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News & Views | 6/4/20

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Demonstrators continue to protest the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer on June 03, 2020 in New York City. The white police officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder and further charges are pending for the three other officers who participated in the arrest. Floyd's death, the most recent in a series of deaths of black Americans at the hands of the police, has set off days and nights of protests across the country. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
As Trump declares "law and order" clampdown against peaceful demonstrations, author and activist reminds people of most important lesson she's learned studying history of shock doctrine tactics.

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Sometimes, sitting by quietly and saying nothing is not an option," the International Crisis Group wrote.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
Order denounced as "latest in string of outlandish authoritarian acts" from the U.S. president.


Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, speaks to the media following a meeting in Frankfurt, Germany on March 12, 2020.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After the European Union's central bank on Thursday approved what Reuters called "a bigger-than-expected" expansion of an economic stimulus package necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, climate campaigners expressed concern that planet-destroying fossil fuel companies could get tens of billions of dollars in the Eurozone relief funding.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If we are to change this pattern of violent racism, we need to fundamentally restructure our criminal justice system."


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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
In a new analysis welcomed by climate campaigners, the London-based financial think tank Carbon Tracker warned Thursday that declining demand and rising investment risk due to cheaper renewable technologies, more aggressive government policies, and the coronavirus pandemic could cause a $25 trillion collapse in future fossil fuel profits.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Surging billionaire wealth juxtaposed with the suffering and plight of millions undermines the social solidarity required for us to recover together in the years ahead."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump's going to call Biden a lefty no matter what, right? So let's energize our base, let's energize the middle. Let's do what's right."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The numbers of U.S. military security forces in D.C. right now is just ridiculous. This is pure intimidation. Trump is very afraid. The longer we stay in the streets, the more frightened he gets."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"In moments of crisis, people want services and resources that go directly to help people rather than police that surveil, brutalize, and kill us."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Essential workers are exempt from the curfew, and what we are doing here is essential."

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Those of us in the welfare rights movement always saw our work as the kindling for a wildfire of organizing by the poor and dispossessed. (Photo: Poor People's Campaign/Twitter)

by Rev Dr Liz Theoharis
Which America will be ours after the pandemic?


Climate justice is about far more than reducing emissions. It is about building a fairer and more just world. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Alec Connon
As anger rages across the country at the brutal killings of black and brown people, the climate movement must join the call to divest from the police and invest in communities.


U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a reporter's question during an event on protecting seniors with diabetes, in the Rose Garden at the White House on May 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. The United States is closing in on 100,000 deaths in less than four months caused by the coronavirus. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Mike Lofgren
Is Trump using a calculated strategy that COVID-19 is not an equal-opportunity killer?


While Derek Chauvin and his fellow police officers must be prosecuted and convicted for homicide, we must see what the real role of the police is in our society. (Photo: Ella/cc/flickr)

by Josephine Lee
Will we advance our unfinished revolution or will our spontaneous actions end in the acceptance of petty reforms and a return to the status quo?


Demonstrators and police face off on the sixth consecutive day of protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died last week after being pinned down by a white police officer in Minneapolis on June 3, 2020 in Washington, DC, United States. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
These tin soldiers are the violent, cowardly, bullying products of a dying empire, the death dreams of a sybaritic system breathing its last. They are America's Id.


A person wears a mask that reads "I CAN'T BREATHE" as demonstrators continue to protest the death of George Floyd following a night of rioting on May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Norman Solomon
The life you save may not be your own. Those who wear a mask at protests are making clear that they're willing to undergo some discomfort to protect people they don't even know.

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