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Community groups have vowed to keep fighting full-scale fracking in the Northern Territory, following an announcement from the Northern Territory Government that appraisal gas will begin flowing from Tamboran Resources’ Shenandoah South Pilot Project tomorrow. 

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We’ll still be publishing our daily headlines, by Blake Aued, but for the last week of August, we’re mostly just putting our heads together to soon roll out the best damned Streetsblog you’ve ever seen, with some shiny new bells, blaring new whistles … and deep investigative pieces into our nation’s ongoing struggle with car dependence.

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• Amtrak has seen record ridership for two years in a row, carrying almost 24 million passengers in fiscal 2026. This is largely the result of a $22 billion investment in tracks, tunnels, stations and new trains through the Biden administration’s infrastructure law. New service on the Gulf Coast and in the Midwest has been successful. All of this means that congressional Republicans would be shortsighted to cut funding for passenger rail now. (Frontier Group)
• Climate change causes extreme heat that can damage overhead wires and warp train tracks, as well as floods that wash away tracks and inundate subways. (The Conversation)
• Motorists in states that voted for Donald Trump are feeling the most pain at the pump from the Iran War. (NOTUS)
• Even though Tesla’s Autopilot feature isn’t truly autonomous, more and more Tesla drivers are deciding to take a nap behind the wheel. (NBC News; paywall)
• People in the Sun Belt are spending way too much money on cars, according to WalletHub. In one Texas town, the median auto debt is almost equivalent to a year’s salary. Americans’ total debt from auto loans now stands at $1.7 trillion.
• The Nashville Scene goes inside the city’s Vision Zero process as it works to reverse a years-long trend of rising traffic deaths.
• A budget shortfall is leading the Jacksonville Transportation Authority to reconsider plans for autonomous shuttle buses. (Daily Record)
• A new Illinois law requires the owners of high-speed e-bikes to have a driver’s license and insurance, and to register the vehicle like a car. (NBC Chicago)
• A year after putting Hemphill Street on a road diet, Fort Worth is removing bike lanes and returning it to five car lanes. (Star-Telegram)
• I-37 split San Antonio’s Eastside and downtown in the 1960s, and now residents are thinking about how to reconnect them. (Report)
• An anti-bike Washington, D.C. official was arrested stemming from an altercation with a constituent over a bike lane project. (Reddit)
• Seattle is stepping up Vision Zero efforts as the goal of ending traffic deaths by 2030 approaches. (KUOW)
• The new Crosslake Connection in Seattle is helping University of Washington students get to class. (The Daily)
• Omaha unveiled new renderings and a name, Oscar, for the streetcar currently under construction. (WOWT)
• One big question about driverless cars has been, if they get a ticket, who pays it? China is considering a law assigning responsibility for autonomous vehicles’ traffic infractions to the manufacturer or importer. (China Daily)
• Brazil has developed a plan to improve its transit system, which has been stagnant for decades. (Transport Matters)

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Trump’s repression collapses in LA, Chicago, and Minneapolis

In LA, Chicago, and Minneapolis, Trump attempted to divide and weaken the movement by securing hundreds of indictments against individual activists for interfering with an ICE agent, destroying federal property, or similar crimes.

From the beginning, the scope, size, and determination of the protests frustrated ICE’s attempt to repress them. To begin with, despite the massive deployments, ICE did not have enough agents to control the crowds, detain the immigrants, and arrest the protesters whom they claimed had violated the law. Agents, moreover, had great difficulty in identifying and recording which individual had committed which allegedly criminal act. To overcome that difficulty, the ICE agents, who were untrained, incompetent, brutal, and dishonest, arrested first and came up with charges later. Occasionally, official or cell-phone videos confirmed what the agents said, but most often they revealed that the agent had erred or lied.

The U.S. attorneys were supposed to review the charges that any officer reported, but many of those attorneys had resigned in protest. Some of the remaining U.S. attorneys dismissed dishonest or unsubstantiated charges, but under relentless pressure from above, most sought indictments from the grand juries on weak or non-existent cases. As the cases wound their way ahead, many U.S. attorneys would have been happy to proceed to trial except for the fact that the judges and, even more, the juries were increasingly skeptical of any charge that ICE had filed.

Pressure from the defendants, the defense lawyers, and the movement increased the pressure on the prosecution. Many defendants turned down plea deals despite the risk of going to trial. The defense often filed numerous motions seeking dismissal, and in many cases, members of the movement showed up in court for the crucial proceedings.

In criminal cases that do not involve ICE, 90 percent of federal indictments end up in a guilty plea or verdict. But after an extensive investigation of 400 cases in which protesters were charged with assaulting or impeding ICE agents, the New York Times found that half of those cases ended in acquittals or dismissals and that many of the others were pled down to misdemeanors. Significantly, of the 26 cases that went to trial before a jury, 22 were acquitted.

Similarly, ProPublica and Frontline reported that the federal government arrested 132 U.S. citizens in southern California for interfering with or assaulting ICE agents, but only 32 were convicted, and most of those had been convicted when they pleaded to misdemeanors. In fact, the federal defenders in Southern California won six straight acquittals—an unheard-of event—because juries simply did not believe ICE agents, including Greg Bovino. Likewise, after a jury had acquitted a professor at California State on a charge of aggravated assault against an ICE agent, the California Faculty Association reported that as of April 16, 2026, the U.S. attorney in LA had filed over a hundred charges against anti-ICE protesters and still had not convicted a single one for assaulting an ICE officer.

The same was true in Chicago. According to the same ProPublica and Frontline report, the government dropped charges in 75 of the 109 arrests of protesters against ICE.

If anything, the government did worse in Minneapolis. Early in ICE’s occupation of the city, Kristi Noem published “wanted posters” for 16 protesters who had supposedly interfered with ICE agents. But as Minnesota Public Radio reported, of the 36 protesters charged with interfering with ICE officers (including the 16 on Noem’s list), the U.S. attorney dropped 18 and offered 11 others a deal to dismiss their cases in 18 months if they had no further offenses.

While there are no official statistics, the New York Times found that of the 26 cases of ICE protesters who went to trial before a jury, the jury found 22 were not guilty.

There is also a great deal of anecdotal evidence of the juries’ opposition to ICE in the New York Times and ProPublica reports, but two cases, one from Chicago and the other from LA, express what juries thought of the ICE campaign.

In the Chicago case, a man had posted an online picture of Greg Bovino above a caption which read: “10K if U take him down.” The government charged the poster with attempted murder-for-hire and, at trial, called him “a ruthless member of the Latin Kings.” But after the jury heard the evidence, it acquitted the man. In response, Steven Miller issued a statement saying that “leftist judges and juries were empowering violent insurrection against the government,” but his racist sputtering could not reverse the verdict.

Similarly, in Los Angeles, the government charged a tow truck driver with interference with ICE officers when he mistakenly towed an ICE vehicle away from a scene where the agents were attempting to arrest an undocumented immigrant from Colombia. Once again, the jury acquitted the defendant, and once again Miller issued a public statement saying it was “another example of blatant jury nullification in a blue city.”

