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Local Indigenous organizers and environmentalists protest Line 3 pipeline

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Indigenous organizers and allies gathered Wednesday at the Ohlone Shellmound for a Water is Life Prayer Walk as an expression of solidarity with the Treaty People Walk for Water in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The march was part of a movement to stop construction of the Line 3 pipeline.

Indigenous organizers and allies gathered Wednesday on the site of the Ohlone Shellmound in West Berkeley for a Water is Life Prayer Walk in solidarity with the Treaty People Walk for Water, which took place at the same time in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Editorials

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Stand up for whistleblowers: Reporters’ records are not up for grabs

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: To protect freedom of the press, the Department of Justice must be held accountable for its actions.

The actions of the DOJ set a disturbing precedent for local newsrooms that likely won’t have resources for litigation. If local or national governments demanded email logs or phone records of a small-scale paper, it might have no choice but to oblige.
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