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Alaska’s Tongass National Forest in Grave Logging Peril

Last week, the Trump Administration, prompted by a request from Alaskan state officials, proposed to roll back Clinton-era rules regarding construction and logging in nationally protected forests. 

The 2001 Roadless Rule prohibits:

Road construction

Road reconstruction

And timber harvesting

Within any of the 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas in our National Forest System.

Prison Labor Helps Keep Wages Low on the Outside

“Stay out of it” is pretty much the standard distillation of analysis regarding the prison industrial complex, at least according to most public school curricula. 

Not bad advice, certainly.

But in the wake of the great informational tsunami that’s flooded the shores of the West these last few months, and in keeping with our commitment to participate in a capitalist word as consciously and ethically as we can, we can’t help but dig a little deeper into two key facts:

Dr. Pedram Shojai

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