Even in LA, Chicago, and Minneapolis, the government obtained some convictions, although often on lesser offenses. However, even those who were ultimately exonerated suffered financial and personal harm from the prosecutions. Even so, there were so many acquittals and dismissals that the government’s prosecution of individual protesters in those cities barely made a dent in the growing movement against ICE and Trump.

Trump’s conspiracy indictments.

As stated, Bondi directed the FBI and the U.S. attorneys to consider charging anti-ICE activists with substantive offenses and conspiracy to commit those offenses because that would make it possible to prosecute those who planned the event and to double the penalties for anyone who committed an unlawful act.

From LA forward, the Justice Department was zealous in filing conspiracy charges, but almost immediately, the need to prove an “explicit or implicit” agreement to commit an unlawful act opened a weakness in those charges. If there were no electronic or other written statements suggesting such an agreement, a sympathetic jury could find defendants not guilty of the conspiracy charge if it concluded that there was either no agreement or that the agreement was limited to an agreement to carry out a lawful protest.

In the early days of the LA protests, the regime nevertheless stormed ahead with its conspiracy charges. Thus, in the first few days of the rebellion, Alex Jones (yes, that Alex Jones) provided the government with a video of a Latino man standing on the back of a truck, handing out water and face shields to crowds who had been gassed by ICE. Almost immediately, the government obtained search warrants, and ICE agents, surrounded by National Guard troops, used flash bangs to storm into his home and arrest him for conspiracy to interfere with ICE agents. When it turned out that the man was just a lone Good Samaritan, the government was forced to dismiss all charges against him and to incur months of adverse publicity

Similarly, on the first day of the occupation of LA, ICE agents arrested David Huerta, the President of California SEIU, for conspiracy to interfere with ICE agents because he had sat down by himself on a driveway outside a garment factory where ICE was conducting a raid.  Since the only agreement that he had was with himself, the government was forced to drop the conspiracy charge. Months later, it was also forced to drop the charge of interfering with an ICE officer because Huerta had not interfered with anyone.

More seriously, in Ventura County, the government brought a twelve-count conspiracy indictment against two leaders of an immigrant rights group that had allegedly built blockades on the roads leading to a marijuana farm as ICE arrested and detained 400 or so immigrants. For unstated reasons, the government later dismissed all eleven felony counts in return for the lead defendant pleading to a misdemeanor and agreeing to 24-months of probation.

In Chicago, the situation was similar. The U.S. attorney obtained an indictment against six people, most of whom were associated with the Democratic Party, who had stood in front of an ICE vehicle and banged on its hood as it attempted to leave ICE’s Broadview Detention Center just outside of Chicago. Someone broke the rear windshield wiper, and that person or someone else also inscribed the letters PIG on the side of the vehicle. Fortunately, there were no text messages or other evidence of agreement to act together, but the government claimed that by standing side by side, the protesters had reached an implicit agreement to act together.  On that basis, the government asked a grand jury to approve a two-count indictment against all six people for conspiracy to interfere with an ICE agent and conspiracy to damage federal property.1United States v. Michael Babbitt, et al., US Dist. Ct. N.D. Ill. No. 1:25-cr-00693.  A copy of the indictment and of any document filed in that case may be obtained via PACER on the website of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Before the second Trump Administration, grand juries had almost never rejected an indictment requested by a U.S. attorney. But following in the footsteps of other grand juries that had rejected indictments requested by the Trump Administration, the first grand jury refused to approve the indictment against any of the six Broadview defendants. Undeterred, the U.S. attorney presented the same indictment to a second grand jury. As it turned out, a member of the first grand jury was also on the second, and when he saw the indictment, he told the U.S. attorney on the record that he thought that the first indictment was a “crock of shit” and that he had the same opinion about the second indictment.

The prosecutor then unlawfully excused him from the second grand jury and, after further unlawful acts, finally obtained a conspiracy indictment against the six defendants.2Hannah Meisel, “Crock of s—’: Transcripts show grand jurors dismissed for disagreeing with government’s case against ‘Broadview Six,’” Capitol News Illinois, June 10, 2026.  Months later, when Trump’s newly (and illegally) appointed Acting U.S. attorney learned what had happened, he dismissed the conspiracy charges in an attempt to prevent the release of the full grand jury transcript. When the judge ordered it released and learned what had happened, she dismissed the remaining misdemeanor charge, saying that the prosecutorial misconduct was the worst that she had ever seen. Undeterred, the U.S. attorney said that no “civilized society” should tolerate conduct like that of the defendants, but other than sputtering out racist nonsense, he could do nothing to reinstate the conspiracy charges.

Until the most recent indictment in Minneapolis, [the government] did not attempt to bring to trial a conspiracy indictment in any of the three cities where massive protests occurred.

The government obtained conspiracy indictments and convictions in a case in Spokane, Washington where a crowd attempted to prevent an ICE bus from moving undocumented immigrants3 In Spokane, local police arrested and confiscated the phones of 30 activists who had stood in front of an ICE bus.  After local police turned the phones over to the FBI, the federal authorities found electronic communications urging others to come to the station to “sit in front of the bus,” and “block the exits.” On that basis, the government obtained an indictment against nine protesters for conspiracy to interfere with ICE agents.  Six defendants pleaded guilty to the felony in return for an agreement that it would be converted to a plea to a misdemeanor in 18 months, and three other defendants were convicted at trial and await sentencing.  Aaron Glantz, “Federal Jury finds army veteran and two other ICE protesters guilty of conspiracy,” Guardian, May 29, 2026, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/28/ice-protesters-conspiracy-charges., but until the most recent indictment in Minneapolis, it did not attempt to bring to trial a conspiracy indictment in any of the three cities where massive protests occurred.

The Minneapolis indictment

On June 11, 2026, the Trump regime filed an eight-count indictment against 15 activists who had fought against ICE during its occupation of Minneapolis. Of those counts, the key one is that the activists were accused of conspiring to impede or injure ICE agents as the agents attempted to arrest immigrants and to move them to sites from which they could be deported. As this case arose in the city where the most important victory over ICE occurred, it could become the national symbol of the regime’s attempt to disband and disrupt the movement that defeated it last January.

To begin with, the Minneapolis indictment is the most dishonest and hypocritical indictment that the government has filed. For weeks, the nation saw three thousand ICE agents rampaging through the streets of Minneapolis, breaking into cars and homes, arresting anyone who “looked like” an immigrant, shooting and severely wounding Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and, most notoriously, shooting and killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti.  The government has investigated none of those crimes but has instead spent its time investigating the signal chats, videos, and other “evidence” of a few minor incidents where it says those named in the indictment blocked ICE vehicles or agents for short periods.

