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Losing the Mexico Drug War: One Protest at a Time?
And a decision to experiment with drugs as far away as Mexico’s Copper Canyons

Just the facts Ma'am...
Oh Mexico... The poor, dirt poor throughout the Americas have been driven into their conditions while the rich get richer. US exploitation at its finest. Same with Ghetto's in the states. Fabrications. Then the fix, cover them up from the view of the TV or put them in a cage out of sight out of mind. What alternatives do they have. Tequila, serving Touristas or the Copper Mines. Why not Hemp like Canada? 25,000 products in 1938. With today's technology the sky is the limit. Afrikan apartheid fans like good ole boy Pat Robertson, though he has diamond mines. Exploiting the kids in the Gold mines, using Mercury extraction. Waiting and a praying for that tired boring old song to stop playing. And the trickle downs start spraying ole Milwaukee like its raining. I'm still anticipating the time when Tricky Dick's promise of flashbacks comes true.



So another educated idiot. Curriculum depravation syndrome. Passing the tests with flying colors, reading censored books. Who knows with the Koch roaches and Texas Teabog rushbites could have us back on a flat earth and school swears and illegal abortions. Women in ankle length dresses and mandated haircuts for men. Killing the communist rock and roll devil's tool. Injecting the bibble as science. Home schooling and vouchers stealing public school funds. Leaving over crowded classes and then blame the teachers. Its the fault of the Unions. From brats not around when the kids were in sweatshops and collecting pop bottles. Seniors without health care doesn't look pretty in the old pictures. Deadly diseases spread through the campsites like pox on the past indian blankets. Soup lines and Klogogg, before criticizing and shaming Phelps. Causing the dust bowl and now we in Cali have to put up with Pot phobic Okies and their buck fucking owens!



No such thing as a week end. 40 hours your just breaking a sweat. No minimum wage let alone one you can live on. Breaks? Break rooms? Sick pay, unemployment when the factory goes to the land of Shiva? Hold your wheezing, coughing, elevated sputum, shortness of breath. Mexamericanada kids, thanks to NAFTA/GATT, the Kochknockers and the Dick Armey brats. One billion cheap peasants in India. Who needs OSHA with disposable workers? The GOP wants to bail out the Banks that can't fail. Then break up the Unions for slowing down their agenda. Personally I prefer working for myself. Band Aids we wouldn't need if the corporations weren't machines with human rights. Bottom lines in the short term cost more in the long. Fixing exposed machinery cost a few bucks, but it lowers insurance each time some one doesn't get hurt. Plus the cost of treating the wounds. Long term exposure killing kids in their 20's. Yet this bitch is concerned about Ganja?



Cheney and what the Hellaburten again, now using deadly chemicals fracking natural gas. These monsters don't give a fruity tootie rats ass. This chick thinks smoking pot is more harmful than the status weird profits on kids breathing in crystalline silica. Growing pot is worse than these horrible conditions? Or think once you get out that you won't fight to stay out? As long as the Free Mexican Air Force is allowed to do their thing. The cops got their bonus. The people got their wells dug. The primo bud was their banner of glory. Extracting Gold from Acapulco doesn't require mercury. Schools built. Hospitals built. The despots kept the US aid and all was mellow enough for siesta's. Now look what they've done with their damn Prohibitions. Their damn exploitations and their damn hypocrisy. Eat the rich! Viva Sativa Y'all!

Are US Pot Laws the Root Cause of Mexican Drug Violence?

The Free Mexican Air Force



"Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death."
~ Professor Lester Grinspoon, M.D.,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School

Cananea copper mine:
An international effort to improve hazardous working conditions in Mexico.
A team of international occupational health and safety professionals evaluated the working conditions and health status of miners at a giant open-pit copper mine in Cananea, Mexico. Workers in the ore processing plants were exposed to levels of crystalline silica 10 times the Mexican regulatory limit, high levels of acid mist and noise, and numerous safety hazards, including unguarded machinery and malfunctioning 10- and 15-ton cranes. Lung function testing and interviews with physicians showed a substantial percentage of miners with adverse respiratory symptoms including shortness of breath (46%), wheezing (12%), coughing (12%), and elevated sputum production (10%). The mine owner, Grupo Mexico, violated Mexican law by failing to conduct an industrial hygiene survey sufficient to identify, evaluate, and control health hazards including exposure to mineral dust (including silica), acid mists, airborne solvents, high noise levels, high vibration levels, and extreme temperatures.

