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MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History May 19, 1850: Four thousand Mexican and Peruvian workers gathered in Sonora, California, to protest the "Foreign Miners' Tax," enacted to drive them from gold fields. 500 armed vigilantes (mostly tax collectors and Anglo miners), chased them off by firing into the crowd. The tax was imposed during the height of the 1849 Gold Rush, and in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1848), in which the U.S. seized California from Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Feb 1848) gave U.S. citizenship to Mexican nationals who were living in California at the time the treaty was signed. However, the U.S. denied citizenship to Indigenous Peoples until the 1930s, even if they had also been Mexican nationals prior to the war. Meanwhile, English, Irish, and German immigrants protested the new tax and got it amended to exempt any miner who was a “free white person.” The effects of the tax, and the racist violence that accompanied it, was to drive large numbers of Latin American and Chinese miners from the gold fields. This exodus, in turn, caused a sharp drop in rents and commerce for the landlords and store owners who catered to the miners. They lobbied for repealing the tax, and were successful in 1851.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mexicanamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mexicanamerican</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#california</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gold</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mexico</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vigilantes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vigilantes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peruvian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peruvian</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinese</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/guadalupehidalgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#guadalupehidalgo</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indigenous</a>

Palm Oil DetectivesGoodfellow's Tree Kangaroos 🦘🧡 can leap 9 metres, descend 18 metres to the ground without injury. These bouncy <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/marsupials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marsupials</a> of <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PapuaNewGuinea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PapuaNewGuinea</a> 🇵🇬 deserve safety from <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/palmoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palmoil</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deforestation</a>! <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Boycottpalmoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boycottpalmoil</a> 🌴⛔️ <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Boycott4Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boycott4Wildlife</a> @palmoildetect <a href="https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/goodfellows-tree-kangaroo-dendrolagus-goodfellowi/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/26/goodfellows-tree-kangaroo-dendrolagus-goodfellowi/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer</a>

Flipboard Science DeskLast month, President Trump signed an executive order promoting deep sea mining in U.S. and international waters. Less than a week later, a U.S. subsidiary of the Canadian deep-sea mining corporation called The Metals Company submitted its first applications to explore and exploit polymetallic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. If approved, the company could be the first to mine in international waters. But ocean advocates say the risks of mining far outweigh the benefits of maintaining a healthy deep sea ecosystem. InsideClimateNews.com reports: <a href="https://flip.it/GaNvOH" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/GaNvOH</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ocean</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History May 18, 1928: Big Bill Haywood died in exile in the Soviet Union. He was a founding member and leader of both the Western Federation of Miners and the IWW (the Wobblies). During the first two decades of the 20th century, he participated in the Colorado Labor Wars and the textiles strikes in Lawrence and Patterson. The Pinkertons tried, but failed, to bust him for the murder of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg. However, in 1918, the feds used the Espionage Act to convict him, and 101 other Wobblies, for their anti-war activity. As a result, they sentenced him to twenty years in prison. But instead of serving the time, he fled to the Soviet Union, damaging his image as a hero among the Wobblies. He ultimately died from a stroke related to his alcoholism and diabetes. Half his ashes were buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. The other half of his ashes were sent to Chicago and buried near the Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument.You can read my full article on union busting by the Pinkertons here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBillHaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigBillHaywood</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soviet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haymarket</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kremlin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sabotage</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a>

NonilexFunding for 1 million migrant <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportations</a>, 20,000 new officers & the border wallMore money for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pentagon</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s ‘<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GoldenDome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoldenDome</a>’Tax on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#university</a> endowments & overhaul of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StudentLoans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentLoans</a>Federal employee <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pension" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pension</a> cutsMore <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/drilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drilling</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicLands</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HouseRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HouseRepublicans</a>

