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Dr. King as a Blueprint for Activist Ethnography

January 14, 2026 | By Janée Kelly
As a burgeoning anthropologist, I have had to come to terms many times over with the history of the discipline. The use of words like “primitive” or “exotic” used to describe what we see as the “other”— A way in which to remove ourselves from the reality of our shared humanity.
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California's Oil and Gas Injection Mess

February 17, 2015 | By Clean Water Action
By Andrew Grinberg, California Oil and Gas Program Manager - Follow Andrew on Twitter ( @AndrewBGrinberg) This is one of the most outrageous things we’ve heard in a long time. As California faces one of the worst droughts in recorded history, State officials have disclosed that California has
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New Standards Will Protect the Most Vulnerable

February 5, 2015 | By Clean Water Action
Rosanna Esparza, Kern County Oil and Gas Program Organizer Oil and Gas Operations

The majority of Californians live in counties with unhealthy air. But nowhere is the air unhealthier than in the San Joaquin Valley. The San Joaquin Valley has never met the federal health standards for smog. Never
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I've got your local impacts for you...right here.

February 4, 2015 | By Clean Water Action
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director - Follow Michael on Twitter (@MichaelEdKelly) The City of Alexandria wants to #ProtectCleanWater

Today the House and Senate are getting together for a bicameral hearing about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to protect the drinking water
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It’s a Week About Water

February 3, 2015 | By Clean Water Action
By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director - Follow Lynn on Twitter (@LTCWA) It’s a big week for water. Tomorrow’s hearing on the proposal to close loopholes in Clean Water Act protections is unusual in that it’s a joint House and Senate hearing, meant to signal that the majority party intends to
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Tweet to #ProtectCleanWater today!

February 3, 2015 | By Clean Water Action
By Michael Kelly, Communications Director - follow Michael on Twitter ( @MichaelEdKelly ) Tweet With Us to #ProtectCleanWater

More than 800,000 people called on the Environmental Protection Agency to protect clean water in 2014. Hundreds of thousands did the same in 2012. And 2010. And in the
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