Discord in Palmer Land BWUNN, Antarctic Bureau An important contingent of Antarctica’s controversial Mineral Party has taken control of the Regional Assembly in Palmer Land. While a minority, even in an area renowned for its mines and freshwater exports, they command the zealous core of the activist labor movement. Their call for local tariffs, increased taxes, and the affiliated unionization of sentient property, has stirred old tensions with the mercantile middle class and the South Land’s powerful business patrons. Modest rioting in Dyer, Vang, and Eights Station begs the question: can Palmer Land continue to resist the Antarctic Charter’s General Law?