For weeks, the nation saw three thousand ICE agents rampaging through the streets of Minneapolis, breaking into cars and homes, arresting anyone who “looked like” an immigrant…

The indictment does not charge anyone affiliated with the unions, the teachers, or the neighborhood and community groups who organized the mass patrols, marches, and semi-general strike that drove ICE out of Minnesota. Instead, it charges 15 people who it says were supporters of Direct Action Minnesota (DAMN) and several smaller “direct action” organizations. The indictment says the defendants organized specific direct actions during the mass struggles, including, for example, attempts to organize “soft blockades” (i.e., pickets) or “hard blockades” (i.e., debris, trailers, etc.) around federal buildings on the day of the largest mass march and the general strike.

The indictment apparently hopes to separate “legitimate” protesters from the “troublemakers.” This is an old tactic that has long been used by governments and strike-breaking employers, but after the great mass actions in January, most of the labor and community organizations that fought ICE in the streets have rejected that tactic by joining the campaign to defend those charged in this indictment.

If this case goes as most such trials have gone, the government will call an assortment of informants, turncoats, and the like to prove its claims. In addition, however, many of the 273 paragraphs in the indictment quote from text messages, chats, Facebook posts, and other electronic communications allegedly sent by some of the defendants in which they discussed plans to take various actions. A crucial part of the defense will thus be challenging the authenticity of those messages and whether the government broke laws to obtain them.

Given all that ICE did in Minneapolis, the movement should demand that the government dismiss this indictment. If the case goes to trial, however, the government will seek, as it has in other cases, orders prohibiting defense lawyers or witnesses from saying in the trial what happened to Renee Good or Alex Pretti or what in general happened during the occupation. It will also see orders prohibiting the defense lawyers from saying or implying that the jury has the right to find the defendants not guilty because of what ICE had done in the city. If the government obtains those orders—and it has done so in other cases—it will limit the ways in which the lawyers can point out the political nature of this case in the courtroom itself.

But many of the jurors will be from Minneapolis, St. Paul, and surrounding cities, and they will know what happened. Especially with a mass defense campaign including shows of support at the court, it will be difficult for the regime to secure a conviction.

The Minneapolis trial will be a crucial battle in the fight to defend the movement and thus in the fight to stop Trump’s deportations.

If the movement can prevent a conviction on the charges in this indictment, it will be important in the region and in the country. On the other hand, even if the regime secures a conviction on one or more charges, it cannot secure Prairieland-style sentences because the charges carry far less severe penalties and the movement is much stronger. While any conviction in Minneapolis will harm the movement, it cannot disrupt or uproot the movement in Minneapolis or the region. Nevertheless, the Minneapolis trial will be a crucial battle in the fight to defend the movement and thus in the fight to stop Trump’s deportations.

The Detroit indictment

In May 2026, the government obtained an indictment charging eight people affiliated in various ways with the University of Michigan with eight counts of conspiracy to transmit threats in interstate commerce, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of five years.

In essence, the indictment alleges that in a series of separate incidents, differing combinations of the defendants spray-painted and otherwise vandalized the homes of two regents, two senior university administrators, a university police official, two businesses, and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. The Federation, the businesses, and the University officials had actively supported the Israeli attack on Gaza, and the spray-painted slogans included calls like “Free Palestine, “Divest Now,” “Shame, Long Live the Intifada,” and the like.  There were, however, no threats to any individual.

As in Minnesota, the Detroit indictment includes numerous seemingly incriminating statements allegedly made by defendants on Facebook pages, text messages, Signal chats, and the like. Once again, there is no reason to believe the government’s claim that the defendants made these statements or that the government obtained them by lawful means, but the fight over whether they are genuine or were lawfully obtained will be a crucial part of the defense effort.

In this case, the hypocrisy is again enormous. The U.S. supplied arms for a genocide, but instead of stopping that genocide, the Trump Administration is charging eight young people with federal felonies for alleged acts of vandalism which would have been charged, if at all, as minor misdemeanors if they had been committed during a fraternity’s pledge drive.

We must fight against this attempt to criminalize political opposition to the regime by organizing a movement to demand that these charges be dropped and that the defendants be acquitted if the case goes to trial.

Conclusion

After ten months, Trump’s campaign to “disband and uproot” the left and the movement has failed in key cities because the mass resistance in LA, Chicago, and Minneapolis and other cities sparked determined opposition among layers of the working and middle classes. In part due to the courageous defendants and an organized defense movement, that opposition reached into the court system and led to the acquittals and dismissals of hundreds of felony indictments.

The victory was not total. In Prairieland, Trump’s prosecutions led to unjust convictions and life-destroying sentences. Elsewhere, others were unjustly convicted and sentenced, although none of the other sentences were remotely comparable to those handed down after the Prairieland trial. Moreover, for every defendant, including those whose charges were dismissed, the convictions and sentences were still unjust. Even those who were exonerated suffered physical, economic, and emotional damage due to unjust arrests and prosecutions.

Even acknowledging the pain inflicted by Trump’s attack on the movement, the movement defeated Trump’s attempt to “disrupt and uproot” it. Indeed, the overall movement against ICE is stronger today than it was on the day Trump signed NPSM-7, which means that the movement can continue the fight against Trump’s deportations and other attacks. The defendants who faced down the government are now seen as heroes, and large sections of the movement see more clearly the tasks ahead and the need for a militant fight against ICE and against Trump.

Obviously, much remains to be done. Above all, the regime has found new ways to increase deportations, and the movement must find new ways to stop those deportations, because, as we have seen, the overall success of the movement is the best way to defend the movement itself.

Beyond that, we need special movements to defend against the indictments in Minneapolis and Detroit, to support the appeal from the convictions and sentences in Prairieland, and to defend against any new indictments that may be filed, including those for events that have already occurred and those for acts of resistance that will occur in the future.

We must also fight for broader political demands because the public trials and the jury system cannot prevent every unjust conviction (or prosecution) and because the current wave of popular opposition, which made it possible to defeat these prosecutions, will either grow or shrink depending upon the overall development of the struggle. We must thus link the fight against these prosecutions to the overall struggle against the regime, including the fight to drive Trump from the Presidency and the fight against fascism and for demands that will eliminate the conditions that gave birth to Trump and Trumpism.

Until we can prevail in that larger political struggle, we must also take steps to protect the movement itself. To do that, we must assess the strategic and tactical lessons of the fight against Trump’s attempt to destroy the movement.

The liberals have said or will say that the defense of the anti-ICE fighters shows that the system “worked.” But while the jury system, public trials and the media are the most important checks on state repression within the capitalist legal system, they have failed too many times—including, for example, in Prairieland—in the face of the resources and the demagogy that the regime can bring to bear. Contrary to what the liberals say, the grand juries, juries, and judges who dismissed these specific indictments did so because of action by the mass movements. The dismissals and acquittals again confirmed that the most important check on repression by the capitalist state is not the checks and balances within the State, but organization and action by the working class and the oppressed.

While a mass movement sometimes needs direct action, the struggle over the last year has decisively shown that it was mass action that slowed Trump’s deportations and his attempts to prosecute the movement.

