Author: Carma Henry

Taking Life For Granted

     This deliberate contamination of the public commons is a license to kill, a criminally reckless endangerment of sea life and the food web. Yet the 1992 ban on ocean dumping of radioactive waste applies only to barrels thrown from ships, not liquids sent into the sea through pipes. Further, the Law of the Sea allows victims to bring legal action only after an alleged harm has occurred, and then puts the burden of proof on victims to show that their illness(es) were caused by a particular radioactive poison.

     Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying a town, poisoning a wide area around it, and raising questions about nuclear safety in much the same way as the Chernobyl nuclear accident had in 1986. 

War crime and other redundancies

His life is a testament to the indomitable spirit of a generation that stood up for civil rights and social change

     Sixty years ago, more than 200,000 people descended upon the National Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, making a stand for freedom and equality. Black people, women, and poor people had been treated like second-class citizens for too long, and it was time to demand justice.

The racially motivated shooting inside a Dollar General Store on Saturday, Aug. 26, was reminiscent of the Buffalo Tops Supermarket Shooting in May 2022, where a racist white man murdered ten Black shoppers and injured three others.

      American tennis star Coco Gauff won her first-round match at the U.S. Open after expressing frustrations over her opponent’s slow play.

     Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis joined local officials and community members at a vigil held to honor the three people who lost their lives in the tragic mass shooting in Jacksonville yesterday. Family members of the victims were also present at the event.

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