Democracy now #7

Nadia Leon

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Democracy Now #7

March 24^th:  A landslide in Washington occurred and with this at least eight have been announced dead. Eighteen others have been declared missing and it is highly suspected that they are in the area of the mudslide. Fire Chief Travis Hots states that their main concern at this point in time is the safety of the responders. The landslide is in very delicate condition and has the similar formation of quick sand. So at this point it is not safe to have responders go and look for those who are suspected to be in the area. On Friday in Michigan marriage equality was legalized for a short period of time. Within this time period around 300 same-sex couples got married. The same-sex marriage ban was ruled unconstitutional. This lead to many LGBT couples rushing to the county clerk’s office before anything could change. Couples that were married stated that they were finally happy that they would be legal families and also that they would be able to be recognized as a legal couple. These ceremonies only took place for a short time. On Saturday this ruling was frozen. A report has shown that children who are a part of the Sikh religion have higher rates of being bullied. The report was titled “go home, Terrorist” and it showed that more than 50% of children from this religion are bullied and 67% who wear turbans are bullied. In Texas there was a large oil spill and there are already many operations that are being produced in order to deal with this mess. It is estimated that over 168,000 gallons spilled. This was due to a barge that hit the ship causing the oil to leak through. Due to the winds in the area of the spill the oil it may move to offshore. Another concern is the type of oil that was on the ship. It was a thick marine shipping oil.