Immigration reform advocates ramped up their protests in the last month with one ending in a dozen arrests Monday outside of the White House. The rise in demonstrations comes amid lack of changes or improvements from both the White House and Congress.
During the last few years, environmentalists, activists and some landowners have protested the Keystone XL pipeline extension from Alberta, Canada's oil sands to Port Arthur, Texas because of fear that it could it cause environmental degradation to the farmlands in the Midwest.
Imagine you are swimming alongside your family, and you are captured, corralled, wrestled, driven over, and harpooned, all while witnessing slaughter all around you as you swim frantically in a sea of crimson red, trying to escape.
Although this may sound horribly graphic and traumatizing, this is what's occurring to hundreds of pods of bottlenose dolphins every year in an annual hunt that takes place in a cove in Taiji, Japan.
Latino activists in Texas are demanding that public school curriculum reflect the Latino-heavy student body, and they are asking that the State Board of Education offer courses that resonate with Latino students, such as courses in Mexican-American studies.
