My Dad was a mechanic and farmer. He taught me to leave things better than we found them. How about we try that with the planet? https://cclusa.org/take-action
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My Dad was a mechanic and farmer. He taught me to leave things better than we found them. How about we try that with the planet? https://cclusa.org/take-action
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To understand Kwanzaa you need to think about what it would be like to be a Black parent raising kids in the US in the 60s and 70s. Your kids go nuts for Christmas and want gifts. Gimme gimme gimme! Then everyone gets drunk on New Years. How are these holidays as commercially pushed onto your family teaching any kind of good values?
I think that is a big part of the appeal.
(Of course there is another side to Christmas that isn't all Coca Cola Santa Claus and Black Friday fist fights.)
Inside the Republican Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths

“The man, who had a work permit and was in the asylum process, was handcuffed and taken into custody. The incident alarmed the shop’s co-owner Charles Spies, who abruptly closed the shop, as well as DFL state Sen. John Hoffman. [who was the target of an assassination attempt last summer]
“A small business. Taxpayers. People who invested in our community, created jobs and served their neighbors every day,” Hoffman wrote on Facebook. “Since when are they considered the ‘worst of the worst’? This isn’t right. And it’s not who we should be targeting if we care about safe, strong communities.””
#Minnesota - Apple Valley High School students walk out of class to protest #ICE
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/15/apple-valley-high-school-students-walk-out-of-class-to-protest-ice/

Over a hundred students at Apple Valley High School walked out of class Monday afternoon to protest federal immigration actions in the Twin Cities metro area. Freshman Berk Benson, the protest’s organizer, led the crowd of teens in chants — “What do we want? Due process! When do we want it? Now!” — and gave a […]
“In the shadow of ICE, a St. Paul neighborhood store steps in to feed its community
While federal agents patrol the Twin Cities, a St. Paul Mexican grocer is filling a gap for families too frightened to shop.”
#Minnesota immigrant-rights groups report surge in #ICE alerts as federal arrests climb
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/08/minnesota-immigrant-rights-groups-report-surge-in-ice-alerts-as-federal-arrests-climb