Similarly, anarchists have said and will continue to say that the leaders of the mass movements are too weak and too bureaucratic and that we need “direct actions” to stop the deportations. But while a mass movement sometimes needs direct action, the struggle over the last year has decisively shown that it was mass action that slowed Trump’s deportations and his attempts to prosecute the movement. A mass movement must be able to defend itself, but that cannot be done by building small squads of activists who are separate from and unaccountable to the movement because they cannot defeat the state and they are extremely vulnerable to state repression. Instead, the answer is to fight to build a new, militant, and democratic movement leadership,

Finally, while only a few now say that we can defeat Trump and ICE by “civil disobedience,” the sheer brutality of the regime and the success of the mass movement have shown the utter falsity of those claims.

On a tactical level, there are a few simple and clear lessons.

First, we must take steps to ensure that no member of the movement posts any electronic communication that they do not want to see as an exhibit in a federal prosecution. While we must maintain our right to use electronic means to debate general political issues and to organize many events, we should not make any comments —however innocent they may be —which suggest that any form of “violence” may or should occur at any specific event. Those comments can survive forever, and their meaning can be twisted by Trump’s henchmen.

Second, we must consider seriously every tactical decision as to when, where, and how to conduct every demonstration, picket, or other event. In most such events, there is little if any risk, but in some cases the risk is much higher, and while we must sometimes take such risks, we should not take them without carefully evaluating and discussing whether the risk is necessary.

Third, and more specifically, while we must defend the right of armed self-defense, we must carefully consider whether and how to use it at specific events because having firearms at a protest and even loose talk about using firearms in the struggle for self-defense creates great risks.

Finally, while we must fight to build a mass movement, we cannot do that without recognizing the weaknesses in the current movement. Above all, we must recognize that even though large sections of the working class and of the Black, Latinx, and other oppressed communities adamantly oppose the deportations and Trump, the active movement is dominated by the white middle class. We must take every possible step to overcome that gap because only a movement of the multi-racial and multi-gendered working class and the oppressed can defeat Trump and Trumpism.

How to do that is far beyond the scope of this article, but the fact that it can be done is confirmed by what has been described in this article.  For many reasons, those grand juries and juries whose actions were composed of citizens from the middle class and the upper levels of the working class. But if those levels of the working and middle classes were willing, as Miller said, to “nullify” Trump’s policies, that is a signal that there is even more militant opposition to Trump among the more oppressed sections of the working class. How to turn those sentiments into active support and leadership of a movement is a complicated question, but it is what must be done if we are to eliminate horrors like NSPM-7 and the ongoing nightmare of Prairieland.

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Kay’s Tribute to Pat

The community of Las Vegas celebrated the tenure of Pat Leahan at the Las Vegas Peace and Justice Center on Friday, August 28, and Robin Collier of KCEI and I went over to join in from this side of the mountain. Robin recorded the event and I listened to Pat and her comrades tell stories of the Center’s incredible history of 22 years of service to the community.

Pat Leahan

Pat first came to town 30 years ago on a serendipitous vacation trip from Minneapolis and ended up staying, easing into a job at the United World College (UWC) as Community Engagement Liaison. A perfect fit for Pat, who loves young people, she began to connect students with people and activities in the local community. A handful of these students were at the celebration and spoke about how they were encouraged  to share the community organizing skills they learned with Pat when they return home.

United World College students

The mission of the Peace and Justice Center is “Providing free services in partnership with our community in 4 overall categories: Access, Education, Advocacy and Solidarity.” In practice that means getting involved in all kinds of social and environmental justice issues: inadequate medical services; union organizing; prison reform; Integration Center; low income services; animal advocacy; voting rights; protecting the Gallinas River, ICE interventions, and oil and gas regulation.

That last item, oil and gas regulation, was a highly contentious issue that Pat, along with comrades in Mora County (Las Vegas is in San Miguel County), took on despite political pressures from the industry. La Jicarita covered much of this issue over the course of 2013 to 2015 (see La Jicarita, June 4, 2013). It all started when several oil and gas companies sought permits for exploration drilling and potential fracking in Mora and San Miguel Counties and came to a head when a legal organization from Pennsylvania, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CDLEF) came to town and proposed that both counties adopt what they called “A Bill of Rights” that would ban oil and gas development outright. Pat and her comrades had already been organizing to educate the public, form relationships with elected officials and county staff, and partner with other county organizations that were working on the same issues or had already passed tougher regulations (e.g. Santa Fe County). The Mora County Community Water Rights and Local Self-Government Ordinance, promulgated by CDLEF as a test of local sovereignty, and opposed by those who advocated for local zoning restrictions, was found unconstitutional in district court. The two counties then went on to pass zoning ordinances to protect against oil and gas development in sensitive county locations.

Pat also ran a progressive talk show, Community Peace Radio, for youth and adults, every Saturday on KFUN (AM 1230) or KLVF (100.7 FM). Over two decades she invited everyone to speak—children, students from the World College, activists from all over, including Sophia Martinez and John Trudell, union organizers, environmentalists, government representatives—and there was music, too. Robin Collier, Paula Garcia (than a Mora County Commissioner), and I went on the radio to discuss the ramifications of the proposed “Bill of Rights.”

Robin Collier of KCEI

Pat also supervised the Masters of Social Work students from New Mexico Highlands University in their UWC-USA Social Work internships. As a woman tied to so many organizations and people in the Las Vegas community she vows to stay in touch—and keep affiliations—after she moves to Philadelphia to be closer to her family.

Pat was a true force in the community—and a devoted dog lover who’s own dogs and everyone else’s were treated with tender care. I will miss her friendship and solidarity. Vaya con Dios, Pat.

Dear friends,

As the 2026 legislative session comes to an end on August 31, we write to share some important updates. 

Last night AB/SB 113 language was released. The budget language included: 

• $75 million for projects in the Delta that improve existing levees for the purposes of flood protection and climate resiliency; 
• Of that total, $30 million is designated to the Special Projects Program and Flood Control Subventions Program.

Thanks to your calls and emails, the language did NOT include:

• Streamlining measures for any elements of CA Forever’s Shipbuilding project, OR
• Exemptions to fast-track the construction of the Delta Conveyance Project.

We applaud the legislature for pushing back on harmful trailer bills this year. 

But our fight is not over yet. 

We still need Governor Newsom to sign AB 2218 and SB 872 into law.

Support AB 2218

On February 19, 2026, Assemblymember Kalra introduced AB 2218, the Indigenous Water Rights Bill sponsored by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and the Karuk Tribe. 

AB 2218 would establish a clear statewide policy directive acknowledging and seeking to remedy the inequities inflicted upon Tribes in California through historical state-sanctioned acts of termination, removal, and forced assimilation.

The bill directs relevant state agencies, including the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Board, to incorporate this policy into water rights decisions, regulatory actions, permitting, and grantmaking to address identified inequities. Recognizing historic harms and directing state agencies to center Tribal equity in water policy is not simply a symbolic act; it is a pathway toward stronger relationships, more inclusive decision-making, and better outcomes for the ecosystems we all depend on.

