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News & Views | 6/8/20

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"To contain the virus and relaunch the economy, everyone needs health care," write Archer and Potter. "But without employer-sponsored health insurance and a paycheck, many workers are no longer able to afford the care they need. During a pandemic, that puts all of us in danger." (Photo: Paul Becker / Becker1999 / flickr / cc)

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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An activist with a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump marches with a model of a nuclear rocket during a demonstration against nuclear weapons on November 18, 2017 in Berlin.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"When Americans say that they want and need tests, they weren't talking about the nuclear kind."



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. 


Members of George Floyd's family speak during a memorial service at North Central University on June 4, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Memorial services will also be held in North Carolina and Texas.

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.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Seattle police are banned from using tear-gas unless Seattle police disagree."


A police officer charges forward as people protest the killing of George Floyd in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on May 31, 2020.

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.



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.



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."



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."



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.


Customers shop in a Dick's Sporting Goods store as Los Angeles County retail businesses reopen while the Covid-19 pandemic continues on May 27, 2020 in Glendale, California. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images)

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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A recipient carries a box of food as others wait in line at a Food Bank distribution for those in need as the coronavirus pandemic continues on April 9, 2020 in Van Nuys, California. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

by Paul Buchheit
The nation's plague of economic inequality and poverty puts everyone at risk.


Police officers take position to shoot tear gas at the demonstrators in Downtown Los Angeles on May 30, 2020 in protest against the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while while being arrested and pinned to the ground by the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. (Photo: Apu GOMES / AFP via Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
The nation's Founders offered a couple clues on how to deal with guys with guns.


Degrowth calls for a fundamental restructuring of the economy to reduce its ecological impact and improve well-being by abolishing economic growth as a social objective. (Photo: Piotr Chrobot/Unsplash, CC BY-SA)

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 mural.

by Clive Lewis
Black Americans have seen their civil rights regress for thirty years.


The ruling class is befuddled and confused about how to respond to the ongoing street demonstrations sparked by the murder of George Floyd. (Photo: EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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.


When military "battle rattle" becomes the standard gear for street cops, should we be that surprised to hear the death rattle of black men like George Floyd? (Photo: Apu GOMES / AFP via Getty Images)

by William Astore
America’s forever wars in distant lands have now come home.

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