RSN: Illegal Dumping of Fracking Wastewater May Be Linked to Radioactivity in PA Creek, Experts Say, The Chicago Police Are Seeking to Destroy Hundreds of Thousands of Records of Police Misconduct

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Julian Bond | We Must Practice Dissent 

Julian Bond, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "It's fitting that we should have come to this place. Dr. King believed that peace and the civil rights movement are tied inextricably together, that the people who are working for civil rights are working for peace, and that the people working for peace are working for civil rights and justice." 
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St. Louis Teenager Killed by Police Was Shot in the Back, Autopsy Finds 
Jon Swaine, Guardian UK 
Swaine writes: "St Louis police reveal Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was killed by gunshot wound to the back, adding weight to witnesses who had challenged official account." 
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Charles Blow | #BlackLivesMatter Activists Confront Hillary Clinton 
Charles Blow, The New York Times 
Blow writes: "The activists called on Clinton to answer for her and her husband's part in the rise of mass incarceration in this country, a phenomenon that disproportionately affects black and brown people." 
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The Chicago Police Are Seeking to Destroy Hundreds of Thousands of Records of Police Misconduct 
Jamie Kalven, Chicago Sun-Times 
Kalven writes: "The Fraternal Order of Police has brought a legal challenge that threatens to limit the reach of Kalven v. Chicago, the 2014 Illinois Appellate Court decision holding that documents bearing on allegations of police abuse are public information. If the police union prevails, hundreds of thousands of police misconduct files currently available to the public will be destroyed." 
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Scott Walker's Campaign in Serious Trouble as He Trails Clinton by 10 Points in His Home State 
Andrew Prokop, Vox 
Prokop writes: "For most of the year, Walker seemed to be in an enviable position in the GOP field." 
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Jeremy Corbyn to Apologize for Iraq War on Behalf of Britain's Labor Party if He Becomes Leader 
Ewen MacAskill, Guardian UK 
MacAskill writes: "Leadership frontrunner tells Guardian he will apologise for 'deception' in run-up to 2003 invasion and to Iraqi people for suffering." 
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Illegal Dumping of Fracking Wastewater May Be Linked to Radioactivity in PA Creek, Experts Say 
Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog 
Kelly writes: "Recently released testing results in western Pennsylvania, upstream from Pittsburgh, reveal evidence of radioactive contamination in water flowing from an abandoned mine. Experts say that the radioactive materials may have come from illegal dumping of shale fracking wastewater." 
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Coming to New England: When Corporate Polluters Won't Accept NO!

Environmental Destruction rubber-stamped by Corporate Polluters such as Enbridge and Syncrude. Destroying the world's largest carbon-sink, polluting rivers, streams and food chains, destroying the world's largest flyways....  

Protesting the Dirtiest Energy Source - Tar Sands, the Dirty Keystone XL pipeline that has already destroyed communities and promises to destroy more of the environment because the Corporate Polluters don't care, these great heroes were arrested to protect our future.

48 Arrested at Keystone Pipeline Protest as Sierra Club Lifts 120-Year Ban on Civil Disobedience Forty-eight people, including civil rights leader Julian Bond and NASA climate scientist James Hansen, were arrested Wednesday in front of the White House as part of an ongoing protest calling on the Obama administration to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The action came before a rally planned for Sunday on Washington's National Mall, which organizers have dubbed "the largest climate rally in history." We speak to Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, who was arrested in the first act of civil disobedience in the organization's 120-year history. Watch/Listen/Read

"We Need To Push Him": Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested While Urging Obama to Reject Keystone Pipeline For the second time in six months, actress Daryl Hannah has been jailed for protesting the Keystone XL oil pipeline. In October, she was arrested in Texas. On Wednesday, she and 47 others were arrested outside the White House. "It's incumbent upon us, upon citizens, to show up and stand up and take action," Hannah says. Watch/Listen/Read   Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Threatens Canadian Wildlife   These Pictures May Give You Nightmares About The Canada Oil Sands Wolves fall prey to Canada's rapacious tar sands business Birds Die Slow Death in Tar Sands Sludge Yesterday, reports surfaced that birds landed in the toxic sludge-filled lakes that surround the tar sands mines in northern Alberta. Over 120 birds had to be euthanized because they were covered in oily sludge and were suffering a slow death. Oiled tar sands duck from blogspot.com