Two Easy Ways You Can Take Action:
1. Call the Governor at (916) 445-2841 urging his signature on support AB 2218.

Please call the Governor’s Office and tell them: 

• As a constituent, I urge you to sign AB 2218 into law..
• AB 2218 supports the State’s progress towards equitable water management.
• AB 2218 is an important step toward addressing inequities affecting California Native American Tribes in state water policy and ensuring Tribal interests are meaningfully considered in decisions affecting water.

2. Alternatively, you can also write to the Governor’s Office, asking for their support on AB 2218. 

• Click this link to send a comment urging the Governor’s Signature on AB 2218.

Support SB 872

On January 6, 2026 Senator McNerney introduced SB 872, the Delta Levees and Canal Subsidence Fund. 
 
SB 872, would create a dedicated fund to address two major threats to California’s water supply: aging levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and sinking State Water Project (SWP) canals. These funds would help protect our existing infrastructure from the threats from a changing climate, protecting drinking water supply, Delta ecosystems, and communities from flood risk. 

We need your help! SB 872 moves to the Governor’s desk for signature, and we need your help to move this bill into law.

Two Easy Ways You Can Take Action:
1. Call the Governor at (916) 445-2841 urging his signature on support SB 872.

Please call the Governor’s Office and tell them: 

• As a constituent, I urge you to sign SB 872 into law
• You support advancing legislation that prioritizes safeguarding California’s water supplies, protecting critical infrastructure, and preparing the state’s water system for future challenges.

2. Alternatively, you can also write to the Governor’s Office, asking for their support on SB 872. 

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A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 23, 2026 thru Sat, August 29, 2026. Stories we promoted this week, by category:

Climate Change Impacts (8 articles)

• Climate change is unearthing new archeological discoveries, while also threating them NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Jørgen Hollesen, a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, about how climate change is impacting the study of archaeology. NPR, Danielle Kurtzleben, Aug 23, 2026.
• The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: ‘Bigger shocks are on the way’ Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility, even an inevitability. AP News, Peter Pringaman, Aug 24, 2026.
• Five ways Europe's heat-wave summer is hot, hot, hot Phys.org, Edward Zinin (editor), Aug 24, 2026.
• World`s oceans hit hottest temperature on record in August The new ocean heat record being set in August is especially remarkable as global sea temperatures are typically highest in March and April, after the austral summer. The Guardian, Damian Carrington, Aug 24, 2026.
• How does a collapsing glacier turn into a lethal wall of mud and water? An expert explains what happened in Nepal A collapsing glacier in Tibet led to a devastating wall of water and debris roaring through a valley in Nepal, leaving hundreds dead and many hundreds still missing. The Conversation, Stuart Dunning, Aug 27, 2026.
• Nepal`s devastating floods reveal the danger of `cascading hazards` in Himalayas How many factors driven by climate change can add up to disaster. The Conversation, Daniel Parsons, Aug 27, 2026.
• El Niño climate patterns supercharged by burning of fossil fuels, study finds ‘Godzilla’ event currently brewing could push 50 million people into acute hunger before the end of next year The Guardian, Oliver Milman, Aug 27, 2026.
• Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn Unusual heat this year may have melted ice and thawed bonds that hold glaciers in place – leading to catastrophe The Guardian, Jonathan Watts, Aug 27, 2026.

Climate Science and Research (6 articles)

• Near-real-time storyline attribution for everyday global weather An experimental reanalysis-based approach for extreme event attribution Climate Lab Book, Ed Hawkins, Aug 24, 2026.
• Climate Model Benchmarking: Building Trust and Advancing Science A critical look at how well climate models work, how to successfully use them, and the anticipated challenges for their next-generation development. Eos, Birgit Hassler, Forrest Hoffman, Ranjini Swaminathan and Beth Dingley, Aug 24, 2026.
• The biggest carbon polluters are to blame for half of U.S. western water lost, `groundbreaking` paper says Some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are disproportionately responsible for the water crisis in the American West, according to a first-of-its-kind study published Tuesday. Inside Climate News, Jake Bolster, Aug 25, 2026.
• Skeptical Science New Research for Week #35 2026 Skeptical Science's weekly survey of freshly published climate research. Skeptical Science, Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Aug 27, 2026.
• Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest 1000-year archive from the Galápagos portends greater weather disruptions from the Pacific climate cycle. Science, Julia Vaz, Aug 27, 2026.
• Scientists collaborated with narwhals to study warming waters in the Arctic Scientists collaborated with narwhals for a new study to understand human-caused climate change in the Arctic and rising sea levels around the world. NPR, Rachel Carlson, Aug 28, 2026.

Climate Policy and Politics (5 articles)

• U.S. Cuts Colorado River Water for Arizona, California and Nevada Arizona’s share of the river will shrink by a third, likely increasing reliance on groundwater and raising pressure on agriculture. NYT, Scott Dance, Aug 21, 2026.
• Council set to axe climate emergency declaration UK political party Reform discovers that basic physics is ''woke."" BBC News, Victoria Scheer and Annaleece Longmore, Aug 22, 2026.
• Trump demands `lies` in West Point climate curriculum, professor claims in new lawsuit A tenured professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point claims he was fired after pushing back on a presidential directive to “defy science” and stop teaching cadets that climate change had “primarily human causes, something contrary to the ideology of the Commander in Chief and forbidden at West Point.” The Independent News, Justin Rohrlich, Aug 26, 2026.
• West Point Climate Professor Says He Was Fired for Refusing to `Defy Science` Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired. New York Times, Michael C. Bender and Greg Jaffe, Aug 26, 2026.
• ?W?hy are European leaders staying silent after our summer of climate shock? Lethal temperatures ?and wildfires have exposed a widening gulf between voters demanding ?action and politicians unwilling to confront the long-term choices global heating requires The Guardian, Jon Henley, Aug 26, 2026.

Miscellaneous (3 articles)

• 2026 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #34 A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, August 16, 2026 thru Sat, August 22, 2026. Skeptical Science, Bärbel Winkler & Doug Bostrom, Aug 23, 2026.
• If all car tyres were filled with CO2, would this cut atmospheric carbon significantly? Skeptical Science would like to hear your answer to this in comments: ''If all the vehicles on the planet had their tyres pumped up with CO2, would this lock up enough carbon to lower the amount in the air significantly?'' The Guardian, Guardian Staff, Aug 23, 2026.
• Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions Military and wartime emissions are difficult to track—but too important to ignore. Bulletin of the Atomic Scienctists, Neta C. Crawford, Aug 24, 2026.

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions (2 articles)

• Against the wind: despite Trump`s attacks, unions are fighting for good US clean energy jobs Since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, a growing labor movement has addressed the climate crisis and economic inequality The Guardian, Dharna Noor, Aug 23, 2026.
• Fact brief - Do wind turbines release more emissions than burning fossil fuels? No - Wind turbines generate emissions during construction and transportation, but their overall climate impact is far lower than that of fossil fuels. Skeptical Science, Sue Bin Park, Aug 25, 2026.

