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To Defeat Coronavirus, We Need to Expand Medicare
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by Diane Archer, Wendell Potter
Congress must act decisively to guarantee health care to everyone in the
country. It should do so on moral grounds, it should do so on public
health grounds, and it should do so to help ensure our economy gets back
on track and stays back on track.
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80 Lawmakers Demand Trump Ditch Any Thought of Resuming 'Dangerously Provocative' Nuclear Tests
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"When Americans say that they want and need tests, they weren't talking
about the nuclear kind."
"Stay in the Streets. It's Working": Two Weeks Into Racial Justice Protests, New York State Classifies Use of Chokeholds as Felony
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday urged Americans to continue the
massive protests which have been held in cities and towns across the
U.S. for the past two weeks, as New York State lawmakers passed
long-awaited legislation to classify chokeholds as a felony.
Families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile Join 600+ Groups Urging UN Probe of US Police Violence
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Relatives of four black Americans killed by police—George Floyd, Breonna
Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile—joined with over 600 rights
groups Monday to demand a United Nations probe into racist policing and
law enforcement's violent suppression of ongoing mass protests against
police brutality and systemic racism in the United States.
'Google the Geneva Conventions,' Kshama Sawant Tells Seattle Mayor After Police Use Tear Gas on Protesters Despite Ban
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Seattle police are banned from using tear-gas unless Seattle police
disagree."
Pushed by National Uprising, Democratic Lawmakers Unveil Legislation to Overhaul Policing
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by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The new measure includes provisions to ban chokeholds and no-knock
warrants and limits transfers of military-grade equipment to local law
enforcement.
Decrying 'Unacceptable' Brutality, UK Lawmakers Join Half a Million Britons in Calling to Halt Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets Exports to US
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Calling on the British government to avoid complicity in "a continuous
breach of human rights" in the U.S., more than 600,000 Britons on Monday
had signed a petition demanding a suspension of tear gas, riot gear, and
rubber bullet exports to the country.
Time Served and $25 a Month in Fines in First Sentencing of Kings Bay Plowshares Anti-Nuclear Activists
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"I don't apologize for it," said sentenced activist Elizabeth McAlister.
"I think the weapons are completely destructive of life."
'It Was—Then as Now—Clearly a Coup': NYT Finally Gets Around to Reporting OAS Fraud Election Claims in Bolivia Were Bogus
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"For those paying close attention to the 2019 election, there was never
any doubt that the OAS' claims of fraud were bogus."
Due to Trump's Maskless Visit, Medical Supplier in Maine Forced to Toss Out Badly-Needed Swabs
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Puritan Medical Products in Guilford, Maine said after President Donald
Trump's visit on Friday that it would have to discard an untold number
of medical swabs that were manufactured during the president's tour of
its production facility.
Amid Easing Restrictions, Study Estimates Shutdowns Prevented 60 Million Covid-19 Cases in US Alone
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
As the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the United States neared
two million with a death toll above 110,500, an analysis published
Monday in the journal Nature showed that stay-at-home orders and other
measures implemented in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
prevented about 60 million infections nationwide.
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Four Numbers that Show America's Disdain for Its Most Vulnerable People
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by Paul Buchheit
The nation's plague of economic inequality and poverty puts everyone at
risk.
How Exactly Should the US Reinvent Its Police Departments?
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by Thom Hartmann
The nation's Founders offered a couple clues on how to deal with guys
with guns.
Economic Growth Can't Go Back to Normal If We Are to Solve the Ecological Crisis
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by Joe Herbert, Riccardo Mastini
Most scientists agree that an unprecedented economic transformation is
now needed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and avert climate
breakdown.
George Floyd Was Lynched
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by Clive Lewis
Black Americans have seen their civil rights regress for thirty years.
No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad
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by Ajamu Baraka
Mass mobilizations have a place but developing the organizational forms
that will build and sustain the power necessary to bring about radical
fundamental change is the primary challenge and historic task.
'Light Em Up': Warrior Cops When the Wars Come Home
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by William Astore
America's forever wars in distant lands have now come home.
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Newswire...
Donald Trump’s Anti-Environment Agenda Is a Racist Agenda
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62% Of Big Oil, Gas, And Mining Corporations Score Small Business Bailout Funds
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AFT President Weingarten Welcomes Introduction of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020
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Group Warns USDA May Be Quietly Trying to Outsource Chicken Processing to China
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Minneapolis‘ Commitment to Disband Police A Historic Moment for Our Country
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