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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for August 22, 2024
So, I’m taking my time, perusing
some headlines and click open my local e-newspaper, and holy cow what is news here today:
Two Sumner County residents arrested, Fentanyl seized, three migrants discovered inside vehicleβs trunk
August 21, 2024 Cueball
Sumner Newscow report β According to a news website in Del Rio, Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border, two people with Sumner County ties have been arrested for human smuggling.
In a report for the Eagle Pass News Leader, Maverick County Sheriffβs Office deputies successfully intercepted a human smuggling attempt, rescuing three illegal immigrants who were found crammed into the trunk of a car. The incident unfolded on Highway 277 North, where deputies stopped a blue Honda Accord with Kansas plates for a traffic violation.
The driver was identified as 29-year-old Jordyn Swift and her passenger as 32-year-old Joshua Michael Asbury, both from Caldwell. Upon conducting a thorough investigation, deputies discovered a bag of fentanyl hidden in Swiftβs undergarments.
Further inspection of the vehicle led to the shocking discovery of three individuals concealed in the carβs trunk. The migrants were promptly rescued, and Swift and Asbury were arrested on charges of human trafficking and possession of dangerous substances.
Border Patrol agents arrived at the scene to take custody of the migrants and continue the investigation. This incident highlights the ongoing challenges law enforcement faces in combating human smuggling and the dangers posed by the trafficking of illicit drugs like fentanyl.
Two Sumner County residents arrested, Fentanyl seized, three migrants discovered inside vehicleβs trunk
Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a suit over a transgender Highway Patrol employee’s firing
Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a former state Highway Patrol employee who claimed to have been fired for coming out as transgender
ByJOHN HANNA Associated Press August 15, 2024, 6:11 PM
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas will pay $50,000 to settle a federal anti-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former state Highway Patrol employee who claimed to have been fired for coming out as transgender.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and eight leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature unanimously approved the settlement during a brief online video conference Thursday. The state attorney general’s office pursued the settlement in defending the Highway Patrol, but any agreement it reaches also must be approved by the governor and top lawmakers.
Kelly and the legislators didn’t publicly discuss the settlement, and the amount wasn’t disclosed until the state released their formal resolution approving the settlement nearly four hours after their meeting. Kelly’s office and the offices of Senate President Ty Masterson and House Speaker Dan Hawkins did not respond to emails seeking comment after the meeting.
The former employee’s attorney declined to discuss the settlement before state officials met Thursday and did not return a telephone message seeking comment afterward. The lawsuit did not specify the amount sought, but said it was seeking damages for lost wages, suffering, emotional pain and βloss of enjoyment of life.β
The ex-employee was a buildings and grounds manager in the patrol’s Topeka headquarters and sued after being fired in June 2022. The patrol said the ex-employee had been accused of sexual harassment and wasn’t cooperative enough with an internal investigation. The lawsuit alleged that reason was a pretext for terminating a transgender worker.
The settlement came four months after U.S. District Judge John Broomes rejected the state’s request to dismiss the lawsuit before a trial. Broomes ruled there are “genuine issues of material factβ for a jury to settle.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that a landmark 1964 federal civil rights law barring sex discrimination in employment also bars anti-LGBTQ+ bias.
Court documents said the former Highway Patrol employee, a Topeka resident sought to socially transition at work from male to female. The ex-employee’s last name was listed as Dawes, but court records used a male first name and male pronouns. It wasn’t clear Thursday what first name or pronouns Dawes uses now.
In a December 2023 court filing, Dawes’ attorney said top patrol leaders met βa couple of monthsβ before Dawes’ firing to discuss Dawes being transgender and firing Dawes for that reason.
The patrol acknowledged the meeting occurred but said the leaders decided to get legal advice about the patrol’s βresponsibilities in accommodating Dawes” in socially transitioning at work, according to a court filing by a state attorney in November 2023.
Court filings said the meeting wasn’t documented, something Dawes’ attorney called “a serious procedural irregularity.β
The patrol said in its court filings that Dawes’ firing was not related to Dawes being transgender.