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (2 articles)

• Florida shows how to adapt as coastal cities face growing threats from sea level rise and storms With a state government locked in denial of climate change, Floridians ''DIY'' and show how to self-help as coastal cities face growing threats from sea level rise and storms. Associated Press, Dorany Pineda, Aug 22, 2026.
• Empty North Sea oil fields could store enough green hydrogen to power the country for seven years Depleted oil and gas fields that powered Britain for half a century could be refilled with hydrogen made from wind and solar power. The Conversation, Stuart Jones , Aug 24, 2026.

Health Aspects of Climate Change (2 articles)

• Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra `heat-stress days` every year Carbon Brief, Ayesha Tandon, Aug 26, 2026.
• Climate Change Exposes 580 Million Children to 20 Extra "Heat-Stress Days" Every Year More than 40% of children under the age of 10 globally are already experiencing at least 20 additional “heat-stress days” due to climate change. CleanTechnica, Ayesha Tandon, Aug 28, 2026.

Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science (1 article)

• How the Black Summer fires failed to shift Australians` climate views The research, published today by the Royal Society, indicates that misinformation may have dampened the fires’ impact on the public’s perception of climate risk, as evidenced by the widespread endorsement of the false claim that arsonists caused the bushfires – a belief held by 88.89 per cent of sceptics, 56.96 per cent of fence-sitters, and 38.79 per cent of acceptors. Sydney Morning Herald, Nick O'Malley, Aug 25, 2026.

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The only climate scientist teaching at West Point, the U.S. Army’s military academy, was fired after he resisted an order to stop teaching about the human causes of the climate emergency, a lawsuit claims.

Dr. Adam Kalkstein, a civilian professor of geography at the New York institution, was terminated after the spring semester this year, six months after a testy meeting with Brig. Gen. Shane Reeves, then dean of West Point’s academic board, the court filing said.

According to Kalkstein, who taught Army cadets there for 17 years, he told the dean at a November 2025 meeting that an order to cut from the curriculum content about the human causes of climate change was immoral and potentially illegal.

It “would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the Constitution,” he said.

Reeves responded by “storming out” of the meeting after telling Kalkstein that Donald Trump was commander in chief and set the agenda for West Point, the lawsuit alleged.

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The developments were reported on Wednesday by Stars and Stripes and The New York Times.

Kalkstein’s lawsuit is the second legal action over the stifling of academic freedoms filed by an educator at West Point.

Tim Bakken, the academy’s longest-serving law professor, had a similarly fiery meeting with a uniformed colonel, John Gregory, last year after standing up to a new Trump administration policy ordering civilian colleagues to seek approval before publishing papers or giving speeches, The Washington Post reported in July.

According to Bakken’s lawsuit, Gregory ordered him to “stop talking and sit down” during a meeting of dozens of faculty members. “We’re a military institution. We follow orders,” Gregory is alleged to have said.

The U.S. Military Academy, West Point’s formal name, dropped its challenge to a preliminary injunction against the policy obtained by Bakken’s lawyers this month, military.com reported, and the parties have agreed “in principle” to work toward a permanent solution.

Kalkstein’s attorney, Michael Sussman, told the Times that his client was a conservative Republican who believes military students need to know the truth about the causes of the climate crisis as a matter of national security.

“He is loyal to the cadets and the academy,” he said. “And to his perspective, edicts that he can’t say what’s true in a classroom is beyond his tolerance and totally counterproductive.”

In further comments to Stars and Stripes, Sussman said Kalkstein’s position was not ideological. “There are certainly people who, anything Donald Trump does, they want to complain about it and scream and yell about it. He’s not that guy,” Sussman said.

The lawsuit alleges that Kalkstein first became aware his position was under threat in May 2025, when West Point leaders announced plans to reduce civilian staffing levels, while at the same time opening a new humanities center requiring new geography teachers.

They offered to let him stay as a “term employee,” Stars and Stripes said, and Kalkstein, fearful that colleagues would have to pick up his classes if he quit, accepted a loss of tenure and entitlement to a large severance package to stay.

The order to ban teaching about human contributions to climate change came in September, the lawsuit said, followed by the angry meeting with Reeves a month later. Reeves retired in April after a 30-year military career and is now president of the University of Wyoming’s board of trustees.

Kalkstein’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses West Point of breaching his First Amendment rights to free speech.

In a statement to the Guardian, the academy said it was “aware of the allegations and take[s] such matters seriously,” but declined further comment citing pending litigation.

The Guardian has also approached the White House for comment.

Trump has flipped between calling the climate emergency “a hoax” or “a scam” to admitting it exists but insisting that climate scientists are politically motivated and that the climate “will change back.”

Since taking office for a second time last year he has also attempted to impose numerous cultural changes on U.S. military institutions.

In April last year, Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, to purge books found to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, resulting in almost 400 being removed after review. The books were returned a month later after the Pentagon reversed course.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change on Aug 30, 2026.

Headline News:

• “Solar Has Crossed A Critical Economic Tipping Point” • For years, the economic case for solar came with a qualification. Its installation cost a lot. That disadvantage has largely disappeared. According to an Ember analysis, a solar plant can now require less upfront investment than a coal or gas plant for the same amount of electricity delivered. [OilPrice.com]

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• “COP17 In Mongolia Wraps Up With $1.3 Billion Of Green Investment Pledge” • After twelve days of negotiation and debate in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolian, delegates of 197 parties (196 countries plus the EU) who signed the UN Convention for Combating Desertification wrapped up the Conference of Parties (COP17). The results were note-worthy. [Euronews]
• “Is Europe’s Heat Finally Giving Way? And Are Flash Floods Next?” • Europe’s blistering summer was a “grim illustration” of human-caused climate change, the European Commission said in June, There was no relief in July and much of August. Now the heat is not so great along the Mediterranean, but farther North, it is cooler, with warnings of flash floods. [Euronews]
• “Mexico’s Green Energy Push Is Finally Gaining Momentum” • After a slow start, Mexico is now well on its way to undergoing a green transition. President Claudia Sheinbaum has launched an energy reform that opens the country’s energy sector to greater private investment while focusing on expanding the Mexican renewable energy sector. [OilPrice.com]
• “Most ‘Park Outside’ Warnings Involve Vehicles With Internal Combustion Engines” • Battery fires affected only about a dozen first-generation Chevy Bolts but the fallout cost their makers over $1 billion. How is it that the public does not know about the 3 million vehicles, mostly gas-powered, that are required to be parked outside away from homes? [CleanTechnica]

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Lock the Gate Alliance is calling on the NSW government to urgently pass legislation that would protect coal workers, following revelations that the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) is seeking further information from the owners of Hunter Valley Operations coal mine about the time the operation needs for an orderly transition. 

