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Kate Scott

@ravenspeaks

Co-Founder of Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center, Voice for Wildlife, @madreanmotherwild, @rally.forthevalley, madreanwildlife.substack.com, mawcenter.org

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Dynamite Blasts and Paradise Lost One of North America’s Last Pristine Prairies in the San Rafael Valley Will Be Scarred Forever as the Border Wall Advances in Southern Arizona.

Dynamite Blasts and Paradise Lost #BorderWall open.substack.com/pub/theborde...

16.12.2025 23:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Act Now to Remove Concertina Wire in our from the Wild at the US/ Mexico Border!!!

16.12.2025 23:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Local immigrant rights activist Dora Rodriguez, on surviving a border crossing β€” and her new memoir - AZ Luminaria In the summer of 1980, Dora Rodriguez almost died in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Along with a group of 30 people, most of them having fled violence and the beginnings of a gruesome civil war ...

I spoke with Dora Rodriguez, Tucson-based immigrant activist who nearly died crossing the desert in 1980, about her memoir.

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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: β€˜You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

This is the moment we're in:
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25.07.2025 20:17 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Admin today for unconstitutionally waiving dozens of enviro laws to speed border wall construction across San Rafael Valley in AZ’s Sky Island region, a biodiversity hotspot w/the most significant jaguar corridor remaining along border.

09.07.2025 16:43 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a β€œscience fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

08.07.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 40309 πŸ” 11278 πŸ’¬ 1078 πŸ“Œ 854
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Massive Mural of Ashamed Statue of Liberty Emerges in France Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw said she created the piece in response to the United States’s cruel immigration policies.

A mural depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame appeared on a building in Northern France.
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08.07.2025 22:32 πŸ‘ 609 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
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Open Borders - 99% Invisible A border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinem...

Imagine people migrating freely and negotiating a niche in their new communities.

This 34-min. podcast is an excellent summary of ideas from @jwashing.bsky.social’s humane book.

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08.07.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lipstick on a Land Grab: Sen. Mike Lee’s Revised Bill Still Privatizes the West If we give them an inch, they will take a mile. Say it loud: Not One Acre.

The redlines are inβ€”& let’s be clear: the core purpose of this bill remains unchanged. It’s a mass privatization scheme dressed up as housing reform. A calculated dismantling of public ownership, repackaged as β€œdisposal.” A land grab by any other name.

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26.06.2025 15:21 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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U.S. Customs & Border Protection has waived environmental, public health & Native American cultural protection laws, & awarded a > quarter of a billion dollar contract to Fisher Sand & Gravel to construct 27 miles of new border wall across critical habitat in the jaguar’s northern range.

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Take a Stand for Public Lands Public lands across the United States are at risk: President Donald Trump and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency want to sell them off to private interests. Urge your representative and...

ACT NOW: Tell your Senator that there will be hell to pay if they allow Trump and his billionaire oligarch cronies to seize and dispose of our nation's cherished public lands:
act.biologicaldiversity.org/kh3v25rZ0U63...

17.06.2025 15:39 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Binational Border Happening, May 31, 2025 Happened! Murmurations from the San Rafael Valley Borderlands Bird Flock, poetry, songs, wonderful food shared by our friends from Santa Cruz, Mexico. Joy and happiness is a strategy for resistance! πŸ™πŸ½ @bluerobedcrone.bsky.social πŸ“Έ #AllWallsMustFall

03.06.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Arizona Officials Back Bill to Undermine Wildlife Protections, Silence Public Input Center for Biological Diversity: PHOENIXβ€” The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Game and Fish Commission are backing a bill to strip the state’s wildlife agency of its power to regulate the use...

New: Responding to a public rulemaking petition, the AZ Game and Fish Dept. and Commission colluded with state legislators to sever the agency's own legal authority to limit dog pack hunting and, in turn, harassment of endangered jaguars and ocelots.

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27.02.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sharing this inspiring illustration and story from Denise Kester, Drawing on the Dream. #MakeMagic #ArtMattersMost

02.03.2025 21:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0