dissociatrixx

Prairies are some of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, with the tallgrass prairie being the most endangered. Only 1-4% of tallgrass prairie still exists. Prairies are critically important, not only for the unique biodiversity they possess, but for their effect on climate. The ability to store carbon is a valuable ecological service in today’s changing climate. Carbon, which is emitted both naturally and by human activities such as burning coal to create electricity, is a greenhouse gas that is increasing in the Earth’s atmosphere. Reports from the International Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,000 climate scientists from around the world, agree that increased greenhouse gases are causing climate change, which is leading to sea level rise, higher temperatures, and altered rain patterns. Most of the prairie’s carbon sequestration happens below ground, where prairie roots can dig into the soil to depths up to 15 feet and more. Prairies can store much more carbon below ground than a forest can store above ground. In fact, the prairie was once the largest carbon sink in the world-much bigger than the Amazon rainforest-and its destruction has had devastating effects.

I NEED MONEY ASAP.

I am an indigenous woman living in New Mexico for college. I am a second year student living off campus. I need money to make it through the week until I start my job (which is Friday, actually.) However, I have rent, gas, school bills and food expenses to worry about and I literally have nothing in my bank account anymore. Fortunately I finally got a job, but my first check won’t be for another two weeks. I’m going out on a fucking limb here. My family back home can’t help me because of their own expenses and cuz, well, I’m literally fucking poor. I come from a low income family and my mom can only help so much.

I need help living and eating. So, above I have a beaded lanyard and necklace for sale. It’s 17 inches long, peyote stitched with size 12 beads (maybe 13, idk). Selling for 370. The necklace is about 8 inches long, peyoted stitched with neon colored beads. Selling for 200.

“No nos queda otro camino más que luchar”

^GOODS^

hey y’all! so u prob know how fugged up i am right now: jobless, car-less, sick as hell, and starting over

help a hermana out with medical bills and lyft ride $ so i can get to where i need to be. everyone is struggling but if we can give each other a hand, the universe will work in our favors. the good we put out, will come back to us. I hope one day, I’ll find myself in a position to help you if you ever needed it. God willing.

anyway I’m selling freaky shid and doodles!

PRICES

freaky shid: depends on your request/likings

i have videos, pics and the willingness to take special requests. dm me and you will remain private!

doodles: send me your idea and I’ll whip it up for $20 no matter what! im getting into digital art as it’s an easier way to distribute my work and fulfill requests. if you’d like an actual painting, we can discuss that too!

love y’all & hope you are blessed

venmo: rubymarietho

paypal: [email protected]

Hi everyone, I need your urgent help. My wonderful, great friend Leah and her wife Jasmine find themselves in a terrible crisis. Leah has cancer. And the treatmeant is far beyond their means… But you can help them, by donating to their fundriser here:

https://www.gofundme.com/help-me-survive-cancer-and-prevent-homelessness

Please folks, she’s almost there. All she needs is 2000£ more and she’ll get the money for her life-saving treatment. Please everyone, leah and jasmine are wonderful people that don’t deserve this. And they are so close already to reaching their goal. 

How America Used Highways To Destroy Black Neighborhoods

(by Alan Pyke)

It’s time for America to reckon with the role that highway projects too often play in ripping apart underprivileged communities around the country, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Wednesday at the Center for American Progress.

In the first 20 years of the federal interstate system alone, Foxx said, highway construction displaced 475,000 families and over a million Americans. Most of them were low-income people of color in urban cores. It was Foxx’s second speech in as many days about how federal infrastructure projects contribute to inequality and poverty, and how the agency wants to make up for it now.

What the Secretary is doing “appears unprecedented,” the Washington Post notes. Foxx, only the third African-American to ever hold the top federal transportation policy job, is explicitly acknowledging and condemning a history of destroying black communities and stealing wealth from their residents through intentional decisions.

Goodbye, Brooklyn

Foxx grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a neighborhood that had been hewn apart by expressway projects before he was born. “I grew up living with those barriers, even though I had no idea how they came to be or what they really meant,” he said. Eventually, he became mayor of his hometown, and developed a much clearer understanding of what white leaders in the city had done to his community.

Foxx cited the case of a now-vanished Charlotte neighborhood called Brooklyn, where black families of both blue collar and professional means thrived in the early and middle 20th century. It was the favored overnight stop for jazz greats like Duke Ellington when they played the city, and home to both Charlotte’s first black high school and the first free black library in the whole South.

“By 1912, the local paper captured the prevailing views that Brooklyn was far too valuable to be left to African-Americans,” Foxx said. “They wrote in fact that ‘Far-sighted men believe that eventually this section, because of its proximity to the center of the city, must sooner or later be utilized by the white population.’”

Redlining and “urban renewal” followed, making the community untenable for residents and newcomers alike. In a single decade, white city leaders ripped out almost 1,500 buildings in Brooklyn, displacing over a thousand black families and 200 mostly black-owned businesses.

And when Charlotte eviscerated Brooklyn, road projects served as the scalpels.

“First came Independence Boulevard, which cut a gash through the community,” the Secretary said. “Later, an inner beltway, I-277, which remains to this day,” stabbed fork-like into the neighborhood’s heart.

As the interstate system routed into and around Charlotte’s downtown over the coming decades, the city’s old identity of interlocked rich and poor neighborhoods devolved. Today, poverty clings to the freeways like a shadow.

Brooklyn’s invisible today, but it’s far from alone.

The Airport Plan That Built A Ghetto

The tool wasn’t always roads, and the decisions themselves weren’t all made way back in the mists of pre-Civil Rights Era social order.

In the early 1980s, for example, the city of St. Louis started buying out middle-class black residents of Kinloch, Missouri so that nearby Lambert International Airport could expand its runway network.

For the airlines and other businesses at Lambert, the project promised hundreds of millions of dollars in new profits by speeding up the flow of traffic through the airport. With planes spending less time idling on the tarmac, studied predicted that nearby residents would also benefit in the form of better air quality.

But for the state’s longest-standing black city, its bakeries and and drugstores and public schools, the project spelled doom. After a series of buyouts that locals say felt more like arm-twisting than a genuine personal choice to stay or sell, Kinloch’s population plunged from over 4,000 to below 300.

“I think the interesting thing about that is where they went,” Foxx said. “Many of them, most of them, ended up moving to a town called Ferguson.”