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Roughly 160 people are dead and hundreds more — including dozens of international tourists — are missing after flash floods hit a region on the mountainous border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. Devastating footage posted to social media shows people fleeing a wall of water that washed away buildings and vehicles.

Initial analysis of satellite imagery and reports from the Nepalese government indicate that the flooding was likely triggered by a landslide caused after a piece of a glacier fell hundreds of feet.

As the region warms, its ice is becoming increasingly unstable, raising the risk of catastrophic flooding.

“The glaciers over there are definitely in retreat,” said Joseph Shea, an associate professor of geography at the University of Northern British Columbia. “There’s a lot of glacier mass up there, but we’re seeing thinning, we’re seeing retreating.”

Since 2000, the world’s glaciers have lost 5 percent of their ice, with much more drastic impacts in certain regions. Nepal’s glaciers lost nearly a quarter of their area between 1970 and 2010. More than 160 smaller glaciers in the country, research has found, have vanished entirely.

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A recent study finds that 40 percent of the world’s glacial ice could disappear if the world does not keep warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius.

The impacts of warming on glaciers in Nepal can cause cascading effects. Shea pointed out that retreating glaciers can help trigger landslides as they get smaller and can no longer hold back sediment. As these glaciers retreat, many are leaving large, dammed lakes at higher elevations. “If you have a landslide suddenly into a lake, you get an overtopping of the dam, and then the whole thing can collapse catastrophically,” Shea said. Known as glacial lake outburst floods, two of these events hit Nepal last year, and research shows millions are living in harms way around the world.

Wednesday’s disaster was more likely due to a glacial collapse that fell into the valley below. Daniel Shugar, a geologist at the University of Calgary in Canada, told The New York Times that satellite imagery suggested that a 2,000-foot-wide piece of ice may have fallen almost 4,000 feet, “[pulverizing] the ice into water” with the force of its fall. And while Shugar emphasized that it was still too early to make conclusive statements about the cause of the floods, he noted to Reuters that snow that was present on the glacier earlier in the week may have melted due to warm temperatures.

The collapse and debris flow were so large and forceful, they registered as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event, according the U.S. Geological Survey.

Glaciers elsewhere have broken apart with destructive results. That includes the collapse of a Swiss glacier last year that buried a town while on a smaller scale, a glacier collapse in Italy in 2022 killed 11 mountaineers. Both were linked with rising temperatures.

There’s a lot of factors in a warming world, Shea said, that can play on each other to destabilize glaciers.

“It’s summertime,” he said. “There’s lots of warming, lots of melt happening, lots of water around. There’s also things like alpine permafrost thaws: the ground temperatures warm up, and big blocks and chunks that would have been frozen in place are now suddenly becoming mobile.”

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline How rising temperatures likely contributed to Nepal’s deadly flood on Aug 29, 2026.

Headline News:

• “State Grid Corporation Of China targets 200 GW Annually Of Renewables” • State Grid Corporation of China outlined twenty measures in seven areas to support the national 15th Five-Year Plan carbon peaking goals. The company said its operating area will add about 200 GW of energy capacity annually during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. [reNews]

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• “Is Global Warming Supercharging El Niños? Study Suggests They Are” • A study suggests that El Niños are getting stronger because of human-caused climate change. El Niños are more than 36% stronger than they were before the industrial age began in the mid 1800s, with a 16% jump in just the last forty years. This shows that the increase is accelerating. [Euronews]
• “Sierra Club Slams Trump Plan To Carve Up Yosemite For Private Developer” • The Trump administration has spent over a year quietly pressing the National Park Service to give up land inside Yosemite National Park so a private developer can build a road connecting its own property to park land, an investigation by NOTUS found. [CleanTechnica]
• “Irish Solar Capacity Passes 3 GW” • Installed solar capacity in Ireland has passed 3 GW for the first time, including installations from rooftop solar to grid-scale solar farms. The Irish Minister for Climate, Energy, and the Environment Darragh O’Brien said the milestone comes as the growth of the country’s solar capacity continues to accelerate. [reNews]
• “Trump Announces ‘Historic’ US-Venezuela Oil Deal That He Says Will Lower Gas Prices” • President Donald Trump has announced that the US and Venezuela have reached a “historic” oil deal that he said would give the US a majority control of billions of barrels of oil reserves in the Caribbean country and lower gas prices for Americans. [ABC News]

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For farming families, we ask that relief and compensation reach tenant, landless and unregistered cultivators who hold no land papers; that seeds reach them before the winter planting; that farm loans be suspended.

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“Today, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill 40, the Community First Coal Review Act by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, a bill to protect Californians from dusty, toxic coal pollution. The bill now heads to the Governor’s desk to await his signature. If signed into law, developers of enormous bulk coal facilities, like the one proposed in West Oakland, will have to fully disclose their projects’ impacts and develop effective mitigation measures before they are granted approval.”

That’s today’s great news, courtesy of Earthjustice’s press release. The bill was co-sponsored by Earthjustice and the West Oakland Environmental Indicators project. Again, from the press release:

“West Oakland will not become a sacrifice zone for the fossil fuel industry,” said Veronica Eady, Executive Director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. “Our neighbors have fought against industrial pollution and corporate greed for decades, so we’re not about to let a major polluter come into our neighborhood without studying their impact, putting mitigations in place, and bringing community members to the table around decisions that affect their lives. We look forward to getting Assembly Bill 40 to the finish line.”

To take effect, the bill must be signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom by September 30, 2026.

Read the full press release here.

You can reach out to urge Gov. Newsom to sign AB40 into law … here is his official contact page, and here is an Earthjustice-crafted letter urging the governor to sign the Community First Coal Review Act.

 

 

 

Image: California State Capitol, Sacramento. Image credit: Andre M via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

 

 

 

“The Hub” is a weekly round-up of transportation related news in the Philadelphia area and beyond. Check back weekly to keep up-to-date on the issues Clean Air Council’s transportation staff finds important.

As exciting events continue in Philadelphia, learn how you can get around to major summer 2026 events without a car, or being stuck in traffic with GoPhillyGo: Car-Free Routes Map!

Transit 4 All PA is hiring fellows, with two paid positions in Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties: to support transit advocates in building local demand for transit. If you live in Luzerne or Lackawanna County, and you ride transit, apply TODAY. Application closes on September 2, 2026. Learn more here. 

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Pennsylvania Capital-Star: Additional Amtrak passenger train service to and from Pittsburgh to begin in mid-November – A second daily passenger train will be running between Pittsburgh and New York, via Harrisburg and Philadelphia. The train will begin running in mid-November. Ridership on Pittsburgh to Philadelphia trains exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time in 2024, with nearly 234,000 passengers.

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The Inquirer: The return of the Philadelphia Cycling Classic will close roads – This weekend the Philadelphia Cycling Classic is back, utilizing the original route of the Ben Franklin Parkway to Kelly Drive. Road closures will start on Saturday and continue into Sunday. SEPTA routes that travel through Manayunk and Roxborough or on Kelly Drive will be detoured.

