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But as women, we can not afford to “take a day off.” We have to show up every single day, because we’re breadwinners and caretakers and we have elderly parents and children and pets and bosses. We can not afford to give up. And for those who joke about moving to Canada, well, the joke rings hollow, doesn’t it? It is not reality. We can not afford to be cavalier. Trump will never win the election? He did. Trump will never do away with abortion rights? Who knows. What about voter rights, the Affordable Care Act, rights for the LGBTQIA+ population, for religious minorities? How fragile it all is. If you want to volunteer or donate money: The ACLU: “For almost 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”

The American Immigration Council: “The American Immigration Council (‘Council’), established in 1987, works to strengthen America by honoring our immigrant history and shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration.” Black Lives Matter: “An affirmation of Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.”

Emily’s List: “We ignite change by getting pro-choice Democratic women elected to office.”

Everytown: “Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities.”

The Future Project: “Young people everywhere should have opportunity to discover their potential and build the skills they need to change their lives and world. We exist to make that dream a reality, and we’re starting in American high schools.”

HIAS: “HIAS stands for a world in which refugees find welcome, safety, and freedom.”

It Gets Better Project: “The It Gets Better Project’s mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them.”

KIND: “KIND staff and our pro bono attorney partners at law firms, corporations, and law schools nationwide represent unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in their deportation proceedings. Together, we ensure that no child stands in court alone.”

The NAACP: “The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.”

NARAL Pro-Choice America: “NARAL was founded before Roe v. Wade, before legal abortion was even possible in the United States. We as an organization and as a progressive movement exist to fight for the dignity and equality of all Americans. We hold the line—in good times and in bad—to defend the freedoms that are enshrined in our constitution and that define what it means to be American.”

National Center for Transgender Equality: “The National Center for Transgender Equality is the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people.”

Planned Parenthood: “Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.”

RAINN: “RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization.”

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Tiny Creatures Breathe New Life Into a Toxic Waterway

Mar 10, 2016 · by

Alec Hamilton

In 2007, LaGuardia Community College biology professor Dr. Sarah Durand was taking water samples off of a set of steps that lead down into Newtown Creek, when she saw something surprising.

The demands of urban life and industrialization had transformed the once vibrant salt marsh into a polluted channel, toxic enough to be designated as a Superfund site in 2009.

But there, in the partially submerged places along the steps, Durand saw something moving. Tiny planktonic creatures had floated in off the East River and settled in the shallow sediment.

To Durand, that observation was a revelation. The creek — regularly referred to as a "dead waterway" — was able to support life.

Durand says life continues to return, evidence that human engineering can help restore lost communities.

Clearly, efforts to reduce contamination were having an effect. Untreated sewage was still pouring into the creek, but the water was nonetheless cleaner than before. The main problem was that the creatures Durand spotted— ribbed mussels, oysters and clams — lacked a place to grow and reproduce. These invertebrates require gradual sloping sediments, and the banks of Newtown have largely been replaced with concrete bulkhead walls. If the animals would only stick around, she figured, they would even help filter the water themselves.

So Durand set out to build them a habitat.

SOUTHERN GOODNESS!

Novelist Harper Lee, who died last week at the age of 89, was famously reclusive. She declined most interviews.

But before she largely vanished from the public eye, Lee appeared on WQXR in 1964 to talk about writing, southern life and the legacy she hoped to leave following the success of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Lee said she didn't expect the novel to be so successful. But she said she came from a "region of storytellers," where children relied on their imaginations to entertain themselves.

"We would transfer everything that we had seen on the printed page to the backyard in high forms of drama," she said. "Did you never play Tarzan when you were a child, or did you ever go to the jungle, or re-fight the Battle of Gettysburg in some form or fashion?"

Lee said she didn't believe that kind of life could have happened to her had she lived in a big city, like New York. And she saw herself as someone who might help carry on the traditions of southern life.

"I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small town, middle-class southern life," she said, adding that she hoped "to be the Jane Austen of south Alabama."