Quakers walked from Flushing NY to Washington DC, retracing the spirit of the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance in a modern call for immigrant justice. Read the original Flushing Remonstrance, as well as the Walkers Remonstrance, an updated call for justice @ www.quakerwalk2025.org
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The Quaker Walk to Washington
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September 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Quakers walked from Flushing NY to Washington DC, retracing the spirit of the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance in a modern call for immigrant justice. Read the original Flushing Remonstrance, as well as the Walkers Remonstrance, an updated call for justice @ www.quakerwalk2025.org
youtu.be/QX2mUFdHVac
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Mamdani says delays in opening the Queensboro Bridge path are infuriating: “This administration time and again has politicized basic street safety projects, intervening at the last minute and putting New Yorkers at risk for completely arbitrary political decisions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...
A Walkway Was Set to Open on the Queensboro Bridge. Until it Wasn’t.
A long-awaited pedestrian path appeared to be finished this month. A ribbon-cutting was scheduled. A news release was prepared. Then City Hall hit the brakes.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Mamdani says delays in opening the Queensboro Bridge path are infuriating: “This administration time and again has politicized basic street safety projects, intervening at the last minute and putting New Yorkers at risk for completely arbitrary political decisions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...
Decades of road salt spread near suburban reservoirs are contaminating NYC's water supply. If nothing is done to reverse the trend, the water system will have to be abandoned. The soaring saltiness poses a challenge to a system that serves more than 9 million New Yorkers. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
NYC may eventually have to abandon part of its water supply
The concentration of chlorides tripled from 1987 to 2019.
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March 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Decades of road salt spread near suburban reservoirs are contaminating NYC's water supply. If nothing is done to reverse the trend, the water system will have to be abandoned. The soaring saltiness poses a challenge to a system that serves more than 9 million New Yorkers. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
#Welcome2Georgia: Traveling through the South can be difficult. I started a Substack to document the experiences I've witnessed on my journey. Here's a summary of one encounter with law enforcement in Clarke County @Georgia
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Welcome to Georgia!
Something Traumatic Happened on the Way to Worship
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March 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#Welcome2Georgia: Traveling through the South can be difficult. I started a Substack to document the experiences I've witnessed on my journey. Here's a summary of one encounter with law enforcement in Clarke County @Georgia
open.substack.com/pub/johnchoe...
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World leaders will gather in Belém @Brazil this November for #COP30 to discuss how to address climate change and save our planet. To get there, they will have to drive along a new highway that plows straight through the Amazon rainforest. www.vice.com/en/article/a... #AvenidaLiberdade
Amazon Rainforest ‘Destroyed’ to Build Climate Summit Highway
Brazil needed to make room for a highway so all the world leaders can stop by to talk about the state of climate change...
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March 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
World leaders will gather in Belém @Brazil this November for #COP30 to discuss how to address climate change and save our planet. To get there, they will have to drive along a new highway that plows straight through the Amazon rainforest. www.vice.com/en/article/a... #AvenidaLiberdade