Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, November 20, 2024…Several California tribes are renewing their push for the federal government to protect their ancestral lands. On Wednesday, unions representing tens of thousands of healthcare, professional, service and technical employees at the University of California launched a two-day strike. There’s desert landscape along the California-Arizona border that is the ancestral land of the Quechan Tribe. That’s why this year the Quechan Tribe is asking the Biden administration to make this land a new national monument — an area of protected public land similar to a national park. The members’ vote passed with 98% support, according to the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119, which represents more than 19,000 physician assistants, optometrists, clinical lab scientists and other UC employees statewide.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2024 08:22 UTC