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News & Views | 5/27/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"What is happening tonight in our city is shameful," Rep. Ilhan Omar said of police behavior.

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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"It would be unconscionable for the Democratic House to pass any PATRIOT Act reauthorization without critical privacy reforms."


Demonstrators seen holding placards during the "Stop The Bans Day of Action for Abortion Rights" rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The federal government's decision "results in discrimination in access and threatens to harm patients and their clinicians during a time of national crisis."


An intensive care nurse treats a patient at an intensive care unit at the Klinikum Bad Hersfeld hospital on March 20, 2020 in Bad Hersfeld, Germany.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Gilead did not make this drug alone. The public has a stake and must have a say in setting the price."


Public health workers, doctors, and nurses protest over lack of sick pay and personal protective equipment outside a hospital in the Bronx on April 17, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"If you are going to contract Covid-19, you'd better hurry up or you're out of luck!"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"George Floyd deserved better and his family deserves justice. His life mattered, I'm grateful for the swift action in Minneapolis to fire the officers involved—they must be held responsible for their egregious actions," said Biden.


Public Citizen notes that while the U.S. death toll readies to surpass the 100,000 person threshold in the U.S., Trump's "chaotic and incompetent response" to the Covid-19 pandemic—including his failure to prepare the nation for such a calamity in the first place to his repeated assault on scientific understanding and undermining the warnings of public health experts— has "fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths." (Image: Public Citizen)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
The president's "chaotic and incompetent response has fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
" People are struggling to find rent money for next month, but thank god the Trump administration is providing relief for the millions these poor, vulnerable corporate polluters owe."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"He constantly talks about how the Trump administration is dangerous and authoritarian. But time and time again he has done everything in his power to ensure that the Trump administration has essentially limitless domestic surveillance authority."


A photo from a "keep it in the ground" action at Vattenfall coalmine in Lusatia, Germany appears on the cover a new report on G20 governments financing fossil fuel projects.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Even after the world's largest economies adopted the landmark Paris agreement to tackle the climate crisis in late 2015, governments continued to pour $77 billion a year in public finance into propping up the fossil fuel industry, according to a report released Wednesday.


Public Citizen is demanding Facebook take more action to control misinformation on the platform.

by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"It's not about free speech. It's about money."

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An employee at the Utah County Election office puts mail in ballots into a container to register the vote in the midterm elections on November 6, 2018 in Provo, Utah. (Photo: George Frey/Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
Vote-by-mail makes voting easier. And when voting is easier, Republicans have a much harder time suppressing the vote.


2019 Climate strike in Jakarta, Indonesia ©Gilang Kharisma (Photo: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

by Bronwen Tucker , Kate DeAngelis
Right after the mostly-rich and powerful G2O countries signed the Paris Agreement with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC, they went home and continued with the business-as-usual public finance policies that directly undermined this goal.


An internally displaced woman voluntarily returning to her home in Bentiu, South Sudan, is being checked for fever. (Photo: United Nations/Isaac Billy)

by Pauline Muchina, Kennedy Akolo
The window of opportunity for containment is shutting fast. We must work together quickly to stop the spread of Covid-19 among the continent's most vulnerable populations.


Then Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a mask of himself which he picked up from supporter during a rally in the Robarts Arena of the Sarasota Fairgrounds on November 7, 2016 in Sarasota, Florida. (Photo illustration: Common Dreams/ Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
The pandemic proves once and for all that this president is the enemy of the people.


This most recent effort to limit corporate accountability must be examined in the larger political and legal context. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock
Any effort to immunize corporations from responsibility to ensure workers a safe workplace will only lead to fewer protections for working people.


The seemingly unbreakable bonds between employment and health care mean that COVID-19 might have already cost 16.2 million newly unemployed American "warriors"—and their families—access to medical services and treatment. (Photo: © Greg Nash)

by Russell Weaver
Americans must make it known that we can’t fight a war and then simply go on to live flourishing lives without a basic guarantee to quality medical care.

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