ASX Mkt. SensitiveEstrella Resources ( <a href="https://mastodon-grafa.social/tags/ESR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ESR</a> ) has released " Timor-Leste Tenement Upgrades Granted " on Wed 14 May at 09:34 AEST <a href="https://mastodon-grafa.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://mastodon-grafa.social/tags/Gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gold</a> <a href="https://mastodon-grafa.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://mastodon-grafa.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> <a href="https://mastodon-grafa.social/tags/ASX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ASX</a> <a href="https://grafa.com/asset/estrella-resources-ltd-1786-esr.asx?utm_source=asxmktsensitive&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=esr.asx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://grafa.com/asset/estrella-resources-ltd-1786-esr.asx?utm_source=asxmktsensitive&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=esr.asx</a>

IvorSpent the day with Land of Lead and Silver (LoLaS) people assessing the former Barneycraig mine shop that now houses Carrshield Village Hall.It's in good condition and we took hundreds of photos to make a photogrammetry model. Nick couldn't use his drone as there is a neighbour 400m away who objects to anything going on.Had to hold a Bluetooth camera on a pole, lucky it wasn't windy. It's a big site with many adits, shafts and spoil heaps from lead mining. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Northumberland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Northumberland</a>

Petra van Cronenburg<a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gutenberg_org</a> But crazy humans already want to destroy these fragile habitats by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deepSea</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> ... this must stop. We must protect this <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/anthropocene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anthropocene</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocean</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬In 1979, A <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSea</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> Experiment Carved Up The Seabed. 44 Years On, We're Finding Out Its Impacts “The most striking observation is that the tracks made by the mining machine 44 years ago look almost as if they were made yesterday,” study author Dr Adrian Glover of the Natural History Museum, London, told IFLScience. “This was not unexpected in a way. We know that biological processes in the deep sea are quite slow.” <a href="https://www.iflscience.com/in-1979-a-deep-sea-mining-experiment-carved-up-the-seabed-44-years-on-were-finding-out-its-impacts-78594" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.iflscience.com/in-1979-a-deep-sea-mining-experiment-carved-up-the-seabed-44-years-on-were-finding-out-its-impacts-78594</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/BZAZL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/BZAZL</a>

Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:"An asbestos screening clinic in a small Montana town where thousands have been sickened by toxic dust from a nearby mine has been abruptly shuttered by authorities following a court order to seize the clinic’s assets to pay off a judgment to the railroad BNSF."<a href="https://apnews.com/article/libby-montana-asbestos-clinic-shuttered-bnsf-87e2e20926916a97da6821d8afe50be4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/libby-montana-asbestos-clinic-shuttered-bnsf-87e2e20926916a97da6821d8afe50be4</a><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/asbestos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asbestos</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/air" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#air</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/AirQuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AirQuality</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/railroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#railroad</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#railway</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/montana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#montana</a>

FlipboardZambia has a long history of mining, since it’s the second biggest copper producer in Africa. But things have kicked up a notch in the past couple of years as a result of the metal’s critical role in wind and solar power. <a href="https://journa.host/@thexylom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thexylom</a>’s Kang-Chun Cheng looks at Zambia’s relationship with China, a huge investor since the 1970s, and what happened when she tried to visit the Copperbelt area of the country. <a href="https://www.thexylom.com/post/six-decades-later-zambians-ask-were-chinese-mining-infrastructure-investments-worth-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thexylom.com/post/six-decades-later-zambians-ask-were-chinese-mining-infrastructure-investments-worth-it/</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Zambia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zambia</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/EnergyProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyProduction</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a> is home to substantial deposits of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RareEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RareEarth</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/minerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minerals</a> necessary for the production of everything from EVs to wind turbines, as well as untapped <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oil</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaturalGas</a> reserves. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> those underground assets has proven logistically difficult.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/espionage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#espionage</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NATO</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/allies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#allies</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a>

The Japan TimesA discovery of 13 bodies of gold miners in a mine shaft in Peru underscores authorities’ struggles to respond to violent gangs tapping into an illegal boom at a time of record high prices. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/06/world/crime-legal/mining-murders-peru-gold-rush/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/06/world/crime-legal/mining-murders-peru-gold-rush/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/worldnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldnews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crimelegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crimelegal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peru</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gold</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kidnappings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kidnappings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/southamerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#southamerica</a>

