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Remember Remember The 5th of November

Submitted by Michael Israel on Tue, 2016-11-15 17:18

Members of Anonymous show support to Standing Rock Pipeline protestors. (Photo: Michael Israel)

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Clean Water? a report from Wellsville, NY

Submitted by Elaine Hardman @ www.keylesspiano.blogspot.com on Sun, 2014-09-21 19:04

Original article: http://www.keylesspiano.blogspot.com/2014/09/clean-water.html

WELLSVILLE: Flush a toilet, wash a dish, enjoy your shower and forget what goes down the drain. That’s what many do every day while a crew of 3 waits “downhill” ready to turn our nasty sewage into river-ready water.

This past week I stood on some sturdy grates looking down on Wellsville’s daily 1.4 million gallons of sewage as it rushed into the Wellsville Sewer Department

I toured the facility with Joanne Allen and Barry Miller of Concerned Citizens of Allegany County while Michael Smith and Brad Mattison explained the sewage treatment processes that relieves Wellsville’s sewage of some of our daily muck.

We started at the headworks, the unit where water from about 2400 users enters the system. This is the place plagued by baby wipes and the occasional diaper. The water passes through a grinder and a screen but things like baby wipes don’t grind well and can block the screen so sometimes someone has to pull out what looks like stiff, white fiber.

The water that rushed under our feet was raw sewage at its worst but it didn’t smell much. Smith said that’s because there is a lot of water in the system just now. He said that waste water comes from homes, stores and businesses but there is also water that seeps into the system through broken pipes. Pipes, he said, always leak somewhere.

This water is only domestic sewage. Storm water doesn’t mix in. The Village worked aggressively in the 70s, in response to Nixon’s Clean Water Act, to separate sewage and storm water. At the time there was grant money to upgrade systems and Wellsville took advantage of that money to separate the two water streams.

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Oil Train Week of Action July 6-13, 2014

Submitted by Matt Landon Vancouver Action Network on Fri, 2014-06-20 18:35

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Are explosive Bakken crude oil trains coming through your town? / Actions you can take now!

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Scott Crow: Reflections on Liberation

Submitted by SusanGalloway on Fri, 2014-06-13 13:33

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Between Light and Shadow: Marcos’ last words

Submitted by reposted from ROARmag.org on Wed, 2014-05-28 21:38

original article: http://roarmag.org/2014/05/subcomandante-galeano-between-light-shadow/

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Here is the English translation of Subcomandante Marcos’ last public statement: “We think it is necessary for one of us to die so that Galeano lives.”

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Akwesasne Drummers at State of the State

Submitted by Cris McConkey on Thu, 2014-01-09 23:59

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State of the State 2014: Ban Fracking Rally in Albany

Submitted by Cris McConkey on Thu, 2014-01-09 23:44

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Durand Eastman Park and the Lady In White

Submitted by Mike Governale @ RochesterSubway.com on Thu, 2013-12-19 18:49

original article: http://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/2013/10/durand-eastman-park-lady-in-white-ghost/

Durand-Eastman Park. So peaceful and picturesque. This time of year the autumn colors are brilliant. And the water is so calm and reflective; the landscape seems to gently float up into the sky. This could be heaven.

On the edge of one great Lake Ontario, two much smaller lakes, Durand and Eastman are named for the two men who donated the land for this beautiful park. In the early 1900′s Dr. Henry S. Durand owned a summer camp here. He and his friend George Eastman saw a need for a public park with access to the beach. So they bought a number of farms around the Durand property, and in 1907 they offered the land to the City of Rochester.