Native leaders, civic groups blast rollback of bedrock environmental law

“We are the original people of the land and we’re having to fight.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Creature from the Black Lagoon loomed over the offices of the Interior Department last week as non-profit consumer advocate Public Citizen joined the chorus of voices condemning the proposed rollback of the bedrock National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA.   “Trump’s Interior Secretary is an Oil Lobbyist,” declared the giant video […]

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Resisting the Border Wall

In defense of indigenous history and an Underground Railroad outpost

Garet Bleir has spent the last 100 days living out of a tent beside the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation and allies in the Esto’k Gna’s villages near the U.S.-Mexico border. He is there investigating the humanitarian and environmental devastation caused by the border wall sweeping through South Texas. This story was made possible with a grant from […]

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