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Hello students. Some of our students here at SCCS are off to a conference for Global Issues Network. The idea is getting people and students together to try to solve 20 global issues in 20 years based off of this book High Noon. They will be meeting in Lima, Peru with schools from all over Latin America. They will be commenting on this blog about the experiences that they are having. Hope to hear some great news and stories. Here is a link about more info from the conference.GIN Confernece

Public lands, governments and profits.

It was great hearing from both classes. I saw that both Hayden football and volleyball got some big wins for homecoming! That is good to see. I will have to get a Skype going some time to say hello in the real time. Maybe with both classes present so we can see who we are typing too. In other current news, all schools in Santa Cruz have been closed for the week due to a H1N1 scare and my students will be doing this from home.

Now on to the current events. This week we will be talking again about government and economics. There are events going on in both Hayden and here in Bolivia were the government wants to use public lands to try and create revenue for their respective governments and boost the economy. In Hayden we have the issue of drilling for natural gas and oil. Here in Bolivia we know about that for sure. The current topic that has been hot here is that the Government and President Evo Morales is making a highway through a National Park to the Pacific coast in the name of bring revenue to Bolivia, even though it is against the law to make a highway through the rain forest. There have been protests from indigenous groups that clashed with police. After their struggle, nationwide protests with thousands of people in many cites ensued.

Here are links to the stories. Mr. Johnson's class needs to write a paragraph summery of each story and email it to me by Friday Morning.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/09/20119278844472501.html

Bolivian story, Check out the Video

http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2011/sep/08/150-gather-hayden-discuss-potential-routt-moffat-o/

Hayden Story

If each class would comment a bit on the event in their country to give some other points of view that would be awesome.

ALSO

Please comment on what right government has to use public protected lands, which both lands have been in the past, for economic gains and the benefits for the common person and what responsibility government has to protect natural resources and lands for the future.

Thanks and Peace out from Mr. J