It said another female employee had complained that in May 2022, Dawes had complimented her looks and told her βhow nice it was to see a female really taking care of herself.” Dawes also sent her an email in June 2022 that began, βJust a note to tell you that I think you look absolutely amazing today!β The other employee took both as sexual advances, it said.
Dawes acknowledged the interactions, but Dawes’ attorney said Dawes hadn’t been disciplined for those comments before being fired β and if Dawes had been, the likely punishment would have only been a reprimand.
The patrol said it fired Dawes for refusing the first time an investigator sought to interview him about the other employee’s allegations. The patrol said Dawes claimed not to be prepared, while Dawes claimed to want to have an attorney present.
Dawes was interviewed three days later, but the patrol said refusing the first interview warranted Dawes’ firing because patrol policy requires βfull cooperationβ with an internal investigation.
βDawes can point to no person who is not transgender who was treated more favorably than transgender persons,β the state said in its November 2023 filing.
Peace & Justice History for 8/18
I’ve been away from the computer a lot again today, and I apologize. I’ve had ideas, decided against them, maybe one or two will still make it but another day, you know how it goes. I would be unforgiveably remiss to not post this history for this date, though, so here it is!
| August 18, 1914 In another step in the ethnic intimidation that led ultimately to the Armenian genocide in Turkey, looting was reported in Sivas, Diyarbekir, and other provinces. Under the guise of collecting war contributions (WWI had just begun), stores owned by Armenian and Greek merchants were vandalized. 1,080 shops and stalls owned by Armenians were burned at the Diyarbekir bazaar. Chronology of the Armenian Genocide |
| βππ₯βπ₯πβ August 18, 1920 Women throughout the U.S. won the right to vote when the Tennessee legislature approved the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the last of 36 states then required to approve it). An amendment for universal suffrage was first introduced in Congress in 1878, and Wyoming had granted suffrageΒ inΒ state law by 1890.  This amendment to enfranchise all American women had been introduced annually for 41 years without passage; it had gotten two-thirds of both houses ofΒ Congress to approve it just the year before. βThe right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.β In the Tennessee House, 24-year-old Representative Harry Burn surprised observers by casting the deciding vote for ratification.Β At the time of his vote, Burns had in his pocket a letter he had received from his mother urging him,Β “Don’t forget to be a good boy”Β andΒ “vote for suffrage. “  Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (National Archives) |
| August 18, 1963 Β  James MeredithJames Meredith, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, became the first to graduate. His enrollment at βOle Missβ a year earlier had been met with deadly riots, forcing him to attend class escorted by heavily armed guards. .  James Meredith being escorted to his classes by U.S. marshals and the military.Β Who was James Meredith |
| August 18, 1964 South Africa was banned from taking part in the 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo due to the country’s refusal to reform its racially separatistΒ apartheidΒ system. Read moreΒ |
| August 18, 1977 Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement resisting apartheid, was arrested at a roadblock outside King Williamβs Town. He died while in custody from abuse during the weeks of interrogation that followed.  Steve Biko “So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.””The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”Β – BikoΒ speech in Cape Town, 1971  |
And now for something different-
It’s linked in the daily US Guardian newsletter, so you may have seen it. But, while I prefer fictional mysteries to true crime, this piqued my interest, so maybe it’ll interest you, too, if you haven’t read it yet.
Journalist Jeff German was stabbed to death. Las Vegas watches as the accused politician goes on trial
German had written about workplace harassment by Robert Telles, a county lawyer, before he was killed
Jeff German was a doggedly old-school investigative reporter in Las Vegas who didnβt care what mobsters or tainted politicians he offended. After more than 40 years on the job, he had received so many threats and angry phone messages he stopped paying attention to them.
βI get that stuff all the time. Itβs not a big deal,β he told his editor at the Las Vegas Review Journal.
It was the summer of 2022, and the editor, Rhonda Prast, had seen threatening texts and social media messages from a local politician who German had been writing about and considered reporting them to upper management.
German saw no particular reason to fear the politician, a short, bullet-headed lawyer named Robert Telles who headed an office that settles the estates of county residents who die without a will. At the time, he had two much more chilling messages on his voicemail from hard, angry men calling him every name in the book and threatening to come after him.
