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News & Views | 5/26/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Donald Trump votes by mail, Mike Pence votes by mail, the American people should be able to vote by mail too."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The public health and economic emergencies resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic have only made public education more vulnerable. It is no exaggeration to say that the future of public education itself is at stake."


A pupil does math on a tablet in Toulouse, France on March 24, 2020. French schools and universities have been closed since March 13. French Education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told teachers to give online courses.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
While most U.S. schools have ended in-person instruction for the rest of this academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic, polling results published Tuesday show that the majority of parents and teachers expect classrooms to reopen in the fall and worry about what that will mean for safety and education.


Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook, attends the Viva Tech start-up and technology gathering at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2018 in Paris, France.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Facebook knows what it's doing, intentionally continues to cause harm to increase engagement and profit, and will never fix these problems themselves."


U.S. Apache attack helicopters are one of the main weapons headed to the Philippines if the sale is not stopped. (Photo: DoD/Public domain)

by Jon Queally & Andrea Germanos, staff writers
"The US should not be selling advanced military systems to an abusive, unaccountable Philippine military under cover of a global pandemic."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody. He was crying, telling them like, 'I can't breathe,' and everything. They did not care."


A health worker takes samples from a man to test him for Covid-19 at the Biological Sciences unit of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico City on May 25, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Hundreds of medical professionals and groups representing over 40 million healthcare workers came together Tuesday to demand that world leaders pursue a #HealthyRecovery from the coronavirus pandemic that incorporates preparation for future public health crises as well as environmental and climate action into economic stimulus packages.


Protesters at a rally in Vancouver to show opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline on September 9th, 2017.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"They're literally using Covid as a cover to build pipelines because they know protest is impossible."


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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"Our findings indicate that the magnitude of our impact as a species on the natural world is incomprehensibly large, and appears to be overwhelmingly impacting the most irreplaceable areas and species on the planet."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"They've always been indifferent to human life. And in the face of mass death, the masks are coming off."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The director of the World Health Organization's program overseeing health crises warned Tuesday that countries that rush to reopen their economies risk immediately causing an increase in coronavirus infections and deaths.

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Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams took the stage on election night event on May 22, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo: Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

by Deborah Toler
The Georgia Democrat, while clearly forward-thinking on voting rights and other key issues, has repeatedly thrown her lot in with the corporate wing of the party.


COVID-19 demonstrates that there is a direct connection between the environment and our health. (Photo: World Learning/flickr/cc)

by Janis Petzel
It’s pointing us to a healthier and more resilient world if we chose to listen. We have no time to lose.


McConnell’s moralistic reference to the profligacy of state governments is an initial shot over their bow in the political struggle over state debt. (Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

by John Buell
Without further assistance from the Federal government, all states will be obliged to make draconian cuts in their budgets.


The spread of Covid-19 has offered a rare opportunity to raise questions, challenge frameworks, and critically consider what “ending” war might even mean for this country.(Photo: Erich Ferdinand/flickr/cc)

by Danny Sjursen
The future of forever war, American-style.


Asylum seekers protest inside the Mantra Hotel in Preston, Melbourne, Australia. May 16, 2020. (Picture by Micheal Dodge/AAP/PA Images. All rights reserved)

by Michael Flynn, Katie Welsford
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the glaring injustices of the immigration detention system.


Workers protest against the failure from their employers to provide adequate protections in the workplace of the Amazon delivery hub on National May Day Walkout/Sickout by workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Innstacart and Shipt amid the Covid-19 pandemic on May 1, 2020, in Hawthorne, California. (Photo: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)

by Shahid Buttar
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a reputation for legislative mastery. She frequently uses it on behalf of corporate interests, however, not the invisible workers making less than minimum wage.

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