(2023-09-25). They Halted A Pipeline; Now Can They Get Clean Drinking Water? popularresistance.org In 2019, energy companies announced a plan to route a major crude oil pipeline through Boxtown and other mostly Black communities in southwest Memphis. The location had been chosen, a company representative stated then, because it was the "point of least resistance." | But residents came together, proving the company wrong. In 2021, a powerful grassroots movement shut down the pipeline, which would have been built through a historic neighborhood founded by emancipated people and atop the world-famous Memphis Sand Aquifer. | Now, two years later, the same activists are working to get reliable, safe drinking water…
(2023-09-25). Venezuela Condemns US Intervention in Essequibo at UN. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil warned this Saturday that the United States Southern Command is trying to create a military base in the Essequibo territory, which is being claimed in order to consolidate "the plundering of our energy resources." This was stated during the plenary of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, where he highlighted that the government of the United States "has once again intervened in a territorial dispute that has been ongoing for more than 200 years over our territory of the Essequibo Guyana." | He said that through ExxonMobil, "the government of the United States of Americ…