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Credit: Photo by Tom Vezo/Save the Scenic Santa Ritas via Earth Island Journal Original article by Rosemont Mine Truth The Coronado National Forest’s proposed final environmental impact study for the Rosemont copper mine is drawing sharp criticism from Pima County’s top administrator. and two U.S. Congressmen from southern Arizona. Pima County is demanding that a new study be prepared in written comments submitted in response to the CNF’s proposed Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the massive copper mine. ...

Last opportunities of 2013 to help recover an endangered species Original article by Independent Newsmedia, Inc. USA August 16, 2013 SELIGMAN, Ariz. - The Arizona Game and Fish Department’s black-footed ferret recovery effort will be conducting the final two spotlighting efforts of 2013 and is looking for dedicated volunteers to assist. The black-footed ferret, twice thought extinct, was reintroduced into Arizona’s Aubrey Valley in 1996. Each year Game and Fish conducts spotlighting efforts, which is the method used to document the population of this elusive, nocturnal, and endangered carnivore. ...

A group called ‘Immigrant X’ infiltrated and sabotaged an immigration database, falsifying information about hundreds of undocumented immigrants: IMMIGRANT X DATA ENTRY Original post by ImmigrantX on Friday, August 9, 2013, Immigrant In the last month we managed to get a way into the hotlines of the immigration department where the public can inform on an “illegal immigrant”. We have teamed up with the PLU ( Accidental Anarchist) an anarchist group that has helped us finding squats to house undocumented immigrants. We managed to find the main temp agency hiring call centre workers and data entry clerks for the immigration departments call lines. Immigrant Y managed to keep a high level account to the immigration database alive for the last 2 months. This is giving us access to staff personnel records and hence the contract terms of employment and the temp agency involved in call centre recruitment. ...

By FERNANDA SANTOS, The New York Times Published: August 2, 2013 ARIVACA, Ariz. — Monsoon rains tinge the desert with deceptive hints of green at this time of the year, but migrants crossing illegally from Mexico continue to risk death from thirst and exposure in the blazing heat. A fortunate few who become lost might stumble upon lifesaving gallon jugs of drinking water, scattered by a band of volunteers along makeshift footpaths that have been carved through the mountains and washes. ...

Join the growing Deep Green Resistance movement and help actualize a strategy to save the planet. There are two ways to get involved with the efforts of the Sonoran chapter of DGR: 1. Join the Chapter 2. Volunteer Chapter Membership involves participating in activities and organizing work of DGR Sonoran, as well as meeting its unique expectations, including frequency of participation and attendance of group meetings. Volunteer Membership involves taking on projects suited to your gifts and capacity. Individuals need not meet unique expectations of the local group, including frequency of participation and attendance of group meetings, but must abide by the policies of the broader DGR movement. ...