Even those didnβt bother him. Earlier in his career, German had stared down Tony Spilotro, a notorious, cold-eyed mafioso who was memorably portrayed by Joe Pesci in the Martin Scorsese movie Casino, and came away unscathed. Prast, too, did not think Telles meant her reporter physical harm. βI thought he was going to sue us,β she said.
Yet, as a murder trial now underway in Las Vegas has revealed, there may have been more to Telles than met the eye. According to the prosecution, Telles became so exasperated with the stories German was writing about him β stories depicting him as a nightmare boss who harassed and bullied his staff and conducted an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate β that he drove to Germanβs house on 2 September 2022, and stabbed him to death in broad daylight after learning that his electronic communications with the subordinate were about to be made public.
German, who was 69, was left to die in a row of bushes along the side of his house. It was 24 hours before neighbours, alarmed by the fact that heβd left his garage door open and was not responding to messages, walked around his house and discovered the body.
Once police arrived, however, it took just four days to gather enough evidence to arrest Telles. Security video footage gathered between Tellesβs house and Germanβs showed a maroon GMC Yukon Denali travelling between the two and a man dressed improbably in a wide-brimmed straw hat and a reflective orange jacket walking to and from Germanβs house with a grey bag slung over his shoulder. (snip- More )
Britain burns while liberals check facts
Traditional news outlets flagellate themselves when inaccurate. But the rightwing instigators of last weekβs riots arenβt restricted by concepts such as truth
(Seems like good commentary.)
Letβs get ready to rhumble! As heroic locals and beleaguered police battle to stop cocaine-fuelled hard-right rioters burning people to death, the laughing faces of ITVβs Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly hang suspended in the smoke shrouding buildings in Rotherham and Tamworth. Watch us wreck the mike!! Psyche!!!
The greatest trick Nigel Farage ever pulled, appearing in Decemberβs Iβm a Celebrityβ¦ Get Me Out of Here!, was looking normal to the ITV millions by eating a pizza covered with some penises. How Ant and Dec laughed as Nigelβs EU views were left un-factchecked by current affairs titans such as Britney Spearsβs sister and a man from JLS. Psyche!
And now Britain burns in Farage-flavoured flames, minorities prepare escape packs, policemen are battered by cokehead patriots with swastika tattoos, and sausage rolls are looted from Greggs because blah blah blah Muslims. Are Ant and Dec proud? Straight up proovinβ we can getcha groovinβ. This trackβs boominβ! It ainβt no hype!
A 17-year-old boy, born and raised in Wales to parents from the safe country of Rwanda (which is largely Christian), has now been charged for last weekβs horrendous murders. However, hysterical social media accounts had already claimed the perpetrator was a cross-channel Muslim from Syria, called Ali Al-Shakati, which translates as βI Have to Go to My Apartmentβ. I donβt know Arabic but I assume βApartmentβ was his surname and βI Have to Go to Myβ was a string of unnecessary first names, like what those foreigners have.
SeΓ±or Apartmentβs guilt was amplified online by Farage, bypassing the tedious opportunity of asking questions in the parliament he is paid to attend, who wondered, βWas this guy being monitored by the security services? β¦ I just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us,β having got his information from Andrew Tate, a misogynist influencer currently facing charges of human trafficking, and valid news source.
Farage works to the same schematic as lucratively rewarded libertarian Netflix standups. Heβs not making a definitive statement that could get him in trouble. No. Heβs just sayinβ, just puttinβ it out there. And then he drops the mic and leaves his fans to get arrested. Ka-booom!
Stoking tension with speculation is stupid. But Farage isnβt stupid. Once broadcasters redubbed the barking of Sinn FΓ©inβs Gerry Adams because he was considered too charismatic. But today Ant and Dec invite Farage to eat penises in a clearing, and he has his own show on GB News, which is the same thing. Letβs get ready to rhumble!
