#FamiliesBelongTogether Rally at Wakulla ICE Detention Center

Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families. But we won't allow it to continue. On June 30, we're rallying in Washington, D.C., and around the country to tell Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their parents!

Join us on June 30 to send a clear message to Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress: Families Belong Together!
Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families. But we won't allow it to continue. On June 30, we're rallying around the country and in Washington, D.C., to tell Donald Trump and his administration to stop separating kids from their parents! Trump and his administration have been systematically criminalizing immigration and immigrants, from revoking Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to ramping up intimidating ICE tactics. Let's send a clear message to Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress: Families Belong Together.

Directions:

When: Saturday, June 30 at noon (local time)
Where: ICE Detention Center
Crawfordville, FL 32327
Host: Jennifer R.

https://act.moveon.org/event/families-belong-together/20035/signup/?akid=&zip=&source=

Miami Field Office
15 Oak Street
Crawfordville, FL, 32327
https://www.ice.gov/detention-facility/wakulla-county-facility

Progressive Leadership Council has scheduled a news conference Tuesday, June 19, at 10:30 am to voice our outrage and concern that Congress is still allowing the separation of these immigrant children from their parents and detention; and demand a response from our Florida Senators and Congressional delegation. We will invite representatives from the offices of both Sens. Nelson and Rubio and Reps. Lawson and Dunn to state their positions at the news conference.

You are invited to the Tuesday 10:30 am news conference at the Florida Press Center at College Avenue & Gadsden Street to express your outrage.

Council President Dorothy Inman Johnson will read a statement on behalf and provide copies. “I invite religious leaders, organizations advocating on behalf of immigrant families, and family and child advocates, including members of the Council, to notify me before Monday if you want to be added as a speaker,” she said

“It is immoral that the Trump administration is using the Bible to justify our government's cruelty to families who have already suffered so much to get here seeking safety from dangerous conditions in their own country.”

The last township that survived the Highland Clearances
Alison Campsie
Published: 11:09 Updated: 11:23 Wednesday 26 July 2017

It is a remarkable window into old Scotland and a way of life lived for hundreds of years.

Auchindrain in Argyll, a scattering of cottages and longhouses south of Inverary, was first recorded more than 500 years ago.

It is now considered the last standing example of a Scottish township, where residents banded together in a joint tenancy and shared responsibility for paying the rent and working the land.

Today, it stands today much as it did in the late 1700s after surviving the Highland Clearances given its landowner, the Duke of Argyll, rejected advice to break down the township and turn the land into individual crofts.

Incredibly, the township survived until 1963 when the last tenant, Eddie McCallum, surrendered his tenancy with the Duke and left Auchindrain for good. His family had farmed there 1829.

More: https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-last-township-that-survived-the-highland-clearances-1-4514302

📌 1985: North Korea signs Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty
📌 1992: North Korea signs historic agreement to halt nuclear program!
📌 1994: North Korea signs historic agreement to halt nuclear program!
📌 1999: North Korea signs historic agreement to end missile tests
📌 2000: North Korea signs historic agreement to reunify Korea! Nobel Peace Prize is awarded
📌 2005: North Korea declares support for "denuclearization" of Korean peninsula
📌 2005: North Korea signs historic agreement to halt nuclear program and "denuclearize"!
📌 2006: North Korea declares support for "denuclearization" of Korean peninsula
📌 2006: North Korea again support for "denuclearization" of Korean peninsula
📌 2007: North Korea signs historic agreement to halt nuclear program!
📌 2007: N&S Korea sign agreement on reunification
📌 2010: North Korea commits to ending Korean War
📌 2010: North Korea announces commitment to "denuclearize"
📌 2010: North Korea again announces commitment to "denuclearize"
📌 2011: North Korea announces plan to halt nuclear and missile tests
📌 2012: North Korea announces halt to nuclear program
📌 2015: North Korea offers to halt nuclear tests
📌 2016: North Korea again announces support for "denuclearization"

Mark Smith
Published on Jun 7, 2017
I followed a pair of nesting Sandhill Cranes for 3 months. In that short time span, I captured hours worth of incredible footage and walked among these majestic birds. The things I learned humbled me, saddened me and taught me more than I could ever have imagined. Take a small peek inside the incredible life of these awesome birds.

Contributing Editor Nate Morris’ Facebook post about 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre goes viral
By The Black Wall St Times on June 4, 2018



Ninety-seven years ago today, the first bombs ever dropped on American soil fell on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, OK.

Greenwood ― the most preeminent black community in the United States at the time ― was home to 10,000 residents and contained scores of black-owned businesses, hotels, restaurants, law offices, doctors offices, movie theaters, and more. Following an incident between a young black man and a young white woman in a downtown elevator, many of the nearly 3,200 Klan members in Tulsa and countless more white vigilantes armed themselves with firearms and marched north to Greenwood.

They opened fire in the streets, set businesses and homes ablaze, and dropped napalm-like bombs from fertilizer planes flying overhead.

With the help of the National Guard and the local police force, they arrested nearly 6,000 black residents and forced them into temporary internment camps in the Brady Theater ― now a popular Tulsa music venue ― while their thriving community was systematically leveled. Many of those imprisoned were starved, beaten and killed in the same space the city hosts jubilant concerts in today.

More: https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2018/06/04/contributing-editor-nate-morris-facebook-post-about-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-goes-viral/

Snakes in a bag
Service and partners work together to bring back the iconic Eastern indigo snake

By Dan Chapman, Public Affairs SpecialistMay 25, 2018

Andalusia, Alabama — A gaggle of biologists, zookeepers, college students and government officials traipsed through the Deep South longleaf pine forest one recent, gorgeous spring morning carefully clutching white pillowcases.

They were looking for holes. More specifically, gopher tortoise burrows into which they could deposit their precious cargo of Eastern indigo snakes, aka “Emperors of the Forest.”

The smooth, black, long — longest in North America — indigo snake is listed as federally threatened under the Endangered Species Act and in dire need of propagation and restoration to historical habitats. An all-hands-on-deck approach towards saving the much-loved, non-venomous indigo from extinction creates odd bedfellows.

Tony Brady, deputy project leader at Welaka National Fish Hatchery.
Photo by Dan Chapman, USFWS.

“There he goes,” said Tony Brady, a fishery biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as a snake slithered from his pillowcase into a burrow at the Conecuh National Forest. “When we release them, we know we’ve done our job.”

https://www.fws.gov/southeast/articles/snakes-in-a-bag/