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Biden to enter White House with Cabinet stocked with climate advocates
… The tribe's lands, outside Albuquerque, are home to the world's largest open-pit uranium mine . Brown told EarthBeat she was "very pleased" with Haaland's nomination and believes she'll …
Biden must build a more equitable US education system
… teaching in hopes of helping to open more doors for children who grew up in circumstances like mine. I worked at Harold O. Levy School 52 in Washington Heights/Inwood (shout-outs to Dyckman!) …
Biden must pass the Protecting the Right to Organize Act
… in a small town called Nemacolin, Pennsylvania. Nemacolin was a company town, meaning the mining company owned everything. Every house, every store and seemingly every square foot belonged to the mining company. There were two exceptions: the union hall and Our Lady of Consolation Church, … attacked — even murdered — miners who tried to stand together to form our union — the United Mine Workers of America. My dad used to tell me about an incident after company guards broke up …
A tragic end to the US bishops' long descent into partisan politics
… polls spent their vote. He was their pro-life guy, a "great gentleman" and "a great friend of mine," said New York's archbishop, Cardinal Timothy Dolan . The president in waiting? The bishops …
Time of the Hunger Moon: saints, wolves and the global pandemic
… popular across North America. For a number of prominent families that shaped the timber and mining industries in northern Michigan, wolf hunts became outdoor adventures of the privileged …
Ed Ruscha, the most famous Catholic artist few Catholics know
… exhibits about Ruscha ("roo-SHAY") center on his adopted home, since 1956, of Los Angeles, so mining Oklahoma's impact on him is rarer. Exceptions include the University of Oklahoma Fred …
EarthBeat Weekly: Racial inequality colors response to environmental protests
… and forest concessions, massive logging, monocultivation, highways, waterways, railways, and mining and oil projects); pollution caused by extractive industries and city garbage dumps; and, …
With land mines gone, Mass to be celebrated at West Bank baptismal site
… River. After Israel took control of the area from Jordan, the area was laid out with land mines by both the Israeli army and Palestinian gunmen who battled in the area in the 1960s and … earthquake in 1956, and the existing chapel was built in its place. Clearing the area of land mines and making it possible for pilgrims to return has been a long process, with organized … to other Christian churches, remained off limits behind the fences, in the middle of the mine fields. The Israeli Ministry of Tourism administered the accessible area near the river as a …
As 2020 ends, reject a whitewashed Jesus and encounter the real Christ
… of our catechism that has been lacking in praxis. Including practices from communities like mine can also challenge white Catholics, especially those from a privileged socioeconomic class, …
NCR's top 10 most read opinion and commentary articles of 2020
… to reports, responded saying the president was a "great gentleman" and a "great friend of mine." "Yes, Dolan and other bishops are probably desperate for funding for Catholic schools, but …
Have a happy Gerard Manley Hopkins Christmas
… build — but not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain. Christmastime is a sad time for many of us, for …
Simple Advent, Abundant Life: take a Christmas vacation from technology
… in our lives. In addition to the environmental and human rights issues associated with the mining of resources to create new phones and tablets, unconscious scrolling on our gadgets can …
Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman make 'Ma Rainey's' one of 2020's best films
… Her mesmerizing performance consumes the screen. She only voices one song, "Those Dogs of Mine" (about her sore feet), but she performs all the songs as if they are totally hers. She is …
EarthBeat Weekly: Biden picks signal seat at table for environmental justice
… Committee, she has been critical of Trump administration policies aimed at making it easier to mine and drill for oil on public lands. After her selection was announced, Haaland tweeted , "A voice like mine has never been a Cabinet secretary or at the head of the Department of Interior. Growing up …
Stop Banking the Bomb group in Pittsburgh keeps up pressure on PNC
… and social responsibilities. To its credit, PNC divested from mountaintop removal coal mining in 2015, and ended investments in private prisons in 2019. The PNC representatives argued …
Why I gave my wedding dress to Carmelite monastery
… so prayer is the mainstay of the Carmelite tradition. Something they proved by answering mine. In the end, it was remarkably easy to hand over my wedding gown to Sister Bernadette, the …
EarthBeat Weekly: Indigenous leaders call for voice, vote in climate talks
… Vatican in October 2019. "We call on industry to do its part to combat deforestation, illegal mining and oil spills, and to support titling" of Indigenous communities. The Amazonian …
Links: Happy feast, Scrooge, inviting them in
… a ban on doing business with firms that work with Democratic primary challengers. (emphasis mine) The prospect of campaigns that are not driven by pollsters — whom we now know to have more …
McCarrick report shows former cardinal's character: ambitious, brazen, untouchable
… in Washington. Perhaps by age 70 he had exorcized some of his demons. A priest friend of mine says, "Every one of us has a skeleton or two in our closet, but McCarrick had more than …
In an age of institutional failure, 'Star Wars' is saving my faith
… taught her. I was, for the first time, witnessing a spiritual journey that felt a lot like mine. Desperate for more of Ahsoka's story, I plowed through "Star Wars Rebels" — which …