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PORTLAND, Ore. – Protesters overturned statues of former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday night in a declaration of “rage” toward Columbus Day. Protest organizers dubbed the event “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,” in response to Monday’s federal holiday named after 15th-century Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, a polarizing figure who Native American advocates have said spurred centuries of genocide against indigenous populations in the Americas. The group threw chains around Roosevelt’s...
(CNN) — Columbus Day has been a political lightning rod for states, cities and municipalities around the US for years now. Some have decided to do something about it. Virginia is the latest state to officially observe “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” instead, a holiday to recognize the native populations that were displaced and decimated after Christopher Columbus and other European explorers reached the continent. Technically, Columbus Day is a federal holiday, which means it is recognized by the US government and thus brings the closure of non-ess...
The New York Times reports that the White House coronavirus task force refused to consider a draft order from CDC that would have required passengers and employees on public or commercial transportation to wear face coverings. The New York Times: White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted a sweeping order last month requiring all passengers and employees to wear masks on all forms of public and commercial transportation in the United States, but it was blocked...
At least seven statues of the colonizer Christopher Columbus have been destroyed in 2020 as part of the ongoing national reckoning with America's history and relationship with racism. All but one of those statues, located in cities across the U.S., were toppled or vandalized by protesters in June, following the May 25 death of George Floyd. Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, died after Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes. Chauvin was later charged with murder and...
More than five million acres have burned on the West Coast this year, including a staggering four million in California, where four of the five largest fires ever recorded here started in August and September. Officials and experts have coalesced around the need to abandon longstanding policies requiring that every fire be extinguished and to significantly increase the use of prescribed burning. The practice involves determining which areas are overgrown and when conditions like wind direction and air moisture are right to intentionally ignite...