A BBC reporter described one riot as a βpro-British marchβ, which is like saying the Viking raid on Lindisfarne was a pro-Norse cruise
The Tory party blamed the incoming Labour administration for the fire they set. Their own adviser Dame Sara Khan said Toriesβ βinflammatory languageβ had βundermined social cohesionβ. The right spent 15 years training a fat dog to shit in our house and now that itβs finally done loads of massive shits everywhere, they tell us itβs Labourβs fault for not killing the shitting dog five weeks ago. Or something.
Gaza ceasefire demonstrations, none of which ended in attempted mass murder, were βhate marchesβ, but the commentariat initially called the current would-be pogroms βprotestsβ. The Tory Hampshire police and crime commissioner Donna Jones said the riots were βupholding British valuesβ. Do these include making toddlers chant the word βpakiβ, and stealing sausage rolls? A BBC reporter even went as far as to describe one riot as a βpro-British marchβ, which is a bit like saying the Viking raid on Lindisfarne was a pro-Norse cruise.
On Mondayβs Good Morning Britain, a load of old white men, including the home secretaryβs embarrassing husband Ed Balls and the Daily Mail hate-gonk Andrew Pierce, source of endless fudged front pages, repeatedly shouted down Zarah Sultanaβs attempts to explain the Legitimate Grievance Riots as a British Asian. And then Jeremy Vine, the monstrous Belial from Basket Case to his benign brother Tim, invited Farageβs Reform sidekick Richard Tice, of all people, on to his show to explain the violence, as a bin full of entrails and flies was unavailable.
Farageβs falsehoods threaten lives. We have to do better. Liberal legacy media flagellates itself when inaccurate. The reason my last column didnβt mention the Legitimate Grievance Riots was because Iβm now filing six days early so the legal department can protect me, and the paper, from my incoherent βjokesβ, having recently received a request for correction from a former Tufton Street commentator, and wrangled over the wording of a complaint from Mumsnet. Itβs only Monday. By the time you read this you might be on fire.
My main job is comedy on stage, and I canβt afford to be banned for my carelessness in print from every venue in the world, a fate that recently befell two comedians I admire enormously, neither of whom are Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle or Jerry Seinfeld. Two months back I wanted to quit this column, done in by dramas, but a chance encounter with the 70s actor Judy Matheson of The Flesh and Blood Show fame, declaring herself an avid reader in a Kingβs Cross cafe, appealed to my vanity.
But the rightwing instigators of the Legitimate Grievance Riots arenβt restricted by factchecking. Farage choses online agitation over parliamentary presence. The evil Elon Musk declared βcivil war is inevitableβ, and recently allowed the worst offenders back on his now lawless X. This is handy if you are black because Tommy Robinson announces the towns chosen for next weekβs riots on Muskβs platform so you can avoid them.
In 2020, Farage broadcast himself entering identifiable hotels used to house unprocessed migrants on social media. Earlier this year, the newsreader Geeta Guru-Murthy, someone Farage fans would want deported, casually called the hard-right figureheadβs language βinflammatoryβ. The enfeebled BBC demanded her apology. Now those hotels are on fire. Is that inflammatory enough for you? Letβs get ready to rhumble!
