Without exploring why people emigrate in the first place because of economic and political pressures in their home countries (many times created or at least fueled by the host countries), it is impossible to recognize and alleviate the pressures caused by immigration and to find ways for labor to flow more effectively across the market (Borjas, 1999). Over time, free trade agreements have made it easier for people to migrate, created incentives for migration by loosening restrictions on large corporations, and left Mexicans and others in developing countries with few options at home. Thus, the United States has clearly seen an unintended spike in undocumented immigration. With that spike has come an increase in the injustices associated with the movement of humans as capital. Many of these immigrants come to Florida because of its geographic location and climate, which allows a year-round growing season. Upon looking for work, they enter one of the most robust agricultural communities in the country, and when injustices occur, they turn to the FWAF because of the frameworks of justice from which it operates.

The board consists entirely of current or former farmworkers, and members are elected by local membership councils using a formula that reflects the ethnic/racial/gender diversity of the farmworker community it represents. The board is 14% African American, 14% Haitian, and 72% Hispanic; 36% are women. Through its board makeup, the FWAF seeks to identify its community assets and show that it is community driven and controlled.

By focusing their art on water concerns, the artists began to redefine their role in society to include that of educator, leader, and as a conduit between the natural world and humanity, with an overlying goal of restoring the integrity of water resources.

Students who step up to the camera become spokespeople for the river by explaining the pollution problems in the river, what they are testing, and why.

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“were unknown to the local community, their services were unsolicited, their interest was questionable, and generally their method of doing things for rather than with the people was resented”

“stake” in a certain outcome.

He found that there is perceived power in the title of “expert,” and that power is often intimidating and belittling to citizens who have come to voice their opinions.

Rulemaking and adjudication procedures focused on environmental concerns generally involve scientific and legal issues, which require citizens to hire scientists and lawyers to challenge agency regulations.

societal and economic changes that took place during World War II occurred rapidly and dramatically over a short few years.

planted “victory gardens”

retooled and began making planes and tanks instead of cars.

United States achieved a major economic and social transformation during World War II provides hope and a model that can be used to address ecological decline.

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ontinue to grow

public investment serve the public interest is a bad thing

The biggest danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like the real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done.”

#BlackLivesMatter hashtag was mentioned an average of nearly 500,000 tweets daily.

bout two-thirds of Americans think social media help give a voice to underrepresented groups, but a larger share thinks they distract people from more important issues

Roughly four-in-ten social media users say these platforms are personally very or somewhat important to them for finding others who share their views about important issues (42%), getting involved with political or social issues that are important to them (39%), or providing a venue to express their political opinions (37%).

59% of Democrats have performed at least one of these five activities the Center measured, as have 45% of Republicans

investing in the communities polluted and left behind by the fossil fuel economy because these are the places with the highest levels of toxicity to clean up, but also because this is the right thing to do.

“divert money and attention from the primary mission”

among elites.

Stick to greenhouse gases, they say; reforming the energy system is utopian enough.

Other reasons include unaffordable mortgages or foreclosure, at 45 percent; followed by spending or living beyond one’s means, 44.4 percent; providing help to friends or relatives, 28.4 percent; student loans, 25.4 percent; or divorce or separation, 24.4 percent.

either because of high costs for care or time out of work.

eople with poor executive control were more likely to express automatic race biases as behavior discrimination

Other data show that black people are also more likely to be stopped by police

ind that black civilians are more likely to experience other types of force, including being handcuffed without arrest, ­pepper-sprayed or pushed to the ground by an officer

here is no "typical" police department.

here's evidence of racial disparities at many levels of law enforcement, from traffic stops to drug-related arrests to use of force.

11 percent in 2015—roughly half of the proportion of Americans who belonged to a union in 1983.

labor or commercial sexual exploitation.

United States was engaged in building itself up as the world’s leading prison nation.

