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Los Angeles, California, the United States For 66-year-old Mariam Sbeitan Ali, the latest escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine has reawakened traumatic memories.
Ali was only 12 years old and living in East Jerusalem when the 1967 Arab-Israeli war began. She remembers washing dishes in the courtyard of her home when the bombs started to fall.
Several days later, Israeli forces occupied East Jerusalem, later going on to annex it in defiance of international law.
“The soldiers came door to door and told us that we should leave. They told us they would pay for our bus fare to Jordan,” she told Al Jazeera.
West Marginal Way SW along the stretch where SDOT is considering installing a protected bike lane in one southbound lane. (Ryan Packer)
The Seattle Freight Advisory Board devoted a significant portion of their April meeting detailing reasons that the City should not install a protected bike lane on a short segment of West Marginal Way SW. The presentation shown to board members was not reviewed by the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) for accuracy, according to a department spokesperson.
While a link to the virtual meeting was available on a City website, an agenda for the meeting was not, providing no way for members of the public to even be aware that it was being discussed. The Freight Advisory Board has also not posted the minutes from one of its meetings since last last July, so who knows when the fact that it had even been talked about would be available as a matter of public record.
Viewpoints: An Earth Day Petition from NCPIRG
An Earth Day Petition from NCPIRG
Submitted by UNC Students
(Editor’s note: The following were submitted individually by members of NCPIRG, a student-led organization that facilities an informative approach to tackling many environmental and social injustices, in support of a petition calling on UNC-Chapel Hill to reduce plastic waste.)
Mariam Ali
My name is Mariam Ali, and I’m a volunteer at NCPIRG’s Media Outreach Committee at UNC-Chapel Hill. NCPIRG is a student-led organization that facilitates an informative approach to tackling many environmental and social injustices.
There’s no doubt that, unfortunately, the overconsumption of plastics has triggered many environmental and social injustices. Not only that, but there are little efforts made to raise awareness about this issue to all of those that need to hear it on campus. Plastics have demonstrated a significant influence on our lives. They’re inevitable to avoid si
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