Stewart Leeβs Basic Lee is streaming on Now TV. He previews 40 minutes of new material in Stewart Lee Introduces Legends of Indie at the Lexington, London, in August with guests the mysterious Connie Planque (12), Swansea Sound (13) and David Lance Callahan (14)
Peace & Justice History 8/11
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryaugust.htm#august111894
| August 11, 1894 Federal troops forced some 1,200 jobless workers across the Potomac River and out of Washington, D.C. Β  Jack LondonLed by an unemployed activist, βGeneralβ Charles “Hobo” Kelly, the jobless group’s “soldiers” included young journalist Jack London, known for writing about social issues, and miner/cowboy William βBig Billβ Haywood who later organized western miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).  “Big Bill” HaywoodΒ Read about βBig Billβ: https://apwu.org/news/big-bill-haywood-wobbly-giant |
| August 11, 1958 A drugstore chain in Wichita, Kansas, agreed to serve all its customers after weeks of sit-ins at Dockumβs lunch counter by local African-Americans who wanted an end to segregation. On this day, as several black Wichitans were sitting at the counter even though the store refused to serve them, a white man around 40 walked in and looked at them for several minutes. Then he looked at the store manager and said, simply,Β βServe them. I’m losing too much money.βΒ He was the owner, Robert Dockum. That day the lawyer for the local NAACP branch called the company and was told by the a vice presidentΒ βhe had instructed all of his managers, clerks, etc., to serve all people without regard to race, creed or color,βΒ statewide. This was the first success of the sit-in movement which soon spread to Oklahoma City and other towns in Kansas, but is often thought to have started in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960. |
August 11, 1984Β  Prior to his weekly radio address, unaware that the microphone was open and he was broadcasting, President Ronald Reagan joked,Β βMy fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.βΒ Many Americans and others throughout the world were concerned about the Presidentβs apparently flippant attitude towards nuclear war at a time of increasing tension between the two major nuclear powers.Among other things, the U.S. had begun a major strategic arms buildup, adding many thousands of additional nuclear warheads along with a broad range of new delivery systems: long-range bombers including 100 B-1B stealth bombers and MX (10-warhead) ICBMs, considered first-strike weapons; intermediate-range missiles to be deployed in Europe; 3000 cruise missiles; and Trident nuclear submarines with sea-launched cruise missiles. Additionally, Reagan had proposed building the space-based Strategic Defense Initiative of anti-ballistic missiles, a destabilizing influence on the nuclear balance. The Nuclear Arms Control Legacy of Ronald Reagan: https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004-07/arms-control-today/looking-back-nuclear-arms-control-legacy-ronald-reagan |
Harris Campaign: Donald Trumpβs Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference
August 8, 2024, 3:56 pm | in
This is quite good:
| Donald Trumpβs Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference Split Screen: Joy and Freedom vs. Whatever the Hell That Was (No photo on the page.) |
| Donald Trump took a break from taking a break to put on some pants and host a pΜΆrΜΆeΜΆsΜΆsΜΆ ΜΆcΜΆoΜΆnΜΆfΜΆeΜΆrΜΆeΜΆnΜΆcΜΆeΜΆ public meltdown. We have a lot to say about it. Here are some initial thoughts β with more to come. He hasnβt campaigned all week. He isnβt going to a single swing state this week. But he sure is mad Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are getting big crowds across the battlegrounds.The facts were hard to track and harder to find in Donald Trumpβs Mar-a-Lago meltdown this afternoon. He lied. He attacked the media. He made excuses for why heβs off the campaign trail. Weβre here to help because his staff clearly isnβt. But first, an important reminder on the question Donald didnβt answer: how he will vote on the Florida abortion referendum. (He has been ducking this question since April.) We worked to pin down reality so Donald Trump, bless his heart, doesnβt have to. Here are the facts: We hadΒ 12,000 and 15,000 peopleΒ in Wisconsin and Michigan yesterday, respectively (Not 2,000.) The ABC debate isΒ September 10th. Not the 25th. People have spoken to bigger crowds than Donald Trump. (Obama, Clinton, literally anyone at Lollapalooza, Coachella, the World Cupβ¦) January 6th was decidedlyΒ nothingΒ like MLKβs βI Have a Dreamβ speech. And Trump did notΒ get a bigger crowdΒ than Martin Luther King Jr. on that historic day. There was famously not a βpeaceful transferβ of power after the 2020 election, which Donald Trump fought to overturn. (Famously.) Five police officersΒ died because of January 6th. Donald Trump said he was off the trail this week because of theΒ Democratic convention. (That convention is not happening this week.) Trump said they have commercials at a level no one else does. (He is being drastically outspent on the airwaves.) Governor Josh Shapiro is actually aΒ greatΒ guy. Project 2025 authorΒ Tom Homan, the βfatherβ of Trumpβs cruel child separation policy, is not a person to praise. Jewish people should not βhave their head examinedβ for not supporting him. (Thatβs actually antisemitic.) Trump said he was not complaining. He in fact very much was. TrumpΒ does not knowΒ the differenceΒ between asylum seekers and an insane asylum. Donald Trump does not βcherishβΒ the Constitution. Abortion is not βless of an issueβ forΒ voters. It is not βsubdued.