The Farm Workforce Modernization Act Does Not Solve the Farm Labor Dilemma

America’s farmworkers deserve better. Farmworkers, farmers and their organizations around the country have been singing the same tune for years on the urgent need for immigration reform. That harmony turns to discord as soon as you get down to details on how to get it done, what to include and what compromises you are willing [...]

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Former Staffer Accuses Joe Biden of Sexual Assault

“For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you’ve got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she’s talking about is real,” said Joe Biden in 2018. As Vice President, Joe Biden visited college campuses across the country, spreading the Obama administration’s message of [...]

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‘Big Win’: Caving to Pressure Campaign, Gilead Sciences Relinquishes Monopoly Claim for Promising Coronavirus Treatment

“There’s no doubt that the prospect of an enormous public backlash is what made the difference.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Government watchdog Public Citizen celebrated Wednesday afternoon as pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences backed off a monopoly claim for its drug that may treat the coronavirus which has sickened more than 487,000 people worldwide. Gilead, Public Citizen said, [...]

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Stop the $6 Trillion Coronavirus Corporate Coup!: Matt Stoller

“Obviously helping certain enterprises is important, so I’m not opposed to industry aid. But the terms and conditions matter, and based on what I’m seeing, I don’t believe there will be meaningful restrictions on this aid. Executives and financiers are going to profit off of taxpayer money.” (By: Matt Stoller, BIG Newsletter) On Saturday I [...]

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Retirement In The COVID-19 Era

“Some of those who are hardest hit but the economic turmoil are retirees and those who are, or were, planning to retire soon.” Most Americans have not yet experienced the health care impacts of COVID-19 but the financial repercussions of the global pandemic have already hit virtually every sector of the U.S. economy. Tuesday saw [...]

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Why the Coronavirus Pandemic Poses Fundamental Challenges to All Societies

Quick and widespread testing and quarantine will help tackle the spread of COVID-19, not ultra-nationalism or hyper-capitalism. The COVID-19 pandemic is now moving at a speed that the world had not anticipated a few weeks back. It reached its first 100,000 infected in 67 days, then doubled to 200,000 within the next 11 days, and now [...]

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The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a ‘Robbery in Progress,’ Warn Critics

“It’s not a bailout for the coronavirus. It’s a bailout for twelve years of corporate irresponsibility.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) As details of the Senate’s coronavirus stimulus plan slowly trickled in Wednesday, progressive critics characterized the sprawling legislative package as a brazen attempt by both political parties to use trillions of dollars in taxpayer money [...]

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9 Ways to Practice Radical Neighboring

“Being a good citizen is being a good neighbor—so what do ‘good neighbors’ look like in the time of panic buying, hand sanitizer, and physical avoidance?” As we create “social distance” to protect ourselves and our loved ones and “flatten the curve,” we are also facing fear. Many of us are anxious, afraid, and unsure. [...]

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PG&E to Plead Guilty to Manslaughter in California Wildfire

“They decimated my entire town. To me, this is just a drop in the bucket for what should be happening to PG&E.” Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of starting the 2018 Camp Fire, the company announced Monday. In a plea deal reached with [...]

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A World Beyond Capitalist Crises

“How can we best help people connect the dots between capitalism, growth, debt, bailouts, war, injustice and fragility? And what alternative narratives can we present for a system focused on better, not bigger?” Let’s be very clear. A deeper, more revealing story lies beneath the U.S. Federal Reserve’s announcement that it will prop up U.S. markets without [...]

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Supreme Court Rules States Not Required to Offer Insanity Defense

“Uncertainties about the human mind loom large,” she wrote. “Even as some puzzles get resolved, others emerge. And those perennial gaps in knowledge intersect with differing opinions about how far, and in what ways, mental illness should excuse criminal conduct.” The Supreme Court delivered a ruling in Kahler v. Kansas that could have widespread consequences [...]

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Syrian Refugee Camps Are In Danger of Extinction From Coronavirus

While the mass media is focused on statistics of the spread of coronavirus, the countries closing their borders and declaring quarantines, and ordinary people emptying grocery shelves, those whose lives were already a total nightmare before the pandemic are being forgotten. Refugees of the Al-Hawl and Rukban camps who are under US and Kurds control [...]

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On the Front Lines of Corona Virus: Interviews from Italy and Spain

Citizen Truth’s William Bacha spoke to Italian and Spanish citizens about their personal experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. When I walked into the grocery store this morning the front of the store was filled with all the rolls of toilet paper and paper towels that people had ordered for home delivery. Practically nobody is outside [...]

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