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Tech Policy Press
5 months ago
Data centers are multiplying fast, draining water and power in vulnerable regions. Case studies from Chile, the US, the Netherlands, Mexico, and South Africa shed light on the harms and how frontline communities are pushing back, writes The Maybe’s Hanna Barakat.
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Learnings from Five Cases of Data Center Development and Defiance | TechPolicy.Press
The Maybe's Hanna Barakat considers lessons from five data center developments in Chile, the US, the Netherlands, Mexico, and South Africa.
https://www.techpolicy.press/learnings-from-five-cases-of-data-center-development-and-defiance/
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Jamie Valdez
6 months ago
Pueblo folks, please show your support for environmental justice for our community by following our new organization, Roots to Resilience. It's greatly appreciated!
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Sherrilyn Ifill
10 months ago
Heads up! The
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Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact
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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights
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Jamie Valdez
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The country’s largest insurers spent $120 billion on stock buybacks since 2010, with nearly half of that spent by UnitedHealth - while denying your claim!
#HealthCare4All
#PeopleB4Profit
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Health Insurers Gave $120 Billion To Shareholders While Denying Your Claim
The country’s largest insurers spent $120 billion on stock buybacks since 2010, with nearly half of that spent by UnitedHealth.
https://www.levernews.com/health-insurers-gave-120-billion-to-shareholders-while-denying-your-claim/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=bsky-prefill
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Jamie Valdez
12 months ago
I don't care what you think of Michael Moore. This movie exposes the truth about private insurance and it's every bit as relevant now as it was in 2007, possibly even more so.
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Sicko
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Negan
12 months ago
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Eric Feigl-Ding
12 months ago
Reminder—If the U.S. had had a single-payer universal health care system in 2020, nearly 212,000 American lives would have been saved that year. In addition, the country would have saved $105 billion in COVID-19 hospitalization expenses alone.
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Study: More Than 335,000 Lives Could Have Been Saved During Pandemic if U.S. Had Universal Health Care
If the U.S. had had a single-payer universal health care system in 2020, nearly 212,000 American lives would have been saved that year, according to a new study
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-335000-lives-could-have-been-saved-during-pandemic-if-us-had-universal-health-care/
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TheGratefulDeadpool
12 months ago
Our current situation is not sustainable. The question is, when will things reach critical mass?
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Lakota Man 🪶
12 months ago
Who here is inclined to agree?
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