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Memorial Day at the Indy500: greenhouse gas, cars, stars & bars

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Can't we honor and care for our veterans, instead of waging what Aaron Glantz, in his book "The War Comes Home," calls "America's war against veterans," but I would much rather see them honored with medical and psychiatric care, education, job training, and whatever else they may need to survive than with this Indy500 spectacle celebrating cars, greenhouse gas, advertising, militarism, and military recruitment.
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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached (more...)
 

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