone calls to this reporter, his daughter and another person that they keep recordings of their . . .
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** Middle school students in Grants Pass, Oregon, protest anti-transgender school staff ([link removed] )
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Portland, Ore. In Grants Pass, Ore., a North Middle School assistant principal and a seventh-grade teacher started a petition calling for “anatomically male” and “anatomically female” bathrooms. Eighth-grader Stephanie and several of her classmates began protesting April 8. Posters protest anti-trans school staff at North Middle School in Grants Pass, . . .
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** U.S. role in Ecuador prison uprisings ([link removed] )
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“In places where inequality is the deepest, the use of prison and punishment is the greatest.” (Ruth Wilson Gilmore) Prisons do not keep people safe from violence; in fact, these institutions perpetuate violence themselves and further entrench poverty. They are tools used by those who hoard mass amounts of wealth . . .
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** Piney Point reservoir — a disaster waiting to happen ([link removed] )
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For decades, capitalist industries have produced wastewater by-products without serious plans for how to dispose of them. Their contents are usually toxic, often radioactive and generally hazardous to surrounding communities where they are stored and to the larger environment should they be released — accidentally or otherwise. While there are . . .
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** Movements act to end overdoses from tainted drugs ([link removed] )
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Ohmefentanyl, acetylfentanyl, butyrfentanyl, furanylfentanyl and carfentanil are some of the fentanyl analogues that are pervasive in the drug supply in the U.S. and Canada. These drugs are similar in structure to other, usually criminalized drugs. It used to be that only heroin and benzodiazepines, such as Xanax, Valium, and Klonopin, . . .
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