The U.N. featured the Winnemem Wintu in part due to the work of Niria Garcia, a 28-year-old Xicana graduate student at Columbia University and human rights advocate, climate justice advocate, educator and storyteller. She recently received the 2020 United Nations Young Champion of the Earth award.
“The Equality Act seeks to create equality by erasing gender, but God created them male and female and said that it is good,” reads one slide, with four accompanying Bible verse references. Another reads, “real equality celebrates the differences between men and women and empowers them both.”
At the Wild and Scenic Film Festival, held this year on the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, Thomas will be be making a clear statement: the programs of Shasta Living Streets are essential to addressing the climate crisis.
Concerns about fairness have likely arisen due to disparities in how some recent contract renewals appear to have been handled by the Council.
While some farm workers prefer to stay in the shadows, Casia says, she hopes the Cesar Chavez Day donations help them to feel supported and welcomed in the community.
American Indians and Alaskan Natives are 2.5 times as likely to experience violent crimes and at least two times more likely to experience rape or sexual assault crimes as compared to all other races. And when they go missing or are murdered, answers are often scarce.
Advance Redding’s progress towards winning the City’s tourism contract coincides with negotiations for the renewal of their ten year contract to operate the Redding Civic Auditorium. City Manager Barry Tippin says the two contract processes are not linked.
“I start with the assumption of allyship . . . City Council is used to hearing “Save the world. Go Green.” but none of that is very specific, so they’re left with a very vague request. And climate change is like a hydra, it requires action on so many fronts."
Jeremy Edwardson's connections with Bethel include his role as the president of Jesus Culture Music, the music label of a Sacramento ministry that developed out of a youth conference at Bethel Church and is listed on the church’s website as an associated ministry.
A new podcast season focused on Redding's Bethel Church releases it's first episode today, March 1st. Annelise Pierce interviews the host.
