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Faultline News Volume 1, Number 6
September 22, 2001
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IMMIGRANTS: 

Since the attack on the East Coast, Middle Eastern immigrants have been the
targets of unthinking retaliation by misguided - OK, let's call them stupid
- people. Even George W. Bush, no paragon of multicultralism himself, has
spoken out against targeting Arab-Americans and other minorities for blame.

Of course, here in California we're no strangers to blaming minorities for
one thing or another. Proposition 187 blamed Latinos for our shrinking state
treasury. Japanese-Californians took the rap for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
And as far back as the Gold Rush, Chinese Californians have been blamed for
everything from unemployment to the Black Plague.

We figured this was a good week to run a story on Locke, the Central
Valley/Delta town founded by outcasts from Walnut Grove's Chinatown in the
early part of the 20th Century. Faultline's education editor Becky Lum, a
scion of this town of orchard workers, visits Locke and shares impressions
from the present day and the town's history as told by her ancestors.

http://www.faultline.org/place/2001/09/ghostsoflocke.html

You'll also find links to essays and resources to help you work against the
targeting of Californians of Middle Eastern descent.

WILDLIFE:

Mining Claims in California's Mojave National Preserve are threatening
recovery efforts for the endangered desert tortoise, and may set a bad
precedent for management of parkland as well.

http://www.faultline.org/news/2001/09/cimamining.html

Meanwhile, across the state, the Feds are holding public hearings on the
fate of the western snowy plover.

http://www.faultline.org/news/2001/09/92001ploverhearings.html

There's a whole mess of other news as well, which you can reach on our news
page at

http://www.faultline.org/news/news.html

TERRORISM:

Faultline's Intern Alexandra (Sasha) Rabin, in her Faultline debut, recounts
the days after the terrorist attack from her seemingly placid Pacific coast
perch in Mendocino.

http://www.faultline.org/place/2001/09/mendoreacts.html

We also have a few words about Richard Guadagno, Refuge Manager at Humboldt
National Wildlife Refuge near Eureka, who died aboard the hijacked United
Airlines flight 93 when it crashed in Pennsylvania,

http://www.faultline.org/news/2001/09/Richguadagno.html

All this and a new review in the Faultline Bookstore!

http://www.faultline.org/bookstore/bookstore.html

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- Chris

-- 
Chris Clarke      | Editor, Faultline Magazine
www.faultline.org | California Environmental News and Information