A Southern California oil spill that sent an estimated 144,000 gallons of crude oil gushing into the Pacific Ocean last weekend added pressure on the Biden administration to take meaningful action on carbon-based fuels.
The 4,000-plus people who gathered at Riverfront Park last Saturday for an anti-mask-and-vaccine-mandate “Rally for Medical Freedom” marched with signs that had messages like “Don’t Drink the Cool-Aid [sic],” “My Body My Choice #freedom,” and “Coercion is not Consent.”
This week, in the wake of a horrific tragedy, justice activists pushed the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women into the spotlight of online discourse, if not national news coverage.