Noting that relying on policing and prisons has discouraged organizing community responses and interventions,

67 percent of women sent to prison for killing someone close to them had been abused by that person.

justifies increases to police and prison budgets and diverts attention from the cuts to programs that enable survivors to escape, such as shelters, public housing, and welfare.

carceral feminism describes an approach that sees increased policing, prosecution, and imprisonment as the primary solution to violence against women.

aw me on the street, that they would kill me,”

When Williams demanded their badge numbers, the police handcuffed her, drove her to a deserted parking lot, and beat her, breaking her nose and jaw, and rupturing her spleen.

Grow, gather, hunt, and fish

Factors such as stress, inactivity, and diet are frequently cited as directly contributing to the occurrence of both diabetes type one and two.

have rates of diabetes some three times the national average and higher rates of other chronic diseases.

an atmosphere of fear of the unknown, the unexpected and the reality that you could be next.”

instances of food being withheld as punishmen

Off-road vehicles now crisscross the island, damaging sensitive coastal ecosystems, riparian zones, and streambeds

exacerbated by the ongoing resource extraction and industrial development on many Canadian reserves which has left damaged ecologies incapable of supporting healthy fish, game, water, and plants.

At the same time, the marginal location of many reserves (economically, politically, geographically, and agriculturally) enforced dependence on imported, processed Western foods which tended to be much higher in fat, carbohydrates, and sugar, and lowered their consumption of fruits and vegetables, relative to traditional subsistence diets.

he puzzled over the fact that corn, though a long time dietary staple of her people, is restricted in diets for those with diabetes because of its negative effect on blood sugar levels

…sustenance, ceremonial object, prayer offering, symbol, and sentient being unto itself.”

‘How do the little squirrels know to do that?’ Granny said, ‘They learn like we do, and then they pass their knowledge onto us.’”

undermined traditional knowledge, ceremonies, and healing systems, to the extent that now many Indigenous peoples have not learned the knowledge, stories, and ceremonie

We're not anti-plastic," said Vonk. "We feel like plastic can be very useful for certain purposes, but the way we're using it now is just really, really not clever."

"For decades scientists have believed that plastic particles are too large to pass through the physical barriers of intact plant tissue.

indicator of past sewage sludge application.

"immediately [identified] agriculture as one of the hot areas."

Microplastics arrive on farms through processed sewage sludge used for fertilizer, plastic mulches, and are even intentionally added as slow-release fertilizers and protective seed coatings. In just the last few years, an uptick in research has uncovered alarming potential impacts of this contamination on all aspects of agricultural systems from soil quality to human health.

107,000 to 730,000 tons of microplastics could be dumped onto agricultural soils in the U.S. and Europe every year, compared to the 93,000 to 236,000 tons that enter the oceans.

FAP is likely to be the largest single direct payment program made to farmers in American history

“first come, first served” basis.

” Smallhouse said.

in the parking lot of an old school building in midtown Tucson last week

For farmers, that means demand is high at the end of the winter growing season.

ut it will only come to pass if we shed our shame, stop focusing on ourselves, join together and demand it.

uman assistance is preventing most species from

Climate change is linked to income inequality and injustice, so if your passion is fighting for racial justice, the rights of the poor, or indigenous rights and sovereignty, that works, too.

You feel anxious, afraid and intensely guilty.

less a nuclear disaster than a natural disaster--a massive earthquake and one thousand year tsunami. 

risk going to jail to make these points.

Protest helps overcome the inertia that is slowing our transition to cheaper solar and wind power.

Pension funds and endowments worth $7 trillion have begun divesting their holdings in fossil fuel companies — Shell said in a recent report to shareholders that that movement had become a “material risk.”

mitigating climate change has largely come through protest.

turned the valve that shut the pipe,

pay a total of $500,000 to the four families without admitting liability, tribal court documents show.

2000,

miners and whether uranium exposure might have affected their genes.

to various heavy metals but not uranium.

n February 1990, the journal Neurology

In 1980,

“Navajo neuropathy.”

live miles apart from one another.

he moved from one “lake” to the next, watering her herd.

he U.S. government allowed the companies to leave without filling in the craters

In the mountains and mesas of the Navajo reservation, mining companies drilled tunnels in the sides of cliffs to extract uranium

Some were born without eyes

Instead of hunting for puddles in the sandstone, she could lead her 100 animals to drink their fill. She would quench her own thirst as well, parting the film on the water’s surface with her hands and leaning down to swallow.

for the good of mankind

In 1974, he and his parents were relocated from Kwajalein Atoll to Bikini, where they lived for four years until they were again removed when conditions were deemed unsafe.