β It is not a βsmall issueβ for voters, despite how much Donald Trump wants it to be. Donald TrumpΒ did notΒ answer the abortion question βvery well in the debate.β Everybody did not wantΒ Roe v. WadeΒ overturned. The American peopleΒ do not supportΒ states banning abortion. After-birth abortionΒ does not exist. MinnesotaΒ andΒ VirginiaΒ are not the same. Donald Trump doesnβt know what progressive means. Kamala Harris does not want toΒ take awayΒ everyoneβs guns. Tim Walz is aΒ gun owner. Vice President Harris does not support anΒ arms embargoΒ on Israel. Donald Trump could not remember Tim Walzβs name. Donald Trumpβs tax cuts are not theΒ biggestΒ in history. We donβt know what βthe transgender became such a big thingβ is supposed to mean. Donald Trump will cut Social Security β just like he proposedΒ every yearΒ he was in office. Government was not weaponized against Trump and Steve Bannon. Mail ballots areΒ secure. We agree β Elon IS a different kind of guy. There are no polls that say Donald Trump is going to win in aΒ landslide. The MAGA base is not 75% of the country. |
Peace & Justice History 8/9
The subject of South African pass laws makes me think of the GOP’s Agenda 47, and Project 2025…
August 9, 1943 Franz JΓ€gerstΓ€tter, an Austrian conscientious objector who reported for induction but refused to serve in the army of the Third Reich, wasΒ executed by guillotine at Brandenburg-Gorden prison. An American, Gordon Zahn, wrote about JΓ€gerstΓ€tter while researching the subject of German Roman Catholics’ response to Hitler. Zahnβs book, InΒ Solitary Witness, influenced Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to stand against the Vietnam War by bringing the previously secret Pentagon Papers to public attention. Against the StreamΒ by Erna Putz, the story of the courage of Franz JΓ€gerstΓ€tter: https://www.c3.hu/~bocs/jager-a.htm August 9, 1945 The second atomic bomb, βFatman,β was dropped on the arms-manufacturing and key port city of Nagasaki. The plan to drop a second bomb was to test a different design rather than one of military necessity. The Hiroshima weapon was a gun type, the Nagasaki weapon an implosion type, and the War Department wanted to know which was the more effective design.Responsibility for the timing of the second bombing had been delegated by President Harry Truman before the Hiroshima attack to Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, the commander of the 509th Composite Group on Tinian, one of the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific.  Scheduled for August 11 against Kokura, the raid was moved forward to avoid a five-day period of bad weather forecast to begin on August 10.Β English translation of leaflet air-dropped over Japan after the first bomb [excerpt]:Β βWe are in possession of the most destructive explosive ever devised by man. A single one of our newly developed atomic bombs is actually the equivalent in explosive power to what 2000 of our giant B-29s can carry on a single mission. This awful fact is one for you to ponder and we solemnly assure you it is grimly accurate.βOf the 195,000 population of the city (many of its children had been evacuated due to bombing in the days just prior), 39,000 died and 25,000 were injured, and 40% of all residences were damaged or destroyed.“What on earth has happened?” said my mother, holding her baby tightly in her arms. “Is it the end of the world?” Sachiko Yamaguchi (nine years old at the time of the bombing).Hear an eyewitness account of this terrrible eventΒ Photographic exhibit of the aftermath August 9, 1956  20,000 women demonstrated against the pass laws in Pretoria, South Africa. Pass laws required that Africans carry identity documents with them at all times. These books had to contain stamps providing official proof the person in question had permission to be in a particular town at a given time. Initially, only men were forced to carry these books, but soon the law also compelled women to carry the documents. August 9, 1966 Two hundred people sat in at the New York City offices of Dow Chemical Company to protest the widespread use in Vietnam of Dowβs flammable defoliant Napalm.  Napalm in use in Vietnam Read more about Dow Chemical and the use of napalm: https://thevietnamwar.info/napalm-vietnam-war/ August 9, 1987 Hundreds were arrested in an all-day blockade of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Golden, Colorado. Protests at Rocky Flats had been going on for some years. |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryaugust.htm#august91943