Drilling Disaster, Again: Fracking Spill in PA

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
alive as you and me.
Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead"
"I never died" said he,

"The Copper Bosses killed you Joe,
they shot you Joe" they filled you full of lead.
"Takes more than guns to kill a man"
Says Joe "I didn't die"

From San Diego up to Maine,
in every mine and mill,
Where working men defend their rights,
it's there you'll find Joe Hill
~ Excerpts: Joe Hill by Joan Baez

Mercury use Rising
UN project takes aim at artisanal miners' use of metal
Publisher: Northern Miner Author: Alisha Hiyate
It's no easy task convincing the millions of artisanal gold miners across the globe that mercury, a substance they use routinely to extract fine gold from alluvial or lateritic ores, can be harmful to them, their families, and the environment. Although mercury poisoning can cause blindness, tremors, and neurological damage and accumulate in water, aquatic life and soil, workers with the GMP have faced challenges relaying those dangers to small-scale miners, Veiga says.

gold extraction process using mercury



Nigeria: Gold Rush Kills Children with Lead Dust
Gold brought death to Umoru Musa’s nine-family compound in Sunke, a mud-brick village in northern Nigeria. Five of the 25 children, including Musa’s 1-year-old daughter Nafisa, lost their lives in May after villagers ground ore from nearby hills they didn’t know were also loaded with lead. Rising prices for gold promised a windfall. Instead, they helped unleash the deadliest lead-poisoning crisis in modern medical history.

"Cannabis can be used on an episodic but continual basis without evidence of social or psychic dysfunction. In many users the term dependence with its obvious connotations, probably is mis-applied... The chief opposition to the drug rests on a moral and political, and not toxicologic, foundation"
~ The USA Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy 1987



MEXICO HEALTH & SAFETY PROJECTS
"Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network"

The Assault on Labor in Cananea, Mexico
This article is from the September/October 2010 issue of Dollars & Sense: Real World Economics
The actions taken in collusion between Grupo México and the Mexican government are an outrage. And if they can crush this very effective, independent union ... all independent unions in Mexico are at risk. And then other countries that are watching can say, “Well, if they can do it there, we can do it here too.” And so I think that ... a union that is fighting for safe working conditions, fighting for decent treatment of the ... workers in those mines, if we can’t stand behind that as a global labor movement, we’re in trouble.
~ Leo Gerard, president,
United Steelworkers Union

In the Morenos Mountains campesinos are planting their fields
While the ghost of Zapata rides a horse that can still outrun the wind
While free in the sky high above, nearly clear out of sight
It's the Free Mexican Air Force flyin' tonight.
In the City of Angels a cowboy is cooling his heels
Remembering that God gave us herbs and the fruits of the fields
But a criminal law that makes outlaws of those seeking light
Made the Free Mexican Air Force, Mescalito riding his white horse --
Yeah the Free Mexican Air Force is flyin' tonight!

Mercury’s Toxic Legacy
Over 150,000 Native Americans lived in California prior to the start of the Gold Rush in 1849. By 1870 disease, forced relocations and massacres had reduced the Native population to an estimated 31,000.

Miners dug up 12 billion tons of earth, and used mercury to extract gold ore. The amount of mercury required to violate federal health standards is equivalent to one gram in a small lake. Approximately 26,000,000 pounds of mercury was used in gold mining Northern California. The amount of mercury lost to the Northern California environment from the 1860’s through the early 1900’s is estimated at 11-13 million pounds.

Clear Lake, the traditional homeland to Pomo Indian fishing communities, contains over 100 tons of mercury today.

"Marijuana Use and Mortality" April 1997 American Journal of Public Health".
"Relatively few adverse clinical effects from the chronic use of marijuana have been documented in humans. However, the criminalization of marijuana use may itself be a health hazard, since it may expose the users to violence and criminal activity."
~ The Kaiser Permanente study

Gold, Greed & Genocide
Over 150,000 Native Americans lived sustainably in California prior to the gold rush. They had existed for many centuries, supporting themselves mostly by hunting, gathering and fishing. This life changed drastically in 1848 when James Marshall discovered the yellow metal in the American River at Coloma, in Northern California.

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