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Car buyers have more tools than ever to get the right vehicle at the right price. Still, mistakes can happen quite easily. Often, car buyers get blinded by emotion or rushed timing. Edmunds’ experts reveal the four biggest mistakes car shoppers often make and offer tips to avoid them.

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Clark College is holding open auditions for the Clark College Chorale, Treble Ensemble and Concert Choir. All three choral groups are open to anyone in the community, regardless of whether they attend Clark College. Auditioners should come prepared to sing a song of their choosing followed by vocal and tonal exercises led by Jacob Funk. To schedule an audition, contact Director of Choirs Jacob Funk at jfunk@clark.edu or 360-992-2245. All choirs begin rehearsals during the week of Sept. 23 in Beacock Music Hall on Clark College’s main campus at 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver.

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As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on climate protest. According to a new report from Climate Rights International, demonstrators around the world are being arrested, charged, prosecuted and silenced, simply for using their rights to free expression. One of those prosecuted is activist Joanna Smith, who last year applied washable school finger paint on the exterior glass case enclosing Edgar Degas’s renowned wax sculpture, Little Dancer, at the National Gallery of Art to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis. She was charged and later sentenced to two months in federal prison for her civil disobedience. We speak to Smith just a week after her release, and to Linda Lakhdir, the legal director of Climate Rights International. “Countries who have held themselves up as beacons of rule of law are essentially repressing peaceful protest,” says Lakhdir. Smith says the nonviolent action she took was intended to highlight the disparity between a sculpture of a child protected from the elements with a strong plexiglass case and the billions of children around the world left unsafe and vulnerable by climate change’s effects. “The crisis is here now, it’s unfolding in front of us, and our governments are failing us,” she explains.

At least 196 environmental defenders were killed last year, most of them Indigenous or Afro-descendant. The deadliest country was Colombia, where at least 79 land, water and climate defenders were killed. “2023 was yet another appalling year for those who want to protect their lands and their environment,” and this violence is likely to “intensify as the consequences of the climate crisis become more apparent,” says Laura Furones, senior adviser to the land and environmental defenders campaign at Global Witness, which published the numbers in a new report.