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News & Views | 6/9/20

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People wait in line to vote in Georgia's Primary Election on June 9, 2020 in Atlanta. Georgia, West Virginia, South Carolina, North Dakota, and Nevada held primaries Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Reports of hourslong lines, issues with voting machines, and not enough poll workers in Georgia Tuesday led advocates to warn that problems with the state's primary election foreshadow what could happen nationwide in November's general election.

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by Julia Conley, staff writer
As progressive Kentucky state legislator Charles Booker picked up key endorsements Tuesday in his primary bid for Sen. Mitch McConnell's seat, Democratic strategists in the state questioned whether moderate Amy McGrath's victory in the upcoming election is a "foregone conclusion."


praying mantis

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"The evidence is clear: pesticide use is wiping out insect populations and ecosystems around the world, and threatening food production."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Jamaal understands that low-income families are locked out of opportunity and a decent life due to a system that is rigged to benefit the wealthy."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Medics over there. News crews. Random people that were just here to protest and—tires slashed."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
A Florida police organization's promise to hire any officers who are fired or who leave their jobs amid the nationwide uprising over police brutality was indicative of a toxic law enforcement community that rewards severe misconduct, critics said Tuesday.



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This huge IBM move will force other large tech companies to take a stand, even if their silence is their statement."


Protesters march on Hiawatha Avenue while decrying the killing of George Floyd on May 26, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Four Minneapolis police officers have been fired after a video taken by a bystander was posted on social media showing Floyd's neck being pinned to the ground by an officer as he repeatedly said, "I can’t breathe." (Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

by Jon Queally & Jessica Corbett
"Our only hope for our collective liberation," writes Michelle Alexander, "is a politics of deep solidarity rooted in love."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Trump blames victim of police brutality for police brutality."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This kind of documentation serves as a counter-narrative to repeated denials of responsibility from the police, who are routinely claiming protesters were the ones to grow violent first."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"Communities of color can't wait for you to slow walk more coronavirus aid."

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Fundamental policing reforms, writes Jesse Jackson, would begin with ending the “qualified immunity” of police, curbing the militarization of police forces, transferring funds and functions to social agencies, imposing residency requirements and finally making lynching a hate crime. (Photo: Natasha Moustache/Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
What has been missing is will, not ideas. And now, as the demonstrations reveal, Americans—black and white, young and old—are demanding change.


Members of the National Guard join police on the fourth day of protests on May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
For too long, we have let cynical politicians and business leaders divide and rule us, funding police and the Pentagon over real human needs, pitting us against each other at home and leading us off to wars against our neighbors abroad.


Though the first weekend of the protests saw fires, looting and unruly activism, media coverage generally lacked any serious analysis of the abusive police conduct. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

by Bryce Greene
Only sustained media attention to such abuses will create the conditions for ongoing calls for justice to be answered.


Whitehall Street, Atlanta Georgia, 1864. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/cc)

by Miles Mogulescu
American oligarchs have led a five decade-long, well-funded campaign to convince whites that safety net programs, taxes on the wealthy, unions, and government regulations were not in the interest of whites but were just designed to help blacks and other minorities.


Medical workers take in patients at a special coronavirus intake area at Maimonides Medical Center on April 6, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by Dean E. Robinson
Though it won't solve all our problems, expanding Medicare to all people is an essential demand if we want to advance health equity in the United States.


A massive group of protesters sit on the ground at Foley Square in a show of peaceful protest while they listen to a speaker. Protesters took to the streets across America after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer Derek Chauvin that was kneeling on his neck during his arrest as he pleaded that he couldn't breathe. (Photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Richard Eskow
There's a whole lot of Wall Street listening going on, but not much doing.

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