Saturday, May 17, 2014

Two anniversaries

Today is May 17, 2014.
It is the 60th anniversary of the Brown v. Education desegregation decision by SCOTUS.
It is the 31st anniversary of the Oak Ridge mercury pollution declassification announcement, which our tiny tabloid Appalachian Observer weekly newspaper won in 1983, with a three paragraph FOIA/declassification request to the U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge Operations Office.
Today we're still dealing with Jim Crow law, as evidenced by:
(a) our U.S. Senator Mario Rubio attempting to halt a pending civil rights investigation, and
(b) our City of St. Augustine charging 25% extra to non-residents for water -- more than $1,000,000 a year -- a stench in the nostrils of our Nation's Oldest City, to be remedied. See below.
Today we're also still dealing with unaccountable polluting government agencies, from nuclear weapons plants (still being cleaned up, a process that may be complete by the time I am 93) to landfills.
We shall overcome!

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