Chris Moorehead 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<a href="https://beige.party/@mayintoronto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mayintoronto</a> Thirty years ago this year, I was working on a method of safe disposal for arsenic trioxide generated in refractory gold mining operations, in my role at an agency of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. When Mike Harris came to power, our agency was shut down. It doesn’t appear that any progress has been made on this problem since that time. <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/onpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onpoli</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NeverVoteConservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeverVoteConservative</a>

The Christian Science MonitorThe U.S. wants to catch up with China on mining rare earth elements. Digging them up brings environmental costs, but researchers say a lot of minerals are already out of the ground. <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/tag/rareearth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RareEarth</a><a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0505/rare-earth-critical-minerals-u.s.-china?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0505/rare-earth-critical-minerals-u.s.-china?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub </a>Posted into The American Story <a href="https://flipboard.com/@csmonitor/the-american-story-u1nco3brz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@the-american-story-csmonitor</a>

The Japan TimesIn France, a state-of-the-art rare earths plant is being built with French and Japanese support — a first-of-its-kind outside China. Its significance goes beyond the project itself. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/05/05/japan/france-japan-rare-earths-cooperation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/05/05/japan/france-japan-rare-earths-cooperation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#commentary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#us</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#china</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uschinarelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uschinarelations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#france</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japaneseeconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japaneseeconomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rareearths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rareearths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a>

The Japan TimesAs U.S.-China tensions strain critical mineral supply chains, Tokyo’s multipronged approach based on sovereignty, resilience and sustainability is gaining quiet relevance. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/05/05/japan/japan-critical-minerals-supply-chain-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/05/05/japan/japan-critical-minerals-supply-chain-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#commentary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#us</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#china</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uschinarelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uschinarelations</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/donaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japaneseeconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japaneseeconomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rareearths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rareearths</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History May 5, 1931: The Infamous Battle of Harlan County, Kentucky occurred. Also known as the Battle of Evarts, the strike began in response to wage cuts implemented in February. On May 5, a scab accosted a union worker, resulting in three deaths. Governor Flem Sampson called in the National Guard, which killed several more union miners. The Harlan County class war was the inspiration for Florence Reece's famous union song "Which Side Are You On?" The strike continued for years, with the miners finally winning in 1940. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFY8CwAKU0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPFY8CwAKU0</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/florencereece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#florencereece</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhichSideAreYouOn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhichSideAreYouOn</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scab</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/massacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#massacre</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/harlancounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#harlancounty</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kentucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kentucky</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wages</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classwar</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SodiumBatteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SodiumBatteries</a> offer an alternative to tricky <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lithium</a>Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neitherOct 26th 2023Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium. "Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cobalt</a> and 3nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mining</a> it on land is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmentally</a> destructive. Proposals to grab it from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seabed</a> instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the Democratic Republic of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congo</a>, where child labour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use electrodes built from iron and manganese, which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts. "Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as grid storage or home batteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in electric vehicles."Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of sodium batteries is their late start. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumIon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LithiumIon</a> batteries were first commercialised in the 1990s and have benefited from decades of investment. But the rest of the world is behind China on both fronts anyway. America and the European Union have announced enormous programmes of green industrial subsidies. If they are determined to bankroll batteries, some of the pot should go to sodium."Read more: <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithium" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithium</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/7x6JX#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/7x6JX#</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarPunkSunday</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeepSeaMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoLithiumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LeaveItInTheOcean</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LeaveItInTheOcean</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LithiumAlternatives</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SodiumBatteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SodiumBatteries</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a>

Christian SchwägerlThis in-depth report in the Wall Street Journal describes the catastrophic legacy of gold <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> in Northwestern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a>. A US company created huge amounts of arsenic waste that pollutes the surface and could enter the world’s tenth-largest <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freshwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freshwater</a> body. Then the company went bankrupt and left the mess to the Canadians. The elders of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, the indigenous people of the area, call Giant Mine ‘Nahga’, the monster. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/canada-gold-mine-arsenic-6be1a2eb?mod=mhp#comments_sector" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/world/canada-gold-mine-arsenic-6be1a2eb?mod=mhp#comments_sector</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EPA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deregulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deregulation</a>

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