Graham addressed the debt the U.S. owes its Micronesian ally, saying, “the U.S. is the world power that it is today because of its knowledge and its understanding of nuclear weapons...”

death in 2017.

only for radioactive ash to float down on them like silent, deadly snowflakes.

The U.S. carried out 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, including Bikini Atoll, from 1946 to 1958

“As a result of being displaced we’ve lost our cultural heritage – our traditional customs and skills, which for thousands of years were passed down from generation to generation,” she said.

Special rapporteur Calin Georgescu, in a report to the UN human rights council, said “near-irreversible environmental contamination” had led to the loss of livelihoods and many people continued to experience “indefinite displacement”.

When US government scientists declared Bikini safe for resettlement some residents were allowed to return in the early 1970s. But they were removed again in 1978 after ingesting high levels of radiation from eating foods grown on the former nuclear test site.

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ifferent ideal for organizations is surfacing. We want organizations to be adaptive, flexible, self-renewing, resilient, learning, intelligent-attributes found only in living systems.

because

In other words, it is time for all the sciences to adopt a geologic respect for time and its capacity to transfigure, destroy, renew, amplify, erode, propagate, entwine, innovate, and exterminate.

but also left a dark legacy of groundwater contamination, ozone destruction, soil and biodiversity loss, and climate change for subsequent generations to pay for.

organisms, minerals, and landscapes that have emerged over the long history of this particular corner of the cosmos.

In fact, the word consumer has become more or less a synonym for citizen, and that doesn’t really seem to bother anyone

patriotic cause,

those who dare to take seriously our responsibility to future generations commonly find themselves outnumbered, outshouted, and out of office.

a young Earth fabricated only a few thousand years ago by a devious and deceitful creator who planted specious evidence of an old planet in every nook and cranny, from fossil beds to zircon crystals, in anticipation of our explorations and laboratory analyses

It is still a work in progress to which details are constantly being added and finer and finer calibrations being made.

Some students seem satisfied with keeping science and religious beliefs separate through this methodological remove.

many people simply can’t be bothered with natural histor

chronophobia

Try going out to dinner with a vegan who is avoiding gluten

increase in mean temperature, decrease in precipitation, increase in dew point, and decrease in river discharges, all of which favor malaria transmission.

consequence of concomitant anomalies in the normal annual cycle of temperature and precipitation.

We demonstrate that flooding engenders malaria epidemics in the dry coastal region of northern Peru, while droughts favor the development of epidemics in Colombia and Guyana, and epidemics lag a drought by 1 year in Venezuela.

average annual temperature and total annual precipitation, and they show negative association with malaria incidence.

current distributions and characteristics of the main mosquito species of malaria

This forecast system is successfully applied to the prediction of malaria risk in Botswana, where links between malaria and climate variability are well established4, adding up to four months lead time over malaria warnings issued with observed precipitation and having a comparably high level of probabilistic prediction skill.

Hence, skilful seasonal climate forecasts may provide early warning of changes of risk in epidemic-prone regions

Our results suggest that there was a high spatial variation in the sensitivity of malaria outpatient number to climate fluctuations in the highlands, and that climate variability played an important role in initiating malaria epidemics in the East African highlands

The proposed modelling is based on both generalized linear models (GLM) and generalized additive mixed models (GAMM).

In general, we find that, compared with rates at equivalent constant mean temperatures, temperature fluctuation around low mean temperatures acts to speed up rate processes, whereas fluctuation around high mean temperatures acts to slow processes down.

climate information has long been used to develop malaria risk maps that illustrate the boundaries of 'climatic suitability for endemic transmission

the disease distribution is closely linked with seasonal patterns of the climate and local environment

relatively short-term studies like this one do little to illuminate the potential for harm in long-term exposure,

“We note, however, that the tumors we saw in these studies are similar to tumors previously reported in some studies of frequent cell phone users.”

warrant public discussion.