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Metro Philadelphia: Open Streets returns to Center City for 7 Sundays of car-free fun this fall – Center City is bringing back Open Streets: West Walnut, for 7 weekends this fall. Starting September 13 through October 25, along Walnut Street between Broad and 19th Street, and 18th Street between Chestnut and Locust, will close to vehicles from 7 AM until 6 PM. Open Streets will run from 10 AM until 5 PM on Sundays.  Businesses along the closure routes reported an average 59% increase in foot traffic, and 37% increase in sales.

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WHYY: Market Street Bridge closed to cars for a year as part of a nearly $150 million upgrade

The Inquirer: Lower Merion has issued more than 600 violations from red-light cameras since mid-July

StreetsBlog USA: Philadelphia Figured Out to Stop Double Parking — Will Other Cities Follow Suit?

The Inquirer: New trail connector lets bikers ride 70 miles from Philly to Reading. It’s ‘a really, really big deal.’

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This article Why solidarity is vital to freeing imprisoned human rights defenders was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.

Every Aug. 30, the world marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Beneath the official statements and solemn commemorations lies a stark, unsettling reality: the practice of making people vanish — and holding them in silence away from the world — remains a favored tactic for powerful regimes seeking to crush dissent. The goal of authoritarian states is to cut dissenters off from the outside world until public attention fades. 

Yet as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani highlighted during a global leadership summit last month, solidarity is far more than a moral sentiment; when organized effectively, it acts as a concrete strategy to pull those trapped in state-enforced shadows back into the light. 

Six years ago, when CIVICUS, a global alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society, launched the Stand As My Witness campaign, we made that exact wager: that the surest way to protect an imprisoned or disappeared defender is public visibility. In practice, that means turning quiet solidarity into loud, coordinated action, sharing their stories, mobilizing petitions, amplifying their voices across borders, and forcing governments to act. The objective is simple: to make their continued detention impossible to ignore.

Since 2020, the campaign has put faces to some 50 detained defenders and helped win freedom for 32 of them. Among them are Loujain al-Hathloul, who stood up for women’s right to drive in Saudi Arabia; Floriane Irangabiye, who set up a radio station to profile the lives of exiled Burundians; and Muhammad Ismail, who spoke out against human rights abuses by security forces in Pakistan. Solidarity works. That is exactly why we cannot stop now. 

Refusing erasure

Authoritarian regimes rely on the quiet assumption that if a prisoner is hidden long enough, the outside world will simply move on. Countering this state-enforced oblivion requires bringing individual names, faces and struggles back into the light.

Khurram Parvez has spent decades ensuring that victims of state-enforced disappearances in Kashmir are not forgotten. For that work, the prominent human rights defender was jailed in November 2021 under India’s draconian anti-terror laws. In exposing how security forces made citizens vanish, Parvez became a target of the same machinery of erasure himself.

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In 2023, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared his imprisonment unlawful. Though an Indian court recently granted him bail after four and a half years without trial, state authorities moved instantly to halt his release. His ongoing ordeal is a reminder that when those who document disappearances are silenced, an entire society loses its voice.

Narges Mohammadi’s story reveals both the power of witness and its fragility. The Iranian Nobel laureate who has spoken out against torture and the death penalty has been repeatedly arrested, re-sentenced and subjected to periods of incommunicado detention — a form of short-term enforced disappearance designed to cut her off entirely from family, legal counsel and the outside world. 

Her ongoing persecution maps almost exactly onto the world’s attention span: when global pressure was high, she was granted temporary relief; when it eased, authorities placed her in punitive isolation and handed her additional sentences. In May, after collapsing in prison following suspected heart attacks, she was released on medical bail, some 45 pounds lighter and barely recognizable. Her cumulative sentence still stands at 44 years. A conditional release is not freedom, and the threat of return — and total isolation — has never lifted.

Buzurgmehr Yorov’s decade behind bars illustrates how states turn the justice system itself into a tool of erasure. Arrested in 2015 after taking on targeted political clients and speaking out against their torture, the Tajik lawyer has faced continuous punishment for refusing to stay silent. Held incommunicado and repeatedly placed in solitary isolation, he has been subjected to secret trials behind closed doors that pushed his sentence out to 2043, when he will be in his 70s. Though the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for his immediate release years ago, Tajikistan continues to keep him in the shadows. Silencing the advocate to bury the abuse is the ultimate act of state-enforced invisibility.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya embodies a newer frontier of enforced disappearance: the deliberate targeting of those who keep others alive. Director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, he was detained by Israeli forces after refusing to abandon his patients, and he has since been held without charge, cut off from his family and the outside world as his health deteriorates. 

He is not alone. He is one of 14 Gaza doctors whose release Physicians for Human Rights-Israel is now seeking before Israel’s Supreme Court. Amnesty International has warned that his life is in grave danger, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has ruled his detention unlawful, and Médecins Sans Frontières has called for the release of all arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers. Their vanishing carries its own chilling logic: when the very people who run toward catastrophe to save others can be made to disappear, no one is meant to feel safe.

Breaking the architecture of erasure

Demolishing this system of state-enforced silence cannot be left to traditional diplomacy or closed-door negotiation alone. Protecting the space for dissent requires transforming public solidarity into an active, organized strategy.

At that same forum, Mamdani challenged governments to consider who among today’s vilified activists will be glorified in retrospect once history passes judgment. Parvez, Mohammadi, Yorov and Dr. Abu Safiya are direct answers to that question, alongside dozens of other defenders sitting in cells or secret detention facilities.

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And the space to defend them is shrinking at an alarming rate. Through the CIVICUS Monitor, we have tracked a steady global closing of civic freedoms — to the point where a mere three percent of the global population now lives in countries with open civic space. Across 83 countries now classified as “closed” or “repressed,” states rely on a familiar playbook: new laws branding activists as foreign agents, cross-border surveillance, and a news cycle so crowded with crises that political prisoners risk slipping into total obscurity.

Human rights defenders are not a threat to national security. They are often the last line of defense between a society and its own collapse: the journalists, lawyers and organizers who strive to hold power to account when institutions fail. Defending them is not charity; it is self-defense for democracy.

When powerful regimes attempt to bury dissenters in prison, global solidarity becomes a lifeline. Just as worldwide public pressure was instrumental in freeing Nelson Mandela after 27 years of state isolation, public witness remains the most formidable tool we have today. Thirty-two former political prisoners are free because ordinary people chose to speak up when states demanded silence.

As Mamdani noted, it is often in the darkest moments that true light becomes visible. The current darkness around civic freedoms is undeniable. Our ask remains deceptively simple: Learn a name. Say it out loud. Stand as a witness. Let us make sure that Khurram Parvez, Narges Mohammadi, Buzurgmehr Yorov, and Dr. Abu Safiya are not still waiting in the dark when the next anniversary comes.

This article Why solidarity is vital to freeing imprisoned human rights defenders was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.