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News & Views | 6/5/20

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Racial justice advocates on Friday demanded the three Louisville police officers who shot Breonna Taylor to death in March be fired immediately and criminally charged for Taylor's murder.

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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"So is 57 officers resigning at once just a few bad apples?"


destruction of land

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As a pandemic that's killed over 393,000 people rages on and demonstrations demanding racial justice continue across the globe, the international community on Friday marked World Environment Day with scientifically supported warnings about the importance of protecting nature for the future of humanity.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"A truly stunning level of tone-deafness."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is exactly backwards, like stopping an antibiotic prematurely because you start to feel better."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Aiming to "dismantle" the Minneapolis Police Department, city councilors on Friday will vote on imposing a temporary restraining order for the city's police department in response to the killing of George Floyd last month.


A worker quenches his thirst with water from a bottle taking a break from cleaning weeds from a park near India Gate amid rising temperatures in New Delhi on May 27, 2020.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"This is unquestionably an alarming sign."


A nurse attends a protest

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Small businesses are "dropping like flies," said the "Mad Money" host.


Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is leading a bill to curb the president's power under the Insurrection Act of 1807.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the U.S. military in response to ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism in cities across the country, a group of Democratic senators on Thursday introduced legislation to curb the president's power to do so under the Insurrection Act of 1807.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"We're at the point of saturation. The question is, when is it enough?"



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is suspension of habeas corpus, it is unconstitutional," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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The game billionaires play is not worthy of being called economy, either as care for the home, or as the art of living. It is exractive, naked money making, at war with life and creativity. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Vandana Shiva
Message for World Environment Day, 5 th June 2020.


To increase the power, economic security, and well-being of today’s working-class, we must increase the power, economic security, and well-being of Black people. (Photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images)

by Hayley Brown, Shawn Fremstad
The history of the United States is the history of exploited black labor, beginning with slavery and continuing today in the form of endemic structural racism.


As the protests spread to every state and were met with violent police aggression, mass arrests, beatings, attacks with rubber bullets and truncheons, the sympathy for protest also spread. (Photo: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images)

by Joel Wendland-Liu
America has sunk into a crisis for which Trump and his party have no answers.


Meeting violence with violence is wrong they say. Yet, many of these same people also believe that kneeling for a song to be the wrong type of protest. (Photo: Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Simon Whalley
A good place to start would be at the very top of American society.


He said that no species or people are chosen and no nation exceptional. (Photo: Creative Commons)

by Camillo Mac Bica
He said we better get our shit together, he is losing his fucking patience.


Public opinion polls have consistently shown that white Christians comprise the core of Trump’s base, although there are recent signs of a dip even among this key group. (Photo: CC)

by Laura R. Olson
Where Trump succeeds is in presenting himself as a Christian nationalist, much as Putin and Modi style themselves as the stout defenders of their countries’ dominant religions.

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